"Second-sighted" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... my Lady Coventry Queen of Prussia. I would not venture to marry either of them these thirty years, for fear of being shuffled out of the world prematurely, to make room for the rest of their adventures. The first time Jack carries the Duchess into the Highlands, I am persuaded that some of his second-sighted subjects will see him in a winding-sheet, with a train of kings behind him as long as those ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 2 • Horace Walpole |
