on-sight

Updated: July 12, 2026

Of moderate stature, almost of middle age, and dressed nicely, without any gewgaws, which look so common upon a gentleman's front, he was likely to please more people than he displeased at first on-sight. The Major was now in the flush of goodwill, having found his dinner genial; and being a good man, he yielded to a little sympathetic anger with those who had done less justice to themselves.

R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore - Erema — My Father's Sin