Glassie

November 17, 2008 at 12:04 am oooo fankee fankee annipuss! lukkee iz midnait in You Eyy Ay, nawt too menny hoomin kittenz lukking. hava glassie sham pain an orindg 4 da helfee bit wif me? ❋ Unknown (2008)

For when the Sun, towred in heauens head, Downe from the siluer mountaine of the skye, Bent his bright Chariot on the glassie bed, ❋ Unknown (2003)

Then being brought backe, his keepers kept him in close prison, aduertising the king of his demeanour: wherevpon he commanded that the sight of his eies should be put out, but so, as the balles of them should remaine unbroken, for the auoiding of a noisome deformitie that otherwise would ensue, if the glassie tunicles should take hurt. ❋ Raphael Holinshed (N/A)

Pomegranettes, their water boughes bendyng downe within one pace of the ground, couered with leaues of a glassie greene colour, of a great height and turning downe againe their toppes, laden with the aboundance of their floure and fruites, breathing forth a most sweet and delectable odoriferous smell. ❋ Francesco Colonna (N/A)

"D·r-bÝn," or far-seer, with the "Magic Mirror," a speculum which according to Gower was set up in Rome by Virgilius the Magician hence the Mirror of Glass in the Squire's tale; Merlin's glassie ❋ Anonymous (1855)

They answered, That each of them was a perfect Eye, by reason they perceived that each was covered with a Transparent Cornea, containing a liquor within them, which resembled the watery or glassie humor of the Eye. ❋ Unknown (1668)

To which the Emperess replied, That they might be glassie Pearls, and yet not Eyes; and that perhaps their Microscopes did not truly inform them. ❋ Unknown (1668)

The victim is Nia glassie, not the trash who enabled her murder. ❋ Unknown (2010)

_Cornea_, and containing a liquor within them, resembling the watry or glassie humours of the eye, must necessarily refract all the parallel Rays that fall on them out of the air, into a point not farr distant within them, where (in all probability) the _Retina_ of the eye is placed, and that opacous, dark, and mucous inward coat that (I formerly shew'd) I found to subtend the concave part of the cluster is very likely to be that ❋ Robert Hooke (1669)

"the waves of glassie glory" (ll. 29-30) is bidden look to "vertue" for guidance to his desired haven -- not exactly the conclusion to be expected from the opening lines of the speech. ❋ George Chapman (N/A)

2499: As playes the Sunne vpon the glassie streames, ❋ Unknown (1623)

3159: That shewes his hore leaues in the glassie streame: ❋ Unknown (1623)