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Updated: June 25, 2025
To each of these worthy old people the artist had given a pair of hectic pink cheeks. Gran'ma Brewster especially, simpering down at you from the labyrinthian scrolls of her sextuple gold frame, was rouged like a soubrette and further embellished with a pair of gentian-blue eyes behind steel-bowed specs.
His hair was brushed straight back from his broad, smooth forehead and his mild blue eyes were bright behind an especially shiny pair of steel-bowed spectacles. He looked more like some old-fashioned college professor than he did like a smith. The old gunsmith had that pride of humility which is about the best pride in this world. He was perfectly at home at the Scotch Preacher's hearth.
Some things she could not do so perfectly as cooking, because of her failing eyesight; and we persuaded her that spectacles would both become and befriend a lady of her years, and so bought her a pair of steel-bowed glasses. She wore them in some great emergencies at first, but had clearly no pride in them.
"Hard at it, Joshua!" he said. "Yes, yes!" said Joshua, looking up through his steel-bowed spectacles. "Hev to work hard to make a livin' though I don't know's I ought to call it hard, neither; and yet it is rather hard, too; but then, on t'other hand, 'taint so hard as a good many other things though there is a good many jobs that's easier. That's so! That's so!
The old man draws the steel-bowed spectacles from his face, and watches with a patriarchal air any change that comes over the accommodation man's countenance. "Now, good friend, if I did but know the plot," pursues the old man. "The plot you are not to know! I gave you her history yesterday that is, as far as I know it. You must make up the rest. You know how to tell fortunes, old boy.
Upon the table were some small cheeses, a loaf of bread, a gourd of milk. Abdullah fell upon the food. "Well, my son," said his host, after Abdullah began to pick and choose, "what brings you to me?" "This," said Abdullah, and he felt in his bosom, and drew out the invoice of his passenger. His host took from a book upon the table a pair of steel-bowed spectacles the only pair in the Sahara.
She couldn't see with anything except those old steel-bowed specs! ... And then, when she finally sat down and said for the fiftieth time: "I wonder where those specs are!" ... and put the corner of her apron to her eyes I happened to look up, and there they were on the top of her head!
She wore steel-bowed spectacles, and looked through you when she spoke.
The man halted before Madison, and, reaching a mittened hand under his chin, reflectively lifted his whiskers to an acute angle, while his blue eyes over the rims of steel-bowed spectacles wandered from Madison to Madison's dress-suit case and back to Madison again. "Be you goin' to git off here?" he inquired. Madison smiled at him engagingly.
The old man draws the steel-bowed spectacles from his face, and watches with a patriarchal air any change that comes over the accommodation man's countenance. "Now, good friend, if I did but know the plot," pursues the old man. "The plot you are not to know! I gave you her history yesterday that is, as far as I know it. You must make up the rest. You know how to tell fortunes, old boy.
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