All 8 Uses of
spectacle
in
Of Human Bondage
- Mr. Carey looked up over his spectacles.†
Chpt 13-14 *
- I'll read it afterwards when I've got my spectacles,' she said.†
Chpt 19-20
- For the most part they were a good deal younger than Philip, smooth-faced boys of eighteen, but there were a few who were older than he: he noticed one tall man, with a fierce red moustache, who might have been thirty; another little fellow with black hair, only a year or two younger; and there was one man with spectacles and a beard which was quite gray.†
Chpt 53-54
- He took off his spectacles as they came in.†
Chpt 83-84
- He glanced at Miss Price, and to his astonishment saw that she was looking down at her plate, regardless of the passing spectacle, and two heavy tears were rolling down her cheeks.†
Chpt 43-44
- During the two months he spent at Blackstable Norah wrote to him frequently, long letters in a bold, large hand, in which with cheerful humour she described the little events of the daily round, the domestic troubles of her landlady, rich food for laughter, the comic vexations of her rehearsals, she was walking on in an important spectacle at one of the London theatres, and her odd adventures with the publishers of novelettes.†
Chpt 67-68
- Philip thought it was a severe ordeal that the young man was being exposed to, since Athelny, in his brown velvet jacket, flowing black tie, and red tarboosh, was a startling spectacle for an innocent electrical engineer.†
Chpt 115-116
- Without it he would never have had his keen appreciation of beauty, his passion for art and literature, and his interest in the varied spectacle of life.†
Chpt 121-122 *
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)