quick-sightedness

I cannot help, therefore, regarding this vast quick-sightedness into evil as a vicious excess, and as a very pernicious evil in itself.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

These Klings are active and industrious, but they lack fibre apparently, and that quick-sightedness for opportunities which makes the Chinese the most successful of all emigrants.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

To this contumacy, however, succeeds a stupor which destroys their former quick-sightedness.

Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

P---- pointed to the spot he had already suggested as the focus of attention, and they both saw, with the quick-sightedness of men accustomed to live by the chase, the cause of his excitement.

A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition William A. Ross

And Lisa understood this silence; with a child’s quick-sightedness she knew very well, too, when Agafya was displeased with other people, Marya Dmitrievna, or Kalitin himself.

Chapter XXXV 1917

Although the extreme youthfulness, nay boyishness, of the letters written by him at that time, and for some time after, makes him appear younger than he really was, the criticisms and witticisms on what is going on around which they contain, show incontestably that he had more than the usual share of clear and quick-sightedness.

Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888

These Klings are active and industrious, but they lack fibre apparently, and that quick-sightedness for opportunities which makes the Chinese the most successful of all emigrants.

The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither Isabella Lucy 1883

The Spaniards were unprovided with artillery or firearms, and owed their success to their discipline and bravery, and still more to the extraordinary valor and quick-sightedness of their leader.

By Right of Conquest Or, With Cortez in Mexico 1867

Madame des Ursins 'quick-sightedness fathomed all the advantages she might derive from the general discouragement, and promised herself to let nothing be lost by it either for herself or her dependents, however equivocal their position might be towards her.

Political Women, Vol. 2 (of 2) Sutherland Menzies 1861

And Lisa understood this silence; with a child's quick-sightedness she knew very well, too, when Agafya was displeased with other people, Marya Dmitrievna, or Kalitin himself.

A House of Gentlefolk Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850