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Looking through his telescope, he discovered both to the east and west, a low shore. It might be an estuary extending a long way inland, but they might still be many days' journey from the coast. Whether it was really the sea or a fresh water lake, could only be determined by getting down to it and tasting its waters. With stout hearts they marched on. They were now well supplied with food.
Here they had nested for long, though guns in the hands of men and boys hungry to shoot crows were carried under their home every day. I never surprised the old fellow again, though I several times saw him through my telescope. One day while watching I saw a crow crossing the Don Valley with something white in his beak.
The old man hauled ashore to a cottage with a green door and a brass knocker and a garden high over the water-side. In this he spent the most of his time with a glittering brass telescope of uncommon length, and in the intervals of studying the weather and the shipping, watched John Penaluna at work across the harbour.
Rubbish!" cried Uncle Paul shortly. "Here, give me hold of that glass." He took the telescope, drew out the slide to a mark upon the tube which indicated the focus which suited his eye, and then as he began slowly sweeping the portions of the harbour which were within reach he went on talking. "Isn't there anything between a lugger and a ship, sir?
Another blow followed as he fell. He was partly stunned, he felt his own warm blood stream out upon his face. Instinctively he felt his eyes had been struck at, and, turning over on his face to protect them, tried to crawl under the protection of the telescope. He was struck again upon the back, and he heard his jacket rip, and then the thing hit the roof of the observatory.
"A telescope here!" cried John; and already, before the servants who appeared at the call were in motion, the gray man, modestly bowing, had thrust his hand into his coat-pocket, and drawn thence a beautiful Dollond and handed it to John.
A sort of sob came into her throat. "He does not need me, but he may he will one day; and then I shall be ready. But now " Old Soolsby's face turned away. His house overlooked every house in the valley beneath: he could see nearly every garden; he could even recognise many in the far streets. Besides, there hung along two nails on the wall a telescope, relic of days when he sailed the main.
"It seems like coming all the way back," she said, when she moved away for Dakie Thayne. Then they wheeled the telescope upon its pivot eastward, and met our own moon coming up, as if in a grand jealousy, to assert herself within her small domain, and put out faint, far satellites of lordlier planets.
A lion, rampant, with a folio in his paw, with a man standing on each side of him, with a telescope over his head, and with a Persian motto under his feet, must seem to them either very mysterious, or very absurd." In a discussion on the propriety of printing some books of Oriental science, Macaulay writes
"I'll go up and scare him off," said Captain Müller. He focussed a telescope upon the tiny spotter. "It looks more like a fast scout than a spotter," he said, "yet there are obviously two men in her." He went up in a steep climb, his powerful engines roaring savagely. It took him longer to reach his altitude than he had anticipated.
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