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  • “Mr Eames?” said Sir Raffle speaking with a peculiarly harsh voice, and looking at the culprit through a pair of goldrimmed glasses, which he perched for the occasion upon his big nose.

    The Small House at Allington 2004

  • On the lower shelf five vertical breakfast plates, six horizontal breakfast saucers on which rested inverted breakfast cups, a moustachecup, uninverted, and saucer of Crown Derby, four white goldrimmed eggcups, an open shammy purse displaying coins, mostly copper, and a phial of aromatic (violet) comfits.

    Ulysses 2003

  • They found an ambu bag, a pair of goldrimmed glasses, spent M-79, M-16, and. 30-caliber carbine ammo casings, and part of a flak jacket.

    Roe, Jerry L. 1968

  • They found an ambu bag, a pair of goldrimmed glasses, spent M-79, M-16, and. 30-caliber carbine ammo casings, and part of a flak jacket.

    Brown, Harry W. 1968

  • They found an ambu bag, a pair of goldrimmed glasses, spent M-79, M-16, and. 30-caliber carbine ammo casings, and part of a flak jacket.

    Gunn, Alan W. 1968

  • They found an ambu bag, a pair of goldrimmed glasses, spent M-79, M - 16, and. 30-caliber carbine ammo casings, and part of a flak jacket.

    Groth, Wade L. 1968

  • He adjusted a pair of goldrimmed spectacles, quickly found the improvement in his vision unpleasant, and rumbled, "What did it cost the taxpayers?"

    Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 1940

  • On the lower shelf five vertical breakfast plates, six horizontal breakfast saucers on which rested inverted breakfast cups, a moustachecup, uninverted, and saucer of Crown Derby, four white goldrimmed eggcups, an open shammy purse displaying coins, mostly copper, and a phial of aromatic (violet) comfits.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • A tall man with shrewd blue eyes twinkling behind goldrimmed glasses came out and stood in the pleasant warmth of the sun.

    The Lookout Man B. M. Bower 1905

  • Fifty years old, this short, stumpy figure - with his small, stern mouth, Mr Punch chin and an eagle eye that glared piercingly through a goldrimmed monocle - seemed at first an unlikely candidate for the job.

    Home | Mail Online 2010

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