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- noun Plural form of
spyglass .
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Examples
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That I might be discovered, I swung my oar in the air, jumped from rock to rock, and was guilty of all manner of livelinesses of action, until I could see the officers on the quarter-deck looking at me through their spyglasses.
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That I might be discovered, I swung my oar in the air, jumped from rock to rock, and was guilty of all manner of livelinesses of action, until I could see the officers on the quarter-deck looking at me through their spyglasses.
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Trusted scientists watched through spyglasses, though he was three miles away.
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\ Instantly Maquesta and Koraf both pulled out spyglasses
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At one point somebody spotted two Army recruiters with spyglasses hanging out in a tree overlooking The Meadow.
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With a magnification power of 14, this telescope -- one of at least 100 Galileo constructed, Mr. Pitts says -- represented a major advance over the spyglasses made by the Dutch spectacle-maker Hans Lipperhey and others in 1608.
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Twenty or so attendees paraded costumes ranging from medieval gowns and wimples to eighteenth-century pirate hats and spyglasses totwentieth-century suffragette sashes and placards.
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Twenty or so attendees paraded costumes ranging from medieval gowns and wimples to eighteenth-century pirate hats and spyglasses totwentieth-century suffragette sashes and placards.
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We'll be announcing the contest winners and their handsome rewards once the results are tabulated, so keep your spyglasses here over the next few weeks.
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We'll be announcing the contest winners and their handsome rewards once the results are tabulated, so keep your spyglasses here over the next few weeks.
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