"Glass eye" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... master's hand. If you will listen, and not cry any more, I will tell you what I saw and heard one summer afternoon over by the pond in the meadow. You know it is a very small pond, and that afternoon the water was so still that it looked like a glass eye in the midst of the great green meadow. I sat down on the bank to rest, and to watch the reflection of the bushes and tall water-grasses which overhung the pond. Suddenly the surface of the water was disturbed by a hundred circling ripples, in ...
— Harper's Young People, December 16, 1879 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... went over to help Meta no one interfered. Jason gasped air back into his lungs, breathing in life. The watching glass eye of the viewer carried the scene to everyone in ...
— Deathworld • Harry Harrison
... 6. A glass eye, purchased of a peddler, and differing in color from its natural mate, perpetually getting out of focus by turning in ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) • Various
... Replacing his glass eye, he turned again to his work. "If employment is what you want," answered Mr. Minikin, "you'll get it. Best employer in London. He'll keep you going for twenty-four hours a day, and then offer ...
— Paul Kelver • Jerome Klapka, AKA Jerome K. Jerome
... with his two squaws and two pappooses were coaxed into a picture-car, one day, to be photographed. They seemed afraid of the three-legged animal with the round glass eye; but, at last, one of the squaws was induced to take her seat, baby in arms. The baby bawled lustily, till I quieted him by jingling a bunch of keys, while ...
— The Nursery, Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1875 • Various |
