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How to use spyglass in a sentence

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If the weather is fair, she sits outside, often with her legs dangling over the precipice, the spyglass propped between her knees.
She glanced to the aft, where the Captain stood, one hand on the tiller, the other holding a spyglass to his eye.
He lowered his spyglass, examined it, rubbed the lenses at both ends, adjusted it and peered through it again.
After several minutes of searching, he reluctantly lowered the spyglass and turned to face his men.
Muttering under his breath, the soldier extended the spyglass, increasing the magnification of the instrument.
By clicking the spyglass icon next to an entry you can see all the activity of that user so you can quickly undo any damage that has been done.
In the present I feel a need to examine the continuity-change paradox from the opposite end of the spyglass.
A scale model of the Endeavour, Captain James Cook's ship, and a compass, navigator's dividers and spyglass will delight budding explorers.
He fashions miniature landscapes and buildings that look like archeological sites seen through the wrong end of a spyglass.
Pellew took out his small spyglass and trained it southwest.
He took the spyglass and peered through it silently, focusing on the boy.
Wellington was eating a chicken leg while observing the manoeuvres of the French army through a spyglass.
By trial and error, he quickly figured out the secret of the invention and made his own three-powered spyglass from lenses for sale in spectacle makers' shops.
She gave me for my birthday an elegant spyglass... I sat there watching the play through my telescope, drawing as many guffaws from the surrounding audience as the comedy on stage.
Instead of looking downward, Galileo turned his spyglass to the night sky.
The spyglass was invented in 1608, but an Italian named Galileo Galilei was the first to construct a telescope in 1610 and use it to look at the night sky.
The spyglass, with a side handle, therefore also of the glasses to be held in front of the eyes, was introduced by the London optician George Adams.
I stapled these plastic strips directly onto the walls of my workshop to make Tondos, a form that brings to mind portholes or the sea seen through a spyglass.
That's because the two months he served on the Spyglass were the two months that we were on shore leave.
Spyglass to eye, scanning the immediately impingent literary horizon, a mere straggle of isolate figures come into focus.
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Examples from Classical Literature
All days, Christmas or any other, are alike to sol when there's a dollar to be sighted with a spyglass.
He had not been with them more than a minute, when he asked Rupert for his spyglass.
Chris murmured, and taking out his spyglass looked through it.
Fritz remained by me while I examined the object through my spyglass.
I was glad when the coastguard came along, with his spyglass under his arm.
They had a spyglass, and a good-sized dory was ready for launching.
And Isidora thrilled as her fancy held a spyglass up to the future.
Presently he heard the former order the steward to hand him his spyglass.
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