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But Richmond appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw, peeping around the massive silver epergne that almost obscured him from her view, that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.
If there are any rabbits in this park, they keep carefully out of our view.
1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis., London: Jacob Tonson,, →OCLC:
"Well, there don't seem to be any what you might call views about here," he agreed. "I've been through the Willawee Ranges forty miles west of here, and I can guarantee the views there."
1955 July, M. D. Greville, “To the Valdres by Rail”, in Railway Magazine, page 458:
At Bleiken (50 miles), for the first time the Randsfjord comes into view, and a very lovely view it is, of the long winding island-studded lake with wooded shores and small sandy bays.
(Internet) An individual viewing of a web page or a video etc. by a user.
He smuggled a knife into prison with a view to using it as a weapon.
a.1705, John Locke, “Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, in Posthumous Works of Mr. John Locke: Malebranche’s Opinion of Seeing All Things in God. III. A Discourse of Miracles. IV. Part of a Fourth Letter for Toleration. V. Memoirs Relating to the Life of Anthony First Earl of Shaftesbury. To which is Added, VI. His New Method of a Common-place-book, Written Originally in French, and Now Translated into English.">…], London: A and J Churchill,, published 1706, →OCLC:
No man ever sets himself about anything but upon some view or other which serves him for a reason for what he does
1903, Henry Kelsall Aspinall, Birkenhead and Its Surroundings, page 116:
With this view, they made a Guy Faux, or dummy figure of a boy, dressed in coat and cap; such as might in a poor light be mistaken for a living figure.
Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.