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Example sentences for "glass case"

  • Halliwell printed fifty-one copies of a small Hand-list of the early English literature preserved in it.

  • From being for many years exposed to the handling of every visitor, it became much broken; but it has now for a long time been secured from further injury by being enclosed in a glass case.

  • The book is now exhibited in a glass case, in one of the windows of the Library.

  • One can always laugh if one lives in a glass case.

  • It kept its distance from Eleanore, for she lived in a glass case.

  • In a circular apartment within the monument is a glass case, containing several relics, the most interesting of which is the Bible given by Burns to his Highland Mary.

  • It is carefully preserved in a glass case.

  • In the rooms of the National Institute (a portion of the Patent Office building) are a few of the most interesting relics of the Revolution now in existence, carefully preserved in a glass case.

  • In the great hall, or passage, in a glass case of prismatic form, hung the Key of the Bastile, and near it was an engraved view of the demolition of that renowned prison.

  • Grandfather has one-half his paper, and the other half is lodged in the cover of that field-glass case--if the man is still carrying it with him.

  • Well, how on earth did the half of the map or the directions happen to get in that field-glass case, without Steven Meredith, who carries the same, knowing a thing about it?

  • A feller might as well be in a bloomin' glass case as carry a pocket-book around an' make a map of where he's been.

  • If it ain't somethink beyond belief, one might be that respectable theirself they could be put in a glass case, an' yet here would be a young vagabond bringin' them to shame before the whole district.

  • Alexander Robertson, in his book on The Roman Catholic Church in Italy, says: "The Bambino is a doll about three feet high, and it stands on a cushion in a glass case.

  • Each of us bowed in passing the little chapel near the door, which is a glass case, containing a waxen figure of the infant Jesus.

  • Now that several years have passed, the body of Colonel Morland, placed in a glass case in the library of M.

  • The relatives desired to place the body in a glass case, and requested, above all, that it should not be opened.

  • A little farther down, in the centre of the hall, under a glass case, No.

  • The first hall contains a collection of the fungi growing in the department; and separate, under a glass case, specimens of those allowed to be sold in the market for food.

  • To grin in a glass case; to be anatomized for murder: the skeletons of many criminals are preserved in glass cases, at Surgeons' hall.

  • She praised Mathers; and she also said that it would be well to present it quickly to the Doctor, so that he could get some proper professional staffer to finish it and put a glass case over it as soon as possible.

  • But Lupin was protected by a glass case with a gilt-wood framework.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    business conditions; contributory negligence; despite himself; fetch water; glass beads; glass bottle; glass case; glass darkly; glass door; glass globe; glass plate; glass retort; glass tube; glass vessel; glass window; glass windows; glass works; large audience; late hours; often happens; rolling plains; several important; small spot; white robes; wood charcoal; would keep