The cavalcade reached at last the bank of the Aracthus river, with its lemon groves and lush grass. A battery wheeled before them over the ancient bridge -a flight of short, broad cobbled steps up as far as the centre of the stream and a similar flight down to the other bank. The returning aplomb of the travellers was well illustrated by the professor, who, upon sighting this bridge, murmured : " Byzantine."英文原著 · 《Active Service》
It was considered out of place to shoot by first sighting the object aimed at. This was usually impracticable in actual life, because the object was almost always in motion, while the hunter himself was often upon the back of a pony at full gallop. Therefore, it was the off-hand shot that the Indian boy sought to master. There was another game with arrows that was characterized by gambling, and was generally confined to the men.英文原著 · 《Indian Boyhood》
Life was to them the bag of grain,
And Death the weedy harrow's tooth. Those warriors of the sighting brain
Give worn Humanity new youth.英文原著 · 《Poems-Volume 2》
At the last incline, where a gentle slope led down to a dark break in the desert, the rout became a stampede. Left and right flanks swung round, the line lengthened, and round the struggling horses, knee-deep in woolly backs, split the streams to flow together beyond in one resistless river of sheep. Mescal forced Bolly out of danger; Dave escaped the right flank, August and Hare swept on with the flood, till the horses, sighting the dark canyon, halted to stand like rocks.英文原著 · 《The Heritage of the Desert》
A strong arm brushed the curtains aside sufficiently to admit its owner's passage, but the armed warrior stopped short at sighting the Sun Children, his proud head lowering, hands crossing over his broad bosom in token of adoration,--for it surely was more than mere submission to one held his superior.英文原著 · 《The Lost City》
Even there in the subterranean recesses something of the wildly excited uproar which followed Waldo's rash attempt to go a-fishing after his fellow men, and the sighting of that awful air-demon by the Indians, could be heard, and, without divining its actual import, Ixtli adroitly turned it to his own advantage.英文原著 · 《The Lost City》
More rare than a sighting of bigfoot or a UFO or Han's penis.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
So, to be clear, the Lightman group is putting its hard-won reputation on the line for a UFO sighting?美剧 · 《Lie to me》
Okay, uh, before we head deeper into the woods, I should warn you folks that there's been several bear sightings in the area.美剧 · 《Modern Family》
The highest incidents of Bigfoot sightings have all come from the temperate rain forest region美剧 · 《The News Room》
These help us track species when sightings or genetic samples are rare. These help us track species when sightings or genetic samples are rare.演讲 · 《Why do whales sing ~ Stephanie Sardelis》
The steady increase in sightings of Spider-Man has sparked a debate over the role of vigilantism in American crime fighting.电影 · 《The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)》