What is "seen through"

Usage examples of "seen through".

High King Festten opposed them bitterly: seen through the breaches in the piled ridge, it appeared that he had sent his entire mounted strength to destroy them.

I was only sorry because I hadn't seen through this thing a long time ago.

But these marks do not seem to be impressed upon the isinglass substance above mentioned, but seem to be seen through it, as if they were engraved upon the body itself.

But these marks do not seem to be impressed upon the isinglass substance above mentioned, but seem to be seen through it as if they were engraved upon the body itself.

The twelve duennas and the lady came on at procession pace, their faces being covered with black veils, not transparent ones like Trifaldin's, but so close that they allowed nothing to be seen through them.

Quixote in a garret that showed evident signs of having formerly served for many years as a straw-loft, in which there was also quartered a carrier whose bed was placed a little beyond our Don Quixote's, and, though only made of the pack-saddles and cloths of his mules, had much the advantage of it, as Don Quixote's consisted simply of four rough boards on two not very even trestles, a mattress, that for thinness might have passed for a quilt, full of pellets which, were they not seen through the rents to be wool, would to the touch have seemed pebbles in hardness, two sheets made of buckler leather, and a coverlet the threads of which anyone that chose might have counted without missing one in the reckoning.

He looked around him and jumped in surprise at what he hadn't seen through the mirror because of the angle.

While the eyes move vigorously (the movement can easily be seen through the closed eye lids), the rest of the body is usually quiet.