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  • Chap in dresscircle staring down into her with his operaglass for all he was worth.

    Ulysses 2003

  • Vronsky saw him without looking round get into the carriage, pick up the rug and the operaglass at the window and disappear.

    Chapter II. Part IV 1917

  • Chap in dresscircle staring down into her with his operaglass for all he was worth.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • My little friend was in a state of the highest excitement, with a festive flower in his button-hole, and the largest operaglass I ever saw hugged up under his arm.

    The Woman in White 1860

  • Pesca immediately raised the large operaglass to his eyes, and moved it slowly all round the upper part of the theatre, searching for his pupils with the most conscientious scrutiny.

    The Woman in White 1860

  • Among the company at the door were the mineralogist and the owner of the gold operaglass whom we had encountered in the Notch; two Georgian gentlemen, who had chilled their Southern blood that morning on the top of Mount

    Sketches from Memory (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • Another was a well-dressed young man, who carried an operaglass set in gold, and seemed to be making a quotation from some of Byron's rhapsodies on mountain scenery.

    Sketches from Memory (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • "Is he alone?" she said; and directing an operaglass upon the slope of the mountain, pursued, as in a dreamy disregard of circumstances: "That is Captain Gambier.

    Vittoria — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868

  • "Is he alone?" she said; and directing an operaglass upon the slope of the mountain, pursued, as in a dreamy disregard of circumstances: "That is Captain Gambier.

    Vittoria — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • "Is he alone?" she said; and directing an operaglass upon the slope of the mountain, pursued, as in a dreamy disregard of circumstances: "That is Captain Gambier.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

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