How To Use Spectacles In A Sentence
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Gladiatorial combats, wild beast hunts, and public executions were important spectacles presented not only in Rome but throughout the Roman Empire.
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In one appearance, after the first bout of bombing, he was wearing uncharacteristic horn-rimmed spectacles.
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In a manuscript written in 1299 by Pissazzo, the author says: "I find myself so pressed by age that I can neither read nor write without those glasses they call spectacles, lately invented, to the great advantage of poor old men when their sight grows weak.
Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891
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Over time, companies competed with one another in presenting ‘grand’ spectacles.
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It turned out to be a cheap pair of spectacles with one red lens and one blue lens.
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My father swore by Kodachrome, taking off his thick-rimmed Philip Larkin spectacles to peer myopically through viewfinders.
Brownie Points
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Their attempt to soften the electorate's impression of her as a scientific cold fish is one of the few amusing spectacles in a grim political landscape.
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In the lead was a tall man, about Adam's height, with a head full of graying brown hair and a pair of intelligent-looking spectacles.
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Up until 10 o'clock, Audrey and I enjoyed sitting and watching the spectacles, drumming our fingers to the impeccable music, and chit-chatting about absolutely useless girl talk.
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Deliciously charming or incredibly irritating, depending on your point of view, he is always ready with smooth-tongued flattery, eyes innocently beaming behind his spectacles.
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The gold rims of his spectacles glinted in the sun.
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Up until 10 o'clock, Audrey and I enjoyed sitting and watching the spectacles, drumming our fingers to the impeccable music, and chit-chatting about absolutely useless girl talk.
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Oroveso to the Druidical chorus, was a muscular spinster, fierce and forty, sporting steel spectacles, a frizette of the most scrupulous honesty, and a towering comb which formed what the landscape-gardeners call "an object" in the distance.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864
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He wore pince-nez spectacles, a round-ended stiff collar, and a moustache.
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My spectacles picked up a few drops of water and turned the street lamps into sparkling sodium stars.
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Privatisation currently looms in the background as an iconoclastic aspiration always viewed with rose-coloured spectacles and about which many people speak but very few objectively map out.
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She pushed her spectacles up her nose and sighed.
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The girl drew from her pocket a little green-leather sheath, worn at the edges to whity-brown, and out of that a pair of spectacles, unconsciously looking round the room for a moment as she did so, as if to ensure that no stranger saw her in the act of using them.
The Hand of Ethelberta
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Her hair is freshly set in loose curls and her green eyes twinkle behind spectacles.
The Sun
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With his lank, greasy hair, dirty jeans and John Lennon spectacles he looks like a seventies student.
THE EXECUTION
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Swisser put on her headmistressy spectacles and the two of them completed their bit of the forms.
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A handful of other artists staged theatrical public spectacles, performances grounded in the sociologies of place and personality.
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Suddenly Mr. Podgers dropped Lord Arthur's right hand, and seized hold of his left, bending down so low to examine it that the gold rims of his spectacles seemed almost to touch the palm.
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He really needs to throw away those rose-tinted spectacles.
Times, Sunday Times
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It looks very much like the rose-tinted spectacles kicking in.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nadgett put on his spectacles, and read the name attentively; then looked at the chairman over his glasses, and bowed; then took them off, and put them in their case; and then put the case in his pocket.
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
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Through such experiences and spectacles, the modern, detached, moderate rationality of the narrator, and often the hero, is linked to a restored sensorial excitement, as the novel connects the reader vicariously to a passional self momentarily free from habitual restraint (although in practice, still carefully insulated from any action that would seriously offend conventional proprieties).
Walter Scott, Politeness, and Patriotism
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The first use of spectacles for correcting long-sightedness has been traced to Italy, towards the end of the 13th century.
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Oddities apart, visitors to the island are currently enjoying the annual spring spectacles of throngs of nesting seabirds and carpets of bluebells.
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His eyes look huge behind those rosy round spectacles.
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Her hair is freshly set in loose curls and her green eyes twinkle behind spectacles.
The Sun
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But having viewed several of these spectacles herself, she could not deny that they were perversely arousing.
COLDHEART CANYON
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Reputable companies supplying vintage spectacles from the fifties will be able to give an indication on how robust the frames are likely to be but it is likely that they too will be able to offer any cast-iron guarantees, for the same reason.
Framed Vintage | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
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Today the contest is held within strict bounds and has become one of the most exotic spectacles in the Imperial calendar.
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His blonde hair was disarrayed and his spectacles hung off his nose.
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He gazed up at Cornelius through the unfractured lens of his spectacles.
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His grating voice, frameless spectacles, faded suits and short, stringy hair all broke with the conformist protest style.
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It was in Venice, the centre of glass making, that the first pair of spectacles appeared, around 1280.
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The monarch butterfly migration is one of the natural world's great spectacles.
Times, Sunday Times
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The glint on the wire frames of his spectacles echoes the glint on the birdcage wire.
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For reading and occasional headaches, she wore a pair of horn-rimmed spectacles prescribed but not specially ground by the optical department, cater-corner from the children's shoes.
Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It
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Her spectacles caught the light from somewhere and glimmered under the straight blonde of her hair.
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He wears spectacles and clearly enjoys pasta as much as high culture.
Times, Sunday Times
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So far that, when I parked in the town square by the fish 'n' chip shop, my spectacles misted up as I got out of my lovely, cold car into a very steamy evening.
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Once again the high culture of the past is misrepresented through the distorting spectacles of the present.
Times, Sunday Times
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• Finally, what about the ne'er-do-well who grabbed the spectacles from the face of uber novelist Jonathan Franzen?
Diary
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Tony has provided Andrei with spectacles to correct the cast he has in one eye and thinks he will be able to improve the sight in the other eye as well.
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Most economists expect similar growth this year to last and they are not known for viewing the world through rose-tinted spectacles.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mr Keston, a neat, undemonstrative figure in his blue shirt, dark blue jacket, tie and spectacles, will not be taking a radical brush to the Theatre Royal, where any cobwebs have been removed over the past decade.
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Javier Castrilli, the current subsecretary in the Office of Safety in Public Spectacles with the Ministry of the Interior, mentioned that for safety reasons, he would like to see the match played at 11am local time as compared to the 4pm kickoff that is currently on the fixture.
Pompilio To Talk On Tuesday
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When the door opened a small, roly-poly faced man wearing spectacles walked in smoking a pipe.
COVER STORY
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All the gold frame spectacles are separated, then lenses removed and frames sent away.
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The Gaikwar, whose state processions were gorgeous to a wonder, occasionally inaugurated spectacles like those of the old Roman arena, and we hear of fights between various wild animals.
The Life of Sir Richard Burton
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I had a short and successfully anonymous encounter with a podgy woman in spectacles.
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The babu, flat on the ground, was turning his head to polish his spectacles; Bella Blair had her face hidden, but I noticed her fists were clenched.
Fiancée
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He's wearing a pair of spectacles and his usually unruly mop of brown hair is now slicked down with a neat side-parting.
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Hello, Stephanie," the fortyish man with horn-rimmed spectacles and a pin-striped dress-shirt replied.
Stephanie Consults Her Clipboard [Card #7: The Chariot (WORK-IN-PROGRESS — v.4)]
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He remembered the judge's look of distaste over his half-moon spectacles.
THE SCAR
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A dioptre adjustment wheel is immediately adjacent, enabling the short sighted to use it without clashing spectacles.
Photography Blog - News
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I buy my cameras, spectacles, binocs, etc. assuming they'll be dropped and splattered, and they should hold up to this misuse.
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Wanamaker's was known for its stained-glass windows, elaborate store displays, and spectacles including organ concerts, pageants, and storybook characters in show windows.
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The spectacles were sold at a price that most villagers couldn't afford, thus alienating the very people most at risk.
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He called for the female time traveller to be accompanied by a trumpet playing schoolgirl in "John Lennon-type spectacles" and her graffiti-spraying "yobbo" elder brother.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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He pretended to peer into another gallipot and then took off his spectacles to wipe them.
The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth
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Gold rimmed spectacles bit deep into the bridge of his nose.
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In the clothes he wore now he looked podgier than ever, and his round spectacles gave his round face the look of a prim cherub.
The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands
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Most economists expect similar growth this year to last and they are not known for viewing the world through rose-tinted spectacles.
Times, Sunday Times
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Today the contest is held within strict bounds and has become one of the most exotic spectacles in the Imperial calendar.
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And Aunt Jane beamed at me over her silver-rimmed spectacles and hitched her own chair a little to one side, in order to give me the full benefit of the wind that was blowing softly through the white-curtained window, and carrying into the room the heavenliest odors from a field of clover that lay in full bloom just across the road.
Aunt Jane of Kentucky
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a resemblance to spectacles; and there is a still smaller species called the "bava," which is found in Lake Valencia, and in many South American rivers.
Popular Adventure Tales
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I advised His Honour to buy a new pair of spectacles.
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Everywhere amazing spectacles were being performed, as crowds gathered and applauded the snake charmers, coal-walkers, and fire-eaters.
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He was “queer,” she said; and at another time she called him a crank when describing how he sat at the counter and peered at her through his spectacles, blushing and stammering when she took notice of him, and often leaving the shop in precipitate confusion.
THE ENEMY OF ALL THE WORLD
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Wayne replied gently as he placed Grandma Eva's cola-framed spectacles on top of her aquiline nose.
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Like any Premier league manager, whose team may be going through a bad patch with some dire results, I do look for positives, but without my rose-coloured spectacles, I am afraid I can see none!
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Gold rimmed spectacles bit deep into the bridge of his nose.
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Abbershaw nodded and stared covertly at the fresh-faced young man with the tow-coloured hair and the foolish, pale-blue eyes behind tortoiseshell-rimmed spectacles, and wondered where he had seen him before.
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Aunt Em was working at a new piece of French tapestry, her slight aquilinity emphasised by tortoise-shell spectacles.
Over the River
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Big money can produce great sporting spectacles.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mr. Moulton took the paper, deliberately adjusted his spectacles, and, having read it very leisurely (I wondered how those fiery creatures had the forbearance to stay quiet, but they did; I think they were hypnotized by my father-in-law's coolness), he said, in his weird French, "Vous voolly nos animaux!" which sounded like _nos animose_.
In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters
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The monarch butterfly migration is one of the natural world's great spectacles.
Times, Sunday Times
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These ballets were often elaborate spectacles, intended to display the status of the nobility or monarchs who had commissioned them.
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His hair was blond, and his eyes a bright blue colour, partially hidden behind a small pair of green tinted spectacles.
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The general is a tall man with steel spectacles and a stiff, rather pompous manner.
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A bald, moon-faced man with heavy-framed spectacles entered.
THE BOOK LADY
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I can see distinctly the little stone cottages in the narrow wynds off South Street, which I was wont to visit; I can recall the whirr and rattle of the loom "ben the house," and picture to myself the grave elderly man who on my entrance would rise from the rickety machine in front of which he was seated, and, after refreshing himself with a pinch of snuff, adjust his horn-rimmed spectacles and stare, with a seriousness which to me was somewhat disquieting, at the little English boy who had found his way into his presence.
Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885
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I've amassed quite a collection of spectacles since then but these are my favourites.
The Sun
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Today the contest is held within strict bounds and has become one of the most exotic spectacles in the Imperial calendar.
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Though, fair demoiselles, I have been chosen the belle, I feel as I gaze upon the galaxy of beauty around me that I, "she added in gay tones," have no occasion to blush at my own loveliness, for I feel that the gods have been so lavish in their gifts of everything that is lovely that they have surely become bankrupt and have kept no charms for me, and that Monsieur Eau Clair must have looked at my poor graces through rose-coloured spectacles when he called me _la belle_ and made me the recipient of gifts fit for a queen.
A Heart-Song of To-day
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I always used to think when I saw the customary portraits of Franklin, with his spectacles and his Quakerish homespun garb and his bunlike hair, that there was something grannyish about him.
Free and Easy
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Tall and slim, his neatly-parted silver hair and rimless spectacles sit atop a hawkish nose and ice-blue eyes that are almost a caricature of the Prussian officer.
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Rusticus will point out to you "the auld-fashioned standin 'stane" -- on which he tells you that there are plain to be seen a cocked hat, a pair of spectacles, a comb, a looking-glass, a sow with a long snout, and a man driving a gig, -- Mr Urban will describe to you "a hieroglyphed monolith" in the terms following: --
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
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Prosser appears the stereotypical Welshman - pinched face, thin-rimmed spectacles and no sign of extravagance.
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We need to jettison our rose-tinted spectacles and realise that a nation of housewives were often bored, repressed and chronically depressed.
Times, Sunday Times
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She did! "howled" Al-f-u-r-d, "jerking his head toward the gate, just as the elderly woman behind the spectacles entered.
Watch Yourself Go By
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Ancient Romans enjoyed many types of entertainment, but the most popular were bathing, bloody spectacles, and banquets.
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Albert Campion, too, was tall and fair, but he was overthin and the careful veil of affable vacuity which had begun, like his large spectacles, as a protection and had become a second skin, had robbed him of good looks, whereas Morty’s thick light-brown hair had a wave in it and there was nothing bleak or colorless about his gray eyes.
Cargo of Eagles
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We are all extremely important men and we are all balding with grey hair and round spectacles.
Times, Sunday Times
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Problems were experienced by people who wore spectacles, particularly varifocal or bifocal lenses.
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There may well be some strange spectacles promenading in front of you along the sand, but why not?
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Behind the spectacles and deep thinking there is a forceful man, who is tough to argue with.
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Miss Honey put down her pencil and removed her spectacles and began to polish the lenses with a piece of tissue.
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The general is a tall man with steel spectacles and a stiff, rather pompous manner.
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A small pair of gold-rimmed half-spectacles, a neat hair-ribbon and a bicorne of blue felt completed the picture.
Sick Cycle Carousel
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Her hair is freshly set in loose curls and her green eyes twinkle behind spectacles.
The Sun
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As she passed our row, I noticed that her spectacles were held together by generous amounts of sticky tape.
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It will justify leaving it in place by deploying rose-tinted spectacles to view the mid-term outlook for global equities and its own fund managers' future performance.
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You just pay a lot of money,’ he tells me, polishing his decades-old tortoiseshell spectacles across the table linen. ‘I could put my prices up to any level and the tourists would still come.
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Quartermain, when told that a fleeing hoodlum is too far to shoot, says, ‘You're right,’ puts on his spectacles, and then plugs the thug in the rear.
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Your feelings for this guy are seen through rose-tinted spectacles.
The Sun
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For, like ancient Rome and its gladiators, today's cities play host to colourful spectacles, marches, processions et al.
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But there were also signs of things to come: recordings of scantily clad ladies, violence, spectacles such as parades, and “unseen” sights, like dancing American Indians, or everyday life captured in “exotic” locales of East Asia, or in Mexico.
The English Is Coming!
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A younger woman with outsize spectacles behind them periodically gave a slight nod of her head.
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These were designed for public performances - gladiatorial contests and other spectacles in the amphitheatres, plays and mimes in the theatres - and were accessible to all classes of Roman society.
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Since 1976, when Einstein on the Beach, written with the composer Philip Glass, was performed at the Metropolitan Opera, Robert Wilson has acquired a reputation as an all-around showman, a hip, Texan Wagner who produces enormous, expensive 'intermedia' spectacles in Europe and is followed by swooning disciples and donors.
Lovely to Look At
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The door was opened by a short tubby girl with spectacles.
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He looked up and the glass of his spectacles caught the light, sending a bright glare into Sandra's eyes.
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It looks very much like the rose-tinted spectacles kicking in.
Times, Sunday Times
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I've amassed quite a collection of spectacles since then but these are my favourites.
The Sun
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The author currently wears spectacles made of plastic, photochromic lenses with multifocal capabilities in a ‘rimless’ frame to be as light in weight as possible.
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She argues that these mass spectacles of death and annihilation are "in complicity with the abhorrent.
Interview: James Morrow on 'Shambling Towards Hiroshima'
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I had kept up my spirits when many a more vigorous frame had sunk, and many a maturer mind had desponded; but the perpetual recurrence of the same dreary spectacles, the dying, and the more fortunate dead, covering the highways, the fields, and the village streets, at length sank into my soul.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844
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Everywhere amazing spectacles were being performed, as crowds gathered and applauded the snake charmers, coal-walkers, and fire-eaters.
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Spectacles and contact lenses refract the light before it enters the eye, helping the eye to focus objects sharply.
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Today the contest is held within strict bounds and has become one of the most exotic spectacles in the Imperial calendar.
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In nineteenth-century France several freak shows were banned for fear that the shocking spectacles would cause women to bear monstrous children.
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Cassandra dimpled at him and played peekaboo over her spectacles.
STAGE FRIGHT
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It is at least simple enough for the simplest of critics to apply or misapply: whenever they see or suspect an inequality or an incongruity which may be wholly imperceptible to eyes uninured to the use of their spectacles, they assume at once the presence of another workman, the intrusion of a stranger's hand.
A Study of Shakespeare
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With his lank, greasy hair, dirty jeans and John Lennon spectacles he looks like a seventies student.
THE EXECUTION
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With his lank, greasy hair, dirty jeans and John Lennon spectacles he looks like a seventies student.
THE EXECUTION
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His dark eyes glittered with anger behind his spectacles.
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Miss Rebecca Yeastman, the lady-doctor, through whose sun-spectacles we have been looking, is summoned to the darbar-room.
Love and Life Behind the Purdah
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And with just five per cent of wearers needing standard spectacles, most end up paying much more for add-ons.
The Sun
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The colosseum opened in A.D.80 and hosted 100 spectacles a year. 50,000 available seats were divided into social classes.
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An attempt to increase the magnifying power would inevitably lead to a reduction of the field of vision and to an unhandiness of such spectacles.
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Gold rimmed spectacles bit deep into the bridge of his nose.
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Bifocal lenses with separate fields for near and far vision, working in much the same way as bifocal spectacles, have been available since the early 1990s, but these still provide optimal vision only at two fixed distances.
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His address book; the clothes he'd bought with his own money as opposed to hers; his spare spectacles; his cigarettes.
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So exhilarating was it that rose-coloured spectacles prevented me from seeing what should have been immediately apparent: that I could not continue to edit the magazine responsibly and professionally with the other demands upon me.
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But if you remove his professorial spectacles and lose the highbred, New England accent, Bush the First was as manly as they come.
Barry Bortnick: Of Presidents and Men
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Objective : To develop a system for sampling the spectacles frame on automatic lens edger.
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He then took four French ells of a coarse brown russet cloth, and therein apparelling himself, as with a long, plain-seamed, and single-stitched gown, left off the wearing of his breeches, and tied a pair of spectacles to his cap.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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It does not mean seeing the world through unrealistic rose-tinted spectacles.
POSITIVE THINKING: Everything you have always known about positive thinking but were afraid to put into practice
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The spectacles seemed to protect her cornea and retina, which were not damaged.
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For two nights Caris sat near that tall, gangly figure bent over the fire, gazing into the embers with his spectacles throwing back the fulvous glow, watching the roads for the approach of danger or, indeed, of anyone or anything that might come upon them and spread word of their presence.
The Silicon Mage
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These spectacles are useful in endoscopic micrurgy, various medical fields, in jewelry, electronics, dentistry, and for making precision assemblies and the like.
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I gave my spectacles a final polish, dumped the tissue in the waste bin I call my side pocket, and started back home to the sound of Schubert in the player.
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Fortyne pushed his spectacles up the bridge of his nose with a tiny smile.
THE SCAR
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He paused to adjust his spectacles.
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Light from the anglepoise lamp over his lathe reflects off his round spectacles.
Wildwood
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Even through the spectacles, or lifted a little above them, they were always bright and expressive; but without those adjuncts, the blaze was softer and more tempered: they had that look which the French call veloute, or velvety; and he appeared altogether ten years younger.
My Novel — Volume 03
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She adjusted her pince-nez spectacles and extracted a document from a brown paper envelope.
GOODBYE CURATE
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She had on a black velvet gown, and a white pinner and apron, and a very high bridge to her nose (which is a sure mark of high breeding), and a large pair of white spectacles on it, which made her look rather odd;
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2
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Still trying to see life through gold-coloured spectacles, we were not willing to put the terrible double and triple murders back into the headlines.
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Hope, with the perfect eyesight of youth, could see that he was squinting into the darkness and noticed he was without the gold-rimmed spectacles which usually perched on the end of his bulbous nose.
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After him came a man in a neat Western suit, with big spectacles, and after him a shrimpy one, a male secretary with a small beard.
KARA KUSH
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She had the glummest face Harry had ever seen, half-hidden behind lank hair and thick, pearly spectacles.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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So exhilarating was it that rose-coloured spectacles prevented me from seeing what should have been immediately apparent: that I could not continue to edit the magazine responsibly and professionally with the other demands upon me.
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Do you honestly mean it when you say she is not an elderly ironsides with spectacles?
The Nest Builder
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The general is a tall man with steel spectacles and a stiff, rather pompous manner.
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The monarch butterfly migration is one of the natural world's great spectacles.
Times, Sunday Times
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The new eyewear can be broken down into two categories - spectacles or goggles.
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Gerald had donned a pair of spectacles and seemed earnestly studious.
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Guess we're all confined to unattractiveness and those dreadful 1950s thick rimmed spectacles that according to stereotype all academically sound people wear.
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-- the tabellion was on terms of spoken gallantry with Madame Soudry, who had a weakness for Lupin, though he was blond and wore spectacles.
Sons of the Soil
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A little further on, a hard – featured old man with a deeply – wrinkled face, was intently perusing a lengthy will with the aid of a pair of horn spectacles: occasionally pausing from his task, and slily noting down some brief memorandum of the bequests contained in it.
Sketches by Boz
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I may be looking at it through rose-coloured spectacles, but I think there are too many tests and assessments, too much being put on the kids at a very early age.
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It's a fair bet that most people who need spectacles are no longer in the first flush of youth, so could someone please explain why the choice was so universally cool and hip.
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You may pass me off as an incorrigible pessimist for having spoken thus; but believe me, if you were in my spectacles or better still if you analyse life the way I have, may be you would have separate ideas.
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‘Try these,’ he said as he handed her a pair of round-lensed spectacles.
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His one spiritual ally is an outcast like himself: a dignified, ageless, diffident, white-haired refugee in rimless spectacles and a shabby suit who teaches German Extra Studies and cello and lives alone in a redbrick bedsitter on the Bristol Road roundabout.
Absolute Friends
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He pulled another pair of spectacles out and replaced his old ones with them.
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Behind the spectacles and the twin set of the demure secretary runs the hot blood of a rampaging minx.
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By the time she has completed a course of treatment she has tasted all the drugs in the pharmacopeia, wears plates on her feet, spectacles on her nose, has had her teeth tinkered with, and her insides straightened; has had a course in hydrotherapeutics, electrotherapeutics, osteopathy, and Christian Science!
The Nervous Housewife
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It was obvious once you knew it, of course — the surfeit of art galleries, the way the men were all muscular and fit and shaved, the bars filled with hot chicks in spectacles dancing with each other — but the thing is, as a kid, only the proudest and most confident people tell you, "Hey, I'm gay.
The Terrible Secret Of Provincetown, or: Even A Stopped Clock
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He had a hygienic beard and a rather blotchy skin, and small unshielded eyes which seemed to be searching for spectacles.
A DEATH IN THE FAMILY
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He tucked the long front pieces of hair behind his ears and put on his spectacles of smoked glass, which he wore even in the dim of morning, his eyes apparently too weak for the wannest form of light.
Cold Mountain
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Tell him you need to be sure he is thinking realistically and not imagining life as a family through rose-tinted spectacles.
The Sun
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I've amassed quite a collection of spectacles since then but these are my favourites.
The Sun
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We have surgical procedures and spectacles to correct impaired vision.
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He was stout and short, and wore spectacles.
The Treasure Seekers
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Microscopes hae been fitted out with spectacles that gie them better vision than eer before.
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My spectacles are broken I'll need to buy another pair.
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I've amassed quite a collection of spectacles since then but these are my favourites.
The Sun
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He regarded Masters balefully, over his half-moon spectacles.
THE SCAR
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To add to her misery, she has had to start wearing spectacles to correct her eyesight.
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She surveyed me closely through her fine spectacles.
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We consume, we watch spectacles, trying to fill that emptiness.
Times, Sunday Times
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On the bridge of his hooked nose was a pair of gold rimless spectacles.
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There are few more gruesome and sanguinary spectacles than a Tory leadership struggle: one lasting eight months is uncharted territory - a marathon of fear, loathing and betrayal.
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She could see his slicked back hair with a pair of horn-rimmed spectacles resting carefully on his nose.
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The lama stared through his spectacles as he had not stared at the business of disguisement.
Kim
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He's about fifty and he wears huge spectacles with thick tortoiseshell frames to them, like a pair of brindled goggles.
WHISTLER IN THE DARK
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The aqueducts provided public baths with hydrous spectacles and private houses with running water and flush toilets.
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He had the volume down and his spectacles upon his nose instanter, as though to forestall some possible retractation.
The Wrong Box
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The fourth member of the group was chubby with a shaven head, a blue jumper and wearing spectacles.
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It does not mean seeing the world through unrealistic rose-tinted spectacles.
POSITIVE THINKING: Everything you have always known about positive thinking but were afraid to put into practice
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This is one of nature's great spectacles: a million and a half animals stampeding across the plains of Africa for days on end.
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You ought to see the photographs of me in my National Health spectacles, Harris Tweed jacket and grey flannels.
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No struggle there, on the part of the children, "to share the good man's knee;" but protruded eyes, round as spectacles, and almost as large, fixed alternately upon his flushed face and that absorbing epigastrium which is making their miserable flesh-pot to wane most wretchedly.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 21, 1841
