of 1894 a great light was seenseeon the illuminatedilluminatepart of the disk , first at the Lick Observatory , then by Perrotin of Nice , and then by other observers .
I wishedwishI had a light to smoke by , little suspecting the meaning of the minute gleamgleamI had seenseeand all that it would presently bring me .
He wentgoto India with his capital , and there , according to a wild legend in our family , he was once seenseeridingrideon an elephant , in company with a Baboon ; but I think it must have been a Baboo -- or a Begum .
On this stairway he had once seenseea manacled free negro shotshootwhile being takentakeupstairs for examination under a criminal charge .
After spendingspenda week in Cape Town , findingfindthat they overchargedoverchargeme at the hotel , and having seenseeeverything there was to see , including the botanical gardens , which seem to me likely to confer a great benefit on the country , and the new Houses of Parliament , which I expect will do nothing of the sort , I determineddetermineto go back to Natal by the _ Dunkeld _ , then lying at the docks waiting for the _ Edinburgh Castle _ due in from England .
‘ But you may believe it ; for Jane Wilson has seenseeher .
When , therefore , intelligence was receivedreceiveat the fort which covered the southern termination of the portage between the Hudson and the lakes , that Montcalm had been seenseemovingmoveup the Champlain , with an army “ numerous as the leaves on the trees , ” its truth was admittedadmitwith more of the craven reluctance of fear than with the stern joy that a warrior should feel , in finding an enemy within reach of his blow .
But there were tales of long ago , when some brave investigator had seenseeit -- a Big Country , Big Houses , Plenty People -- All Women .
When he had stood in the doorway with his soldier 's clothes on his back , and with the light of excitement and expectancy in his eyes almost defeating the glow of regret for the home bonds , he had seenseetwo tearstearleaving their trailstrailon his mother 's scarred cheeks .
-- and she immediately thereupon remarkedremarkthat she believed Strether knew the Munsters ; the Munsters being the people he had seenseeher with at Liverpool .
But some thoughtfull persons , who had seenseehim walkingwalkacross one of his fields on a certain December morning -- sunny and exceedingly mild -- might have regarded Gabriel Oak in other aspects than these .
Without waiting to rise he whippedwhipa revolver from his pocket , firingfirepoint blank at the great mountain of muscle towering before him ; but , quick as he was , John Clayton was almost as quick , so that the bullet which was intended for the sailor 's heart lodgedlodgein the sailor 's leg instead , for Lord Greystoke had struckstrikedown the captain 's arm as he had seenseethe weapon flashflashin the sun .
All this Jem sworeswearhe had seensee, more by token that it was the very day he had been mole-catchingmoleon Squire Cass 's land , down by the old saw-pit .
But oh , in five minutes we had seenseethe whole thing .
Some half hour later I happened to glanceglancecasually across the valley and was much surprisedsurpriseto notenotethree little dots in about the same place I had last seenseemy friend and his two pack animals .