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It wasn't until he got to school the next day that he understood that with better vision came perfect hearing: Four-eyes; blind as a bat.
Nineteen Minutes Picoult, Jodi, 1966- 2007
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"Four-eyes is going to treat!" shouted the man with the guns.
Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923
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The former means merely Master Four-eyes, referring to my glasses.
The Land of Footprints Stewart Edward White 1909
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"Four-eyes" they called me on account of my spectacles until a new nickname came at the last half of the ninth inning, when we were in the field with the score four to three in our favor.
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He became lost in a great wonder as to what under heaven this little Four-eyes meant by standing there and staring at him with that white and entirely unfrightened face.
Queed Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905
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"Well spoken, Four-eyes," said he; "spoken like a son of a warrior."
The Boy Aviators in Africa John Henry Goldfrap 1898
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"Princess Four-eyes," in allusion to her _pince-nez_.
In Brief Authority F. Anstey 1895
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Prince to succeed in his project -- if only for the reason that it would entail the removal of Princess "Four-eyes" to Clairdelune.
In Brief Authority F. Anstey 1895
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"Princess Four-eyes," but by the painful reflection that any one of them might be the dragon's next victim.
In Brief Authority F. Anstey 1895
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"Four-eyes" they called me on account of my spectacles until a new nickname came at the last half of the ninth inning, when we were in the field with the score four to three in our favor.
A Knight of the Cumberland John Fox 1891
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