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Examples
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The captain did not look up from the eye-piece, but his voice was brittle.
"Once in a Blue Moon" by Harl Vincent, part 1 Johnny Pez 2009
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The captain turned guiltily away from the eye-piece of the refractor, making desperate efforts to compose his features.
"Once in a Blue Moon" by Harl Vincent, part 1 Johnny Pez 2009
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You an use an eye-piece with the scope but the primary mode is a high res CCD capturing images and serving them to the operator who is remote.
Boing Boing 2007
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And the only similarity between The Prowler and Spawn is the eye-piece and the cape.
Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #155 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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Every flitch, every eye-piece, and every chine is buried under the walling; and I fed them pigs with my own hands, Master Swithin, little thinking they would come to this end.
Two on a Tower 2006
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The eye-piece of the telescope must be protected now with leather, for the skin is destroyed that comes in contact with cold metal.
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Starting with an eye-piece of 10X, he rotated the objective lenses.
Gorky Park Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- 1981
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"Let's see how they're getting on," said Morgan, as he made some adjustments to the eye-piece.
The Fountains of Paradise Clarke, Arthur C. 1979
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The observation is made as for a metal surface: the light emitted through a lateral aperture in the tube of the microscope and reflected towards the objective, passes it and is reflected on the thin lamina, returning to the eye through the objective and the eye-piece to give a clear image of the lamina.
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Swanson opened the hinged hand grips and peered through the eye-piece.
Ice Station Zebra MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1963
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