"Opera glasses" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... figure raised two black-gloved arms and held before her eyes a pair of plain black opera glasses. She had reversed their usual position and now gazed steadily about the room through the large end of ...
— Molly Brown's Senior Days • Nell Speed
... much encouragement just to look in the window," observed Charlotte. "I'll tell you," she cried the next minute, "opera glasses!" ...
— The Pleasant Street Partnership - A Neighborhood Story • Mary F. Leonard
... adagio of that symphony at a lively allegretto, slowing down for the warmer major sections into the speed and manner of the heroine's death song in a Verdi opera; and the listeners, far from relieving my excruciation by rising with yells of fury and hurling their programs and opera glasses at the miscreant, behaved just as they do when Richter conducts it. The mass of imposture that thrives on this combination of ignorance with despairing endurance is incalculable. Given a public trained from childhood to stand ...
— A Treatise on Parents and Children • George Bernard Shaw
... backs—turned when Vasco da Gama put the ship about. Jadwin having criticised the effect because none of the actors turned with it, was voted a Philistine by Mrs. Cressler and Corthell. But as he was about to answer, Mrs. Cressler turned to the artist, passing him her opera glasses, and asking: ...
— The Pit • Frank Norris
... announced one of the students, with a wave of his hand. "The World-Renowned Horsehairsky will perform his celebrated Dance of the Hop Scotch. Get your opera glasses ready." ...
— Dave Porter and the Runaways - Last Days at Oak Hall • Edward Stratemeyer
... earlier. Now they began whispering to their neighbours. Heads were turned our way; people were asking, answering, almost pointing. I could see the knowledge of me spread from seat to seat, from row to row, as ripples spread from a stone thrown into still water. Opera glasses were levelled. Comment grew, swelled to a stir of surprise. The curtain had dropped for the interval between scenes; our box became for the moment the centre of interest, and the lights were high. Even ...
— The Bacillus of Beauty - A Romance of To-day • Harriet Stark |
