So he merely saw that his weapons were all right, and then, with his night-glass, again plunged his gaze into space. ❋ Unknown (2003)
He looked sharply and turned his night-glass toward the spot; but there was nothing to be seen, and the profoundest silence appeared to return. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Why, with a night-glass in the tower we watched your boat set out an hour ago! ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1970)
Drawing no response from Mr. Higgins, the captain raised his night-glass and scanned along the heavens to the west. ❋ A. R. [Illustrator] Waud (N/A)
Just as they were about to start off Tom had swept the moonlit trail with his night-glass, but there was no sign of the Fogers, though they may have seen their rivals start off. ❋ Victor [pseud.] Appleton (N/A)
He now stood with his teeth firm set, and his night-glass to his eye, bluff against the storm. ❋ Various (N/A)
In my former letter, I acquainted your lordship, that I every night placed a lieutenant, and three trusty men, with a night-glass, in a house close to the enemy's works, to watch the ships. ❋ James Harrison (N/A)
That midnight the night-glass of many a mystified merchantman searched the murk for those coruscations with which the crescent of forts had constellated the Atlantic, the mariner's sea-rent waiting ready, with his ship's-papers, in his cash box: but no galaxy of lights glanced that night. ❋ Unknown (1906)
She, no doubt, as they worked in their circle of torchlight, had sailed in close before going about, her crews gathered forward, her master perhaps watching through his night-glass had guessed the act, saluted it, and passed on her way unknown to her own destiny. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
For we could see her even with a good French opera-glass I had, and with a night-glass which I used to carry on ❋ Unknown (1899)
For we could see her even with a good French opera-glass I had, and with a night-glass which I used to carry on the South Atlantic Station. ❋ Unknown (1899)
Nares wiped his night-glass on his sleeve and passed it to me, motioning, as he did so, with his hand. ❋ Unknown (1898)
The captain levelled his night-glass, and I heard him tell Kite, in a low voice, that they were full of men. ❋ Joseph Lewis French (1897)
He nods and goes up on the lookout with a night-glass, and the wearied officer he relieves comes down. ❋ Richard Dehan (1897)
Probably Hervey was watching for them through a night-glass, for a blue light suddenly flared on the bridge. ❋ Fergus Hume (1895)
By this time Darrin, standing on the forward deck, had the submarine's turret, or as much of it as showed, in the field of his night-glass. ❋ Unknown (1895)
'It's getting too dark to see much with this telescope,' said Jack, 'I wish we had a night-glass. ❋ F. Anstey (1895)
Again he indicated a star that the night-glass told me was Capella, which, I suppose, is one of the most brilliant stars in the sky, and showed me that on the map he had made two hundred and fifty thousand years ago, it did not exist, as then it was too far north to appear thereon. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
He raised his night-glass, with a steady hand this time, and scanned the depth of blackness in front of him: out of it after a moment, there seemed to shape itself the dim outline of a sail, and he knew that he had waited too long and had fallen in again with the preventive cutter. ❋ Egerton Castle (1889)
There was light enough, however, to render the schooner easily distinguishable with the aid of the night-glass; and George, after attentively watching her for more than half an hour, came to the conclusion that the _Aurora_ was at length holding her own. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)
