shell-rimmed

Here he leaned forward and tapped me impressively on the knee, while his blue eyes shone excitedly behind his shell-rimmed spectacles.

"A Leak in the Fountain of Youth" by Amelia Reynolds Long, part 1 Johnny Pez 2010

Here he leaned forward and tapped me impressively on the knee, while his blue eyes shone excitedly behind his shell-rimmed spectacles.

Archive 2010-01-01 Johnny Pez 2010

And so the mild-looking hakim Kurram Khan, walking gingerly across her rocks, donning cheap, imitation shell-rimmed spectacles to help him look the part, trembled even more than the leg-weary horse he led.

In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

"I had a new sportcoat on, and I had just gotten new shell-rimmed glasses before I left," he says.

Archive 2008-03-01 2008

He went out of the room calling “Ewing!” and returned in a few minutes accompanied by an embarrassed, slightly worn young man, with shell-rimmed glasses and scanty blond hair.

The Great Gatsby 2003

The guest stood silently before the portrait, scanning it earnestly, almost with anxiety, blinking his almond eyes behind his shell-rimmed glasses.

White Ashes Alden Charles Noble

On my left, next the door, worked a colored girl with shell-rimmed spectacles, very friendly, whose name was Irma.

Working With the Working Woman Cornelia Stratton Parker

Nordsen took off his shell-rimmed glasses, wiped them, restored them to his boyish face.

Next Door, Next World Robert Donald Locke

It was not until he was safe in his sleeper, and racketing through the night, that he remembered the meeting with the literary swans and the editor with the shell-rimmed glasses.

The Trumpeter Swan Temple Bailey

The young editor who had eyed him through shell-rimmed glasses had said, "There's going to be a lot of hard work ahead -- to keep up to this ----"

The Trumpeter Swan Temple Bailey