spy-glass

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The way the bewitched spy-glass farrlows us none too smartly

Gracelandlubbers Fathorse 2009
The way the bewitched spy-glass farrlows us none too smartly

Archive 2009-01-01 Fathorse 2009
My spy-glass showed it to me with clearness — a living hill of watchfulness, known to us as The Watcher of The South.

William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land « Skulls in the Stars 2007
Tower of Observation, and search the Night Lands with the great spy-glass.

The Night Land 2007
And they were like no spy-glass that ever you did see; but oddly shaped and to touch both the forehead and the eyes; and gave wonderful sight of the Land.

The Night Land 2007
Boldheart about three leagues off Madeira, surveying through his spy-glass a stranger of suspicious appearance making sail towards him.

A Holiday Romance 2007
‘He nears him!’ said an elderly seaman, following the captain through his spy-glass.

A Holiday Romance 2007
Redoubt, and looked thence with my spy-glass at the Watcher of the

The Night Land 2007
‘He strikes him!’ said another seaman, a mere stripling, but also with a spy-glass.

A Holiday Romance 2007
‘He tows him towards us!’ said another seaman, a man in the full vigour of life, but also with a spy-glass.

A Holiday Romance 2007