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Examples
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Gallo rubbed the bridge of his nose, where he used to wear big bottle-glass spectacles before he gave up the unequal race against his birth defects.
Masked Lou Anders 2010
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Gallo rubbed the bridge of his nose, where he used to wear big bottle-glass spectacles before he gave up the unequal race against his birth defects.
Masked Lou Anders 2010
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Simon led them to the Brazen Head Pub, which was much more like it, if by “it” you mean bottle-glass windows, dark wooden tables, a barmaid who calls you “luv,” and Guinness on tap.
To Catch a Prince Gillian McKnight 2005
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Simon led them to the Brazen Head Pub, which was much more like it, if by “it” you mean bottle-glass windows, dark wooden tables, a barmaid who calls you “luv,” and Guinness on tap.
To Catch a Prince Gillian McKnight 2005
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‘And now we are sitting and shining here!’ said the bit of bottle-glass.
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At that moment more water came into the gutter; it streamed over the edges and washed the bit of bottle-glass away.
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He had besides the things before mentioned, twelve marbles, part of a jews-harp, a piece of blue bottle-glass to look through,
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But it was a bit of bottle-glass, and because it sparkled the Darning-needle spoke to it, and gave herself out as a breast-pin.
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‘Were they of noble birth, then?’ asked the bit of bottle-glass.
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So she had pictured him as short-sighted, stooped, with a thickening waist and probably a walrus moustache and bottle-glass spectacles.
Bottled Spider Gardner, John 2002
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