Use glasses in a sentence
Sentences ending with glasses
- A servant entered with a card, and the banker's hand shook perceptibly as he put down his claret and adjusted his glasses. [9]
- His father--he told us with undiminished candour--had been a German emigrant who had come over in '49, after the cause of liberty had been lost in the old country, and made eye-glasses and opera glasses. [9]
- See, here are two glasses. [11]
- That as for the wine, I would take that upon myself, and no Emperor need be ashamed of our Venice glasses. [10]
- A table in the corner, where Lula Chandos had insisted on playing bridge, was covered with scattered cards and some bills, a decanter of whiskey, two soda bottles, and two glasses. [9]
- Several French officers superintended the placing of the guns and looked at the Kremlin through field glasses. [2]
- She began blinking rapidly and moved away from the looking glasses. [2]
- He reached the platform, bowed irresolutely to the chairman, and then stood awkwardly with one knee bent, peering at his audience over his glasses. [9]
- Two waiters entered obsequiously, one bearing a serving table, the other holding above his head a large tray containing covered dishes and glasses. [9]
- A footman, thinking no one saw him, was drinking on the sly what was left in the glasses. [2]
Short sentences using glasses
- The glasses were ready. [11]
- I raised the glasses. [9]
More example sentences with the word glasses in them
- There were five young gentlemen playing a game I knew not, with intervals of intense silence, and boisterous laughter and execrations while the cards were being shuffled and the money rang on the board and glasses were being filled from a stand at one side. [9]
- Customs officers who were watching the craft from the shore or from their boats put down their marine glasses contentedly when they saw and heard the salutes. [11]
- When the men were engaged in consultation, Maria was permitted to fill their glasses and be present at their conferences. [10]
- He had a way of eyeing me at times, his glasses in his hand, a queer smile on his lips, as much as to imply that there was one at least among the lost who was made for better things. [9]
- All about me was talk and laughter, glasses ringing, voices uplifted in set speeches, and many a shout of gratulation. [10]
- His leather case was swung over his shoulder, and with his glasses he swept the lake in search of the Scimitar and other vessels of a like unamiable character. [9]
- Willie Breck, too, was silent, and Walter Kinley took off his glasses and wiped them. [9]
- My client, in view of the peaceful aspect affairs had assumed, presently consented to relinquish his post, and handed the glasses over to me with an injunction to be watchful. [9]
- It was not very reassuring, what he had to tell; in fact, it was somewhat depressing, the general tightness and the panicky uncertainty, until, after a couple of glasses of Scotch, the financial world began to open a little and seem more hopeful. [4]
- Old age leaps upon it as his saddle, and rides triumphant, unchallenged, until the darkness comes which no glasses can penetrate. [6]
- He had insisted upon gazing at the universe through the coloured glasses of an outworn theology, instead of using his own eyes. [9]
- Henrica had grown up among her father's boon companions, amid the clinking of glasses and hunting-shouts, Maria in a grave burgher household, and what they told each other seemed like tidings from a strange world. [10]
- The bed was unmade, and on the table beside two empty beer bottles and glasses and the remains of a box of candy--suggestive of a Sunday purchase at a drug store--she recognized Lise's vanity case. [9]
- Janet possessed all unconsciously the New England reverence for learning, she was stirred by the sight of this distinguished-looking person who sat on the painted stage, fingering his glasses and talking to Antonelli. [9]
- Suddenly Dubarre rose, took the glasses from the shelf and placed them in the middle of the table--the death's head for the feast. [11]
- The Little Chemist took off his glasses a half-dozen times, wiped them, and put them back. [11]
- Presently she hove to, and through our glasses we discerned a small boat making for her side, and then a man clambering up her sea-ladder. [9]
- Surreptitious smiles, at this, passed from one rascal to another, and they filled all the glasses, and whilst Backus honestly drained his to the bottom they pretended to do the same, but threw the wine over their shoulders. [5]
- The air was thick with tobacco-smoke, trays were scattered about, laden with stubs of cigars and ashes, and empty and half-filled glasses were everywhere. [11]
- Without a word they lifted the glasses and drank. [11]
- For a moment there was absolute silence, in which the chairman adjusted his glasses and fumbled with the agenda paper in his confusion, scarcely knowing what to do. [11]
- I drank, and the wine did not affect me, as voices got loud and louder, and glasses rang, and spurs rattled on shuffling heels, and a scabbard clanged on a chair. [11]
- The Master opened the volume, and, putting on his large round glasses, began reading, as authors love to read that love their books. [6]
- Away off, across the undulating Plain of Attica, could be seen a little square-topped hill with a something on it, which our glasses soon discovered to be the ruined edifices of the citadel of the Athenians, and most prominent among them loomed the venerable Parthenon. [5]
- Through the glasses, the little fountains scattered about looked very beautiful. [5]
- The difference between the branches of science which deal with space only, and those which deal with space and time, is this: we have no glasses that can magnify time. [3]
- It was fortunate that we were hidden from his glasses by a copse of pines. [9]
- On all the tables stand glasses, some full, and some empty of wine. [11]
- On the little table beside it, amid several bottles and glasses, the lamp and the box of matches, stood the tiny bell, at whose faint sound one of her nurses invariably hastened in. [10]
- But Alixe, the sweetest soul France ever gave the world, could not know all I knew; guessing only at heavy carousals, cards, song, and raillery, with far-off hints of feet lighter than fit in cavalry boots dancing among the glasses on the table. [11]
- The glasses lay straggling along the table, emptied of death and life. [11]
- On Natasha's table stood two looking glasses which Dunyasha had prepared beforehand. [2]
- Amid these antiquities, stood beautiful Venetian glasses, pine-cones and ostrich-eggs. [10]
- For a moment she peered at Honora over the glasses lightly poised on the uncertain rim of her nose. [9]
- With much toil she managed to tip it so as to get a couple of glasses filled. [6]
- He was only quite at ease when having poured several glasses of wine mechanically into his large mouth he felt a pleasant warmth in his body, an amiability toward all his fellows, and a readiness to respond superficially to every idea without probing it deeply. [2]
- Afterwards there were questions, and a report by Miss Harber, a middle-aged lady with glasses who was the secretary. [9]
- It was decidedly premature to a near-sighted man, whose glasses the rain rendered useless: such a person ought to be at home early. [4]
- Among the littered papers on the table were two whiskey bottles and several glasses, and strewn about were a number of chairs, the arms of which had been whittled by the General's guests. [9]
- He spread it out and fumbled for his glasses, but could not find them, and he gazed helplessly at the page before him. [11]
- I reached for one of the two remaining glasses, but Joe growled under his breath: "Drop that! [5]
- All hands were on deck, all the afternoon, with books and maps and glasses, trying to determine which "narrow rocky ridge" was the Areopagus, which sloping hill the Pnyx, which elevation the Museum Hill, and so on. [5]
- You should be on board when they take a couple of those wood-boats in tow and turn a swarm of men into each; by the time you have wiped your glasses and put them on, you will be wondering what has become of that wood. [5]
- It was the old man in the spectacles with large round glasses and the iron-gray hair. [6]
- I took the old man aside, and two or three glasses of Old Crow launched him into reminiscence. [9]
- The few glasses of wine he had drunk and the conversation with this good-natured man had destroyed the mood of concentrated gloom in which he had spent the last few days and which was essential for the execution of his design. [2]
- Pierre took one of the glasses and emptied it. [2]
- Toward the middle of the afternoon we got everything ready to land, and we felt pretty good, too, and proud; and we kept watching with the glasses, like Columbus discovering America. [5]
- The friendly glasses of rye and water Mr. Bering had taken in Monahan's saloon, the cases he had "arranged" for the firm of Watling, Fowndes and Ripon were forgotten. [9]
- She did not notice how well he fitted in with everything about him; and he was so healthy that even three glasses of that cordial would have sent him reeling to bed. [11]
- I snatched the neglected glasses from the deck and hurried aft to join my client on the overhang, but a pipe was all they revealed above the bleak hillocks of sand. [9]
- He opens the mysterious packing cases which come up to the Railroad Room thrice a week, and there is water to be had in the bath-room--and glasses. [9]
- I will turn my back, and do you change about the glasses. [11]
- He did not move as Mrs. Pomfret approached him, holding her glasses to her eyes. [9]
- I was really mortified the other day at dinner to see Blacque Bey leave his standing in the glasses. [5]
- Bowman suggested no more than such an arrangement of glasses as might put the eyes, when in use, under better optic conditions. [6]
- She knew nothing more about such things than her hostess did about Shakespeare and the musical glasses. [6]
- When their eyes met again, the glasses of cordial were at their lips. [11]
- The glasses ere long were clinking once more. [10]
- She sat a long time looking at the receding line of candles reflected in the glasses and expecting (from tales she had heard) to see a coffin, or him, Prince Andrew, in that last dim, indistinctly outlined square. [2]
- There was a little movement and flutter as they came in and glasses were turned that way. [4]
- One of the ladies straightened at their appearance, scrutinized them through the glasses she held in her hand, and Austen immediately recognized her as the irreproachable Mrs. Pomfret. [9]
- Dubarre noticed that just above where the glasses stood on the shelf a crucifix was hanging, and that red crystal sparkled in the hands and feet where the nails should be driven in. [11]
- We laughed and joked despite the storm, and exchanged signals with the fair ones behind the glasses. [9]
- Drink was served in pots, goblets, jugs, and bowls of silver in noblemen's houses, and also in Venice glasses. [4]
- We was all in a powerful excitement now, and grabbed the glasses and hunted everywheres for London, but couldn't find hair nor hide of it, nor any other settlement--nor any sign of a lake or a river, either. [5]
- The others laughed idly and bethought themselves of their own glasses, and the croupier again set the ball spinning and drew their eyes. [11]
- The judge pulled his long side-whiskers nervously, and looked over his glasses in severe annoyance, then hastily adjourned the sitting and left the bench, while the prisoner saw with dismay his lawyer leave the court- room with not even a glance towards him. [11]
- The physician shook his head, gazing at me through his glasses. [9]
- The Doctor raised his head, by his habitual movement, and met the old woman's look with his own calm and scrutinizing gaze, sharpened by the glasses through which he now saw her. [6]
- He occasionally adjusted his glasses, and looked at Mrs. Falchion as if he had suddenly come to a full stop in his opinions regarding her. [11]
- Then he adjusts his glasses and begins to read. [9]
- He peered through his glasses a moment, then screeched in a reedy voice: "Come to my arms! [5]
- Mr. Cooke brushed himself off, picked up the glasses which he had dropped in his flight and pushed them into my hands. [9]
- I will do him the justice to say that the effort was heroic: he whistled popular airs, and snatches of the grand opera; he relieved Mr. Cooke of his glasses (of which Mr. Cooke had neglected to relieve himself), and scanned the sea line busily. [9]
- After an instant's hesitation he handed the letter to M. Fille, who pressed his lips with an air of determination, and put on his glasses. [11]
- Mrs. Holt with her curls, and her glasses laid flat on the bosom of her dove-coloured dress; Honora in a costume dedicated to the very latest of the sports, and Trixton Brent in English tweeds. [9]
- The young soldier heard them, and as Moor and the jester touched glasses, he raised his own goblet, drained it to the dregs, and asked modestly: "Will you listen to a few lines of mine, kind sir? [10]
- Blame dat man, he worries me wid dem ornery glasses o' his'n; _I_ b'lieve he's a witch. [5]
- But weariness returns; He lays the book aside With his glasses upon the bed, And gladly sleeps. [5]
- Why, Mr. Hodder," he exclaimed, squinting off his glasses, "that was a magnificent effort. [9]
- Ordinarily she might have felt a certain sympathy for the fragile young man on the seat beside her who sat moodily staring through his glasses at the floor: and the group across the aisle would surely have moved her to disgust. [9]
- Cousin Jenny had grown white, Willie was a staid bachelor, Helen an old maid, while Mary had married a tall, anaemic young man with glasses, Walter Kinley, whom Cousin Robert had taken into the store. [9]
- The clinking of glasses, shrill tittering, loud, deep laughter, single bars of a dissolute love-song, cheers, and then the sharp rattle of a shattered wine glass reached her in mingled sounds. [10]
- Wilson marked the glasses with names and dates, and put them away. [5]
- We kept the glasses gliding around all the time, till our arms got so tired we couldn't hold them any more. [5]
- He adjusted his glasses as if, in his pride, to see her better. [11]
- Over the way from us, and higher up the valley, we can discern, through the glasses, the faint outlines of the wonderful ruins of Baalbec, the supposed Baal-Gad of Scripture. [5]
- Villiard took the four glasses filled with the wine and laid them on a shelf against the wall, then began to put the table in order for their supper, and to take the pot from the fire. [11]
- Then, being hungry for glass again, it broke up several wine glasses, and fell to eating and swallowing the fragments, not minding a cut or two. [5]
- She was perhaps five and forty, her iron-gray hair was dressed to perfection, her figure all that Parisian art could make it, and she was regarding Austen with extreme deliberation through the glasses which she had raised to a high-bridged nose. [9]
- After a dejeuner fit for the most exacting of bon viveurs we sat in that courtyard and smoked, while an ancient waiter served us with coffee that dripped through silver percolators into our glasses. [9]
- Presently the letter fell to her lap, and she wiped her glasses and glanced at Honora, who was deep in her book once more. [9]
- Whether this good feeling was in process of being produced by the twelve or twenty glasses of beer which it is not unusual for a German to drink of an evening, I do not know. [4]
- That worthy and experienced student of science was not at all displeased with the manoeuvre, and lifted his head so as to command the exhibition through his glasses. [6]
- Here, there, and everywhere, people were shouting to the busy bar-maid, glasses clinked together, and pewter lids fell on the tops of hard stone-ware jugs. [10]
- During the twelve-hour effort friends brought to the orator three glasses of wine, four cups of coffee, and one glass of beer--a most stingy re-enforcement of his wasting tissues, but the hostile Chair would permit no addition to it. [5]
- The Regimental Surgeon dropped his mouth and cheeks in his hand reflectively, his eyes showing quaintly and quizzically above the glasses and his fingers. [11]
- Lift your glasses, Drink to our Captains, pledging ere we roam, Far from the good land, the dear familiar faces, The love of the old regiment at home! [11]
- He took my dreadful exhibition of receipts, he put on his glasses, he took his pen, and presto!--I was a pauper! [5]
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