clairvoyant
Definition: able to see things that others cannot
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Silas Marner - By George Eliot, W. Patterson Atkinson
...clairvoyante : feminine of clairvoyant ....
The Wanderings of a Spiritualist - By Arthur Conan Doyle
...By his clairvoyant gift he could see as much as they with their laryngoscopes ....
The mill on the Floss - By George Eliot, Charles Henshaw Ward
...Yet there was one return of her clairvoyant power -LRB- after a fashion -RRB- in 1872, when she was deeply impressed by an English girl gambling in the stifling air of a roulette-room at a German resort ....
Fathers and Sons - By Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Eugene Schuyler
...Katia drew herself in in some way under the clairvoyant look of her sister; and Arcadi, as suited a lover, could not grant the least attention to anybody whatever in the presence of the object of his flame; but he was at his ease only with Katia ....
The Damnation of Theron Ware - By Harold Frederic
...I Ve been a professional clairvoyant, and I 've been a professional medium, and I Ve been within one vote of being indicted by a grand jury, and the money that bought that vote was put up by the smartest and most famous train-gambler between Omaha and ` Frisco, a gentleman who died in his boots and took three sheriffs deputies along with him to Kingdom-Come ....
The Return of Tarzan - By Edgar Rice Burroughs
...By the Author of When A Man 's A M Ais Oregon Journal, Portland--It is this almost clairvoyant powc of reading the human soul that has made Mr. Wright 's boot among the most remarkable works of the present age ....
Little Masterpieces of Fiction - edited by Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lionel Strachey
...I remember well the look and the smile with which she one day said, after a mistake of this kind on my part, `` I used to think you were a clairvoyant, and that was the reason why you were so bitter against other clairvoyants, wanting to keep your monopoly; but I see now you have become rather duller than the rest of the world . "...
The Quest of the Golden Girl - By Richard Le Gallienne
...Now I had smiled to think that underneath that stately silk, around that tight little waist, was a dainty waistband bearing the legend `` Sylvia Joy, " No. 4, perhaps, or 5, but not No. 6; and a whole wonderful underworld of lace and linen and silk stockings, the counterpart of which wonders, my clairvoyant fancy laughed to think, were at the moment--so entirely unsuspected of their original owner--my delicious possessions ....
Alice Adams - By Booth Tarkington
...ment-houses, old, sooty, frame boarding-houses, small groceries and drug-stores, laundries and one-room plumbers ' shops, with the sign of a clairvoyant here and there ....
The World Set Free - By Herbert George Wells
...He added in his diary : " I had a sense of all this globe as that ... " By that phrase he meant a kind of clairvoyant vision of this populated world as a whole, of all its cities and towns and villages, its high roads and the inns beside them, its gardens and farms and upland pastures, its boatmen and sailors, its ships coming along the great circles of the ocean, its time-tables and appointments and payments and dues, as it were one unified and unprogressive spectacle ....
Color Studies - By Thomas Allibone Janvier
...It is for this reason that women, and women only, have given us trustworthy evidences of clairvoyant phenomena . '...
Smoke Bellew - By Jack London
...As he quickly learned, she was Laura Sibley, the seeress and professional clairvoyant who had organized the expedition in Los Angeles and led it to thi ?...
The Winning of Barbara Worth - By Harold Bell Wright
...Ortfta Journal, Portland--`` it Is this almost clairvoyant power of reading the human soul that has made Mr. Wright 's books among the most remarkable works of the present age . "...
The Canadian Commonwealth - By C. Agnes Laut
...ago some Indian camp had been starved or massacred there, and owing to my unusual condition I got into some clairvoyant connection with that past ....
The Right of Way - By Gilbert Parker
...He had seen familiarity with sacred names and things in the uneducated, in excited revivalists, worked up to a state clairvoyant and conversational with the Creator; but he had never heard an educated man speak as this man did ....
St. Ives - By Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Sidney Colvin
...The bond of sympathy, of all things in the world, had rendered him clairvoyant ....