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  • People were coming from all over to see the spectacle, which featured Pompeii's champion fighter.   (source)
    spectacle = a notable or unusual event that attracts attention
  • Always at night the alarm comes. Never by day! Is it because fire is prettier by night? More spectacle, a better show?   (source)
    spectacle = noteworthy (impressive or attention-getting)
  • Weren't they thrilled by the spectacle before them?   (source)
    spectacle = a notable or unusual event that attracts attention
  • This happened about once a month, and was a popular spectacle.   (source)
    spectacle = event that attracts attention
  • The driver of the lorry pulled up at the side of the road and, with his two companions, stared open-mouthed at the extraordinary spectacle.   (source)
  • Perhaps there was a more real torture in her first unattended footsteps from the threshold of the prison than even in the procession and spectacle that have been described, where she was made the common infamy, at which all mankind was summoned to point its finger.   (source)
  • But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be—a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.   (source)
    spectacle = noteworthy thing to see
  • What a spectacle that would be for the sewing bees and Bible study groups.†   (source)
  • The doctor has warned me about coffee, but he's only fifty — he goes jogging in shorts, making a spectacle of his hairy legs.†   (source)
  • The dogs all stood in their pens, gazes fixed on the spectacle of Glen Papineau crawling down the aisle.†   (source)
  • She had spared the bar the spectacle of trying to manage her dogs, but in their place she had brought along a round-faced fellow with a receding hairline for whom puppylike devotion seemed to come a little more naturally.†   (source)
  • Daughter, you begin to make a spectacle.†   (source)
  • But she hardly saw the spectacle through the tears running down her face.†   (source)
  • It was a spectacle wondrous and awe-inspiring.†   (source)
  • The man thought he seemed some sad and solitary changeling child announcing the arrival of a traveling spectacle in shire and village who does not know that behind him the players have all been carried off by wolves.†   (source)
  • I grew anxious thinking about witnessing the spectacle of a man being electrocuted, burned to death in front of me.†   (source)
  • He hardly heard what Professor McGonagall was telling them about Animagi (wizards who could transform at will into animals), and wasn't even watching when she transformed herself in front of their eyes into a tabby cat with spectacle markings around her eyes.†   (source)
  • No one would suspect her of cheating, because who in her right mind would make such a spectacle of herself if she intended to cheat?†   (source)
  • And let me tell you, it's quite a spectacle.†   (source)
  • He watched the spectacle for a while, then decided that the whippings were going too slow, so he had guards set up long tables and lined us up in rows, four across.†   (source)
  • Her gaze was a spectacle you couldn't look away from.†   (source)
  • None of them had seen the spectacle; none of them had seen the shadows in the gusting wind.†   (source)
  • The second was high and more powerful than the first, and the third was a spectacle.†   (source)
  • As Owen put it, "IF THE WIGGINS HAD BEEN THERE, THEY WOULD HAVE MADE A SPECTACLE OF THEMSELVES—WE WOULD NEVER HAVE FORGOTTEN IT!"†   (source)
  • Kohler was staring into the annihilation chamber with a look of utter amazement at the spectacle he had just seen.†   (source)
  • I understood that I was supposed to be terrifled by this spectacle—these two demonic creatures on this dark, lonely road.†   (source)
  • I think everyone in the building has really appreciated the spectacle.†   (source)
  • Drivers were only just registering the spectacle through their windscreens.†   (source)
  • As the booster soared, Mitch had no time to watch the spectacle on the main screen.†   (source)
  • Maven pretends to lament the lack of spectacle, if only to fill the silence.†   (source)
  • "Can't resist a spectacle, can you?"†   (source)
  • Pedro, too, was lucky enough to witness the spectacle, since he was just leaving the patio on his bicycle to go for a ride.†   (source)
  • My stomach drops, and I turn from the spectacle.†   (source)
  • The men all smiled and laughed at the spectacle.†   (source)
  • As Ford gazed at the spectacle of light before them excitement burned inside him, but only the excitement of seeing a strange new planet; it was enough for him to see it as it was.†   (source)
  • Hobie, adjusting his glasses, was standing by amused —Mrs. DeFrees, not quite so amused, standing behind Hobie and frowning slightly at the spectacle of my vodka-smelling guest rolling and tumbling with the dog on the carpet.†   (source)
  • And what class of a spectacle you'd be strolling down the street, lopsided in Limerick.†   (source)
  • Confronted with the spectacle of William Spiver, they had forgotten about Ulysses.†   (source)
  • In the early morning light, I see a bizarre spectacle.†   (source)
  • Make a spectacle of it.†   (source)
  • Gasping for air, I reminded myself that I'd come here to be normal, not a spectacle.†   (source)
  • It was as if we were a provincial audience, New Haven to the real world's New York, where history could try out its next spectacle.†   (source)
  • But the children soon came back, unable to resist the scene of such a spectacle.†   (source)
  • Then the strangest thing happened: The clouds parted and the sun burst out, flooding the spectacle.†   (source)
  • "What a spectacle!" wrote Ray Stannard Baker in his American Chronicle.†   (source)
  • But having destroyed and consumed her, he moveson, not sufficiently touched, it seems to me, by the pathetic spectacle he has caused.†   (source)
  • Even so, I'm glad I watched that spectacle (just as I'm glad I watched Triumph of the Will).†   (source)
  • It took a moment for her to drag her eyes from the spectacle of Beloved's head to see what she was staring at.†   (source)
  • I tore my eyes from the spectacle as swiftly as I could, for Christoffels' expression forbade us to notice anything out of the ordinary.†   (source)
  • Slowly, no doubt embarrassed by the spectacle, Jacob walked into the Great Room.†   (source)
  • A crowd of kids gathered around to witness the spectacle.†   (source)
  • I've witnessed this spectacle every September for twenty-one years.†   (source)
  • They were all looking forward to the night's spectacle.†   (source)
  • It would make you throw up to see how these girls make a spectacle of themselves in church.†   (source)
  • Amos waved at the spectacle below us.†   (source)
  • The deep-swimming fish covered their mouths with their fins and laughed sideways at the spectacle.†   (source)
  • I am quite aware it would take a far wiser head than mine to answer such a question, but if I were forced to hazard a guess, I would say that it is the very _lack-- of obvious drama or spectacle that sets the beauty of our land apart.†   (source)
  • It didn't fly too well-not even to the congregation, who sat in the audience staring wide-eyed at the spectacle-and the newspaper said things like "Though it was certainly interesting, it wasn't exactly the play we've all come to know and love…… " So Hegbert decided to try his hand at writing his own play.†   (source)
  • But this is sure to be another sad spectacle, and a man wanders over to see just how bad I'm willing to let myself look in public.†   (source)
  • Abruptly the sound and spectacle were gone and the night was silent.†   (source)
  • Fascinated by the marvelous spectacle that seemed to be performed in her honor, for she was the only person watching it, Fermina Daza did not notice when the passengers for the return trip began to come on board.†   (source)
  • But she sensed also the undercurrent of crowd excitement, their enjoyment of the spectacle.†   (source)
  • Nadia and her colleagues spent much of that day staring at the television next to their floor's water cooler, but by afternoon it was over, the army having decided any risk to hostages was less than the risk to national security should this media-savvy and morale-sapping spectacle be allowed to continue, and so the building was stormed with maximum force, and the militants were exterminated, and initial estimates put the number of dead workers at probably less than a hundred.†   (source)
  • Chairman, do you mean …. making a public spectacle of myself?†   (source)
  • Dad listened to the radio with a drink in his hand and watched what I now know was a pitiful spectacle.†   (source)
  • Mostly, though, what united them was the spectacle they'd witnessed in the Russian gulag.†   (source)
  • You can put any kind of spin on it you like, but you end up with the same unbearable spectacle.†   (source)
  • The crowd laughed and ate baklava and enjoyed the whole spectacle.†   (source)
  • After a moment, everyone turned their backs on the spectacle.†   (source)
  • And Perry could remember many another rodeo spectacle-see again his father skipping about inside a circle of spinning lassos, or his mother, with silver and turquoise bangles jangling on her wrists, trick-riding at a desperado speed that thrilled her youngest child and caused crowds in towns from Texas to Oregon to "stand up and clap.†   (source)
  • At this news-as Jordan had expected-there was a collective sigh from the media, all of whom had been hoping for a spectacle.†   (source)
  • I prayed that Mahtob would never be subjected to such a spectacle.†   (source)
  • I don't normally care, but after the talk with Hector, I want to go home, not be a spectacle.†   (source)
  • It was a grisly spectacle that made South Africa appear as if it was on the brink of internal war.†   (source)
  • Lencho invited his cronies from the Berets to come witness his spectacle.†   (source)
  • He and I make a great spectacle of leaving the tent.†   (source)
  • The SS who were watching laughed at this spectacle.†   (source)
  • Marcus and his brother will enjoy such a spectacle.†   (source)
  • You're just making a spectacle of yourself.†   (source)
  • The mountain displayed a constantly changing face of weather and shadow, rain and sun, a spectacle of African light.†   (source)
  • On the field below, the two groups of boys watched the spectacle with craned necks, and from different perspectives.†   (source)
  • My impression was that the youthful aristocracy of every country often made of itself a spectacle unseemly.†   (source)
  • The next day, up in the more affluent North Division, Jonas Hutchinson was numbed by the spectacle he beheld: "As far as the fire reached, the city is thronged with desperadoes who are plundering and trying to set new fires….†   (source)
  • I didn't think about the spectacle I would have to star in much too soon.†   (source)
  • I didn't even have the strength to feel chagrin at embarrassing my queen and staunchest defender once again by providing a spectacle for the entire court of Eddis.†   (source)
  • Mark poked his head out to watch the continuation of the spectacle.†   (source)
  • I'm afraid I may have to take the fireplace poker to my brother to silence this spectacle.†   (source)
  • His images startle, but Rowell always felt they failed compared to the experience of simply standing there, dwarfed by the spectacle of what he considered the most beautiful place on earth, a place he dubbed "the throne room of the mountain gods.†   (source)
  • As Mandy would have said, I was a spectacle.†   (source)
  • After all: who doesn't wish to make a spectacle of his loneliness?†   (source)
  • Right in the middle of all the pretense, it's an even more pretentious spectacle.†   (source)
  • Why is this spectacle being made of me?†   (source)
  • And what a spectacle he must have been!†   (source)
  • She would chain herself with other ladies to the gates of Congress and the Supreme Court, setting off a degrading spectacle that made all their husbands look ridiculous.†   (source)
  • Yossarian's heart pounded with fright and horror at the pitiful, ominous, gory spectacle of the broken corpse.†   (source)
  • There was nothing, nothing, Gatlin loved better than a spectacle.†   (source)
  • I thought of children like my own Damon and Jannie, watching this spectacle in their homes.†   (source)
  • It's a spectacle.†   (source)
  • The idea was for a group of important Western intellectuals to march to the Cambodian border and by means of this great spectacle performed before the eyes of the world to force the occupied country to allow the doctors in.†   (source)
  • Ghosh kept nodding his head, a big smile on his face, waving, keeping up an agitated chatter, "I know, I know, you unkempt rascal, good morning to you, too, yes indeed, I have come to delight in this heathen spectacle ….†   (source)
  • And then the treetops began filling as well, as if a hundred thousand Shataiki had been called to witness a great spectacle, and the black trees were their bleachers.†   (source)
  • Atlee's lazy, like most judges, and he wants this spectacle of a case right here in his courtroom."†   (source)
  • And I wondered, Are they all Clifton's friends, or is it just for the spectacle, the slow-paced music?†   (source)
  • It was a spectacle such as could only have been imagined until that morning.†   (source)
  • I see it in my mind's eye as a spectacle: Sukeena in front of him by a few steps, my husband's slightly drunken gait following a few paces behind.†   (source)
  • It was a rare spectacle, and I stood on the hill in the apple orchard, transfixed by the slowing advancing columns of white outlined against the black clouds behind.†   (source)
  • Mi querido Gustavo, Zaida Puente changed all my plans for Lourdes's wedding and arranged a spectacle instead at the Tropicana Club.†   (source)
  • He did his earnest best, though, and seemed oblivious to the spectacle he was making of himself.†   (source)
  • The mere spectacle of Yuga had overwhelmed their senses.†   (source)
  • The alternatives, he says, will be the obtaining of Professional status, or, by 1971, reduction to the role of spectacle-sellers.†   (source)
  • Anytime the president of the United States drives through a crowded city, there is a careful balance between protecting his life and ensuring the spectacle of the chief executive intermingling with the American people.†   (source)
  • They certainly provided a spectacle of squirming on the grand scale.†   (source)
  • It isn't the prettiest spectacle …. seeing a couple of middle-aged types hacking away at each other, all red in the face and winded, missing half the time.†   (source)
  • Now look at the spectacle of your life.†   (source)
  • What are you thinking, you spectacle?†   (source)
  • These knights had been there the whole time, watching the spectacle.†   (source)
  • Tappan was used to such treatment and spectacle.†   (source)
  • This, too, how the love works and then doesn't: a mutual spectacle of imagination.†   (source)
  • …real beauty could be partially understood in that it was not just a combination, but a dissolution; that after the threads were woven and tangled they then untangled and continued on their separate ways; that the trains that pulled into the station in a riveting spectacle as clouds of steam condensed in the midnight air, then left for different destinations and disappeared; that the drama of a striking clock was impossible without the silence that was both its preface and epilogue.†   (source)
  • An awesome spectacle that I was a part of.†   (source)
  • All nations are watching the awful spectacle.†   (source)
  • Drizzt and several other drow witnessed the spectacle.†   (source)
  • Stories, more even than stars or spectacle, are still the currency of life, or commercial entertainment, and look likely to last longer than the euro.†   (source)
  • The little man was there: a soggy spectacle on a pale and spattered horse.†   (source)
  • Before the service started, Lou asked Cotton about this spectacle.†   (source)
  • Food Street encompassed the crushing spectacle of some 30 restaurants within the stretch of two blocks.†   (source)
  • It was an embarrassing spectacle.†   (source)
  • As for the train ride to New York — famous mountains lumbered by, famous rivers, plains, canyons, the whole holy American spectacle, without his looking up once.†   (source)
  • "A spectacle," Doc said.†   (source)
  • I'd forgotten-you performed a dramatic spectacle on the way.†   (source)
  • For perhaps a minute the spectacle numbed reaction.†   (source)
  • I stared up at him, not recognizing him, and felt my face flush with the embarrassment of being a public spectacle.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, to human observers the spectacle was disturbingly schizophrenic.†   (source)
  • It was the middle of rush hour, Oedipa was appalled at the spectacle, having thought such traffic only possible in Los Angeles, places like that.†   (source)
  • I felt a quaking in the knees, my parched mouth gave forth a string of senseless vocables, and then I found myself lurching toward the men's room, blessed sanctuary from a spectacle of hatred and cruelty such as I had never conceived I would witness firsthand.†   (source)
  • In the Century first-row balcony, where their seats always were, I'd be sitting beside my father at this hour beyond my bedtime carried totally away by the performance, and then suddenly the thought of my mother staying home with my sleeping younger brothers, missing the spectacle at this moment before my eyes, and doing without all the excitement and wonder that filled my being, would arrest me and I could hardly bear my pleasure for my guilt.†   (source)
  • It was too nerve-wracking, a shocking spectacle, like seeing an old, calm friend go insane.†   (source)
  • As you neared the far end of the bridge, its loose board floor rattling under the car wheels, the spectacle unfolding before you made the dollar seem well spent.†   (source)
  • By then we had blown our noses and quit making an open spectacle of ourselves.†   (source)
  • With the body definitely not being the self, and not the spectacle of the senses, so it also was not the thought, not the rational mind, not the learned wisdom, not the learned ability to draw conclusions and to develop previous thoughts in to new ones.†   (source)
  • Vasia was tired from walking to see it, to experience the joy and terror of the spectacle.†   (source)
  • [He goes once more to the various exits, but the spectacle of the rhinoceros halts him.†   (source)
  • A sweet spectacle for me!†   (source)
  • She did not come alone, but had brought her mother with her? promising what spectacle Gabriel could not imagine, nor could he imagine how she had escaped her young man of the evening.†   (source)
  • The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.†   (source)
  • Powell stood quietly, enjoying the spectacle.†   (source)
  • But the most terrifying spectacle of all was Boxer, rearing up on his hind legs and striking out with his great iron-shod hoofs like a stallion.   (source)
    spectacle = event that attracts attention
  • For a moment the khaki mob was silent, petrified, at the spectacle of this wanton sacrilege, with amazement and horror.   (source)
  • The spectacle of two young women giving breast to their babies made her blush and turn away her face.   (source)
  • Peradventure the guilty one stands looking on at this sad spectacle, unknown of man, and forgetting that God sees him.   (source)
  • Alas! if he discern such sinfulness in his own white soul, what horrid spectacle would he behold in thine or mine!   (source)
    spectacle = thing that attracts attention
  • The scene was not without a mixture of awe, such as must always invest the spectacle of guilt and shame in a fellow-creature, before society shall have grown corrupt enough to smile, instead of shuddering at it.   (source)
    spectacle = event that attracts attention
  • We doubt whether any marked event, for good or evil, ever befell New England, from its settlement down to revolutionary times, of which the inhabitants had not been previously warned by some spectacle of its nature.   (source)
  • When such personages could constitute a part of the spectacle, without risking the majesty, or reverence of rank and office, it was safely to be inferred that the infliction of a legal sentence would have an earnest and effectual meaning.   (source)
  • Then, on Fridays, he went to Ghazi Stadium, bought a Pepsi, and watched the spectacle.†   (source)
  • Perhaps, I said; thinking what a spectacle I made, with a smirking ruffian to either side.†   (source)
  • There is no point in making a spectacle of yourself, Janine, said Aunt Lydia.†   (source)
  • Up and down the street, people have settled on the sidewalks and rooftops to watch the spectacle.†   (source)
  • Creeping to the hill's summit, the boys looked out upon a baffling spectacle.†   (source)
  • It was quite a spectacle, not all at once or to one region, of course.†   (source)
  • Imagine what Nicky said, watching this spectacle.†   (source)
  • I feel it's a spectacle, even though no one's watching.†   (source)
  • Bloom and the ACLU take a grave matter and turn it into a spectacle.†   (source)
  • Adams could well have gloated over the spectacle of Jefferson under fire.†   (source)
  • Emma and I slipped in among them and huddled in a corner, eyes glued to the unfolding spectacle.†   (source)
  • It was turning out to be the spectacle I'd hoped.†   (source)
  • He knew he was making a spectacle of himself.†   (source)
  • Our spectacle—the destruction of Rome—will go on for one full month until Gaea awakens.†   (source)
  • Now that Macon had come out, so to speak, he seemed to enjoy making a spectacle of himself.†   (source)
  • Steam rose from the chasm, adding a surrealistic flavor to the spectacle.†   (source)
  • This is the kind of thing I should look out for crying without reason, making a spectacle of myself.†   (source)
  • But it was not this gruesome spectacle that made Max's blood run cold.†   (source)
  • A NATION without a NATIONAL GOVERNMENT is an awful spectacle.†   (source)
  • Now wot would Missus Nightwing say if she was to see you makin' such a spectacle o' yerself?"†   (source)
  • But for the "straggling and loitering" to be seen, it would have been an encouraging spectacle.†   (source)
  • I told you it would be a spectacle, and wasn't I right?†   (source)
  • Max had never been in this part of the palace before, and the spectacle took his breath away.†   (source)
  • I keep thinking that this was what she would have enjoyed-the spectacle of those passengers tonight.†   (source)
  • All except Lou, who just sat there with her arms crossed pretending to ignore this spectacle.†   (source)
  • The less a job pays, Bronzini thought, the harder the work, the more impressive the spectacle.†   (source)
  • The German workmen took a lively interest in this spectacle.†   (source)
  • They collapsed in a riffling click of doom, but Pedi didn't notice the spectacle.†   (source)
  • All along the benches men put down their cups and spoons to turn and gape at the grisly spectacle.†   (source)
  • It was a spectacle that never would have happened if Mallos hadn't orchestrated it.†   (source)
  • As more troops followed, a naval spectacle of more than ninety vessels filled the Narrows.†   (source)
  • I had no idea that you've met that many of my relatives, spectacle," she said.†   (source)
  • Thomas sat with Rachelle and his lieutenants in one of the gazebos overlooking the spectacle.†   (source)
  • Woolf felt the spectacle was worth the price of new paint and a furious agent.†   (source)
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  • August stared through her spectacles.   (source)
    spectacles = eyeglasses
  • They look out of no face, but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a nonexistent nose.   (source)
    spectacles = notable or unusual events that attract attention
  • When Harry had finished, he merely continued to peer at them through his spectacles.†   (source)
  • Sydelle turned to the group, one penciled eyebrow arched high over her red sequined spectacles.†   (source)
  • "Spectacles," he repeated pensively, as if the idea of spectacles had just occurred to him.†   (source)
  • It is Andrey, as prompt as ever, with his Book in hand and a pair of spectacles resting on the top of his head.†   (source)
  • He studied them through his round spectacles.†   (source)
  • "Not if they're smart, they won't," Morrow said, adjusting his wirerimmed spectacles.†   (source)
  • I heard the merest clicking of claws against the bottom of the boat, no more than the sound of a pair of spectacles falling to the floor, and the next moment my dear brother shrieked in my face like I've never heard a man shriek before.†   (source)
  • She adjusted her spectacles.†   (source)
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  • He removed his spectacles.†   (source)
  • I slam my palm on the desk in front of him, and he jerks out of his daze, staring at me over his spectacles.†   (source)
  • It catches the metallic rim of the basketball hoop, the chain link of the tire swings, the whistle hanging around Zaman's neck, his new, unchipped spectacles.†   (source)
  • The crowd parted, and Phoebe appeared, her spectacles crooked, her face pale.†   (source)
  • The spectacles twitched.†   (source)
  • "Those are his purple spectacles you're wearing, aren't they?"†   (source)
  • Give me those spectacles!†   (source)
  • There are letters from Confederate soldiers lying on a Federal desk, strategically placed antique spectacles and handkerchiefs.†   (source)
  • The spectacles women used to make of themselves.†   (source)
  • He was wearing a white button-down shirt, faded Levi's with threadbare knees, pliable gold-framed spectacles that wrapped around his ears.†   (source)
  • His eyes brightened behind the spectacles.†   (source)
  • His lips quivered and the spectacles were dimmed with mist.†   (source)
  • Finally, he laid down his quill, moved his spectacles high on his nose, and peered through them at me.†   (source)
  • The other man was much older and wore steel-rimmed spectacles.†   (source)
  • Rodraguez is a soft-spoken woman with silver-rimmed spectacles and a gold cross on a chain around her neck.†   (source)
  • Momma's spectacles dropped into her gravy.†   (source)
  • Instead, he carefully examined and then purchased a pair of spectacles from the can trader.†   (source)
  • He's wearing a nightcap and a pair of spectacles on the tip of his nose like a storybook rat.†   (source)
  • He a little short shrunk up man with a bald head and gold spectacles.†   (source)
  • He was wearing spectacles, a bow tie, and a period vest.†   (source)
  • Many of the people around them donned spectacles with blue lenses.†   (source)
  • So he came with a big hat and spectacles and a coach box full of paper.†   (source)
  • But his blue eyes behind the thick round spectacles were as mild and merry as ever, and he gazed from one of us to the other with frank delight.†   (source)
  • Junior adjusted his wire-rimmed spectacles and seemed to make a mental calculation.†   (source)
  • I wondered what ghastly spectacles might have been staged here, but we didn't stay very long.†   (source)
  • On that day in March, as usual, Las Vegas was full of spectacles and name acts.†   (source)
  • Along Elm all the stores were dark, the two banks were dimly lit, the neon spectacles in the window of the optical shop cast a gimmicky light on the sidewalk.†   (source)
  • Comrade Pillai pushed his spectacles up into his hair in order to read aloud the text.†   (source)
  • Using the spectacles as magnifying glasses, Nick moved them across the wriggling, shifting words.†   (source)
  • He pushed his spectacles up; they slid down again instantly.†   (source)
  • He took off his spectacles and wiped them with his handkerchief before putting them back on.†   (source)
  • His eyes glittered behind the glass of his spectacles.†   (source)
  • In college, I even wore glasses for a bit, fake spectacles with clear lenses that I thought would lend me an affable, unthreatening vibe.†   (source)
  • His body was bony and erect, his skin dark and clean-shaven, his eyes avid behind round spectacles in silver frames, and he wore a romantic, old-fashioned mustache with waxed tips.†   (source)
  • Horace Whaley's eyes bulged—his thyroid gland was overactive—and swam, too, behind his spectacles.†   (source)
  • She wore gilt-rimmed spectacles and a white nurse's cap.†   (source)
  • "The spectacles," Dan said, pointing to the hook and the glasses.†   (source)
  • Jean Louise saw the glint of gold-rimmed spectacles slung across a sour face looking out from under a crooked wig, the twitter of a bony finger.†   (source)
  • "I'll wear mine," John told the salesman, a tiny round bald man with spectacles which quickly dropped to the end of his nose as he laced up the skates.†   (source)
  • Then, before retiring, she exchanged her ordinary glasses for a pair of reading spectacles.†   (source)
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