longsighted

Yet I had often revolved the judicious lines in which Pope answers the objections of his longsighted friend:

Memoirs of My Life and Writings Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794 1994

The night hung motionless over the Foregate and the valley of the Meole, and the woods through which the sheriff and his men had hunted in vain, plotting clearly, for those longsighted eyes, the passage of Picard's bright red cap through the trees, and mapping the way by which, later, he must return.

The Leper of Saint Giles Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981

The night hung motionless over the Foregate and the valley of the Meole, and the woods through which the sheriff and his men had hunted in vain, plotting clearly, for those longsighted eyes, the passage of Picard's bright red cap through the trees, and mapping the way by which, later, he must return.

The Leper of Saint Giles Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981

Sticking up above intervening hillocks and rushes, it was observed over the top of his glasses by the longsighted Mr. Phinn when, accompanied by Thomasina Twitchett, he came nearer to Bottom Bridge.

Scales of Justice Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1955

Mr. Salter explicitly denies that the moral virtues come "from below, from prudence, from the sense of decency, from longsighted selfishness; they who think so," he declares, in a fine burst, "never breathed the climate of morality."

Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive Joseph Warschauer

ACCORDING to the decree of Heaven, there once lived in the Persian city of Kerman a cat like unto a dragon -- a longsighted cat who hunted like a lion; a cat with fascinating eyes and long whiskers and sharp teeth.

The Cat and the Mouse A Book of Persian Fairy Tales Hartwell [Editor] James 1910

He was not longsighted enough, and he did not see as a whole even what was within his range of vision.

Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France Edmund Gosse 1888

Keiki himself, although the memorial was directed against him, may fairly be reckoned among these longsighted patriots.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

Spinoza urged the uselessness of miracles, and Hume their incredibility, with a guarded subtlety and longsighted refinement of statement which made them in advance of their age except with a few.

Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 1852

Can't marry a woman now-a-days till you're so deaf you have to cock your head like a parrot to hear what she says, and so longsighted you can't see what she looks like nearer than arm's-length.

The Professor at the Breakfast-Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851