What is "eyeglass"

Usage examples of "eyeglass".

Mornington saluted the Archdeacon, who took off his eyeglasses and bowed back.

Monsieur Barat went through what was obviously his personal ritualthe adjusting of the metal expanding bands that held up his shirt sleeves, the flexing of fingers, the wiping of his glasses, which he put to one side, the screwing into place of the eyeglass.

The rest, including Clocker, waited as an aging man in a white lab smock, heavy-rimmed eyeglasses and smooth pink cheeks, looking like a benevolent doctor in a mouthwash ad, stood up and faced the crowd.

The horn eyeglass was exchanged for one of purest gold, the dingy high-lows for well-waxed Wellingtons, the Paisley fogle for the fabric of the China loom.

At first, most of the saucer stories had come from menopausal matrons and goitrous, slab-jawed rustics with steel-framed eyeglasses, but gradually there had been a shift away from the obvious crank segment of the population and toward those whose words carried intrinsic weight.

The unnecessary eyeglass twinkled on his breast as he looked forth upon the goodliness and beauty of his inheritance.

He was taller than the Captain, and heavier, with thick eyeglasses that gave him an owlishly unmartial appearance.

She also had taken lately to hoarding: unpaired gloves, broken eyeglass frames, bits of tape and twine.

A young journalist, a small white male wearing black-rimmed eyeglasses and punkish clothes, sat alone.

Then Lily and Harvey rolled up their mesh hoods and took off their eyeglasses and rubbed the lenses unimprovingly with untucked corners of their shirttails, all the while expectantly regarding Louis who returned their diminished gazes and attempted to divine what they required of him.

Ryan could just make out the round lenses of its eyeglasses under the hoary growth of frost From the dates on the jars, the whitecoat had lived in the redoubt for decades before pulling his own plug.

When next I awoke the first thing I saw was the round disc of a sympathetic eyeglass, behind which was Good.

Leng helped him get some silver bridgework and a special pair of eyeglasses with an unusually thick lens.

At the main coatroom, downstairs, he took off his dogskin coat and plush cap, tipped up his imitation silver pocket flask, combed his hair and beard with a small baby-blue pocket comb, and put on his harness of gold-rimmed eyeglasses with a broad black silk ribbon.

The editor of the Sunday Supplement put his toothpick behind his ear and fixed Condy with his eyeglasses.