Usage examples of "horn-rims".
He pulled the spectacles down his nose and peered at me over the thick horn-rims, eyes wide in myopic astonishment.
A wiry five-eight, graycropped, gray eyes back of horn-rims and heavy glass, cycling between preoccupation and near-frantic darting, he had had a way of verbalizing half-completed thoughts as he went along, so that you might begin to think him a representative of that tribe which had come into positions of small authority by means of nepotism or politics.
That mind behind those horn-rims could do a lot of strange things with just a little data.
Still wearing his dorky horn-rims, even in this age of soft contacts and laser surgery, but you could count on him.
Or perhaps it was simply that that wary, watching expression was gone from the eyes, slightly overmagnified by thick spectacles (wire-rims now, he noticed, not the ugly industrial horn-rims that Roger had always gotten the boy because they were fifteen bucks cheaper).