"Visualise" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a great deal about Catherine Vallincourt by now, both from Lady Arabella and from Magda herself, who, before leaving the community, had discovered the identity of its head. And she could visualise the stern, fanatical woman, obsessed by her idea of disciplining Magda and of counteracting the effects of her brother's marriage with Diane Wielitzska, opening the letter and, after perusal, calmly sealing it ...
— The Lamp of Fate • Margaret Pedler
... the ceiling, striving to visualise what he had just read. Unable to form a clear picture of it, he began feeling his upper ribs ...
— The Darling and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... he had heard from her, never once in the years that had gone since that initial letter of hers had struck its first warning note, had any communication from her been but to sound again a new alarm—the Toscin! The Tocsin—the word seemed to visualise her, to give her a concrete form and being, ...
— The Adventures of Jimmie Dale • Frank L. Packard
... Charles II., named the Mary—had arrived in England, and it was only in 1720 that the first yacht club had been established, not in England, but in Cork. If we may judge from contemporary paintings of yachts we can visualise the Hurst and Calshot as being very tubby, bluff-bowed craft with ample beam. But what would especially strike us in these modern days would be the exceptionally long bowsprit, the forward end of which was raised considerably above the water ...
— King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 • E. Keble Chatterton
... a question of pessimism. Schopenhauer is generally, and with reason, regarded as a pessimist; but no one who has read his "World as Will and Idea" can visualise Schopenhauer, even in the sphere of pure thought, ...
— Suspended Judgments - Essays on Books and Sensations • John Cowper Powys |
