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"Glass eye" Quotes from Famous Books

... a glass eye?" said Maude to the optician. "Yes, miss." "How strange! it is not transparent. How does ...

— Golden Days for Boys and Girls - Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892 • Various

... nursery for a last look. The crib is gone, and the doll babies and the blockhouses, but the echoes have not yet stopped galloping; May's laugh, and Edith's glee, and Frank's shout, as he urged the hobby-horse to its utmost speed, both heels struck into the flanks, till out of his glass eye the horse ...

— Around The Tea-Table • T. De Witt Talmage

... "Badingue looks fine this morning! Just look, see how stiff he walks. He must have stuck a glass eye in his back ...

— L'Assommoir • Emile Zola

... territory in order to make terms with the cannibals for future emergencies. Unfortunately the chiefs refused to listen, and would have nothing to do with the agreement prepared for their signature. The Consul was irritated by their obstinacy; he had a bad temper and a glass eye, and when he lost the first, the second annoyed him. Under great stress of excitement he occasionally slipped the eye out for a moment, rubbed it violently on his coat-sleeve, then as rapidly replaced it—and this he did there ...

— Sir Robert Hart - The Romance of a Great Career, 2nd Edition • Juliet Bredon

... drawer and from it took a peculiar looking helmet to which was attached a sort of harness fitting over the shoulders and carrying a tank of oxygen. The head-piece was a most weird contrivance, with what looked like a huge glass eye in front. It was in reality ...

— The Romance of Elaine • Arthur B. Reeve

Words linked to "Glass eye" : prosthesis, prosthetic device