Glasses

Examples

• He was always well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• To Gerald, the smallish, odd figure of the German was distinct and objective, as if seen through field glasses. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Gerald glanced at the glasses of the other two. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Three wine-glasses, that is all. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Books with their wealth of entertainment and information would be sealed to a large part of mankind, if glasses did not assist weak eyes. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Lord bless ye, Tom, ye needn't break all the glasses! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• His tools were old bottles, glasses, tobacco-pipes, teacups, and such odds and ends as he could find. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• In my mind I set it down as an impossible performance, save in the unlikely case that she had a second pair of glasses. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• This gives a much increased field, and also an increased stereoscopic effect, or conception of relative distance, by having the object glasses wider apart than the eyes of the observer. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The old man took his glasses off, and mildly laid them down beside him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He has been standing on the hearthstone with his back to the smoked chimney-piece, and now turns round with his glasses to his eyes. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Now they are all holding up their glasses and drinking somebody's health. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Glessen or glasses are flat sectional streaks having an icy appearance. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Touching glasses together in drinking, preparatory to a confidential talk, has come to be nicknamed hob-nobbing because of the equipment incidental to that action years ago. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• There are three glasses in my sitting-room. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.

Editor: Louise