All 10 Uses of
spectacle
in
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out under them.†
Chpt 1 *
- Her spectacles were propped up on her gray head for safety.†
Chpt 3
- He was so brimful of exultation that he could hardly hold himself when the old lady came back and stood above the wreck discharging lightnings of wrath from over her spectacles.†
Chpt 3
- But the pathos, the lesson, the moral of the great spectacle were lost upon the boy; he only thought of the conspicuousness of the principal character before the on-looking nations; his face lit with the thought, and he said to himself that he wished he could be that child, if it was a tame lion.†
Chpt 5
- He reeled and fell partly upon Potter, flooding him with his blood, and in the same moment the clouds blotted out the dreadful spectacle and the two frightened boys went speeding away in the dark.†
Chpt 9
- Arrived at the dreadful place, he wormed his small body through the crowd and saw the dismal spectacle.†
Chpt 11 *
- But everybody was talking, and intent upon the grisly spectacle before them.†
Chpt 11
- He kept drifting to the rear of the schoolhouse, again and again, to sear his eyeballs with the hateful spectacle there.†
Chpt 18
- He found Joe Harper studying a Testament, and turned sadly away from the depressing spectacle.†
Chpt 22
- The spectacle took the general breath away.†
Chpt 34
Definitions:
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(1)
(spectacle as in: made a spectacle of herself) a notable or unusual event that attracts attention
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(2)
(spectacle as in: wore spectacles) an optical lens (generally in pairs as eyeglasses)