"Opera glasses" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 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
... 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
... 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
... a great number of tourists on board the steamer. Rollo could see them very distinctly sitting under the awning on the deck. Some were standing by the railing and examining the raft by means of their spy glasses or opera glasses. Others were seated at tables, eating late breakfasts, in little parties by themselves. The boat glided by very swiftly, however, and soon Rollo could see nothing of her but the stern, and the foaming wake which her paddle wheels left ...
— Rollo on the Rhine • Jacob Abbott |
