Globes
[ɡləubz]
Examples
- In this room, too, there was a cabinet piano, quite new and of superior tone; also an easel for painting and a pair of globes. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- She can talk French, I suppose, and do geography, and globes, and needlework, and everything? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- In Siam these fish are kept in glass globes, as we keep goldfish, for the purpose of fighting, and an extravagant amount of gambling takes place about the result of the fights. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Anaxagoras, greatly daring, thought the sun and moon were vast globes, so vast that the sun was probably as big as all the Peloponnesus. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- While glass is in the soft, yielding, pliable state, it is molded into dishes, bottles, and other useful objects, such as lamp shades, globes, etc. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- In the use of the globes both are proficients. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Before the throne, was a large table filled with globes and spheres, and mathematical instruments of all kinds. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Fish globes magnify the fish that swim within. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I saw his astronomical instruments put to strange uses, his globes defaced, his papers covered with abstruse calculations destroyed. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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