eyereach
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[edit]Noun
[edit]eyereach (uncountable)
- (dated) The range or reach of the eye; eyeshot.
- 1603 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, Seianus His Fall, London: […] G[eorge] Elld, for Thomas Thorpe, published 1605, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
- look, look! is not he blest
That gets a seat in eye-reach of him? more,
That comes in ear, or tongue-reach?
- 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:
- I shoved for the middle of the river on a long downstream slant; and when I judged I was out of eye-reach, I laid on my oars, and looked back and see her go and smell around the wreck
- 1946, Effie Geneva Bathurst, Delia Goetz, Elise Henrietta Martens, Education in Bolivia:
- problems within eyereach of the school bus
References
[edit]- “eyereach”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.