clairvoyant-like

Updated: May 3, 2025

Suddenly he sat up straight and a suppressed exclamation fell from his lips; he closed the book sharply. One or two old ladies looked at him but he did not see them. His vision, clairvoyant-like, seemed to have lifted, to traverse broad seas, limitless steppes. His hands opened and closed, as if striving to reach and clutch something beyond flame of battle, scenes of rapine. He got up dizzily.

Frederic Stewart Isham - A Man and His Money