And thereon sat a woman gorgeous gay.
Spenser, Fairy Queen, ii. 7, 44.
Besides, upon the very siege of justice
Lord Angelo hath to the common ear
Professed the contrary.
Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, act iv. sc. 2.
Sight. The use of ‘sight’ to signify a multitude, a great quantity (that is, to see), has now a touch of vulgarity about it, which once it was very far from possessing.
A noble sighte of bookes (nobilissimam librorum bibliothecam).—Harleian translation of Higden, vi. 239. (Rolls Series, No. 41.)
Ye are come unto the mounte Sion, and to the citie of the livinge God, the celestiall Jerusalem, and to an innumerable sight of angels.—Heb. xii. 22. Tyndale.
Clodius was ever about him in every place and street he went, having a sight of rascals and knaves with him.—North, Plutarch’s Lives, p. 722.