Washington's contemporaries saw in him what they wanted to see.

Then, as now, his contemporaries saw him as an odd duck.

Indeed, it is notable that many contemporaries saw the Revolution as being mainly a Tory achievement.

Some contemporaries also saw him as a strict or authoritarian figure.

In the bright renaissance when Susan Calvin and her contemporaries saw no limits to their ambition or power?

Most contemporaries saw their love affair as the latest of Sand's annexations.

It is a vanishing process, extending over a lengthened period, of which contemporaries never see the end.

Although this was legally accurate, contemporaries saw through it.

But there are signs that not all his contemporaries saw the relationship in such simple terms.

His contemporaries must have seen them differently.