Just about this time the village was agitated for a day or two, by the passing through of several caravans, containing wild beasts, and other spectacles for a great fair annually held at a neighboring town.
But the face was tanned to a wholesome brown, and the eyes that glanced over his gold-rimmed spectacles were full of fresh good-humor.
The youth behind him was now peering through spectacles above his shoulder.
But when the Report of the Commission was finally published, Punch found it a veritable chameleon, which disappointed both sides, because most of those interested wore party-coloured spectacles or else were colour-blind.
Mrs. Deane was seated in a rocker, herspectacles pushed down on her nose, a paper across her knees, and her eyes fixed in smiling inquiry on the doorway.
She looked inquiringly over herspectacles at Polly.
Is it not by her most magnificent and sublime spectacles that she awakens our hearts to emotions of piety?
Mr. Tutt readjusted his spectacles and slowly selected a stogy from the bundle in the dusty old cigar box.
The fellow was all caparisoned withspectacles as a tortoise is with shells, and lived on nothing but a sort of food which, in their gibberish, was called appeals.
This being done, the least thing they did was to sleep and snore; and thus sleeping, they had barnacles on the handles of their faces, or spectacles at most.
But, sometimes, mastered after long struggles, I seized my spectacles and sauntered into the little town.
For days, for weeks, for months, I did not take my spectacles with me.
Through those strange spectacles how often I saw the noblest heart renouncing all other hope, all other ambition, all other life, than the possible love of some one of those statues.
Titbottom smiled gently, and answered: "He might have brought his spectacleswith him, and I have been a happier man for it.
If we should all wear spectacleslike mine, we should never smile any more.
A pair of spectacles and a hot temper are not the most promising capital for success in life, Master Titbottom.
My spectacles regulated my ambition, and I early learned that there were better gods than Plutus.
The revelations of the spectacles determined my feeling for the boys, and for all whom I saw through them.
I wept, until my spectacles were dimmed for that hopeless sorrow; but there was a pang beyond tears for those icy statues.
In this dreadful and uneasy posture did they remain, as long as life would permit, pleasing spectacles to their blood-thirsty persecutors.
At Nonne, though it yielded on conditions of safeguard, the most horrid spectacles were exhibited.
Doctor Peppercorn came in, and put on a monstrous pair of spectacles and said: "Hum!
She put on her spectacles to look at Prince Hyacinth, but it was quite a long time before she could fix them securely, because her nose was so very short.
As for Victor, he at first put on his spectacles with a scornful smile; but, when he had worn them a moment, he found them very wonderful things.
When he came out he saw a little old woman with spectacles on, knitting beside his clothes.
Until Queen Fontana shall call for the magic spectacles and the lily of pearl, it is believed that Victor and Blanche will live in the castle of gems, though the time should be a hundred years.
No one, whom I saw, exhibited any emotion at the strewn spectacles on every side, and the stories I had read of the stony-heartedness during the plague, were more than rivalled by these charnel realities.
She associated with man without seductive spectacles or demoralizing excitements, and retained her influence by securing his respect.
So the world saw one of the most impressive spectacles of all history,--the rich giving up their possessions to follow the example and injunctions of Christ.
The minister put down ruler and book, and pushed his spectacles up to his forehead.
Cousin Holman looked up from her work, and put her spectacles down.
The old man intermitted the operation of the chisel, took off his spectacles and wiped them, then, replacing them on his nose, acknowledged my courtesy by a suitable return.
She laughed, and with much sarcasm remarked, that a dozen pair of spectacles and an old tin box to carry them in, would probably be the height of my ambition.
On the way I found his spectacles in a ditch, which had no water in, but plenty of mud.
Peddling jewelry and spectacles was the business I gave my special attention to for sometime, and it proved a very satisfactory one.
No spectacles on, his hat gone, a large piece torn from his fine swallow-tailed coat, and to all appearances he had just emerged from the sewer.
At last I was successful in tradingspectacles with an old lady, receiving two pairs of old glasses and two dollars in cash for the pair I let her have.
After the train had come and gone, carrying with it the old gentleman, I entered into conversation with the young man, and finally asked him, confidentially, what that pair of spectacles cost him.
He gazed at me over his spectacles with a sickly smile, then jumping to his feet, began his customary tirade, and pranced back and forth like a caged animal.
There was surely no lack of amusements, and indeed severalspectacles had been planned for which there was no time.
It takes no spectacles to see that a great class of vicious, improvident, degraded people, among us, are an evil to us, as well as to themselves.
Garrison has called attention in his "History of Medicine" to the fact that the book is notable as containing the first description of a modern truss, and a very early mention of spectacles under the Latin name oculus berellinus.
Almost needless to say, this use of spectacles meant very much for the comfort and convenience of old people.
Guy de Chauliac suggests that when collyria failed to improve the sight spectacles should be employed.
Spectacles were rather commonly used in the Middle Ages, probably having been invented in the second half of the thirteenth century by Salvino de Armato of Florence.
Peppermore turned his big spectacles on his questioner and sank his voice to a whisper.
The Coroner took off his spectacles and leaned back in his chair--sure sign that he had done.
But just then Peppermore, more in a hurry than ever, came bustling in, to beam brightly through his spectacles at sight of his visitor.
