"Telescopic sight" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... new moon, hanging above the sunset, is a charming telescopic sight. Use a low power, and observe the contrast between the bright, smooth round of the sunward edge, which has almost the polish of a golden rim, and the irregular and delicately shaded inner curve, where the adjacent mountains and plains picturesquely ...
— Pleasures of the telescope • Garrett Serviss
... June Schaunard was seated in the little office just behind his shop. He was examining an improved telescopic sight which had just been put upon the market by an opponent, criticizing it as one poet criticizes the poem of another poet—that is ...
— The Pools of Silence • H. de Vere Stacpoole |
