She believed that she sometimes had a kind of
second-sight about letters, and could tell before she read them whether they brought good or evil tidings.
Miss La Creevy, who was a member of the little council, ventured to insinuate some doubts relative to the probability of Miss Nickleby's arriving at this happy consummation in the compass of an ordinary lifetime; but the good lady set that question entirely at rest, by informing them that she had a presentiment on the subject--a species of
second-sight with which she had been in the habit of clenching every argument with the deceased Mr Nickleby, and, in nine cases and three-quarters out of every ten, determining it the wrong way.
"She sits down like," said Irene, trembling in
second-sight, "and she tries on the glass slipper, and it fits her to a T, and then the prince, he cries in a ringing voice, 'This here is my true love, Cinderella, what now I makes my lawful wedded wife.'"
"Yes; I suppose you found that out by
second-sight."
"I only refrained from destroying your confidence in your own
second-sight."
But let us leave off this strain, sir, if the tone of it is displeasing to you; I am no more disturbed by your justice than are you by my
second-sight."
Virgin natures have, beyond all others, the inexplicable gift of
second-sight, the reason of which lies perhaps in the purity of their nervous systems, which are, as it were, brand-new.
Du Bois as a feeling of "two-ness" resulting from the African American experience of "always looking at one's self through the eyes of others", described as an effect of cruel alienation that can also bring a gift of "
second-sight" in the form of perspectives on practices of citizenship not available to those in positions of privilege.
Whichever way you look at it, this anonymous remake of the 2002 Hong Kong hit is a
second-sight thriller.
Rowan responds to the Coven call and inadvertently draws in
second-sighted Tanya and her sidekick, Fabian, nonmembers who are trying to sort out their personal lives.
The injured man was placed in the very chair specified by the
second-sighted man, where his appearance was just as had been described.