Magnifying

Examples

• This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill with his powerful magnifying lens. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Hearing that this was impossible, he next sent for a magnifying-glass, and tried how the smear looked, seen that way. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Reproductions were obtained in the same way, positive prints being observed through a magnifying glass. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Look at that with your magnifying glass, Mr. Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• They range from mere specks scarcely visible with a powerful magnifying glass, to large black spots or clusters of large or small black specks sometimes quite plain to the naked eye. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• As he held the waxen print close to the blood-stain, it did not take a magnifying glass to see that the two were undoubtedly from the same thumb. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses, said Mrs. Cadwallader. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Holmes had been examining the cover of the notebook with his magnifying lens. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The magnifying power of glass balls was known to the Chinese, Japanese, Assyrians and Egyptians, and a lens made of rock crystal was found among the ruins of Ninevah. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• For more than two hundred and fifty years the microscope has lent its magnifying aid to the eye, and step by step it has been gradually improved. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The dictograph, to which much publicity is now given, by reason of its use in detective work, is an instrument for magnifying sound. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The giving of problems, the putting of questions, the assigning of tasks, the magnifying of difficulties, is a large part of school work. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The watchmaker, unassisted by the magnifying glass, could not detect the tiny grains of dust or sand which clog the delicate wheels of our watches. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• They're allus magnifying their office. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• By refraction the magnifying glass reveals objects hidden because of their minuteness, and enlarges for our careful contemplation objects otherwise barely visible. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• In fact, Sam considered oratory as his vocation, and never let slip an opportunity of magnifying his office. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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