"Binoculars" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sir," said a bluejacket, with his eyes glued to binoculars. "At the balloon"—and presently we heard the weary pinions of the shell, and saw the little ...
— From Capetown to Ladysmith - An Unfinished Record of the South African War • G. W. Steevens
... piazza and caught up a pair of stereo-binoculars that were lying on the table. There, shining like a star through the close curtain of green that veiled 'The Thimble,' was the projecting end of a highly polished tube of steel. And even as I gazed a man's face peered out as though in ...
— The Gates of Chance • Van Tassel Sutphen
... center?" she mumbled, reaching for the binoculars by her side. "It's our schooner," she exclaimed after a moment's survey. "Yes, sir, it is! Anyway, it's a motor-boat, and if ...
— The Blue Envelope • Roy J. Snell
... horizon with a pair of powerful binoculars. "No, the land isn't cultivated, but take a look over there—see that range of little hills over to the right? Take a look." He handed ...
— Islands of Space • John W Campbell
... company,' or something like Gainsborough's dying words would have occurred sooner or later. I am persuaded that we look at the ancient pictures with frosted magnifying- glasses, and stare at the younger men from the wrong end of the binoculars. It was ever thus; it always will be so. Most of us suspect our contemporaries or juniors. And they—les jeunes feroces—are impatient of their immediate predecessors. Nos peres out toujours tort. Though grandpapa ...
— Masques & Phases • Robert Ross
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