"Binoculars" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Optical instruments," Craig said. "Binoculars, microscopes—it would take us a long time to learn how to make glass as clear and flawless as those crystals. But we have no way of cutting and ...
— Space Prison • Tom Godwin
... admitted. "I have noticed, though, that the officers on the bridge keep a constant lookout ashore. See; two of them, even now, have their binoculars trained on the shore." ...
— Dave Darrin at Vera Cruz • H. Irving Hancock
... to the west with my binoculars I thought I caught the dim shape of a submerged submarine moving slowly through the black depths like a hungry shark; but it disappeared almost immediately, and I was not sure. As a matter of fact, it was a submarine, one of six ...
— The Conquest of America - A Romance of Disaster and Victory • Cleveland Moffett
... boat floating out yonder, the plaything of the breeze that seems to be rising?" asked the other, still using the binoculars. ...
— The Airplane Boys among the Clouds - or, Young Aviators in a Wreck • John Luther Langworthy
... inventor was peering through the binoculars, and, as soon as he had the mysterious craft ...
— Tom Swift and his Sky Racer - or, The Quickest Flight on Record • Victor Appleton
... as smooth as a billiard table; only two or three trees occupied this large area, and they were unhealthy specimens, which looked as though periodical inundations had disagreed with them. We arrived upon this great natural race-course, and the binoculars were at once in request to scan the distant surface in search of the desired game. In a short time, as we advanced leisurely, constantly halting to take an observation, we discovered a considerable herd of about thirty or forty antelopes, among which there were two ...
— Wild Beasts and their Ways • Sir Samuel W. Baker
... "The thing came down. There was a terrific explosion. It vanished. Nothing happened for a while. Then it came up and found a place where it could come to shore. Things came out of it. I can't describe them. They're motes even in my binoculars. But they aren't human! A lot of them came out. They began to land things. Equipment. They set it up. I don't know what it is. Some of them went exploring. I saw a puff of steam where something ...
— Operation Terror • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... Hix, the C.O., slowly put down his binoculars. If the thing was still there, the clouds now hid it. All ...
— The Flying Saucers are Real • Donald Keyhoe
... seemed to be quite satisfied for a time with having made one good shot. They ceased firing, and stood or sat on the battery parapets, where, with the aid of glasses, they could be clearly seen watching the sports through telescopes and binoculars with sympathetic interest. But that did not prevent them from turning their gun with malicious intent on the town after these camp sports ended. It was nearly dark when two shots fell near the Royal Hotel, and the third went through it to find a ...
— Four Months Besieged - The Story of Ladysmith • H. H. S. Pearse
... over went deliberately to work in a very characteristic way. They split into pairs, and each pair got, by some means binoculars. After a quarter of an hour they settled down to work, lying on their stomachs. First they stripped off their slouch hats and hung them up elsewhere, but instead of putting them a few feet to the right or left as everybody ...
— Indiscreet Letters From Peking • B. L. Putman Weale
... as it generally did on patrol when nothing exciting was afoot, but a few minutes before the awaited eight bells the officer on duty snatched up the binoculars, and almost simultaneously the look-out gave a warning shout which caused the attention of everyone on deck to ...
— Submarine Warfare of To-day • Charles W. Domville-Fife
... had slipped away quietly from the piers without attracting undue attention, and while they moved to the location where they anchored for the night, not a soldier's uniform could have been detected from shore even after the most scrutinizing search with the best binoculars obtainable. The departure was made without a word of warning and not a fond good-bye. It was accomplished with a methodical silence that called for admiration. It is the way Uncle Sam does things ...
— In the Flash Ranging Service - Observations of an American Soldier During His Service - With the A.E.F. in France • Edward Alva Trueblood
... pair of binoculars, teaching them how to look through them. They exclaimed and Good Fox said, "With this we could see our ...
— The Hohokam Dig • Theodore Pratt |
