glassie

November 17, 2008 at 12:04 am oooo fankee fankee annipuss! lukkee iz midnait in You Eyy Ay, nawt too menny hoomin kittenz lukking. hava glassie sham pain an orindg 4 da helfee bit wif me?

I’m on yr vents - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

For when the Sun, towred in heauens head, Downe from the siluer mountaine of the skye, Bent his bright Chariot on the glassie bed,

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Pomegranettes, their water boughes bendyng downe within one pace of the ground, couered with leaues of a glassie greene colour, of a great height and turning downe againe their toppes, laden with the aboundance of their floure and fruites, breathing forth a most sweet and delectable odoriferous smell.

Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

Then being brought backe, his keepers kept him in close prison, aduertising the king of his demeanour: wherevpon he commanded that the sight of his eies should be put out, but so, as the balles of them should remaine unbroken, for the auoiding of a noisome deformitie that otherwise would ensue, if the glassie tunicles should take hurt.

Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (3 of 12) Henrie I. Raphael Holinshed

"D·r-bÝn," or far-seer, with the "Magic Mirror," a speculum which according to Gower was set up in Rome by Virgilius the Magician hence the Mirror of Glass in the Squire's tale; Merlin's glassie

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

They answered, That each of them was a perfect Eye, by reason they perceived that each was covered with a Transparent Cornea, containing a liquor within them, which resembled the watery or glassie humor of the Eye.

The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World 1668

To which the Emperess replied, That they might be glassie Pearls, and yet not Eyes; and that perhaps their Microscopes did not truly inform them.

The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World 1668

The victim is Nia glassie, not the trash who enabled her murder.

Kiwiblog 2010

_Cornea_, and containing a liquor within them, resembling the watry or glassie humours of the eye, must necessarily refract all the parallel Rays that fall on them out of the air, into a point not farr distant within them, where (in all probability) the _Retina_ of the eye is placed, and that opacous, dark, and mucous inward coat that (I formerly shew'd) I found to subtend the concave part of the cluster is very likely to be that

Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669

"the waves of glassie glory" (ll. 29-30) is bidden look to "vertue" for guidance to his desired haven -- not exactly the conclusion to be expected from the opening lines of the speech.

Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman