Save for its pair of long glassesit might have been a tiny boudoir, with a water-colour drawing of value in each of its panels of stretched stuff, with its crackling fire and its charming order.
Pedraglio refilled the glasses and again rose to his feet.
Viscontini, heated, as ill luck would have it, by too many glasses of Ghemme.
The three others sprang up, clutching their glasses in silence, too deeply moved to speak.
Now I believe we are all here," he said, finally, extracting a pair of large horn reading-glasses from his coat pocket and looking sagely about.
Hello, Lester," he said, looking up from his paper over the top of his glasses and extending his hand.
He had shattered your--he had crushed one of the glasses with his fist.
He turned his glasses upon them and saw that they were antelope.
He leaned forward to peer through his glasses at a second headland that was swinging into view around the corner of the cliffs.
At the tinkle of the glasses Blake looked up, his face aflame.
The young earl raised hisglasses and gazed southwards along the face of the dissolving curtain.
Nor did a careful search of the plain through the glasses disclose any sign of a hut or tent or the smoke of a camp-fire.
Opposite the steamer the glasses showed with startling distinctness a number of hideous crocodiles crawling out on a slimy mudbank to bask in the sunshine.
But it was a very long moment before Griffith came in with a pitcher and three glasses upon a battered tray.
From the first, Lord James held his glasses fixed on the barren guano- whitened ledges of the headland.
It made me sad to hear them, as they lifted their glasses to their lips, pass round the toast, "Sweethearts and wives!
Across the passage glasses clinked in the bar, sounding a suitable accompaniment to the voice of Dicky.
My Dear is of Opinion that an old-fashioned Grate consumes Coals, but gives no Heat: If she drinks out of Glasses of last Year, she cannot distinguish Wine from Small-Beer.
I never go abroad, except she sometimes takes me with her in her Coach to take the Air, if it may be called so, when we drive, as we generally do, with the Glasses up.
The same Observation might be made on the Retailers of Small-coal, not to mention broken Glasses or Brick-dust.
We there observed a little Figure, which, upon applying ourGlasses to it, appeared dressed in a very fantastick manner.
So read the confidential solicitor and friend of the deceased, in a husky voice, his gold-rimmed glasses helping him to decipher the brown writing or endorsement of the yellow parchment.
The third was rather a shabby-looking man of forty, undoubtedly a gentleman's servant out of place, carrying the sign in the front of the reason why, in the shape of a nose unduly ripened by being bathed in glasses of alcoholic drink.
I now come to the important bequests," said Mr Girtle, rebalancing his glasses in his calm deliberate way.
It was not the face of a drunkard, but there was the redness of many glasses of wine in his complexion, and a nose that expressed nothing so much as pampered self-indulgence.
From her science the transition to his was easy, and they studied under every combination of glasses the beautiful lace of a dragon-fly's wing, and the irregular spots on a drab grasshopper which ran by chance half-across one of his eyes.
Then, as recollection came to her, she snatched her glasses up and hurried them on.
Mr. Wainwright had to put his glasses across the bridge of his nose before he could answer, for he was short-sighted.
I must have my glasses to be mended, if you please.
The scarlet-and-purple halted in consternation, and Lord Mount Severn, whose sight was not as good as it had been twenty years back, stuck his pendent eye glasses astride on the bridge of his nose.
Her glasses were off, for the tears wetted them continually; and it was not the recognition of the children she feared.
Even in such minor matters as the use of telescopes and field glasses we find this Chinese army well supplied.
This incident suggested to their father the idea of adjusting two of these glasses on a board, so as to move them at pleasure.
Two such glasses inclosed in a tube completed the invention of the simplest kind of the refracting telescope.
They renewed their acquaintance with a cordial handgrip, and clinked glasses together.
This time she lifted her glasses and rubbed her eyes; she had seen her niece raise her handkerchief, as if to wipe away tears.
The good aunt drew her chair up to the light, settled her glasses on the tip of her nose, and opened a little book.
And putting back her glasses on the tip of her nose, she reflected: "We shall see if besides not keeping the holy feast days, she has not honored her father and her mother.
Here the leg of a bench gave way and precipitated those on it, to the delight of the spectators; there was a dispute for place; and a little beyond a fracas of glasses and bottles.
The grains of sand in some of our hour-glasses are very heaped and high in the lower half, and running very low in the upper.
They see themselves in their looking-glasses every morning, although they 'go away and forget what manner of men' they were.
If the President differed from the great majority of men in this respect, his eye was a defective one, and it was to assist his vision that these glasses were made.
The glasseswere extra large, and of a somewhat unusual pattern.
There were twelve champagne glasses, of a somewhat unusual pattern; and each of theseglasses contained a peach.
He beamed through his glasses and ran his hand through his curly hair.
This constant succession of glasses produced considerable effect upon Mr. Pickwick; his countenance beamed with the most sunny smiles, laughter played around his lips, and good-humoured merriment twinkled in his eye.
Saying this, Mr. Weller mixed two glasses of spirits and water, and produced a couple of pipes.
I said quietly, for I had taken my gentleman quite by surprise; and I felt very good-tempered and comfortable from the effects of those two glasses of sunshine; so "Hallo!
That's twenty port, that is, and a couple of glasses of that won't hurt you.
Glasses round became the order of the night, and whether for the sake of getting Dutch courage or not, I cannot say, but Hollands gin was a favoured spirit.
The men with field-glasses are scanning the Lava Beds.
He did not seem to observe, indeed he did not observe, that we were going entirely out of sight of the field-glasses at our camp.
The field-glasses were often turned toward the trail leading to the Lava Beds.
Here 's the wine; I brought it when we left the house above, And glasses too--wine of both sorts.
Grandfather ties the 'kerchief knot, Tenderly guides the swinging weight, And carefully over his glasses peers To read the record, "only eight.
Only for the dark glasses we're wearing, that same would be making us nearly blind, I take it.
Glasses were levelled, and before long a second ship was made out; and before long two more appeared, and by the cut of the sails it was decided that it was a little squadron of the French.
He recognised the jingling of glasses on a wooden tray, which he knew meant the butler clearing the dining-room.
The glasses danced as the admiral brought his hand down heavily.
