"Binoculars" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... excuse for travel to Shainsa. Over and above the necessities of trade, a few items of Terran manufacture—vacuum tubes, transistors, lenses for cameras and binoculars, liquors and finely forged small tools—are literally worth their weight ...
— The Door Through Space • Marion Zimmer Bradley
... off the power from the propellers, and the airship was stationary. Tom took a pair of binoculars, and looked through them at his home in the ...
— Tom Swift and his Great Searchlight • Victor Appleton
... wind. Hayward still hanging on to sledge; Skipper fell off twice. Reached depot 5.45. When camping found we had dropped our tent-poles, so Richards went back a little way and spotted them through the binoculars about half a mile off, and brought them back. Hayward and I were very cold by that time, the drift very bad. Moral: See everything properly secured. We soon had our tent up, cooked our dinner in the dark, and ...
— South! • Sir Ernest Shackleton
... of Nicaragua," he said; and upon taking a look themselves with the binoculars, the others all ...
— Around the World in Ten Days • Chelsea Curtis Fraser
... is little over a mile in any sort of sea. Vessels that are belching clouds of smoke may be picked up at distances of from three to five miles, but no more. In other words, watchful eyes gazing through binoculars may see a periscope as far as that periscope sees. The destroyers, bearing their net between them, then pick up a distant periscope. They chart the submarine's direction (this may be told by the direction ...
— Our Navy in the War • Lawrence Perry
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