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  • suffers from ocular migraines
  • But it was the cover of Advanced Ocular Science that made the Baudelaire children stare.†   (source)
  • The word "ocular," you might not know, means "related to the eye," but even if you didn't know this you could figure it out from the cover.†   (source)
  • Sunny crawled up on the table and lay down next to Advanced Ocular Science, which was almost as big as she was.†   (source)
  • Violet began to imagine how her brother would go about reading Advanced Ocular Science, and tried to copy his methods.†   (source)
  • But there was an extra helping of dread that Violet and Sunny felt when they began Advanced Ocular Science, by Dr. Georgina Orwell.†   (source)
  • "This book was certainly helpful to you, orphans," Count Olaf said, holding Dr. Orwell's Advanced Ocular Science high in the air, "and now it will help me."†   (source)
  • Grateful that she could skip that daunting first paragraph—the word "daunting" here means "full of incredibly difficult words"—she flipped through Advanced Ocular Science until she reached "Hypnosis and Mind Control."†   (source)
  • But just as it is difficult to believe that a man who is not a doctor wearing a surgical mask and a white wig will turn out to be a charming person, it was difficult for the children to believe that Advanced Ocular Science was going to cause them anything but trouble.†   (source)
  • The first sentence was "This tome will endeavor to scrutinize, in quasi-inclusive breadth, the epistemology of ophthalmologically contrived appraisals of ocular systems and the subsequent and requisite exertions imperative for expugnation of injurious states," and as Violet read it out loud to her sister, both children felt the dread that comes when you begin a very boring and difficult book.†   (source)
  • But since I was working through my plants, which have an ocular portion so I was watching what was going on, I forgot to turn on the vision plates in the Paw.†   (source)
  • The vision blocks of the Paw were installed prior to the development of standard ocular implants and designed so that a crewman on the Paw could maneuver it in the often complex environment of asteroid mining.†   (source)
  • 'My Dear Sir, 'Years have elapsed, since I had an opportunity of ocularly perusing the lineaments, now familiar to the imaginations of a considerable portion of the civilized world.†   (source)
  • The conversation (which seemed to have been concerning the origin of the fire) immediately ceased, and every one ocularly criticised him to the degree expressed by contracting the flesh of their foreheads and looking at him with narrowed eyelids, as if he had been a light too strong for their sight.†   (source)
  • This, of course, must have been an ocular deception, assisted by the uncertain light.†   (source)
  • Miss Stackpole's ocular surfaces unwinkingly caught the sun.†   (source)
  • Her back seemed to be endowed with a sensitiveness to ocular beams—even her clothing—so alive was she to a fancied gaze which might be resting upon her from the outside of that barn.†   (source)
  • Upon the whole, I was sadly vexed and puzzled, but, at length, I concluded to make a virtue of necessity—to dig with a good will, and thus the sooner to convince the visionary, by ocular demonstration, of the fallacy of the opinions he entertained.†   (source)
  • He then asked Mrs Tickit how long a space of time she supposed there might have been between the two sets of ocular quiverings she had experienced?†   (source)
  • BLOOM: (Absently) Ocularly woman's bivalve case is worse.†   (source)
  • With my eyeglass in my ocular.†   (source)
  • Exposure by mechanical artifice (automatic bed) or individual testimony (concealed ocular witnesses), not yet.†   (source)
  • Give me the ocular proof; Or, by the worth of man's eternal soul, Thou hadst been better have been born a dog Than answer my wak'd wrath!†   (source)
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