Synonyms:
sights
Meaning: an optical instrument for aiding the eye in aiming, as on a firearm or surveying instrument
Usage examples
The sights which I had seen inspired horror, and horror only.
The ease with which I could move increased my confidence, and the many strange sights captivated my imagination.
But he would not go back one step, assuring me that my horse was a trained hunter and accustomed to such sights.
Neither the great distance that he has come nor the fearful sights that he has seen here have weakened his heart.
I took my time on the journey, for I knew nothing could harm me, and I saw a good many strange sights before I got back to this place again."
By dawn he saw many interesting sights, but day broke before he had finished the city, and he resolved to come the next evening a few hours earlier.
The sights and smells and sounds which had become familiar to Virginia struck the senses of these refined, delicate society girls as something horrible.
As soon as I found that Soap-stick was high enough (for I made no farther use of the sights than to ascertain this fact), I pulled trigger, and off she went.
Company was irksome to me; when alone, I could fill my mind with the sights of heaven and earth; the voice of Henry soothed me, and I could thus cheat myself into a transitory peace.
For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to contemplate the divine ideas of liberty and self sacrifice of which these sights were the monuments and the remembrancers.