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Updated: June 25, 2025
Ah, to get back to that first clear-eyed view of things, to see as Homer saw, as Beowulf saw, as the Nibelungen poets saw. The life is here, the same as then; the Poem is here; my West is here; the primeval, epic life is here, here under our hands, in the desert, in the mountain, on the ranch, all over here, from Winnipeg to Guadalupe.
He had seen her risk her life for Seymour's own. He could never forget the glorious picture she made standing across the prostrate form of that young man, pistol in hand, keeping the mob at bay, never wavering, never faltering, clear-eyed, supreme. He would be almost willing to die to have her do the like for him. He could still hear the echo of that bitter cry, "Seymour!
Had that headstrong young marplot been detected in treason with the colored people? No. Dick met his glance clear-eyed, unconstrained. The shot must have been a random one. "I think you do us injustice, Miss Rosa," Wesley said. "I, for one, am not interested in the blacks. All I want is the Union; after that I don't care a rush!" "I protest against politics," Mrs. Atterbury intervened, gently.
Many a girl of this type really loves housekeeping, really loves children, and makes the ideal housewife. Intelligent, clear-eyed, she manages her home like a business. But if independent experience and a non-domestic nature happen to reside in the same woman, then the neurosis appears in full bloom.
Moreover, he had been everywhere, done a little of everything, acquired in his manner something of the versatility of his experience. Physically he was fit as any logger in the camps, a big, active-bodied, clear-eyed, ruddy man. What it was about him that stirred her so, Stella could never determine. She knew beyond peradventure that he had that power.
III. And now, lastly, I see in this saying an illustration of a conscience which, partially stirred, soon went finally to sleep again. Strangely enough, if we pursue the story, this very terror and clear-eyed perception of the nature of his action led the frivolous king to nothing more than a curious wish to see this new Teacher.
"'The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon Him, to all that call upon Him in truth. "'He will fulfil the desire of all that fear Him: He also will hear their cry and save them." Anne saw but two things plainly in all the world the clear-eyed stranger like a god; this fiery old man who spoke words containing strange, though vague, intimations of comfort.
We're a sad lot iv old la-ads, hatin' th' school, but hatin' th' grajation exercises aven more. "But 'tis a rale pleasure to see th' bright faced freshmen comin' in an' I welcome th' last young fellow fr'm Harvard to our vin'rable institution. I like to see these earnest, clear-eyed la-ads comin' in to waken th' echoes iv our grim walls with their young voices.
She knew herself properly reproved, and she reproached herself, not for what she had actually said to Kerr of Harry that had been trivial enough but for that wayward impulse she had to confide in this clear-eyed, whimsical stranger, as it had never occurred to her to confide in Harry. She raised her eyes. "Certainly I shall not discuss you with him." "Is that a promise?"
Instead of the old, clear-eyed, ruthless joy in work, there was a look of furtive waiting; an anxiety of hope deferred, that grooved itself into her face. And somewhere in the spring of the third year, the hoped-for moment approached necessity began to offer its beneficent opportunity to her son.
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