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  • We had a wonderful walk - and Diana spotted some most unusual birds with the field-glasses.

    Working Without a Net Randy Lowens 2010

  • Rudi scanned it through field-glasses and then we crossed the farther bridge for a closer look, strolling up the curving road, circling the lodge itself, and back to the road again.

    Watershed 2010

  • I saw the lens of his field-glasses splinter as a shot hit them; there were a dozen of us clawing our way backwards up out of a gully, firing frantically at the red mob pouring down the other bank.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • "Well, don't forget to take the field-glasses then, " said Roger.

    Working Without a Net Randy Lowens 2010

  • Burnaby stood staring at the wreck through field-glasses, grim and silent.

    In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs 2010

  • Most of the officers held field-glasses in their gloved hands; Legge had no glasses, but the captain of the trawler lent him his own.

    In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs 2010

  • Sixpence came forward from the idle wheel and watched me veer the chain; then for a quarter of an hour we leaned on the main-boom and watched the crowds upon the shore through field-glasses.

    Movie Night 2010

  • We examined the East through the field-glasses; mountains of sand in all directions; not a straw, no life.

    Dear Carl Ginny Woods 2010

  • Miss Pepper and Diana and Loony set off for their walk in the hills, Diana with the field-glasses slung over her back.

    Working Without a Net Randy Lowens 2010

  • At the field-glasses counter on the second floor, he found two Chinese corpses.

    Human Smoke Nicholson Baker 2008

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