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  • The story is written from the student's perspective--which is very different than that of the teacher.
  • Also, try to see it from her perspective before you make up your mind.
    perspective = a particular way of seeing or thinking about things
  • No one's ever written a book like this.... We'd be breaking new ground. It's a brand-new perspective.   (source)
    perspective = way of seeing and thinking about things
  • I try to think about it from their perspectives.   (source)
    perspectives = ways of seeing or thinking about things
  • Starr offers a unique perspective in this, one you don't get a lot with these cases,   (source)
    perspective = way of seeing and thinking about things
  • —for that moment, perhaps the perspective was his, that of the brother I hated, and loved.   (source)
  • He'd been in the fight for almost six months when he ended up in France, where, at face value, a strange event saved his life. Another perspective would suggest that in the nonsense of war, it made perfect sense.   (source)
  • When Rehanna came in, we talked about the shooting from an Islamic perspective.   (source)
  • The weapons give me an entirely new perspective on the Games. I know I have tough opponents left to face. But I am no longer merely prey that runs and hides or takes desperate measures.   (source)
  • "Look at it from his perspective," Mom said.   (source)
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  • Dalton, however, has his own perspective on it.   (source)
    perspective = way of seeing and thinking about something
  • And now he'd slipped painlessly out of Ron Franz's life as well. Painlessly, that is, from McCandless's perspective, although not from the old man's.   (source)
    perspective = way of seeing and thinking about things
  • What followed was a debate between father and daughter on the whys and wherefores, a contrasting of perspectives, a comparison of time horizons, and heartfelt expressions of conflicting hopes.   (source)
    perspectives = ways of seeing or thinking about things
  • In a few short months, the Marine Corps had already changed my perspective.   (source)
    perspective = way of seeing and thinking about things
  • Half of bravery is perspective. The first time I did this, it was one of the hardest things I had ever done. Now, preparing to jump off a moving train is nothing, because I have done more difficult things in the past few weeks than most people will in a lifetime.   (source)
    perspective = a way of seeing and thinking about things
  • Perspective is necessary.   (source)
    perspective = a particular way of seeing or thinking about things
  • I bring a perspective born in the brutal reality of child abuse and nurtured in hope for a better tomorrow.   (source)
    perspective = way of seeing and thinking about things
  • Tita saw the incident from a completely different perspective than the rebel soldiers.   (source)
  • But think of things from Marita's perspective.   (source)
  • Other useful resources for this chapter include Human and Mammalian Cytogenetics: An Historical Perspective, by T C. Hsu; and C. Moberg, "Keith Porter and the Founding of the Tissue Culture Association: A Fiftieth Anniversary Tribute, 1946–1996," In Vitro Cellular Developmental Biology-Animal (November 1996).   (source)
  • I was suffering then (and still do) from moods that kept my head under water (figuratively speaking) and allowed me to see things only from my own perspective, without calmly considering what the others — those whom I, with my mercurial temperament, had hurt or offended — had said, and then acting as they would have done.   (source)
  • Their presence in the United States is deemed good or bad, depending on the perspective. ... Perhaps by looking at one immigrant -- his strengths, his courage, his flaws -- his humanity might help illuminate what too often has been a black-and-white discussion.   (source)
  • It's a matter of perspective.   (source)
    perspective = a way of seeing and thinking about things
  • We were both right, from our perspectives.   (source)
    perspectives = ways of seeing or thinking about things
  • But even when I was late, everyone seemed happy to have me there—to provide the "feminine teen perspective" they called it.   (source)
    perspective = way of seeing and thinking about things
  • Here's why this business of the reader's perspective matters.   (source)
  • They were all Hitler majors, members of the only class I still taught, Advanced Nazism, three hours a week, restricted to qualified seniors, a course of study designed to cultivate historical perspective, theoretical rigor and mature insight into the continuing mass appeal of fascist tyranny, with special emphasis on parades, rallies and uniforms, three credits, written reports.   (source)
  • Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something familiar in a totally new light.   (source)
  • Many years before, when Nicholas and Perry had first discovered the secret of immortality, they had realized that their extra-long lives allowed them to view the world from a different perspective.   (source)
  • I had little interest in giving a discourse on, say, my insights into how I coped with the disease, or how it gave me new perspectives.   (source)
    perspectives = ways of seeing or thinking about things
  • From a kid's perspective, maybe the best thing that happened in 2005 was the release of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.   (source)
    perspective = way of seeing and thinking about things
  • In the past all the investigations focused on Hedeby Island. Now I'm sure that the story, the sequence of events that ended in her disappearance, started in Hedestad. That shifts the perspective.   (source)
  • You have the defense perspective, so you understand the litigants.   (source)
  • On the field below, the two groups of boys watched the spectacle with craned necks, and from different perspectives.   (source)
    perspectives = ways of seeing or thinking about things
  • It shaped his whole perspective.   (source)
    perspective = way of seeing and thinking about things
  • If you look at this from my perspective, this is what I see: an intelligent, charming, beautiful woman, not yet thirty, witty, and passionate.   (source)
  • He leaned back once more to inspect his chart admiringly from an objective perspective.   (source)
  • She lives in a world where all the old perspectives have altered.   (source)
    perspectives = ways of seeing or thinking about things
  • Then, as if a single, sudden blow to his brain blasted a moment's shift of perspective, he felt an immense astonishment at what he was doing here and why.   (source)
    perspective = way of seeing and thinking about things
  • Mom, please. I've been sitting in this house for weeks. I know you're scared. I know you don't want anything to happen to me, but you have to see this from my perspective a little bit.   (source)
  • All I require is that you be willing to look at your subject from a personal perspective, that is, how the dilemma affects you.†   (source)
  • Then, to give Estha and Rahel a sense of Historical Perspective (though Perspective was something which, in the weeks to follow, Chacko himself would sorely lack), he told them about the Earth Woman.†   (source)
  • Their passionate, oh-so personal 'perspective.'†   (source)
  • Perhaps we are as yet too close in time to the controversial elements in the career of Senator Taft to be able to measure his life with historical perspective.†   (source)
  • From her infancy, she had been surrounded with servants, who lived only to study her caprices; the idea that they had either feelings or rights had never dawned upon her, even in distant perspective.   (source)
  • Apparently this consolatory perspective of a mother's prospects failed in producing its due effect.   (source)
  • No, I was just directly expressing how I felt back then from the perspective of the present.†   (source)
  • "When Nathan and Savannah are older," explains Kelley, "I want them to understand the war—not from the media or their school history books, but from the perspective of their daddy, who fought in it."†   (source)
  • As the Marines climbed, they beheld Iwo Jima for the first time from the perspective of the Japanese.†   (source)
  • How it must have looked from Peeta's perspective when I appeared in the arena having received burn medicine and bread when he, who was at death's door, had gotten nothing.   (source)
  • Maybe her transformation was merely a temporary shift in my perspective   (source)
  • I just tried to impart my perspective on life.   (source)
  • But my sense of Chris McCandless's intentions comes, too, from a more personal perspective.   (source)
  • It always gives me a whole new perspective on wherever it was I thought I was leaving.   (source)
  • What makes his name or our names any less normal than
    yours? ... It's about perspective,   (source)
    perspective = a particular way of seeing or thinking about things
  • Another high schooler with a perspective adored by the older poets.   (source)
    perspective = way of seeing and thinking about things
  • Perspectives on Child Abuse -- Dave Pelzer -- Survivor.   (source)
    perspectives = ways of seeing or thinking about things
  • We want to show your perspective…so people might understand what it's like from your side.   (source)
    perspective = way of seeing and thinking about things
  • Although from Sofia's perspective, it was Mrs. Vanderwhile who was the beauty.   (source)
  • For having fallen suddenly from grace, those in the Confederacy share a certain perspective.   (source)
  • Somehow, Ian was able to look at things from my perspective,   (source)
  • I suppose that depends on the perspective.   (source)
  • It didn't seem that way at the time, but when you become a parent, your perspective changes.   (source)
  • Somehow, Ian was able to look at things from my perspective, my alien perspective.   (source)
  • Of course, it was much different from this perspective, as a vampire myself.   (source)
  • I wanted to know what he'd say too. Maybe he'd have a new perspective on the whole thing.   (source)
    perspective = a particular way of seeing or thinking about things
  • It tastes fine. If you didn't think about it from a human perspective   (source)
  • Then I, too, could consider their perspective.   (source)
  • I shuddered, remembering that time from my own perspective.   (source)
  • That blond vampire you hate so much—I totally get her perspective.   (source)
  • He just needs a moment alone to readjust his perspective on life.   (source)
  • I have heard many reports from a variety of perspectives, and have gotten a sense for what is straightforward and what requires more investigation.   (source)
    perspectives = ways of seeing or thinking about things
  • The new perspective went both ways.   (source)
    perspective = way of seeing and thinking about things
  • Or possibly …. well, let's just say that the plot calculus is tricky and that much depends on the perspective of the reader.   (source)
  • By meditating on the inevitability of death, a Mason gains a valuable perspective on the fleeting nature of life.   (source)
  • When people ask me how the war changed me, I tell them that the biggest thing has to do with my perspective.   (source)
  • What happened in Harlan wouldn't become clear until you looked at the violence from a much broader perspective.   (source)
  • My final two years in the Marines flew by and were largely uneventful, though two incidents stand out, each of which speaks to the way the Marine Corps changed my perspective.   (source)
  • Of course, she had a different perspective: she was just happy that I was alive and home in one piece.   (source)
  • "Robert," Peter whispered behind him, "sometimes a change of perspective is all it takes to see the light."   (source)
  • Mrs. Sheridan teaches Laura how to put on a garden party, but more to the point, she teaches the strategy to see the world from a loftier—though somewhat myopic—perspective.   (source)
  • Aibileen, don't you think it would be interesting if we could show a little of the husbands' perspective?   (source)
  • And from a historical perspective, as briefly mentioned earlier, SEALs trace their origins to the Navy's Underwater Demolition Teams, or UDTs.   (source)
  • Think of it simply as changing your perspective, accepting that the world is not precisely as you imagine.   (source)
  • If Laura cannot explain what life is to her brother, "Isn't life …. isn't life—" it is because as Mansfield writes, it is of "no matter" Laura has learned to look at it from a loftier perspective.   (source)
  • He sees the potential for a significant philosophical shift in the world …. and he came here to discuss the possible ramifications …. from a psychological perspective.   (source)
  • Hell Week has pretty much remained the most demanding physical test, and probably will continue to be one of the high points—or low points, depending on your perspective.   (source)
  • But ever since Sofia returned home that night in late December with word of the Conservatory's tour, the Count had had a very different perspective on the passage of time.   (source)
  • Instead try to find a reading perspective that allows for sympathy with the historical moment of the story, that understands the text as having been written against its own social, historical, cultural, and personal background.   (source)
  • Solomon said he always considered the illusion a silent reminder that the mysteries of Freemasonry were perfectly visible to anyone and everyone if they were seen from the proper perspective.   (source)
  • But as the day unfolded, hour by hour Emile's pessimism would slowly give way to the possibility that all was not lost. This rosier perspective would begin building quietly around noon, when he came into his kitchen and saw his copper pots.   (source)
  • Clausen nodded in the background, either oozing sympathy or looking constipated, depending on the perspective.   (source)
  • Luckily—or unluckily, he supposed, depending on the perspective—the girl had appeared, the deputy had panicked, and Thibault had seen where the camera had landed.   (source)
  • In that way, she wasn't like the other blue bloods in town, but then losing a husband as a young mother of two tended to adjust your perspective.   (source)
  • From the perspective of the resettlement agencies, Clarkston, Georgia, was a textbook example of a community ripe for refugee resettlement.   (source)
  • And what's your perspective?   (source)
  • I forced her to see it from my perspective: to see the threatening shapes inside the dirty jeans and light cotton shirts, brown with dust.   (source)
  • The way you are valued here… Well, that don't make much sense when you look at it from humanity's perspective, either.   (source)
  • But I'd never looked at the situation from the body's perspective before; no other planet had forced me to.   (source)
    perspective = a particular way of seeing or thinking about things
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  • Attending a funeral helps me to put life into perspective and to separate the important things from those that are less important.
    perspective = a sensible view
  • To put it into perspective, the congressional district that included Beaufort covered the entire eastern part of the state-some twenty thousand square miles-and there wasn't a single town with more than twenty-five thousand people.   (source)
  • Perspective was a luxury when your head was constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.   (source)
    perspective = a sensible view of a situation
  • Although he castigated himself severely for this waste of a life he'd taken, a day later McCandless appeared to regain some perspective, for his journal notes, "henceforth will learn to accept my errors, however great they be."   (source)
    perspective = sensible view
  • The young lady you introduced me to has mailed several letters to my home address since then, indicating that she would rather not put the event into the proper perspective.   (source)
  • And when he awoke, he looked upon the events of the previous day with more perspective.   (source)
    perspective = (of) a sensible view
  • Just like what my sister said when I had been in the hospital for a while. She said that she was really worried about going to college, and considering what I was going through, she felt really dumb about it. And really, I don't think I have it any better or worse than she does. I don't know. It's just different. Maybe it's good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there.   (source)
    perspective = a sensible view
  • The average person is so fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on what's really important anymore.   (source)
    perspective = sensible view
  • Oh, I love mortals-they have absolutely no sense of perspective.   (source)
    perspective = a sensible view of a situation
  • "Let's keep it in perspective," Hammond said.   (source)
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  • That really puts our sufferings into perspective, doesn't it?   (source)
  • What I need is perspective.   (source)
  • To put that record in perspective, the "loss" rate for an airline like the American carrier United Airlines in the period 1988 to 1998 was .27 per million departures, which means that they lost a plane in an accident about once in every four million flights.   (source)
    perspective = a sensible view
  • ...immigrant children in U.S. schools who spent time separated from parents are often depressed, act up, have trouble trusting anyone, and don't respond to the authority of parents they weren't raised with. Los Angeles Unified School District psychologist Bradley Pilon believes only one in ten immigrant students ultimately accepts his or her parent and puts the rancor he or she feels toward the parent in perspective. Murillo's conclusion: "The parents say: I had to do it." But that's not enough for these children. All of them feel the resentment.   (source)
    perspective = a sensible view of a situation
  • It had been Jack's idea to separate for a while — to get perspective on the relationship, he said.   (source)
    perspective = a sensible view
  • ...and then we just head out to the countryside for a view of the green rolling hills. Of course you have to look the other way when the train goes by the townships, because those people don't have any perspective of what good scenery is, that's for sure. They will make their houses out of a piece of rusted tin or the side of a crate—and leave the writing part on the outside for all to see!   (source)
    perspective = sensible view
  • And just to keep things in perspective, from the "Some-Things-Never-Change" department, an unrequited crush from high school wrote to wish me well and gently reminded me why I was way too nerdy for her back then (also letting slip that she'd gone on to marry a real doctor).   (source)
    perspective = a sensible view of a situation
  • On the other hand, tell the Average Joe that being married had the same effect on overall happiness as an additional $100,000 a year, and it put things into perspective.   (source)
    perspective = a sensible view
  • Okay, Over the Last Few Years I may have gained a little perspective.   (source)
    perspective = a sensible view of a situation
  • Everywhere he looked was a nut, and it was all a sensible young gentleman like himself could do to maintain his perspective amid so much madness.   (source)
    perspective = sensible view
  • This helped me keep things in perspective.†   (source)
  • There is a way of looking at life called "keeping things in perspective."†   (source)
  • We know you're hurting, but let's keep it in perspective."†   (source)
  • We do have time to put it in perspective.†   (source)
  • It would also be nice to have someone outside the whole vampire-werewolf mess to put things in perspective.†   (source)
  • And when things go badly, of course I'm upset, but at least I can feel I've done all I could and keep things in perspective.†   (source)
  • "If you think this water's cold now, try setting a few beaver traps around February," he added, thinking it would help the man put things in perspective.†   (source)
  • Talking to her, and to other teen moms who opened up to me about their struggles, helped me put things in perspective.†   (source)
  • Let's put things in perspective.†   (source)
  • But let us put it in perspective.†   (source)
  • The Finnish corporation that was working on the crew quarters had managed to put it in perspective.†   (source)
  • He'll gain some perspective while he's away.   (source)
    perspective = a sensible view of a situation
  • ...he didn't seem to have as much perspective as older, better-traveled souls.   (source)
  • Making sure you don't lose perspective.   (source)
  • Morrie had aging in better perspective.   (source)
  • Just a little pick-me-up to put things in their true perspective — "Danny said he dreamed you had a car accident," she said abruptly.   (source)
    perspective = sensible view
  • To put it in perspective, three Crays represent more computing power than any other privately held company in America.   (source)
    perspective = a sensible view of a situation
  • She thought about the things that were worse, the black pictures in my head, while I tried to tune her out without much success. She was able to look at them with some distance, some perspective, and I had to admit that this was helpful.   (source)
  • They may be so deeply mired—or so happily ensconced—in their relationship that they have no perspective on how it works.   (source)
    perspective = a sensible view
  • You're so good at all of this, I don't imagine it will take too long to put everything in perspective.   (source)
    perspective = a sensible view of a situation
  • There is a way of looking at life called "keeping things in perspective."†   (source)
  • X belched, which put things in perspective.†   (source)
  • You might compare your pimple situation to that of someone who was being eaten by a bear, and when you looked in the mirror at your ugly pimple, you could say to yourself, "Well, at least I'm not being eaten by a bean" You can see at once why keeping things in perspective rarely works very well, because it is hard to concentrate on somebody else being eaten by a bear when you are staring at your own ugly pimple.†   (source)
  • I got up and swayed as I regained my perspective.   (source)
    perspective = sensible view of things
  • When he'd first arrived home he'd been struck all over again by its size; then, quickly enough, it had become ordinary in his eyes, the way it had been when he was growing up, making other people's barns look like miniatures. The volume of smoke belching off the roof put things into perspective again and...   (source)
    perspective = sensible view
  • And Squealer, who happened to be passing at this moment, attended by two or three dogs, was able to put the whole matter in its proper perspective.   (source)
    perspective = a sensible view of a situation
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  • The artist intentionally breaks the rules of perspective.
  • The columns, the fountain, the arches were all realized in perfect perspective to perfect proportion, with every ornament in place.   (source)
    perspective = 3-dimensional appearance
  • And then Mother went away and I drew a picture of a bus using perspective so that I didn't think about the pain in my chest and it looked like this….   (source)
    perspective = giving a 2-dimensional picture a 3-dimensional appearance
  • Perspective made the long rows of machines seem almost to meet.   (source)
    perspective = a view that makes things that are far away look smaller and closer to each other
  • So too with art: we decided to agree that perspective—the set of tricks artists use to provide the illusion of depth—was a good thing and vital to painting.   (source)
    perspective = 3-dimensional appearance
  • Ceylon floats on the Indian Ocean and holds its naive mountains, drawings of cassowary and boar who leap without perspective across imagined 'desertum' and plain.   (source)
  • She didn't see the photograph as a photograph; she didn't interpret distance and perspective.   (source)
  • The gray dusty truck, in the yard before the door, stood out magically in this light, in the overdrawn perspective of a stereopticon.   (source)
  • A quarter of an hour later he stopped before a large cabin, adorned with several clusters of streamers, the exterior walls of which were designed to represent, in violent colours and without perspective, a company of jugglers.   (source)
  • This occurred during the Renaissance in Europe, but when Western and Oriental art encountered each other in the1700s, Japanese artists and their audiences were serenely untroubled by the lack of perspective in their painting.   (source)
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  • The clouds and turns in the trail continually change the magnificent perspectives while hiking in the mountains.
    perspectives = views
  • He tilts his head to look at himself from different angles, like there's some magic perspective inside the mirror that could change the dimensions of his face.   (source)
    perspective = view (appearance from where looking)
  • Each of the rooms of the Metropol offered an entirely different perspective—one that was shaped not only by altitude and orientation, but by season and time of day.   (source)
    perspective = view
  • "Sorry," he said, "but I never come by train and it all looks rather different from a Muggle perspective."   (source)
  • The beach between the palm terrace and the water was a thin stick, endless apparently, for to Ralph's left the perspectives of palm and beach and water drew to a point at infinity; and always, almost visible, was the heat.   (source)
    perspectives = views
  • The new levers on your control panel enable you to see from the perspective of any of your squadron leaders.   (source)
    perspective = view
  • Langdon had never seen the Capitol from this perspective—hovering 555 feet in the air atop America's great Egyptian obelisk.   (source)
  • The images that appeared on the sword blade were surprisingly detailed. They were all from Hekate's perspective.   (source)
    perspective = view (appearance from where looking)
  • Only for me, the long perspective of shades that set off one box from the next had suddenly snapped up, and I could see day after day after day glaring ahead of me like a white, broad, infinitely desolate avenue.   (source)
    perspective = view
  • The new light set the room in an eerie, harsh perspective.   (source)
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  • The tops of the sheer buildings slanted in weird, surrealistic perspective, and the street seemed tilted.   (source)
  • I constantly whipped my head around, searching for the fourth marker–a big dome-shaped peak with a missing piece, a curved absence scooped from its side that Melanie had only shown me this morning–as if the perspective would have changed from my last step.   (source)
    perspective = view (appearance from where looking)
  • Rearden stood at the window of his office, his hand pressed to the pane; in the perspective of distance, his hand covered half a mile of structures, as if he were trying to hold them.   (source)
  • For we were so deep under the hill whereon it was set that the angle of perspective of the Carpathian mountains was far below it.   (source)
    perspective = view
  • Thus sunken, and seen in remote perspective, they appeared far less formidable than the huge iron bulk in whose wake the steamer was pitching so helplessly.   (source)
    perspective = view (appearance from where looking)
  • A perspective of little streets. On the right Roxane's house and the wall of her garden overhung with thick foliage.   (source)
    perspective = view
  • An open door afforded a perspective view of the Aged in bed.   (source)
    perspective = view (appearance from where looking)
  • Beneath the unclouded and mild azure sky, upon the fair face of the pleasant sea, wafted by the joyous breezes, that great mass of death floats on and on, till lost in infinite perspectives.   (source)
    perspectives = views
  • To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls nor hearts — when they open to me a perspective of flatness, triviality, and perhaps imbecility, coarseness, and ill-temper: but to the clear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break — at once supple and stable, tractable and consistent — I am ever tender and true.   (source)
    perspective = view
  • The great glass over the mantelpiece, faced by the other great console glass at the opposite end of the room, increased and multiplied between them the brown Holland bag in which the chandelier hung, until you saw these brown Holland bags fading away in endless perspectives, and this apartment of Miss Osborne's seemed the centre of a system of drawing-rooms.   (source)
    perspectives = views
  • ...and she was happy in having the two dances with Edmund still to look forward to, during the greatest part of the evening, her hand being so eagerly sought after that her indefinite engagement with him was in continual perspective.   (source)
    perspective = view
  • I wondered if maybe that wasn't the right way to look at things after all, standing in the dump, smelling the wild roses, and taking the long perspective.†   (source)
  • The perspective was close to the enemy planet now, as the ship hurtled into its well of gravity.   (source)
  • The beach stretched away before them in a gentle curve till perspective drew it into one with the forest; for the day was not advanced enough to be obscured by the shifting veils of mirage.   (source)
    perspective = view (appearance from where looking)
  • He could still control the perspective and the degree of detail, but there were no ship's controls anymore.   (source)
    perspective = view
  • Since the others could only see their own battle perspective, he would sometimes give them orders that made no sense to them; but they, too, learned to trust Ender.   (source)
  • Ender's fighters were among the first to go: their perspective suddenly vanished, and now the simulator could only display the perspective of the starships waiting beyond the edges of the battle.   (source)
  • The center point shifted, but it was obvious, after he looked long enough, that the eyes of the fleet, the I of the fleet, the perspective from which all decisions were being made, was one particular ship.   (source)
  • Right and left of us they towered, with the afternoon sun falling full upon them and bringing out all the glorious colours of this beautiful range, deep blue and purple in the shadows of the peaks, green and brown where grass and rock mingled, and an endless perspective of jagged rock and pointed crags, till these were themselves lost in the distance, where the snowy peaks rose grandly.   (source)
  • It was Stryver's grand peculiarity that he always seemed too big for any place, or space.  He was so much too big for Tellson's, that old clerks in distant corners looked up with looks of remonstrance, as though he squeezed them against the wall. The House itself, magnificently reading the paper quite in the far-off perspective, lowered displeased, as if the Stryver head had been butted into its responsible waistcoat.   (source)
  • The Aged must have been stirring with the lark, for, glancing into the perspective of his bedroom, I observed that his bed was empty.   (source)
  • I remember that at a later period of my "time," I used to stand about the churchyard on Sunday evenings when night was falling, comparing my own perspective with the windy marsh view, and making out some likeness between them by thinking how flat and low both were, and how on both there came an unknown way and a dark mist and then the sea.   (source)
  • She was not hungry, and had meant to go without luncheon; but she was too tired to return home, and the long perspective of white tables showed alluringly through the windows.†   (source)
  • And with a bright nod to the couple on whom she had intruded, Miss Bart strolled through the glass doors and carried her rustling grace down the long perspective of the garden walk.†   (source)
  • Then came the lamplighter, and two lengthening lines of light all down the long perspective of the street, until they were blended and lost in the distance.†   (source)
  • And a goodly show he makes, lying in a flush of crimson and gold in the midst of the great drawing-room before his favourite picture of my Lady, with broad strips of sunlight shining in, down the long perspective, through the long line of windows, and alternating with soft reliefs of shadow.†   (source)
  • Winking cousins, bat-like in the candle glare, crowd round to give it; Volumnia (always ready for something better if procurable) takes another, a very mild sip of which contents her; Lady Dedlock, graceful, self-possessed, looked after by admiring eyes, passes away slowly down the long perspective by the side of that nymph, not at all improving her as a question of contrast.†   (source)
  •   One face, one voice, one habit, and two persons;
      A natural perspective, that is, and is not.   (source)
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  • Wang looked up and felt his perspective shift.†   (source)
  • "Just the wrong perspective," he explained.†   (source)
  • They give us perspective on things.†   (source)
  • It changed my whole perspective on the Hunt for Halliday's Easter egg.†   (source)
  • Michael and I decided to spend more time looking into the Pittman murder; we thought it might give us some perspective on the coercion that was leveled against Myers.†   (source)
  • I'll give you one: perspective.†   (source)
  • If they could put it into perspective, if they could just enjoy a sunny evening in a pub garden, then surely I should too.†   (source)
  • "But the perspective's a bit off.†   (source)
  • Gotta adjust to the perspective and deal from there.†   (source)
  • He attempted to put the new developments in perspective for her.†   (source)
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  • I would have said that certainly Rose and I had suffered, too, and Caroline and Mary Livingstone and all the women I knew, but there seemed to be a dumb, unknowing quality to the way the men had suffered, as if, like animals, it was not possible for them to gain perspective on their suffering.†   (source)
  • From my perspective, backstage, the faces in the audience were almost uniformly still, and the attention upon them was not directed toward me; the faces were, at least in part, strangers to me, and—especially in the back rows—smaller than the faces on baseball cards.†   (source)
  • In the last two years my perspective on things has changed.†   (source)
  • From their perspective, she must look like a basketball.†   (source)
  • I'm putting my place in the universe into perspective.†   (source)
  • But the perspective was unfamiliar.†   (source)
  • These women would begin to see how fractured he was, they'd want to help him gain perspective on life and access the positive aspects of his own spirituality.†   (source)
  • "Amazing perspective up here," he's saying.†   (source)
  • What up until this moment has felt like a random, disconnected series of unhappy events she now views as necessary steps in a journey toward …. enlightenment is perhaps too strong a word, but there are others, less lofty, like self-acceptance and perspective.†   (source)
  • From her perspective: She was a baby when Phillip took me from our family.†   (source)
  • After the exams had been passed out, the Old Man said, "You need not specifically discuss the perspectives of different religions in your essay, so no research is necessary.†   (source)
  • Nor does he bother to open up the volume on perspective he's pulled out of his duffel.†   (source)
  • I was sure the king's idea of perspective meant getting me out of Maxon's head.†   (source)
  • And hearing everything he just said to me puts into perspective just how serious things are becoming between us.†   (source)
  • You cannot always take such a dark perspective of life all the time, you know, it is very bad for you.†   (source)
  • And then, to keep things grounded and in perspective, she muttered, "Seal blubber."†   (source)
  • For instance, if you were upset about an ugly pimple on the end of your nose, you might try to feel better by keeping your pimple in perspective.†   (source)
  • I feel I now have a clearer perspective on life.†   (source)
  • I tilt my head to one side for a better perspective.†   (source)
  • "Noah, look at it from an outsider's perspective.†   (source)
  • "Let's put things into perspective.†   (source)
  • Friedl taught her students about serious things like perspective and texture.†   (source)
  • I stop dead in my tracks and my perspective corrects itself.†   (source)
  • Among us we represent islands of time as well as separate oceans of perspective.†   (source)
  • I can see I had the perspective wrong before," she murmured.†   (source)
  • To put his width into perspective, Shaquille O'Neal, the Miami Heat center who is seven one and seemingly wide as a truck, weighs 330 pounds.†   (source)
  • He gestured excitedly, eyes sparkling, as he guided us through the first few discussions on light, focus, perspective, and setting.†   (source)
  • Burnham loved escorting friends and dignitaries through the grounds but sought always to orchestrate the journeys so that his friends saw the fair the way he believed it should be seen, with the buildings presented from a certain perspective, in a particular order, as if he were still back in his library showing drawings instead of real structures.†   (source)
  • That was, in her perspective, a simple testament to their making and delivering the best product.†   (source)
  • Now I have a different perspective on it.†   (source)
  • During that period, women entered the workforce in record numbers, often motivated less by a feminist perspective than by a need to pay the bills.†   (source)
  • This stuff has got a sliding perspective!†   (source)
  • The Goez Studio also assisted us with human figures, perspective and color schemes.†   (source)
  • But we're trying to look at this from a scholarly perspective.†   (source)
  • That's an interesting perspective," Eleanor said.†   (source)
  • There was no large city with a vaster torment we might use to see our own dilemma in some soothing perspective.†   (source)
  • Indeed, to put things into a proper perspective, I should point out that just such bantering on my new employer's part has characterized much of our relationship over these months - though I must confess, I remain rather unsure as to how I should respond.†   (source)
  • I see them as others do not; even their owners probably don't see them from this perspective.†   (source)
  • Knowing Lanre's story might give you some perspective."†   (source)
  • I couldn't quite see Colin's face from this perspective, but I felt him smile.†   (source)
  • First, I find myself haunted by Nathaniel's long and rambling scribbles, and wonder if she can put them in perspective and suggest strategies I might try And second, March is the one person in Los Angeles who can best answer the absurd comments about mental illness that have just been made by actor Tom Cruise, of all people.†   (source)
  • Put things into perspective.†   (source)
  • He organized only isolated and rough run-through tests to put their difficulties into perspective.†   (source)
  • Aside from the racial matter, from my perspective I couldn't see that going to Australia for a year of residency would add anything in terms of my career, although it would certainly be interesting.†   (source)
  • This time he's little girl named Nell and our life is back in perspective again.†   (source)
  • Someday we would be able to see it all in perspective.†   (source)
  • He could not help but possess this unhappy perspective, no matter how much he might not want it.†   (source)
  • The perspective of eternity?†   (source)
  • They did not hold hands until Saeed's perspective had returned, hours later, not to normal, for he suspected it was possible he might never think of normal in the same way again, but to something closer to what it had been before they had eaten these shrooms, and when they held hands it was facing each other, sitting, their wrists resting on their knees, their knees almost touching, and then he leaned forward and she leaned forward, and she smiled, and they kissed, and they realized…†   (source)
  • It must differ from biography in that a memoirist can never achieve the perspective that a biographer possesses as a matter of course.†   (source)
  • I was thinking I might try to do some interviews around town, get a local perspective.†   (source)
  • The perspective is interesting.†   (source)
  • We are indebted to the numerous writers and researchers whose works have been indispensable to our own perspective on the period.†   (source)
  • "I'm asking for your perspective.†   (source)
  • I had the unexplainable desire to drive to Bo's and defend my earlier behavior, but the thought was quickly put into perspective by the simple fact that I didn't have time.†   (source)
  • From him flowed the anger and reluctance; from her other, gentler sentiments-as rich in scope as his own-that moderated his choleric passion and lent him perspectives he would not otherwise have.†   (source)
  • "But from my perspective, it doesn't seem like there's much to be upset about.†   (source)
  • I liked the turban man very much, for he kept his religion in perspective.†   (source)
  • As many as a quarter of them were political prisoners, and a handful of those men were put with us in Section B. We were isolated from the general prisoners for two reasons: we were considered risky from a security perspective, but even more dangerous from a political standpoint.†   (source)
  • The bag collapsed so fast I got nauseated from the change in perspective.†   (source)
  • She couldn't figure out what to do, and in the end she'd simply gone back inside and gotten ready for work, sliding the letter into the top desk drawer with the detritus of rubber bands and paper clips, waiting for Al to get home and help her gain perspective.†   (source)
  • "In the beginning," Yo begins, inspired by perspective.†   (source)
  • It is important to put these two stickiness factors in perspective.†   (source)
  • I was seeing Sam's blank face, and she was gone, replaced by white-hot memories that didn't belong to me—a whiteboard at school filled with math problems, a golden retriever digging in a garden, the world rising and falling from the perspective of a swing, the roots of the vegetables in the Garden being pulled free, the brick wall at the back of the Mess Hall against my face as another fist swung down toward me—a quick assault from every side, like a series of camera flashes.†   (source)
  • But when you learn how to love people and use money, everything is in its proper perspective.†   (source)
  • From Feldman's perspective, an office worker who eats a bagel without paying is committing a crime; the office worker probably doesn't think so.†   (source)
  • Some parts self-reliance, some parts self-protection, this belief offers a binary perspective—powerhouse or victim, complete responsibility or total divorcement, all in or out the door.†   (source)
  • He told his own version of the October Revolution from the thrilling perspective of an eyewitness.†   (source)
  • He rode around all morning, trying to remember the last man he had tracked, just to give himself perspective.†   (source)
  • Many Indian liberals agree with that perspective.†   (source)
  • We drew as many important details as we could, and drew in perspective: Nearby objects are larger than distant objects; horizontal parallel lines converge and vanish in the distance.†   (source)
  • We were transfixed; it was an insider's perspective that we could never have gotten at home in Toppenish.†   (source)
  • Another perspective.†   (source)
  • "This tends to put your life in perspective," stated the instructions.†   (source)
  • He'd strayed eight miles up a deserted valley from the trail, and in the failing light, even the contours of peaks that he knew well looked unfamiliar from this new perspective.†   (source)
  • It was a perspective that lined up surprisingly well with Fredi's.†   (source)
  • To put that into perspective: The Marines were awarded eighty-four Medals of Honor in World War II.†   (source)
  • I knew he'd probably freak out and call me a monster or something, but I really hadn't had a choice, and now that he knew he could put all of this in perspective and— His laughter interrupted my mental tirade.†   (source)
  • I saw my life in complete perspective " 'And the vampires of the Theatre ….†   (source)
  • It was a strange perspective on the world.†   (source)
  • That perspective, that belief, Cedric, is admirable, but it also can set you up for disappointment.†   (source)
  • Let us therefore agree that the idea of eternal return implies a perspective from which things appear other than as we know them: they appear without the mitigating circumstance of their transitory nature.†   (source)
  • From a patient's perspective, it didn't look welcoming.†   (source)
  • You've got to try to see it from his perspective.†   (source)
  • A momentary shift in his perspective.†   (source)
  • But from the boys' perspective, it was luxurious.†   (source)
  • I wish that everyone could see the world from my perspective; I believe that more people would be optimistic about our future.†   (source)
  • "I don't think I can muster much sympathy for their perspective."†   (source)
  • Perhaps from the shock of seeming to see my grandfather looking through Tarp's eyes, perhaps through the calmness of his voice alone, or perhaps through his story and his link of chain, he had restored my perspective.†   (source)
  • It looked like a toy, but from the Women's Place, everything was a matter of perspective.†   (source)
  • In this sense there is a sort of gender perspective to my thesis.†   (source)
  • Years later, reflecting from the perspective of old age, he himself would call it the most exhausting case he ever undertook, but conclude with pardonable pride that his part in the defense was "one of the most gallant, generous, manly and disinterested actions of my whole life, and one of the best pieces of service I ever rendered my country."†   (source)
  • The exercise, dubbed "Proud Phantom," gave me a different perspective on being part of a team.†   (source)
  • From her present perspective, its main quality seemed to Annie to be oppression.†   (source)
  • Pollack would say that the fallacy of your thinking lies in its narrow human perspective.†   (source)
  • Seeing Max's face, he added quickly, "Not his feelings about you—just his perspective about you staying here over the holidays.†   (source)
  • It's because of both those extremes of others' opinions that I felt it the natural thing to do to tell my story, written from my perspective.†   (source)
  • Have some perspective.†   (source)
  • He'd been immersed in his new art project—copying a two-story house in order to learn perspective.†   (source)
  • From his perspective, the Russians must protect Castro's people against terrorist behavior by the United States.†   (source)
  • I sneak around one of the columns and get a different perspective on the room.†   (source)
  • The horror she felt was only a brief stab, like the wrench of a switching perspective: she grasped that the objects she had thought to be human were not.†   (source)
  • I want to get the new girl's perspective.†   (source)
  • If I fly back, it'll give us both time to put things back in perspective.†   (source)
  • Allan Wall, the teacher, said that living in Mexico had given him a different perspective on the inroads of Spanish in America.†   (source)
  • It was a lesson in perspective for me to take the witness stand and face the same honor court on which I had served my entire senior year.†   (source)
  • In fact, the inspector has begun to ask my thoughts on his cases, to have a woman's perspective.†   (source)
  • But a little time in jail and the prospects of having to mount a defense would give the Cubans a taste of their own sour medicine and offer a harsh counter-perspective to the rest of the country.†   (source)
  • But these were pictures of women and men together, from a close-in perspective, patently engaging in sexual intercourse.†   (source)
  • The aerial perspective extended far beyond Rome, to the Apennines.†   (source)
  • Perspective, kiddo, remember?†   (source)
  • We wanted to create an online magazine that offered two (very) different perspectives on fashion, beauty, boys, books, life.†   (source)
  • "I wanted a guy's perspective," Shari says with a shrug.†   (source)
  • Maybe my ignorance will bring a new perspective to these problems.†   (source)
  • It really gave me a different perspective about babies, especially since a big apartment-house deal came up for Mom and I had to do most of the care-giving.†   (source)
  • Her beauty and vulnerability cloud your perspective:' "So you think she killed him?"†   (source)
  • There were other thoughts, however, that occupied her on the ride to Kowloon, desperate thoughts that she tried to control and keep in perspective, pushing away the panic that could so easily engulf her, causing her to do the wrong thing, make a wrong move that could harm David — kill David.†   (source)
  • "And from the Saudi perspective," continued Natalie, "a Sunni caliphate is far preferable to a Shiite Crescent that stretches from Iran to Lebanon."†   (source)
  • Columbia shuttles. and Paws provided sonic perspective.†   (source)
  • Even their moods seemed to meld together, so that when one of them was dispirited, the other also drooped; and if Helen grew philosophical, Ralph found himself stretching his neck and clearing his throat, as perspective and clarity irradiated his mind.†   (source)
  • She wanted perspective.†   (source)
  • This bit of paper tacked on peeling white paint abruptly enlarged his perspective, as if, stumbling through a black tunnel, he saw, or thought he saw, a chink of light.†   (source)
  • Once viewed from this perspective, some startling facts became clear.†   (source)
  • Now the end of that vast, pencil-shaped lens seemed to be moving more slowly, but that was only due to perspective.†   (source)
  • "One of the things I cannot grasp, though I have often written about them, trying to get them into some kind of bearable perspective," Steiner writes, "is the lime relation."†   (source)
  • Perspective, the line of vision, the frame of vision—these set a distance.†   (source)
  • He put my sins in a new perspective.†   (source)
  • He was the ancient artist to whom space and perspective meant nothing.†   (source)
  • What mattered was that it might be that and it might not, because it was possible that stars, too, had happened to notice how the world stretched out from a broken bridge--had seen it all in ant's perspective--or that they knew beforehand, without ever having had to see from the bridge where Hodge had stood.†   (source)
  • To regain your perspective and find out who you are.†   (source)
  • What had happened slid into perspective, an incident, almost funny.†   (source)
  • Between the shop and the left of the stage there is a little street in perspective.†   (source)
  • But to look back from the stony plain along the road which led one to that place is not at all the same thing as walking on the road; the perspective, to say the very least, changes only with the journey; only when the road has, all abruptly and treacherously, and with an absoluteness that permits no argument, turned or dropped or risen is one able to see all that one could not have seen from any other place.†   (source)
  • Get a full perspective.†   (source)
  • Over dinner, we tried to put what we were now calling "the wilding" in perspective.†   (source)
  • Harry's heart attack had pushed everything suddenly into perspective for me.†   (source)
  • In the past he would have written a letter to Catherine to help him get it into perspective.†   (source)
  • I pulled away quickly, laughing with him, but determined to put things back in perspective at once.†   (source)
  • For one ghastly moment, I was reminded of our afternoon in Italy, in the macabre tower room of the Volturi, where Jane had tortured Edward with her malignant gift, burning him with her thoughts alone…… The memory snapped me out of my near hysteria and put everything in perspective.†   (source)
  • Alison was right about me in that regard, and though I haven't given up entirely on the idea of a career change, and have even talked to the head of a nonprofit organization about a possible job, I've decided to stick with the column for now One day in the Lamp courtyard, a client puts my limitations as an amateur social worker in perspective when he offers both a reality check and a critique.†   (source)
  • That snaps everything into perspective.†   (source)
  • The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.†   (source)
  • The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.†   (source)
  • Listen—I brought you here for some perspective.†   (source)
  • "Just look at this from my perspective for a minute, okay?" she continued as if I hadn't said anything.†   (source)
  • But then she tried to add some perspective and levity to it, and to ensure that this revelation wouldn't dissuade others from exploring their personal history through PastPerfect.†   (source)
  • Every meaningful image was jumbled together with the countless moments of our daily life, defeating my efforts to gain some perspective.†   (source)
  • But try to have some perspective.†   (source)
  • Okay, look at it from my perspective.†   (source)
  • I know my father told you about me, but I think it's important that you know our history from my perspective.†   (source)
  • That really gave some perspective since the battle craft, as big as a skyscraper, looked just like the toy used for comparison in various Videos.†   (source)
  • Soon enough, my thoughts were focused on these notions, these heightened wonderings, and I fear I lost some perspective along the way for what my daughter Sunny may have needed, which was not necessarily a woman or a mother or anyone else.†   (source)
  • I tell you this that you may see things in a broader — and I may add, a less selfish perspective.†   (source)
  • Coupled with an inability to stop thinking about said interest, the disease [read more] PERSPECTIVES   (source)
  • I thrilled in the fresh perspective that came from tipping the ordinary plane of existence on end.†   (source)
  • Someone told me that creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.†   (source)
  • A giddy Cool Girl perspective will do that.†   (source)
  • In fact, he has a godlike perspective on the whole mammal class.†   (source)
  • But there are other perspectives, and I want to hear them.†   (source)
  • A philosopher must help people to see life in a new perspective.†   (source)
  • From an eight-dimensional perspective, a particle is a vast presence like the Milky Way.†   (source)
  • I think he felt like distance would do me good, give me perspective or something.†   (source)
  • DeWeese always argued from this strange perspective that made it impossible to answer him.†   (source)
  • It put things in a new perspective for me.†   (source)
  • Not a different perspective, the correct perspective.†   (source)
  • From a four-dimensional perspective, a fundamental particle is an immense world.†   (source)
  • To see everything from the perspective of eternity.†   (source)
  • To really understand why, you have to look at the world from a different perspective.†   (source)
  • It put things in sharp perspective for me.†   (source)
  • The receding Ancient Greek perspective of the past ten years has a very dark side: Chris is dead.†   (source)
  • It's much easier to have the proper perspective when I have you safelyhere .†   (source)
  • Nick is like a good stiff drink: He gives everything the correct perspective.†   (source)
  • From a two— or three-dimensional perspective, the particle begins to show internal structure.†   (source)
  • This was the perspective that gave Phaedrus the idea DeWeese was concealing something from him.†   (source)
  • I followed her silently, appreciating the new perspective.†   (source)
  • Forks has really changed my perspective on life.†   (source)
  • But from the perspective of aesthetics, I must be right and the universe must be wrong.†   (source)
  • "Jasper looks at things from a military perspective," Edward quietly defended his brother.†   (source)
  • It depends on the number of dimensions of your observation perspective.†   (source)
  • It has a profound influence on the researcher's perspective on life."†   (source)
  • But the perspective taken by the author shook Ye to the core.†   (source)
  • They could use some new blood, some fresh perspective.†   (source)
  • It is kind of crazy if you think about it from the perspective of a nine-year-old.†   (source)
  • I didn't want her to think I was implying some affinity of effort and perspective.†   (source)
  • Seeing so many men fall and die around him had altered his perspective.†   (source)
  • He tried to see things from David's perspective.†   (source)
  • I could have had a new outlet, a new perspective this whole time.†   (source)
  • But from a purely military perspective, our position is still weak.†   (source)
  • When you step away from it all, you lose perspective.†   (source)
  • Joy Peskin gave her perspective and experience when I needed it most.†   (source)
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  • If a girl, doll or no doll, swoons within a yard or two of a man's nose, he can see it without a perspective-glass.†   (source)
  • But vain had it been, if through their perspective glasses they had not perceived me and shortened their sail to let me come up.†   (source)
  • I walked towards the north-east coast, over against Blefuscu, where, lying down behind a hillock, I took out my small perspective glass, and viewed the enemy's fleet at anchor, consisting of about fifty men of war, and a great number of transports: I then came back to my house, and gave orders (for which I had a warrant) for a great quantity of the strongest cable and bars of iron.†   (source)
  • ] see, we see there much men and there: which, though I could not perceive them with my perspective glass, was true, by what the men themselves told me the next day.†   (source)
  • So I found two or three compasses, some mathematical instruments, dials, perspective glasses, books of navigation, three English Bibles, and several other good books, which I carefully put up.†   (source)
  • Then wandering on this errand more to the west of the island than ever I had yet done, and casting my eyes towards the sea, methought I perceived a boat at a great distance; but could not possibly tell what it was for want of my perspective glass.†   (source)
  • Some hours after, we perceived the sea covered as it were with something very black, not easily at first to be discovered: upon which our chief mate ascending the shrouds a little way, and taking a view with a perspective glass, he cries out, _An army!†   (source)
  • …at the foot of my ladder, and, as usual, ascended up to the top of the hill at two stages, standing, however, in such a manner, that my head did not appear above the hill, so that they could easily perceive me; and here, by the assistance of my perspective glass, I observed no less than thirty in number around a fire, feasting upon what meat they had dressed: how they cooked it, or what it was, I could not then perfectly tell; but they were all dancing and capering about the flames,…†   (source)
  • Two hours after, impatient for intelligence, I set my ladder up to the side of the hill, where there was a flat place, and then pulling the ladder after me ascended to the top, where laying myself on my belly, with my perspective glass, I perceived no less than nine naked savages, sitting round a small fire, eating, as I supposed human flesh, with their two canoes haled on shore, waiting for the flood to carry them off again.†   (source)
  • …So these being none of the people we wanted, I ordered Friday to lie still, till such time as I came down from the mountain, which, with my ladder, I now ascended in order to discover more fully what they were; and now, with the help of my perspective glass, I plainly perceived an English ship, which I concluded it to be; by the fashion of its long boat; and which filled me with such uncommon transports of joy, that I cannot tell how to describe; and yet some secret doubts hang about…†   (source)
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  • I took my perspective glass and went up to the side of the hill, to see what I could discover; and I perceived very soon, by my glass, that there were one and twenty savages, three prisoners, and three canoes, and that their chief concern seemed to be the triumphant banquet upon the three poor human bodies, a thing which by this time I had observed was very common with them.†   (source)
  • After this I conducted him to the top of the hill, to view if the rest of the savages were yet remaining there; but when I looked through my perspective glass, I could see no appearance of them, nor of their canoes; so that it was evident they never minded their deceased companions whom we had slain: which if they had, they would surely have searched for, or left one boat behind for them to follow, after they returned from their pursuit.†   (source)
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