Sentence examples for bare sight of from inspiring English sources

In a letter to Andrew Johnson, the military governor of Tennessee, encouraging him to lead the way in raising black troops, Lincoln wrote, "The bare sight of 50,000 armed and drilled black soldiers on the banks of the Mississippi would end the rebellion at once".

While at a mixer for black writers and editors earlier this week, a friend and colleague of mine was accosted by the sight of bare butt cheeks on my phone.

My first impressions of Waiheke Island are coloured by the sight of bare bottoms, all brightly painted in tinges of lime green, lemon yellow, electric blue and blushing pink.

Swaddled tightly in the yellowed stomach lining of a sheep, a mixture of congealed fat, onions, pinhead oatmeal, stock and the cut-up heart, lungs and liver of the animal has a lumpen look that even the eulogizing poet, Robert Burns, compared to the sight of bare buttocks.

"The sight of the bare shelves shames me," she writes in the chilling final paragraph.

As we made our way toward the corral, I caught her grinning at the sight of my bare torso.

Trish McEvoy is not a fan of this confused vessel of modern womanhood and has been known to shame luncheon companions by ordering them to bare messy cosmetics bags in sight of all.

Rohmer cemented his credentials as the great poet of bourgeois repression with Claire's Knee, in which a buttoned-up businessman finds himself smitten by the sight of a bare limb while on vacation.

Bare remnants of last weekend's picturesque snowfall remained, but Lambeau was no less of a sight for a first-timer Sunday, beginning with the startling sight of clammy, bare benches, offering no more comfort or style than your typical college football stadium.

The sight of tanned bare flesh, plus the bright lights and camera crews, drew some curious looks from the crowd, most in the vaguely interested way that said, "I don't want them to see me staring and think I care".

The noise the flip-flops make, and the hazard they represent to her footing-she keeps slipping on the stairs-irritate him, but he does like the sight of her bare toes, spread slightly apart, as on hardworking Asian feet, their little joints whitened by the tension of keeping her flip-flops on.