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  • It wasn't until he got to school the next day that he understood that with better vision came perfect hearing: Four-eyes; blind as a bat.

    Nineteen Minutes Picoult, Jodi, 1966- 2007

  • "Four-eyes is going to treat!" shouted the man with the guns.

    Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923

  • The former means merely Master Four-eyes, referring to my glasses.

    The Land of Footprints Stewart Edward White 1909

  • "Four-eyes" they called me on account of my spectacles until a new nickname came at the last half of the ninth inning, when we were in the field with the score four to three in our favor.

    A Knight of the Cumberland 1906

  • He became lost in a great wonder as to what under heaven this little Four-eyes meant by standing there and staring at him with that white and entirely unfrightened face.

    Queed Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905

  • "Well spoken, Four-eyes," said he; "spoken like a son of a warrior."

    The Boy Aviators in Africa John Henry Goldfrap 1898

  • "Princess Four-eyes," in allusion to her _pince-nez_.

    In Brief Authority F. Anstey 1895

  • Prince to succeed in his project -- if only for the reason that it would entail the removal of Princess "Four-eyes" to Clairdelune.

    In Brief Authority F. Anstey 1895

  • "Princess Four-eyes," but by the painful reflection that any one of them might be the dragon's next victim.

    In Brief Authority F. Anstey 1895

  • "Four-eyes" they called me on account of my spectacles until a new nickname came at the last half of the ninth inning, when we were in the field with the score four to three in our favor.

    A Knight of the Cumberland John Fox 1891

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