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... I was mocking him or not. His smallish body tensed and he put on a pair of rimless glasses that he removed from an inner pocket of his shirt. He st... ...no choice, a la guerre comme la guerre.” – in guttural French. As he took off his glasses, I noticed the abnormal proximity of his eyes, set in ca...

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...rough the many pockets on his vest for a small book of hieroglyphs. He put on his reading glasses and began flipping pages in the well-worn book. Af...

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...y. I didn’t have the heart to tell him I hate the stuff. He then touched our glasses as if to toast something. “Robb told Katie that Judge Green d...

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...t who reminded me of my favorite cousin Ken. They both wore black-framed glasses and had blond hair; they were also awfully tall to a little girl. ...

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... like a Billy Bob with his dark tobacco-stained teeth, crooked thick-rimmed glasses and a beat-up, red Marlboro cap with a Vietnam Vet button. You ca... ...myself. Actually, he looks much better than you, even with those coke-bottle glasses and that “ butt-cut hair, I tease. ” I thought it was just you t... ... of this austere — programming. Emilie comes back from the kitchen with two glasses of water, two for me, none for her I'm only joking of course. She...

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...e, waves banded in his chest and his breath shortened. He stared through the glasses, watching the gate crew load the horses. Legs appeared below t... ...someone yelled, and cold beer sloshed his arm as two men joined their plastic glasses in a clumsy toast. “I’d like to ride her,” the second man said... ...ed his plastic work surface. He peered at Kurt over the top of black-rimmed glasses. Acne dotted his face, and a lank strand of hair was shoved be... ... times a year, I guess. Mr. Friedman delivers them himself.” Ted adjusted his glasses and glanced around as if expecting Friedman to pop up any momen... ...g her hasty attempt to snatch it. “So I see,” he said as he scanned the black glasses and moustache she’d drawn on Anton and Cindy’s beaming faces. ...

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...d the whims of nationalism gone berserk. In this world of self reflecting looking glasses, in this bedlam of geopolitics, in this seamless and flu...

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...e, with a hard mouth, a sharp nose, iron-gray hair, gray eyes, gold-framed glasses, and a small, circular baldness at the crown of his head. His name ... ... down the Avenue, all hair and legs.” Mr. Stanley regarded him through his glasses with some- thing approaching animosity. “Now she’s all hat and idea... ...at evening Ann Veronica began: “Father!” Her father looked at her over his glasses and spoke with grave deliberation; “If there is anything you want t... ...h a deliberate note of irony, looking at her a little quizzically over his glasses. Ann Veronica looked bright and a little elated, and she disregarde... ...one side, pulled down the corners of his mouth, and looked at her over his glasses. “But why is it preposterous?” asked Ann Veronica, and fiddled with... ...rld through large emotional blue eyes that were fur- ther magnified by the glasses she wore, and her nose was pinched and pink, and her mouth was whim... ...her nose was pinched and pink, and her mouth was whimsically petulant. Her glasses moved quickly as her glance travelled from face to face. She seemed... ...le of life; she seemed to be holding up specimens, and peering through her glasses at them—”among crustaceans and things, just as little creatures, ev... ...r of a barrister than a solicitor, and regarding her balefully through his glasses with quite undisguised ani- mosity, asked, “And may I presume to in...

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...ory was a long bleak room with six beds, six chests of drawers and looking glasses and a number of boxes of wood or tin; it opened into a still longer... ...ow you got your plates filled and something I can warrant you good in your glasses, wot about drinking the ‘ealth of the bride?” “Eat a bit fust,” sai... ... applause. “Eat a bit fust.” So they did, and the plates clattered and the glasses chinked. Mr. Polly stood shoulder to shoulder with Johnson for a mo... ...had ever seen, seated in an armchair in the midst of all these bottles and glasses and glittering things, peace- fully and tranquilly, and without the... ...indows, sweeping out and sanding the tap and bar, cleaning pewter, washing glasses, turpentining woodwork, whitewashing gen- erally, plumbing and engi... ...lly: “You gold- eyed Geezer, you!” “T ut, tut!” said the gentleman in gilt glasses. “Restrain your- self!” Mr. Polly emerged, poker in hand, just in t... ...mpressed lips, curious lateral crouching movements, swift flashings of his glasses, and a general suggestion of bull-fighting in his pose and gestures...

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...onaparte. It is his humble opinion, for he has been gliding about with spy-glasses, with thoughts, That a certain Fort l’Eguillette can be clutched, a... ...nd enormous Saucer depending from it? A Jove’s Balance, O ye Austrian spy- glasses? One saucer-hole of a Jove’s Balance; your poor Austrian scale havi... ...common table, cheerful light burning frequent, and what due modicum of cut-glasses and other garnish and relish is convenient, they eat frugally toget...

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...e, and no sooner had we entered Holboun than letting down one of the Front Glasses I enquired of ev- ery decent-looking Person that we passed “If they...

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...ceret treated them to such refreshments as cider, chestnuts, pastry puffs, glasses of eau sucree, and home-made orgeat. For some time past she had mad...

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...our gents rattling and banging away at the table with the bottoms of their glasses. What a shout they made as we came in! “Hurray!” says Bob, “here’s ...

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...tly snuffed a candle. It was when the drawers brought in fresh bottles and glasses and were in the room on which my Lord Viscount said—”The Deuce take...

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...a-girls, and his Lady This and Mrs. That—yes, and his bottles of wine, and glasses of brandy-and-water too! Oh, I would give ten thou- sand worlds to ...

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...and tankards, a sauce-pan of the same metal, a few tall, slender, Venetian glasses, a little pew- ter, and some rare shells. A few high-backed chairs ... ...served the 187 Charlotte M. Yonge tall, slender, opal Venice glasses, recently purchased by the Countess in London. The pies, the glory ... ... father brought home any of the hunters to the mid- day meal, tankards and glasses might not be lacking. The Countess’s summons was to her own bower, ...

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...e; on remot- est steeple and invisible village belfry, stand men with spy- glasses. On the heights of Chaillot are many-coloured un- dulating groups; ...

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...t lingered a little, 139 Little Dorrit – Book Two marrying golden liqueur glasses to Buhl tables with sticky rings; on the desperate chance of Mr Mer...

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... in front of Pierce's desk poised like Wonder Woman. Pierce calmly removed his glasses and ran his eyes the length of Alana's body. "Best body in t... ...never missed an opportunity to be in front of the cam­ eras. He donned a pair of glasses, "I don't have a prepared state­ ment to read. The glasses ar... ... and I intend to make my contribution." He leaned forward over the podium, his glasses dipped to the bridge of his nose and peered over the crowd f... ...e!" The audience and media sat silently, not even the usual tin­ kling of water glasses was heard. The Press Conference was not what the media had e... ...t of the mining office, Rapini reached into a small lunch box and retrieved two glasses; one he gave to Aaron. "Tonight, we will have a serious disc... ...red with laughter and relief, and uncorked the bot­ tle. He filled both of their glasses with only one inch of the dark, brown liquid. "Sip this my S... ... open behind him. A middle aged man with a speckled, grey beard and horned rim glasses entered. He looked tired. "I'm sorry to keep you waiting, th... ...hing. "You know, you guys are really something," Greene said snap­ ping off his glasses like a high school student ready to challenge the school bul... ...his hands fall limply to his lap, sighed, and then slowly put his horned rimmed glasses back on. "First, why are you here? I've got to know." "I to...

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...small articles as beads, fishhooks, fishing lines, spikes, nails, and looking- glasses which were thrown to them. By this means an amicable exchange w... ...away. In February the light was so bright as to necessitate the use of colored glasses to protect the eyes. The effects of the incessant glare were ve...