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This was secured around the neck with a fancy neckcloth, very tastefully set off with a diamond pin, He was very slender, with a narrow, feminine face, round popeyes requiring the application of a pocket-glass every few minutes and very fair complexion, with little positive expression of character in his features.
"Why, Captain, there are some of our men with them," exclaimed Tom Singleton, as he looked through his pocket-glass at them. "So there are I see Buzzby and Grim; come, that's fortunate, for they must have made friends with them, which it is not always easy to do. Hide your muskets, men, but keep on your cutlasses; it's as well to be prepared, though I don't expect to find those people troublesome.
The coast to the north curved a little oceanward, so that a much more extended view could be had in that direction, but as far as he could see by means of a little pocket-glass which the boy Ralph had lent him, the captain could discover no signs of habitation, and in this direction the land seemed to be a flat desert.
William of Nassau I have never spoken to in my life, and never seen, that I know of, except once through a pocket-glass, upon the banks of the Boyne. All that you have said, sir, you know to be false; and as to my giving a list of your names, that you know to be false also. What I may do to prevent evil actions I do not know, and shall hold it over your heads.
With the aid of a pocket-glass he could make out persons without the risk of being observed himself. Mr. Silos Peckham's corps of instructors was not expected to be off duty or to stand at ease for any considerable length of time. Sometimes Mr.
On her side, Elise Rouquet had ended by discovering a little pocket-glass in the hands of a woman near her, a huge, dropsical creature, who was very coquettish; and having borrowed it, she leant it against the bolster, and then, with infinite care, began to fasten her fichu as elegantly as possible about her head, in order to hide her distorted features.
"I am lost in astonishment!" said the lady, glancing towards the glass; "why, you will eclipse all our beaux at your first appearance; but but Sir William how green those glasses have become! Bless me, there is something so contagious in the effects of the country that the very mirrors grow verdant. Pray, do you carry a little pocket-glass of the true quality about you?
Under the white filmy veil that floated over the plain, some half-dozen little, spots of a more intensified white were barely visible. I had recovered my pocket-glass, and this was now called into requisition. A glance through it enabled me to confirm the trapper's statement. The white spots were waggon-covers: they could be none other than those of the Mormon train.
"Why, captain, there are some of our men with them," exclaimed Tom Singleton, as he looked through his pocket-glass at them. "So there are, I see Buzzby and Grim. Come, that's fortunate, for they must have made friends with them, which it is not always easy to do.
With the aid of a pocket-glass he could make out persons without the risk of being observed himself. Mr. Silas Peckham's corps of instructors was not expected to be off duty or to stand at ease for any considerable length of time. Sometimes Mr.
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