If dark glasses and a white hat could blot out my identity so quickly, who actually was who? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He steps aside, turns, and gives me what I guess he thinks is a wink through his glasses. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

His eyes were hidden behind enormous dark glasses. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Twice Harry came very close to being unseated by a Bludger; his vision was so clouded by the rain on his glasses he hadn’t seen them coming. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Everybody knew that Dudley’s gang hated that odd Harry Potter in his baggy old clothes and broken glasses, and nobody liked to disagree with Dudley’s gang. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He sat at the kitchen table, gulping down glasses of whiskey. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I’m barely used to my face without glasses anyway, and with the eyeliner, the overall impression is: EYES. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

When I got inside, she and Sheriff Edwards were sitting in the front room with glasses of iced tea, Mama fanning herself with the newspaper. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Jason hung his head, even his glasses lost in shadow. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The poor fellow laughed so hard he had to take off his glasses and give them a wipe with a dotted silk handkerchief. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The dad has funny glasses and is always dressed up and doesn’t get mad even when people spit in his face. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the bathroom two water tumblers were sealed in cellophane sacks with the words: “These glasses are sterilized for your protection.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cocktails are poured at the bar in a variety of oddly shaped and colored glasses. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Harry felt very sick; when he put up his hand to push his glasses back on, he felt cold sweat on his face. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Another thing I knew was that neither Mr. Clutter nor Kenyon could see a darn without his glasses. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He worried about spilling, and so he picked up the glasses and held them close to his lap while he filled them. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Grandma was there too, in a big weird sunhat and those dark plastic inserts you wear behind your glasses if you’re a certain kind of old lady and want to block the sun. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

She has big brown eyes that she bats in your direction, two pigtails that go down to her waist, and pink glasses that I think are just for show. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He’s asleep, but he’s still got his shoes and glasses on. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

She recently took to wearing shawls and granny glasses, American fashions. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dimple looked at him full on, her eyes searching behind her glasses even as she kept walking. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

My stomach, empty since the night before—except for the couple of glasses of wine I’ve had on the plane—was now churning with both hunger and anxiety. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The dishes and crystal glasses that were spread across the table glimmered in the light, and morsels of unfinished food remained on the antique plates and serving trays. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Mrs Who’s glasses shone out, and the rest of her appeared more slowly behind them. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other Marines, lifting their glasses, thundered, “The Corps!” and the band struck up the Marine Corps hymn. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We touched the two glasses as they stood side by side on the bar. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

With both hands he pries the glasses from her face, clasping the frames where they meet her temples. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up two more glasses, but they felt so heavy in my hands all of a sudden, and I set them down on the counter. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She pushes her glasses up, and I pretend not to notice her eyes filling with tears. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The one next to me, with the iron glasses, said she taught English and her friend taught history and American government. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The table is covered in a white lace cloth and dotted by silver platters with lids, bowls of grapes, baskets of bread, and glasses of bubbling liquids. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

From his left hand dangled Piggy's broken glasses. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got no chance with these on,” Harry said exasperatedly, waving his glasses. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He had taken off his glasses to cry, but now he had them back on, and he pushed them up the bridge of his nose as he got up to look outside. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I visualized my parents during their last hours alive, both in bed, wearing their reading glasses, books in their laps. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Wraparound shades hid his eyes, but I knew what was behind those glasses—hollow sockets filled with flames. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

He's wearing a gray and red shirt with a University of Nebraska logo printed on the front and oversized glasses, even though the lenses aren't prescription. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Her eyes, sulking behind the glasses, went back to Dicey. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tucker stood there for a moment, running his hand through his black hair, fixing his glasses, spinning his watch around his wrist. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Let me see the question?” he said, pushing his reading glasses back up on his nose and looking at where I pointed in the textbook. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

She frowned slightly and pushed up her glasses. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Magnifying glasses were known to the ancient Greeks, and spectacles were in use from the thirteenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She lifted her glasses and rubbed the part of her nose where they sat. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

A dozen people are gathered around a long, scratched-up dining table, smoking cigarettes, drinking Chianti from juice glasses, sitting on a series of backless wooden stools. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We sat down and ate two slices each with glasses of milk. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A trickle of blood drips from his eyebrow where his new glasses have dug in. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Cousin Eunice replaced her glasses and pushed herself up from the table, tottering a little in her high heels. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad had also combed his hair and put on his wire-rimmed glasses, so he came off more like a college professor than a boat vandal. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He pushes his glasses up and stares into the model of a teeny-tiny house. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“Far as I can tell,” Tee said, “hipsters are basically yuppies with tighter pants and bigger glasses. Whatever they are, they make a mean mochaccino.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I remember the clammy smell of beef-and-potato casserole, and the jingle of ice cubes tumbling into tall glasses, which sweated in the summer heat. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Celia asks, picking up one of the glasses and walking to the opposite side of the table from where Marco stands. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We float the plates and glasses in the dish pan and dive-bomb them with the spoons and knives, whispering “Bombs away.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She took the bottle, read the label, moved her glasses down her nose and checked me out. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Mother Goose, in her bonnet and granny glasses, was frozen in the center. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

He took the glasses into the kitchen and began to wash them. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The agent peered over his glasses and looked at Bobby. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Adjusting his glasses, Grandpa peers at me in concern. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

For a moment all we can hear are glasses clinking and milk frothing. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Whimpering quietly but sincerely, I ran a hundred yards, day pack bouncing, glasses jiggling, then turned, heart stopped, and looked back. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at the picture, looked over her glasses at me, then looked right at Mr. Jimmy and said, “Any more questions for this young man?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Unblinkingly from behind the glasses, Emily insisted, “Swear the entire oath.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

She had her glasses on, so she didn’t look so loopy. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Without my glasses everything more than about ten feet away from me was blurred. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Molly looked pleased and passed the glasses to Jose as Hughie Smith joined them on his way to his drumming lessons. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Fudge pulled out his wand, conjured two large glasses full of amber liquid out of thin air, pushed one of them into the Prime Minister’s hand, and drew up a chair. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Alice didn’t show the slightest reaction at first, but made sure the glasses were safely on the bar before she turned round. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I was almost across the hall when I remembered and came back and put on the hat and glasses. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He removed his dark shades, put on his reading glasses, and took the bedtime book from the shelf. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Had he not known that it was he who stood there, he would have wondered who was wearing his glasses. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He wore glasses, but they were so dirty that Stanley wondered how he could see out of them. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

She adjusts her glasses and asks, “All finished reshelving in the nonfiction section?” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He blinks and adjusts his glasses, and then he breaks into one of those face-lighting Simon grins. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Emma Lee took off her glasses, laid them on the dashboard, and slid across the seat. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the cork popped, a few of the customers in adjoining tables applauded and lifted their glasses up in a toast to Mrs. Fanning. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Some of them are as large as bricks, but each one gets progressively smaller and lighter, until I finally see the first edition of the official glasses propped up at the end of the shelves. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Dad just gave me a crooked smile and adjusted his glasses. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Finally, with assumed reluctance, he agreed to let us look through the glasses. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

His glasses were on the edge of his nose, and his computer was on his lap. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He cleared his throat and cleaned his glasses. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I glimpsed Dad as I left, his face frozen in the dark, the light from the TV leaping across his square glasses. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Emily’s face burned so furiously she thought her eyes might act like magnifying glasses in the sun and set her binder paper on fire. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The windows of the vans are dark-tinted, and the men in the front seats wear dark glasses: a double obscurity. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure my answer made sense to Ms. Faraci, but she smiled anyway, her round cheeks so high, they brushed the bottom of her glasses. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

We scrutinize the field all day with glasses, but discover nothing. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took his glasses off and grabbed Baby’s little hands and began to dance around in circles with her. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She lit a cigarette from his and they chinked glasses. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

On the table is a bottle of vodka and a bottle of scotch and lowball glasses and four cans of Sprite. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hair was thinning, and he smiled hesitantly and blinked at her through small, round glasses which made him look a little like a friendly owl. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

A stocky boy with horn-rimmed glasses came out of a crowd of young people lining up at the corner. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a leap of pleasure, Harry recognized his father; his untidy black hair stuck up at the back like Harry’s, and he too wore glasses. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He surveyed us silently for a moment through thick glasses. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The candles sat in red, blue, green, yellow, and purple glasses and looked like fragments of rainbow dancing over the ground. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the while Zita wore a smile on her open face, which was framed by straight light brown hair and dominated by thick, pink-rimmed glasses. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He put down his glasses and whistled his “come here” notes to Frightful. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

This was not unexpected, for we were then not even permitted reading glasses. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was flat chested, insisted on wearing glasses and no makeup, refused to grow out her hair, and commonly occupied spaces—like Insomnia Con—that seemed to be implicitly reserved for men. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Mr. Straight had said in a disappointed voice, looking down at me over the top of his glasses. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both his glasses and his smile were held together with duct tape. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

There are the plates, gleaming whitely, and the glasses of juice. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She drank two glasses of water and filled the glass again and carried it back to Faye’s room and closed the door. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She peered down at him through bifocal glasses and handed him a hard plastic debit card. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

She takes her glasses off, folds them, and sets them on the desk. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

A heavy-set mulatto with mirrored dark glasses that flash my own scared look back at my face. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nali pulled her glasses down and looked right into his eyes. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He took off his glasses and said, “He changed.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t know that at this very moment, people meeting in secret all over the country were holding up their glasses and saying in hushed voices: “To Harry Potter — the boy who lived!” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I knew Winnie’s glasses were a similar prescription and I borrowed hers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally August returned with a tray of four jelly glasses, orange slices stuck real pretty on the rims. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took the plates and glasses from the table and left them to fuss about milk and milking. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Lights dim, and a youthful figure wearing a simple dress and horn-rimmed glasses takes center stage. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

She smiled and showed all her bad teeth, and we touched glasses. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

We took turns leaving her plates of rice and glasses of tea. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I sprang up and stood beside him on the rock; he handed me his glasses and pointed. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

At one end of the table, a woman with short red hair and cat’s-eye glasses is talking about a Brecht play she’d once acted in in San Francisco, performed fully in the nude. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Once she had even dropped her glasses and broken them in a fit of rage when her tag-team favorites, Mud Mountain and Blue Moon Hog, were counted out by the referee. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a wiry little fellow with thick, unclean lenses in his glasses which magnified his frightened stare. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Harry straightened his glasses and flattened his hair as Ron came spinning into view. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The monofilament line is transparent, said to be invisible to fish, and is completely invisible to me without my glasses. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry took off his glasses and put them safely in his pocket before helping himself to Floo powder. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He was tall and African American, with a shaved head, glasses, and an easy, sympathetic manner. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Hastily straightening his glasses and unsticking his cheek from the glass, he pressed his nose against the window instead and squinted down at the pavement. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Nothing in particular,” he said, flipping his glasses onto his head. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Two glasses of wine with a salad and some bread from the bowl. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

With his glasses on, Frederick’s expression seems to ease; his face makes more sense—this, Werner thinks, is who he is. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Above him, kneeling on his bunk, Frederick peers out the open window through a pair of antique field glasses and makes a record on the bed rail of birds he has sighted. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The flight attendant tells me to put my glasses on. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Lee put down his darning, moved his sewing basket to the floor, and changed his glasses. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The clink of glasses, the giggling of excited women, the laughter of men. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Tiago came back wearing glasses, thin wire frames that he took off to show us how they caught the light and bounced rainbows around the room. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She could tell he needed his glasses very bad. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

This year the glasses are smaller, but everyone is happy to be together. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

It was like I'd put on a pair of glasses and could see it all so much clearer, and now that I had, I couldn't ignore it. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

"I'm going over to the hotel to get the glasses and the wine-skin," I said. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I had seen lots of pictures of him in the newspaper, the thin man who wore nothing but a dhoti and glasses. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Sandy turned to a blank page, pushed his taped glasses up the broken bridge of his nose, and looked at the judge. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her glasses slid down her nose and she pushed them back in place. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

A lanky girl with light tan skin, curly black hair, and thick glasses leans into the doorway, yawning. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Behind it sits an old man with a bad comb-over and thick glasses, reading the newspaper. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

She goes back and returns with glasses for me and Layla too. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She looked at the removed, empty glasses in the waiter’s hand. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Tucker sat next to the class treasurer, glasses flashing in the light, wringing his speech mercilessly between his hands. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

There was just enough moon in the sky to light up her curly blond hair and cast a reflection in her glasses. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two glasses of wine sit on the table. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He stared at me, his glasses clinging to the tip of his nose. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

There were white linen tablecloths and glasses and paper napkins. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

His parents helped fund a set of one thousand glasses for him, and he started shipping them to people. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There are men sitting in this pub with great glasses of black stuff before them. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Her eyes had a stunned, swollen appearance when she removed her glasses; they strained to make out shapes, to translate blurs. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four-Eyes had taken his glasses off, rested his head on his desk, and begun to snore loudly. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

His glasses were off and his eyes looked swollen. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The woman takes off her glasses and smiles. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know!” she answered, taking her glasses off. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Blaine emerged from the kitchen with two tall glasses of a reddish liquid. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Still others played by wearing their glasses while walking around the real world, showing off their virtual pet tigers or populating the streets with their favorite celebrities. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mom looks over the top of her glasses at me. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Julian lowered his reading glasses and looked at her over the tops of them. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The last brick was set in place as the vicar, having put his glasses back on, made the celebrated pronouncement—man and wife together—and invoked the Trinity after which his church was named. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

If I were wearing NeuroLink glasses right now, I bet these banners would be animated. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There's no reason whatsoever to drink eight glasses of water a day unless you, for whatever reason, particularly like the taste of water. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

He adjusts his glasses on his sharp nose. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like every child of an innkeeper, Malcolm had to work around the tavern, washing dishes and glasses, carrying plates of food or tankards of beer, retrieving them when they were empty. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“His glasses are missing,” Gogol says, looking up at Mr. Davenport. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I liked the way Walter Cronkite looked, with his black glasses and his voice that knew everything worth knowing. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I head to the fold-out table, where my own glasses lie. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The shaded lamp catching the lenses of his glasses left half of his broad face in shadow as his clenched fists stretched full forth in the light before him. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He misplaces his reading glasses, the ones attached to the Dollar Store string. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He sat bolt upright, reaching for his glasses which in his haste, he knocked across the room. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Then he took off his glasses and lay down, eyes open, facing his three birthday cards. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The ghost of a girl had risen out of the toilet in a cubicle behind them and was now floating in midair, staring at them through thick, white, round glasses. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t sure if he wanted to cry or scream or punch Mars in the glasses—maybe all three. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Fujiko removed her glasses carefully and, as was her habit, rubbed her eyes. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I heard someone threw up,” says a lanky guy in glasses. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He filled up on pancakes, eggs, bacon, waffles, apples, and several glasses of orange juice. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

They are standing at the door, Mario, one of their distributors, and a tall, pale man behind him, his glasses thick and wire-rimmed. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when I glance at Lolo, I see his crooked glasses and that he’s buttoned his shirt all wrong, the way the twins sometimes do. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Dizzy and bruised, covered in soot, he got gingerly to his feet, holding his broken glasses up to his eyes. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

And when the drummers, ac- cepting his drink, raised their glasses and said, “Here’s to you,” Charles was delighted. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

His wire-rimmed glasses were perched on his nose and his Macintosh laptop was shut beneath him. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

They sat in the big, white car and looked through their glasses at the fiesta. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

"Of course, of course," she said, going to a cabinet and removing a decanter and a set of glasses in which she poured about an inch of clear liquid. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I woke up again at seven, still wearing my glasses. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was still examining me, the lenses of her glasses magnifying her eyes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He pushed his glasses up his nose, back into place on his golden-freckled cheeks. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Uncle Sam handed around the large cut-crystal goblet, Elijah’s cup, and everyone poured a little bit of wine from their own glasses into it. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Judy looked at the picture, and there she saw the same grinning red-haired boy with glasses that she had talked to in the school parking lot yesterday. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was about thirty, pale and thin, with glasses. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes looked curiously large behind the thick lenses of his glasses. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then she stopped and faced Ben, the kitchen light reflecting off one lens of her glasses, and said, “What about Toomer, Ben?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good, because I might not have my glasses,” I say. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you help put the glasses away?” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But her mother was in the kitchen humming happily and clattering pot lids as the visitors sat around the table toasting each other with glasses of mint tea and gobbling roasted chickpeas. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

When he got closer to me, he reached for his glasses, which were lying on a nearby table. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The professor turned to a small table no more than an arm’s length from his comfortable chair and poured some golden wine into three glasses. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The counters to the right of the sink were stacked high as the Gate of All Nations with pots and pans, plates and glasses, and teacups. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

His glasses now moved so close to the window that Prosper thought he could just about see the outline of a face. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

After they leave, I wash the lemonade glasses to hide evidence that they’ve been here. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There men, and a few women, lifted their glasses in toasts and singing and let the hours slip away in lively conversation. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

"Come on, come," he said, removing his glasses and wiping his eyes. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore a rain hat and dark glasses and what appeared to be several jackets layered on top of one another, which made him look both fat and vaguely transient. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The door opened and the two armed men returned, between them the tall Talib in white, still wearing his dark John Lennon glasses, looking like some broad-shouldered, New Age mystic guru. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

My father put his glasses back on and they looked at each other for a while. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Mr. Weasley was slumped in a kitchen chair with his glasses off and his eyes closed. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“It should suppress some, but not all, of the activity in the prefrontal cortex,” the scientist with the round glasses says. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The nurse declared her severely shortsighted and sent Mom a note saying she needed glasses. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He wore glasses, kept his full lips pursed as though he were engaged in perpetual thought. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In photos from around this time, Jim appears as a neatly groomed, well-proportioned young man, a few inches shorter than Farmer, with jet-black hair swept into a knife-like wave and wire-rimmed glasses over narrow eyes. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

She stares at me intently through her small round glasses. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He has a head like President Roosevelt and he wears gold glasses. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Amarante’s eyes popped open, and he fumbled in his suit pockets for his glasses, which he finally located and lodged in front of his eyes so as to identify the oncoming aircraft. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I blinked, and when the blur gave way to clarity, I met the horrified gaze of a man wearing glasses and a white lab coat. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

A few glasses of bourbon make their way around, and I don’t turn one down. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Oh, but the seafood here is so good," the doctor pleaded, looking at her from above his glasses, which had slipped down on his nose like a schoolteacher's. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Behind his granny glasses his eyes looked bland, but the mind behind them was working things out. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Esther returned with a Coca-Cola tray, two glasses, and a large mayonnaise jar of what looked like water. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s alright,” said Joseph, taking his glasses off so he could rub his eyes. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

If only there were an easy way, like wearing special glasses; a lightning strike is too painful, and results aren’t guaranteed. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

When the crew raised their glasses of stout and rum to Christmas carols and toasted “To our sweethearts and wives,” the answer came back, “May they never meet!” Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“We’re probably catching something from these glasses. However, if you’re quite determined about the thing, get me a brandy, will you?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lydia took off her glasses and wiped away a smudge. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I decided that my best plan would be to wait for a really sunny day and then use my glasses to focus the sunlight on a piece of my clothing and start a fire. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Jerome removed the lid and poured the blood into the martini glasses. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Her eyes widen, and she holds it up to her waist, fixing her wire-frame glasses in surprise. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The fact that I can hear Hideo reply even though he’s not logged in or wearing glasses, or that I can see Kenn talking to me live like this, is definitely new tech. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I want glasses of ginger ale, squeezed orange juice, the sound of distant radios. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then the seven outlined heads in the front pews drooped and the vicar removed his tortoiseshell glasses, lifted his chin and with eyes closed addressed the heavenly powers in his weary, sorrowful singsong. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She was sitting in her room, as she was today, her glasses down on her nose. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He was short and skinny with glasses and a beard that matched the little bit of hair on either side of his head. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

It was a large room, with an oval table of polished rosewood on which stood various decanters and glasses, and a silver smoking stand with a rack of pipes. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Five calies in dark glasses swarmed around the pickup and ordered us out of the cab. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he climbed up to the imposing leather chair and settled in, what stood out most of all were his huge eyes peering through thick horn-rimmed glasses. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a cute Mexican guy with hipster glasses sitting on a bench, nodding along to whatever song is playing on his headphones while he eats ice cream. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I stored the fact that they were real glasses in the corner of my mind the way a squirrel stores a nut. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He replaced his ragged trousers and cowboy hat with a dandified suit and a bow tie and a felt hat, his eyes peering out through distinguished round-rimmed glasses. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They clinked their glasses together just as an old man stopped by their table. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

I lay down on it, my eyes closed, listening to the sounds around me: matches lighting, glass jars tinkling together, liquid falling into glasses. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Cigarette and cocktail glasses held like batons flew in the air directing the symphony of chatter, shrieking, singing, and laughing. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father opened up the can on the counter and eyed me sharply over the frames of his glasses as he ate some more cashews. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Jorge was fourteen years older than she and wore round steel glasses that shrank his blue eyes. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put on his glasses, tilted his head back, and took a bottle from the top shelf. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I grab my glasses off the sink and put them on. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Thank you,” I said as he handed me one of the glasses. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I was wearing a workman’s cap, my blue overalls, and my glasses. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

OK, it’s true that 3-D glasses are stupid, and Abuela would say I am destined for pink eye, but somehow it became fun to look like idiots together. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He gave me and Jay a solid look as we sat across the table from him, where he’d refilled our glasses. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He was wearing a white sun hat and huge, dark glasses that reminded me of Fred. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He scratched his head and looked at me over his glasses. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

A waiter came with a cloth and picked up the glasses and mopped off the table. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Mr. Inkberrow takes off his glasses, huffs them, and polishes them with the fat end of his tie. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Andrew Peckleman, the boy with the Olympic-sized goggle glasses who worked at the motel, came into the lobby when she was about halfway done. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

I put on the glasses, and the world dissolved into fuzzy, blotchy shapes. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The video screens switched to a close-up of the librarian with the red hair and glasses. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

There were dozens of women and rock-and-roll playing and champagne glasses and bright glittering lights. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Tall and solidly proportioned, he wears wire-rimmed glasses that give him a professorial demeanor. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sisters raised their glasses to Percy and beckoned him forward. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, green golf slacks extended from the hem of his white coat and a pair of tinted aviator-style glasses gripped his hairless head. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He takes off his glasses and rests them on the desk. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Slightly dizzy, he nevertheless kept his eyes wide open, rain was speckling his glasses and ran up his nostrils as he hung upside down, avoiding another fierce dive from the Bludger. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Then my glasses suddenly appeared on the nightstand, illuminated by a flash of lightning. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wore round glasses and false eyelashes, which gave her an American look. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And because your glasses make you look like Harry Potter, right, Simon?” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The glasses turn completely black, blocking my surroundings out. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

After she left, Master put his glasses back on and faced his book, relaxing further into a slanting position, legs stretched out. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Huge green eyes glared at me behind a pair of cat’s-eye glasses. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

At the back of the store, behind a counter with an old-fashioned cash register, stood a middle-aged woman with olive skin, long black hair, rimless glasses, and a T-shirt that read: The Goddess Is Alive! The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Twice, a fifth-year rakes Frederick’s field glasses and smears the lenses with excrement. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were huge behind her glasses, luminous even. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Joseph helped serve the meal, and he made sure everyone’s glasses remained full. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The kids giggled, and a tall boy with reddish- brown hair and glasses said, “Mrs. Granger has kept Nick after school so much that everyone thinks she wants to adopt him.” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And not even the rosiest glasses could make my crop situation look good. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

But he was up there right now, with his glasses trained on the valley, on the town, a radio by his side, searching for Joe Mondragon. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because of the wind, which would make the shooting much more difficult, he could probably afford to go slowly enough so as to assure snagging the glasses. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Will raised his head and took off his glasses and wiped the moisture from them. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

His nostrils flare, and he switches the pair of glasses on his forehead for the pair on his nose, and he walks out the door behind me. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I took his glasses and looked at the ship. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Piggy bent his flashing glasses to them and could be heard between the blasts, repeating their names. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was funny to think of Henry, with his little round glasses and his books in Pali, breaking Spike Romney’s collarbone. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

This, with some cheese and a salad and a bottle of old Tokay, of which I had two glasses, was my supper. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

His glasses have slipped to the bridge of his nose again. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

She reached for her glasses on the bedside table, put them on, and sat up in bed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She peered at me over her glasses; her eyes sharpened on me like a bird of prey spying a mouse. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

One of the men was still wearing his hat and glasses. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you let us hear your monologue now?” the woman with the dangling glasses asked softly. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Madame Crommelynck raised her glasses to peer closer at the wedding photo. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He had been following someone, wearing a full black beard and a rather horrendous pair of glasses. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He qualified because of his deafness and the fact that he was nearly blind without glasses. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Miss Katona lifted the glasses that dangled from a cord around her neck and peered at me through them. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hermione’s hand narrowly missed Harry’s glasses as it shot up again. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Their giant family offered them glasses of cool lemonade with sprigs of mint stuck in like straws. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, the coolest guys don’t have to take off their glasses and dry them before they can see again, either. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The orderly brought the glasses and opened the bottle. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He has red hair and glasses and he always smiles when he talks to me. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He had wire-rimmed glasses, a round, ruddy, pleasant face with a mustache, a light Texas drawl. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled out the card and inspected it over the rim of his glasses. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I recognize the sandy mess of hair and round glasses. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I look through his large glasses and into his eyes. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

A full, beautiful moon emerges, and even without the glasses I can see outside. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Obiora was sitting on the verandah, too, but outside the shade, so he squinted behind his thick glasses to keep the sun out of his eyes. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She pushes her glasses up her nose and starts the engine. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He wiped at his fogged-up glasses with the bottom of his T-shirt. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Liz was crying now, small silent tears that dripped out from behind those ridiculous glasses. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I had too much already. Four glasses!" and off he ran. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

When the guzzling was over, those who were considered old enough were given small glasses of home-made liqueur, a colourless but fiery drink that smelled of mulberries. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later she decided they would sit on the back porch and sip tall glasses of iced tea and lemon wedges. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Joseph sat up, wiped his eyes behind his glasses, and leaned back against the headboard. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Eye fitted on dark glasses in preparation for going outside. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

With his dark glasses on, I can’t see his eyes, only the reflection of a terrified girl clinging to her mother. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Rinaldi went across the room to the washstand and brought back two glasses and a bottle of cognac. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The guy who steps out looks a couple of years older than me, and is almost a foot taller, with thick black hair to his shoulders and black-rimmed glasses. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

He returned with a bottle of bourbon and glasses and he carefully poured two generous jiggers of it. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You could have had fire whenever you wanted. But you didn't. You came sneaking up like a thief and stole Piggy's glasses!" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I could barely see his eyes through the glasses, but he looked annoyed. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

That she gets paid big bucks from Juju to keep glasses clean, ash trays emptied, and food coming. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Our nights were punctuated by the deafening percussion of drunken ballads, clashing billiards, clinking glasses, and nightly brawls. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

At night, when Laila walked into Babi’s room, she always found the downward profile of his face burrowing into a book, his glasses perched on the tip of his nose. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

That cold stare behind his glasses seemed to bore a hole through my chest. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The elevator doors had opened and there she was, back in the lobby, the kindly doorman peering down at her through his glasses. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Miles dipped his chin and stared balefully at me over his glasses, shoving the coin deep into his pocket. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“I can barely see it,” Fina says, squinting hard behind her glasses. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth rolls her eyes as she flops down on the bench, making her glasses slide down her nose. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

At the largest table, six ragged men laughed and clinked glasses with old women in wrinkled dresses and faded lace. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“You don’t think he could have mixed up the glasses by mistake? Meaning to get you?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

That business with the glasses, how do you know she didn’t have them on? Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw her lips twitch at the picture of the funny face she’d been making in the antiques store—glasses askew, mouth contorted into a grimace, nostrils flaring. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I pull Lolo’s glasses from my pocket and hand them over. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She beat on the shutters again, squinting through her black-rimmed glasses. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A circle of half-burned candles in blackened glasses filled a corner. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had the good sense to hang on to his glasses, so at least he can see. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Renee was in her mid-twenties, with long black hair and round silver glasses. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I let go of the blaster and push my 3D glasses to the top of my head. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Piggy took off his damaged glasses and cleaned the remaining lens. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He pushed his glasses back up on his nose. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

The first time Roosevelt put on his new glasses and looked through them, he couldn’t believe his eyes. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“He’s in Germany,” Lainie and Tara chorus in perfect unison, making Chandresh laugh as he hands them their glasses of wine. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Harry’s hand found his glasses and he shoved them on, though the light was so bright he could hardly see anyway. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

When I walked into the library that afternoon, there was Liz, her hair pulled back in a ponytail, reading glasses balanced on her nose. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nathan put on his glasses and reached for his communication stone. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Yusuf pushes his glasses up his nose and waves his fist. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Shining silver, rubbing water spots off fine glasses, and the endless dusting and wiping...Everything in Daffodil Manor had to gleam and shine like it hadn’t in years. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He was a slender man in his late thirties, with sandy-colored hair and glasses, dressed that day in jeans and a windbreaker. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would stand by the porch rail there for a long time, in those dark glasses he was always wearing afterwards. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hair is shorter and neater and he’s wearing glasses. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He was big and tall, with thick black glasses and a name tag that read joe. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I see Madoc frown, and I give him a quick smile, pouring two glasses of wine—one light and the other dark. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The third man wore heavy horn-rimmed glasses and a white coat. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

There were pictures of his wife — a pretty girl, blonde, dark-rimmed glasses, in a winter coat. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Off came his glasses and out came the old red handkerchief. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rice said, glasses to his eyes, “My God, I can see all of it. Sickles is being overrun.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was tall, and she also wore glasses at an early age. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His reading glasses had fallen to the carpet. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“Well, that’s the right answer. Now go on—get out and bring in some more glasses.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The nice librarian, with glasses dangling from her neck, comes toward us, stops, her face puzzled, then steps around me and squeezes Sarah’s shoulders. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

I think I won’t, but it’s Ben asking with his glasses and wide blue eyes. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Without missing a beat, Hideo picks up the glasses, follows his mother into the kitchen, and gently reminds her to put them on. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It slammed into Nathan’s stomach and pushed him back, knocking both the wind out of his lungs and his glasses to the ground. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He went down the stairs and found the merchant waiting on a foreign couple, while two other customers walked about the shop, drinking tea from crystal glasses. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No glasses of orange juice or whole wheat toast.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

His horn-rimmed glasses sat crooked on his flushed face. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He put his field glasses to his eyes, looked, put them down, walked two or three paces south, turned, looked again, slowly walked back and forth. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr Hooper was pouring out two glasses of sherry from a bottle. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She has silver glasses and a sprinkle of freckles across the bridge of her nose. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Pushing his glasses back on the bridge of his nose, Kelvin says, “Nature’s amazing. It’s better than a park. Way better than my apartment building surrounded by gravel and weeds.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He pulled out a bottle and two glasses. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

It began to amble along the sidewalk, beside the man in the gold-rimmed glasses, and, after a moment’s hesitation, Shadow followed them. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Warden Williams folds his glasses and returns them to his jacket pocket. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Dorchester County there were parties on the big plantations, the clink of glasses, the sound of singing, carriages arriving at the Big House. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

A small boy, five-ish, with myopia and glasses, emerges from the water; characteristically, although his hair is dripping his glasses are bone dry; he has already begun to master technique. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw a pair of reading glasses on a table beside the couch and also a book. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I kept my eyes on Dr. Silverstein’s face—steel-rimmed glasses, mustache, eyes that gazed into space—as he recalled the unusual death he had seen, which he spoke of in a matter-of-fact way. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young soldier who was appointed wine steward danced around the backs of the guests, keeping their glasses full. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three descend into silence as silverware clinks and scrapes against bone china and beverages slowly disappear from glasses. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

His eyes were the size of tennis balls behind his goggle glasses. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I tried to clean my glasses on my sopping, filthy shirt. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arwyl looked at it closely, holding his glasses with one hand. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He saw the world through glasses literally dense with dust. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Grandma tilted her chin down, peered at them over the rims of her glasses. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The old Belgian lady gave me a pointy glare over her glasses. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“You’re positive about a movie theater in the afterlife but not if you’ll have your glasses? Seems like an oversight in your heavenly blueprint.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

And most importantly, I’m wearing a button-down shirt and a cardigan and glasses, and I’m kind of feeling myself tonight. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He pushed the glasses back up on his nose, straightened his hat, tucked in his collar. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her glasses were hanging from a chain around her neck, and she was holding a folder with lots of paper coming out of it. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She almost broke her glasses against his cheekbone. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I SAW her across the room when I awoke, reading a newspaper, her glasses low across the bridge of her nose as she stared at the page intently. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the front office we were met by Mr. Grant, a droopy gentleman with thick glasses and a kind smile who spoke no Spanish. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t matter if he’s just reading chemistry trivia off index cards or eating a hot dog or embarrassed because his parents are talking about his childhood or even now, looking tired and wearing glasses. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He was a tall black guy with glasses. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Ty'ree came out with two big glasses of ice water and sat down across from me. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

He unfolded a pair of half-moon glasses that hung around his neck and placed them on his nose, and Mia’s knees trembled. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Tonic of every color trickles down one glass at a time, filling lower glasses. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He wore half-moon glasses, had a long, crooked nose, and flowing silver hair, beard, and mustache. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

She wore sensible heels and kept a pair of reading glasses on a chain around her neck. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I run over my own ammunition: the hairpins, the lipstick, the phone calls, the glasses in the sink. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Underneath, I can see Mrs. Janssen’s glasses, but the space is too slim for my arm to squeeze through. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

They each had on wigs, glasses, and what Seven could only describe as prairie-like dresses, courtesy of Thorn. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He filled the glasses and raised his own glass by the stem. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He dressed in browns and yellows and often perched his tortoiseshell glasses on his forehead, as if he had another set of eyes up there. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

There were a few real glasses at the back of the shelf, the remnants of several different sets, but no one ever seemed to use them. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

I spot a picture of him as a little boy on his dresser—scrawny, wearing glasses, and with a thick book in his hand. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

As I climbed over Chubs’s outstretched legs to the front, I glanced over my shoulder, my eyes going to his too-small glasses. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Different colored sands painted a boy with glasses holding a feather in one hand and a book in the other in the center of a giant circular mural. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I dove at it and connected with my forehead, right above the glasses. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when he peered at us over his glasses and cleared his throat and said, “You can count on me!” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

A’Leia’s are thick with black trim; Kelvin’s glasses are thin purple squares. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

She studied one of her own paintings quietly, then handed the glasses back to Lori. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He’s got freckles, wire-rim glasses, and hair so short he looks like he’s a soldier. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Babou sat back a bit, looking at the monitor over the rim of his glasses. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Each place had china plates, crystal glasses, and ivory-handled knives and forks. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

In their dark glasses, they look like gangsters in the American movies that sometimes come to town. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

He looked at me over the top of his glasses the way some old grownup would. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I was relieved to see the cut-tail had come in moderately sized glasses, with one for Stanchion too. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Downstairs, in the dining room, there will be candles on the large mahogany table, a white cloth, silver, flowers, wine glasses with wine in them. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wore thick bull’s-eye glasses and she wore a huge gingham apron with pockets, and she was starched and clean. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s short and wears glasses, but like he says, at least he has hair—thick, dark stuff that he passed on to me. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Ms. Clark stopped typing and peered over her big glasses. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The officer reached out and pulled his glasses from his face and flung them into the bush. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The doctor tilted her head and pushed up her glasses. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then he exhales and laughs all at once, eyes bright behind his glasses. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The reason was that they could not stop staring—with a curious mixture of fascination, fear, and uneasiness—at Mr. Curtain in his green-plaid suit, silvery glasses, and demonic wheelchair. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Bell had a round face, a small turned-up nose, full lips, and lively blue eyes, and she wore wire-rimmed glasses. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

As if to study a rare specimen, Dr. Finch produced his glasses, put them on, tilted his head back, and looked at her. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Tagoe takes off his glasses and lets his neck run wild. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He worked very quietly—first the tray—then get out the glasses without breaking any. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A tall boy poured lemonade out of a carton into tiny plastic glasses on a tray. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He shrank to the other side of Ralph and busied himself with his glasses. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was a slide projector I’d made by mounting a lightbulb on a piece of wood and positioning wooden plates with lenses from magnifying glasses in front of it. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma fumbled down her dress and put on her glasses. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Spot doesn’t bark, so I calm down and see it is Mama Ya-Ya with her Coke-bottle glasses on the top of her head. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

In addition to my regular glasses, I have special goggles, prescription goggles, for playing sports. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Sticky finally returned, he dumped his wet clothes in the corner, put on his muddy glasses without cleaning them, and then, without once looking at Reynie, he pulled his suitcase from beneath the bed. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

At Cambridge she came to his rooms once with a New Zealand girl in glasses and someone from her school, when there was a friend of his from Downing there. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

His face was aimed at me, but his glasses sat on the wooden desk next to the bunk bed. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Is there a law Against a boy With glasses, Sticky face, No hair, And a tongue Between his teeth On a Saturday morning? Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore frameless glasses, had floppy silver hair, and a salt-and-pepper mustache that was like a miniature duster broom balanced under his nose. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He sneered at the short man with the glasses. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

When Allen needed glasses, Mr. Pepper bought them for him. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I glanced back at the girl with the glasses, so I could show her that I wasn’t cutting the line, that I knew the owner. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t worry about it, though,” said Summer, putting Ximena’s glasses on my face now. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He raised his glass and drank his rum, then got up and filled both glasses. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But maybe, if I wear the glasses long enough, I can be like her. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He filled five shot glasses with different brands of high-end Scotch. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He takes off his glasses and tucks them in his shirt so I can see my distorted reflection in the mirrored lenses. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“And to dismantling a system of violence in my school,” said Moss playfully, and they clinked glasses and laughed. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Still, he put off telling Susan for another week, until the evening they returned from a party where she had drunk too many glasses of wine. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Albus looked several years older, but otherwise the two boys looked very alike, for this was before Albus’s nose had been broken and before he started wearing glasses. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He offered us water, and poured from a pitcher into two cool highball glasses. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Merriam with her loopy glasses looked up when I came in. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She's a small woman with white hair, tiny silver glasses, and hands that shake whenever she eats or drinks something. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

He remembers to put a dot on his mother’s forehead, glasses on his father’s face, a lamppost by the flagstone path in front of the house. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He read so much that he had to begin to wear glasses. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leona held half the pointer in her hand, her eyes bulging behind her glasses, her face red, and her lips pulled back over yellow teeth. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The only thing different about him was that he was now wearing glasses. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She had her loopy glasses on, and when she looked up and saw me, she smiled. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“No makeup,” she chirps, pushing her glasses farther up the bridge of her nose. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Dr. Whitman scratched the back of his head, then above and below the left stem of his glasses. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Nick kept his eyes open wide and nodded, adjusted his glasses on his nose, and began to read. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gave Liddy a pair of glasses with lenses as thick as bottle bottoms. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He pockets his mangled glasses and scrunches his face. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The men filled their plates and glasses and took their meals to the yard. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

First, I drop off the curly-haired kid whose glasses are way too big for his face. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Reluctantly Sticky put his glasses back on, and in grim silence they all read the pamphlet. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

They stole that thermos and glasses and the ashtray, and instead of using the path Mama had cleared for them, they trampled through her flowers. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never would have guessed, but of course—a black girl with glasses and a love for the Pixies—she could see me when I couldn’t see her. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

They even served us punch in champagne glasses. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Even when enemy bullets grazed Roosevelt’s elbow and another knocked off his glasses, nothing slowed him down. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Maniac confined himself to three glasses of water and half a dozen Krimpets. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I looked up into Miss Corrie’s cat-eye glasses, she pressed her thin lips together. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Are you serious? We’ve been so good, there might as well be halos above our heads!” exclaimed Jessie, her glasses slipping down the bridge of her nose. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Later, Rosita collects our empty glasses, slipping her arms between our piles of books and papers, unnoticed, well practiced at being invisible. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore blackframed glasses and was dressed in dapper city clothes: a linen suit and striped shirt. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He was wearing the clothes in which he had died, and his hair was untidy and ruffled, and his glasses were a little lopsided, like Mr. Weasley’s. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He had brownish-grayish hair, a short beard, and round brown glasses. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He adjusted his glasses and handed it to Dill. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

A woman wearing horn-rimmed glasses stood outside the smaller building’s porch entrance. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t noticed him at all before then, other than that he was this skinny cutish dude with thick glasses and longish hair who carried a violin everywhere. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Doc cleared a place on the table for the clean glasses as he washed them. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The barman shook up two more Martinis and poured them out into fresh glasses. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Dad clears his throat as he pours orange juice into three separate glasses. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Lolo's new glasses are round and enormous, but they seem to have cheered him up. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

And then she leaned down to look at me over her glasses—so our eyes would have nothing between them. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The entire hall, which admittedly is just me, my family, J/C, and the older professor-type woman with the glasses, stops and stares. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Her eyes are always squinting behind her glasses. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

When we spoke over a Chinese dinner in Seoul in 2009, An wore a dark blue suit, a white shirt, a striped tie, and half-frame glasses. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Wearing a baggy shirt and orange-tinted glasses, Hart was fitted with a wireless sensor on his head that fed his brain waves into a computer. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Pants that come up to his chest, a red jacket, black patent-leather slippers and horn-rimmed glasses—that’s how he looks when he’s at work at the little table, always studying and never progressing. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He had dark circles under his eyes and was wearing the glasses with thick black frames that he usually only put on to read. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

His nose came almost to a point, upon which rested a pair of rimless glasses. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Even with his too-small glasses and my knowledge of his little fancy lady kit under the front seat, I reminded myself there was a distinct possibility he was capable of killing me with his brain. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They watch her bleary-eyed from behind their square black glasses, signaling to each other with coughs and claps. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Januka hands me one of my own glasses, full to the top with vodka. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He poured two glasses and we touched them, first fingers ex-tended. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Will had pulled his lip, rubbed his eyebrows, scratched his nose, cleaned his glasses, and made a major operation of cutting and lighting a cigar. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was not at all like him to be uncombed and to have his glasses smeared like that. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood there perfectly still, the wind ruffling his hair and the dull light glinting from the rims of his glasses. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He was a keen golfer, a horn-rimmed glasses wearer, the epitome of the New England WASP. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Her glasses had fallen off her face and lay broken on the floor of the van. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“There’s no need to sound so disappointed,” he said grimly, wiping flecks of blood and slime off his glasses. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The old mouse winked at Matthias gleefully as he adjusted his glasses. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

His glasses were at the edge of the pool, and his face looked dim and empty without them. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

When he is out of his cage, he wants to sit on my head and worry my hair and my glasses frames. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

His glasses were streaked with grease and he held a wet rag over his nose. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She was a park ranger, with long black hair pulled back in a ponytail and tinted glasses. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The water glasses are already filled, plates and forks and paper napkins set on the dining room table they use only for special occasions, with uncomfortable high-backed chairs and seats upholstered in gold velvet. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you take off those glasses, Juliet? They really don’t suit you.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Sasha’s best friend was Michael, a tall, gangly kid with sandy-blond hair and thick glasses who always wore a gray beanie and a green army jacket. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Ben looks at me, his finger poking his glasses higher on his nose. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Winston saw that he was carrying a tray with a decanter and glasses. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

With the aid of the glasses, I lie watching the drips of water splatter on the cave floor. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Her green rhinestone-studded glasses slipped down her fleshy nose as she grappled with a tall triangular package and a stuffed shopping bag. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

He studies the sheet like he needs glasses. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Especially—though he doesn’t say this—if she’s going to censor the clairvoyance of his several glasses of rum. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A short chubby man appeared, fingering his glasses. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You surprised me yesterday, George,” Ms. Udell said, her reading glasses perched on her head. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

His glasses sat on a table by the bed, next to a glass of water and an empty teacup. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

His bony fingers hold his glasses across his chest, which rises and falls with each labored breath. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wended my way past the gentlemen, searching for glasses to replenish. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The bartender gave them their drinks in regular glasses. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Quite odd,” Master said; he took off his glasses and then put them back on. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“And if I may continue,” Mr. D says over his glasses, “we also are pleased to welcome Claire Wilson and Rose Spencer.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The merchant turned to a customer who wanted three crystal glasses. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He appears to now be wearing all three pairs of his glasses. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The black frames of her glasses creaked against his cheekbone. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Klaus took his glasses off, which he often did when he was thinking hard. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

When she saw me, she pulled off the glasses and waved. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your eyes are fine. You just need glasses for reading.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The king put his field glasses to his eyes and saw what it was. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I stopped dead, grabbing her hand and looking at her, an exotic girl even through the green glasses, looking at me with a smile that suddenly broke. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Patrick offered her an arm and she slipped a gloved hand in the crook of his elbow, inscrutable behind her dark glasses, calm as a bride. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Through his glasses he could hardly see anything at all. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore steel-rimmed glasses that gave his face a pinched, old man’s look. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

In the town house, Frederick pulls on pajamas made of jelly-green silk and folds his glasses on the nightstand and climbs barefoot into his brass childhood bed. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She gives me a smile and adjusts her glasses. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A woman next to me smiles dully, a stack of empty glasses lining a tray next to her. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

In beret and glasses Marius stood on the corner waking people up to things. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We set the desserts and beverages on the dining room table with the crystal glasses. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He looked terrible—his clothes disheveled, his glasses bent and askew. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Just then, as Gladys and I exchanged a guilty look, Mami found her glasses on her head and slipped them down on her nose. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

A girl with a fat black braid and glasses says, “My sister died of leukemia, and you should have seen the flowers and the sympathy.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Mr. Sen, a short, stocky man with slightly protuberant eyes and glasses with black rectangular frames, had been there, too. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He returned with three glasses of wine and that enormous smile of his. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

One with a buzz cut, brown complexion shades lighter than her own, and another with glasses, fuller brown hair, and light tan skin like Dahlia’s. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

For the moment the boys were a closed circuit of sympathy with Piggy outside: he went very pink, bowed his head and cleaned his glasses again. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He’s a small, bald fellow with a fringe of thin hair and wire-rimmed glasses. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

His eyes were open and his glasses were askew and his pupils were different sizes—one large and black, the other scarcely a pinpoint. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Sherman’s glasses were nearly sideways on his face. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the Hole were the usual collection of inebriated men bent over foamy pint glasses and the battered tables and dingy decor I’d come to know as my home away from home. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

From coast to coast, restaurants and bars marked the end of legal drinking by giving customers free glasses of whiskey and other alcoholic beverages. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

They had finished lunch and washed and dried the plates and glasses by the time Father Joseph arrived. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked like he wanted to flick John’s glasses off his face. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He stands in front of a white projection screen, clears his throat, shifts from one foot to the other, puts on his glasses. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Luna takes his glasses off and sets them down grimly on his blotter. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I rub my glasses against my shirt to dry them. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

If I ever need glasses I’ll think about buying some like his. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twig laughed, slapping the table so hard the glasses jumped. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Turning his glasses looked like small yellow moons. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Two more minutes,” my mom says and gestures to my dad to get water glasses from the cupboard. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Bull Meecham was the first in line, chugging what was left of his two martinis, then throwing the glasses the length of the room into the brick fireplace. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Momly picked up the last two glasses from the counter, held them up to the light—no spots—then put them up in the cabinet. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

She refilled our glasses with impossibly sweet tea and urged us to go for seconds and then thirds. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Also, I’m sorry that I wouldn’t take my glasses off when you asked me to.” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Harry reached for his glasses and put them on, squinting through the semi-darkness to the foot of his bed, where a small heap of parcels had appeared. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

X-Ray looked at the tube, then rubbed his dirty glasses on his dirty shirt and looked at the tube again. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

She sighs, touching the edge of her glasses. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He looks at me over his glasses, then back at the paper. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Up there they had glasses trained on him, on this house, probably on his house too. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He laid his glasses on the bed and took off his watch and chain. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

They bought him glasses with rectangular wire rims and caked his hair with endless product so that he had a kind of curly, mussy 'do like the coolest kids at school. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Then he looked up and straightened his glasses on his nose. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She did not say anything, just took off her glasses and wiped them on her apron. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

And she was still saying, I want to see things grazing through field glasses. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were all blurry to her anyway, without her glasses on. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She set the glasses in her lap wearily, placed the letter on top of them, and pressed against her eyes with both palms. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was something sweetly shy about the way he looked at me, glancing at, and then away from, my face, his brown eyes bigger than life through his glasses. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He wiped the drool off her face and adjusted her glasses, which had fallen to one side. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

A colonel with a large forehead and horn-rimmed glasses soon arrived at a diagnosis. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I looked back as Mike stumbled up the stairs and saw Cohn putting his glasses on again. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

A tall, gentle man with steel-rimmed glasses and a perpetual smile, Hartleb greeted everyone he met—champion or patzer, beginner or veteran, child or octogenarian—by bowing low and saying with deep reverence, “Master!” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Three plates with sandwich crusts and half-drunk glasses of orange juice are still on the table. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He poured the beer into one of the glasses, holding the glass close to the bottle. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

She takes her reading glasses off and they hang around her neck, bouncing against the kittens and their balls of yarn on her shirt. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Usually there would be a tide line of empty cups and glasses and plates with scraps of food surrounding it, which I didn’t like as much. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She took off her glasses, rubbing them on the coat she was wearing over her nightgown. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Fujiko perched her glasses on her nose once more and began to reread the letter. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Just concentrate on those glasses, Jason, before you drop one.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Wrapped in a rayon robe and without her glasses, she looked unreal yet kind, like the man who had picked his pocket a short while ago. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wherever Farmer walked in the city he felt the presence of the tontons macoutes, Baby Doc’s infamous secret police, who hid behind dark glasses and seemed to shadow foreign visitors. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

With his index finger, he pushes his glasses high on his nose. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

I had only lost a pair of glasses, and we had at least two more good pitchers on the team. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

One caterpillar eyebrow lifted above the glasses as he recognized the name. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not long afterward, he built his first pair of NeuroLink glasses at his father’s computer repair shop, with his neuroscientist mother’s input. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“This is so ridiculous,” Mary Anne said, removing her glasses and wiping them off with a Kleenex. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then Mary Elizabeth came downstairs with two glasses and a bottle of brandy. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Some of her glittering beads had become entangled with her glasses. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It probably was highballs, not water, but I couldn't see what they had in their glasses. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He pushed his glasses up to his forehead again and reached for a book on the shelf in back of him. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“If you can mark the score without your glasses, you can take this test. I’ll show you some pictures and ask you several questions. Meanwhile—” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

A man with a brown suit and thick glasses like mine was sitting at a desk. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Muqtada takes one look at him and curls his face into a laugh, his glasses rising above his nose. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

At twenty-eight, he was having a few extra glasses to help him digest his lunch. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She said people had been trying to get her to wear glasses for years, and she had refused. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She’s wearing thick glasses, a worn-in maroon sweater, and a pair of cuffed jeans, looking decidedly out of place in the halls of Buckingham Palace. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

His glasses hung around his neck, and when he lifted them to his eyes, they slid around his temples, as if he were trying to put them on someone else in the dark. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look,” he said, pushing his glasses up on the bridge of his nose. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Darius pushed his glasses up on his nose with trembling fingers. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

So after I finished all my toast and two glasses of orange juice too, I changed into my warmest clothes plus my puffy jacket, and Calista grabbed two umbrellas, and we headed to the subway. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Makes me nervous,” he said, finding the cloth on his desk and giving his glasses a brisk rub. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

With all of us here for lunch today, it looks like every dish in our house is in the sink—pots and pans, plates, bowls, glasses, silverware. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Piggy wore the remainders of a pair of shorts, his fat body was golden brown, and the glasses still flashed when he looked at anything. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The glasses vibrate with little screams when I touch them. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

The man looked over his glasses at them. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

One of them is wearing a hoodie and fake glasses and a skirt over his khakis, and they're both holding giant poster board signs. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

A tall girl wearing glasses and a too-big sweatshirt slinks out. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

It filled the space between a pair of party towers, a squat teapot between two slender glasses of champagne. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The waiter again replenished their almost filled water glasses. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looks up and stares through her little round glasses, saying nothing. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

He took off his glasses, wiped them on his dirty clothes, and put them back on. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

A guy who doesn’t wear glasses and who knows how to talk. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Downstairs, Dad was unpacking the kitchen, plates and glasses clinking together. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Our eating habits are mediated by a mind-boggling collection of such items, from spoons and glasses to genetic engineering labs and gigantic ocean-going ships. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was dressed in shades of beige from head to toe and wore no makeup and no jewelry except for the gold chain that held her glasses just above her full bosom. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I turn the glasses in my hands, admiring the solid-gold metal of the arms. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She took off her glasses and cleaned them with a cloth before replacing them. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Half a small face, topped with muddy brown hair and masked with thick metal-rimmed glasses, jutted out from behind Mrs. Trotter’s mammoth hip. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Arthur puts on his 3D glasses and grabs the blaster with a tight grip. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I look up and the whole class is looking at me, including Ms. Smith over her glasses, which is never a good sign. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He seemed completely composed, hidden behind his black-lensed glasses, only his mobile features gesturing his vocal drama. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Weasley took Harry’s glasses, gave them a tap of his wand, and returned them, good as new. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Brown adjusted his glasses and examined the picture of Holmes. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Or maybe that’s Dr. Mann, meeting her eyes and smiling before fetching her glasses to make their next appointment. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She surveys the six of us over her reading glasses before going back to her clipboard. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The room spills over with sounds of clinking glasses and tumbling dice and whooshing table-lanterns and hissing candles and laughter. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

A redhead with glasses gives me a huge grin. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He suddenly whipped off his glasses and polished them hurriedly on his robes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The only person who looked equally out of place was the thin reader, Darius, who was sitting at the very end of the row of black-clad men and kept fiddling with his glasses. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Meg blinked and shoved shakily at her glasses and there was Charles Wallace standing indignantly in front of her, his hands on his hips. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Apatan had peered at me over the top of his glasses. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Louis had wildly curling brown hair and wore heavy-rimmed glasses, which he continually pushed up on his nose. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lee put his glasses to his eyes, felt his hands tremble, focused, saw: Union artillery forming on the high hill, men digging. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And a great many glasses of horrible wine.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The newspapers and magazines kept showing pictures of audiences staring at movie screens through dark glasses with white paper frames. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

While his father pulled a couple of pints for a customer, Malcolm gathered empty glasses in a suitably inconspicuous manner, and he was glad to see that his hands remained steady. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Mamou didn’t keep her glassware in the cupboard: She kept it upside down in a drawer to the left of the sink, which I thought was an interesting way to store glasses. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Her sight was failing, and she wore a pair of black-rimmed glasses which stood out in harsh contrast to her warm brown skin. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The heirs of Uncle Sam Westing clinked glasses with the members of the Good Salvation Soup Kitchen, sobered up for this happy occasion. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henry stands behind him with a slight smile and the ocean reflecting off of his glasses, and I feel thankful for him. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Lena opened the refrigerator and poured two glasses of milk. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Dad poured two glasses of milk and we sat at the table. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Abuela slowly shuffled to our table, carrying two large glasses filled to the rim with creamy orange smoothies. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“These are dangerous people you’re palling around with, sir,” said the spook with glasses. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Instead he was smiling at a rather severe-looking woman who was wearing square glasses exactly the shape of the markings the cat had had around its eyes. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He paused and took off his reading glasses again. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He pats at his pockets until he finds his glasses and peers at the bottles on the shelf. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“He was maybe five foot ten. He had brown hair. He wore glasses.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Nok crossed her fingers behind her back as she watched her father clean his glasses for the hundredth time that morning. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She was staring at him through glasses that were too big for her narrow face. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Mr. Kreuk is a round little man, with circular glasses that make him resemble a turtle. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Moscow was particularly interested in reports from Werner’s new contact, the thin man with glasses. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he put the glasses back on, he looked straight into my eyes and put his hand on top of mine. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I took the cloth without a word and began rubbing the glasses. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unnoticed by any of the people around his bed, all of whom were staring at the door as Bill pulled back the screens, Harry sat up and put his glasses back on. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Here’s a spoon so you can stir it,” she said as she put the glasses on our trays. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Private investigators?” mumbled Fadi, imagining men in trench coats with magnifying glasses, skulking around for clues. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Dimple pushed her glasses up on the bridge of her nose. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

On the table, my father had left a single flower in each of two juice glasses—a black-eyed susan in front of my place, and a white petunia in front of my mothers. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I picture a thin college-age guy with wire-rim glasses at a desk lit up with a small reading lamp, looking out the window, nodding at the good deeds he’s doing. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Mary Anne put her hands to her face, removed her glasses, and looked at her father with eyes that were filling with tears. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She continued to study me behind glasses that seemed to make her eyes big and owlish and full of expectation. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The librarian peers over her glasses at me and then at Starry. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Plates of thin bread-and-butter and wholemeal scones were provided for the ladies in galoshes, and the gentlemen in top-hats had lamb cutlets and custard in glasses. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Rachael carried the paper bag into the bathroom, got two glasses, returned; she still seemed distracted and uncertain—and preoccupied. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The woman had a gray ponytail and the guy had a baseball cap and glasses. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Doctor had funny glasses that pinched on his nose. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took off his glasses and blinked at them. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Mr. Curtain’s reflective glasses and protuberant nose eased toward Sticky’s face like a snake testing the air. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

But he accepts the papers and pulls out his glasses. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Most of them are foreign-looking people in shorts and jeans with light hair and glasses and fair skin burnt pink, some chatting, some poring over books. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Haskell pushed his glasses up on his nose and squinted at the lot before him. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Goldberg took off his glasses, untucked his shirt from his pants, and cleaned his lenses with his shirttail. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

With her short, naturally curly hair and her light-yellow corduroy jacket, she looked like a little doll, a lovely doll with glasses. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her father answered in his sweater and sandals, his newspaper dangling from his left hand neatly and his reading glasses perched on the bridge of his nose; her mother stood just behind him. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Anatole gave me a surprised look over the horn rims and genuine lenses of his new glasses. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked smaller in his office than he did in the lecture hall, and more shiny: the light above his desk reflected off his head and glasses. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“There’s a tall girl with curly blond hair, she wears red glasses—” Garrett looked alarmed. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Professor Trelawney moved into the firelight, and they saw that she was very thin; her large glasses magnified her eyes to several times their natural size, and she was draped in a gauzy spangled shawl. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Once they do I realize that the saloon is empty excepting for the bartender, polishing glasses. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He staggered against the bar, where Mr. Thirsty was calmly polishing glasses. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She got up and went to a cabinet for a bottle and two glasses, and when she turned back she noticed that he was looking at her fattened ankles. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He went through security without being searched, which surprised him because they stopped a middle-aged bald guy with glasses. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Only William Ernest cried, big, silent tears catching in the corners of the frame of his glasses and then spilling down his cheeks. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

She pushes her reading glasses up the bridge of her nose. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She just looks at me over her glasses. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He pushed his glasses up on his nose and went, “Huh.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The judge, a middle-aged, heavyset black woman wearing half-moon glasses, sits opposite, on a dais. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

An officer in a field uniform, ruddy-faced, with very thick glasses and ceremonious manners, signaled to the sentries to withdraw. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Nick had square glasses and dark hair, which he gelled and teased into neat spikes. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Sensibly, he had folded his glasses into his pocket. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I looked at the side of his face: petulant, irritable, glasses low on the tip of his sharp little nose and the beginnings of jowls at his jawline. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She pulled her glasses out of her pocket and put them on. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the café sounds: The voices, the whirring of the espresso machine, the clink and clatter of glasses and dishes go silent as I watch her index finger hover over each part of the page. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He did all his signing with his left hand and only while wearing the dark glasses and false mustache he had used unsuccessfully to help him begin playing basketball again. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He takes off his glasses and shoves them in his pocket, then runs a hand through his hair, his eyes skipping over mine nervously. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Prosper shuddered and only after another look did he realize that they were glasses, reflecting the sparse light. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“No,” the girl said immediately, almost before he was done speaking, pushing those oversize glasses up on her nose. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The bartender and the woman made some more signs; then she flopped back to Ignatius with two bottles of champagne and two glasses. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, it is clear to me that he has done a very good job on you,” said Scrimgeour, his eyes cold and hard behind his wire-rimmed glasses. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

There were a few men in the cafe sitting with coffee and glasses of kirsch or marc on the tables. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Paul Van Riper is tall and lean with a gleaming bald dome and wire-rimmed glasses. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

In the evening, as the sky and most of the land turned red, they sat together eating cold turkey drumsticks and wearing green-shaded glasses to watch the lava burn. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

He can wear the reading glasses he always insists he doesn’t need. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

With only Chucha left in the household, I’ve taken over lots of little jobs, including helping out when the canasta group comes over, cleaning ashtrays, refreshing glasses of lemonade. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“Can you even see me without those glasses?” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled down his glasses and looked at me over the tops of them. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Soon they were back, pushing a slim man with glasses out ahead of them. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Immediately the school librarian lowered her pointy glasses and shushed me. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

She leaned her head way back and looked over the top of her glasses. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The agent slowly removed his glasses and tucked them into his breast pocket. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The other pushed her glasses up her nose and kept talking. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

A silent young man dressed in a white tunic offers us all stemmed glasses of wine. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Dad takes off his glasses, and pinches the bridge of his nose. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Alice sinks her head back into the couch cushion, rubbing her eyes behind her glasses. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Then I realized that though the glasses still slanted down, the eyes were no longer focused on the page, but on my face and lighting with a slow smile. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sunny crawled over to his glasses, picked them up, and brought them to him. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

I take the pitcher of sugary cantaloupe water from the refrigerator and pour five foaming glasses. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was standing in the back, the lights from the stage flickering off his square glasses. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Seated in the upper right, Dr. Strayer wore glasses, his neck slightly hunched. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

At the California shell house, Ky Ebright sat on the upstairs porch, wearing dark glasses, nodding and smiling at people as they streamed by below, saying nothing. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And you can put different amounts of water in different glasses and they make different notes because they have what are called different resonant frequencies, and you can play a tune like Three Blind Mice. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The sweat started to drip off my forehead, fogging up my glasses. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain poured down his thick glasses and he took them off and wiped them to see the protecting canvas unrolled from Gatsby's grave. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I have but she hasn’t,” Samira replied, flashing me a look through her blue glasses. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled out a close-up of Miles Davis, wearing some crazy glasses. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Piggy shook his head, put on his flashing glasses and looked down at Ralph. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The man, who looked to be in his early fifties, took the paper and put on his glasses before studying the paper carefully. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Kojo was kind of skinny and always wore the style of thick-rimmed glasses that couldn’t get broken when you played sports. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

He wonders what her face looks like without her glasses, when her hair is loose. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then the man let go and Malcolm took the glasses down to the other end of the bar. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Both were tall and blond, wearing matching wire-rimmed glasses and long black overcoats. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He was wearing a short-sleeve Hawaiian shirt with red and white flowers all over it, and he had a pair of dark glasses in his shirt pocket. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth pushes her glasses up her nose and leans closer to me. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Then he realized that his glasses were clouding his eyes because Goyle obviously didn’t need them — he took them off and called, “Are you two okay?” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

A serious lady in thick black glasses even suggests I be taken to her lab and studied. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Piggy rose dripping from the water and stood naked, cleaning his glasses with a sock. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Thanks to his new glasses, Roosevelt could now identify birds by sight, and not just by hearing them. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

During the last war, Etienne knew artillerymen who could peer through field glasses and discern their shells’ damage by the colors thrown skyward. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When he saw me he removed his delicate half- glasses from his bridgeless boxer’s nose. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wears glasses, and when last seen was wearing a gray tweed sports coat, khaki pants, and a yellow rain slicker. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They had placed the boots on the table and were examining them with tools and special glasses and powders and cloths and other tools. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She pulls off her glasses and puts them to her lips. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He smiles at Christina and takes the glasses off, shoving them into his pocket. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He peered down on me through his glasses with a laserlike intensity. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I saw the figure out of a collar ad: ruddy face with blond hair faultlessly in place, a tropical weave suit draped handsomely from his broad shoulders, his eyes gray and nervous behind clear-framed glasses. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shook her head, sunshine glinting on her glasses. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The grumpy waiter comes, balancing a circular tray on one hand, and plonks down the glasses, which are like ordinary water glasses, only full of beer. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, she certainly does,” Grandpop agreed, pouring glasses of tea as the boys took their seats. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Piggy's glasses flew off and tinkled on the rocks. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“He’s going to break the glasses, Arturo. Tell him to be careful.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

His forehead was slick with sweat; his dark glasses framed his worried expression. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She loved the idea of falling down a rabbit hole, of plummeting into something that she wasn’t expecting, and of course, the idea that a small white rabbit could wear a tiny waistcoat and glasses. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The color had faded from Mr. Curtain’s face so that it no longer looked like an eggplant with glasses; only the tip of his lumpy nose retained a crimson hue. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Thank you,” I say, and then it’s just the sounds of knives and forks scraping against the plates, chewing, swallowing, glasses of water being sipped and set down on wood. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The glasses waited in the drying rack on the counter. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

She put her glasses on to look at it and spent a long time studying his face on the computer screen. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I haul myself out of bed: I can go down to the shops now and just have a couple of glasses before I go out. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind his glasses and striking outfit he possesses an imposing bald forehead and the huge, triangular upper body of a comic-book bully. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s try again,” she says, adjusting my glasses. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Kathy pulled her glasses from the top of her head and put them on. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a tray of empty glasses on one of the tables. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They even wore the same dark glasses, the same flashy gold chains, the bandannas. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thereafter, he had to wear thick-lensed glasses which made him look more like a poisoned corpse than ever before. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before it was even open all the way I could see the glint of little round glasses. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Or: She cant see without her glasses. hardly/scarcely/no sooner. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I finally wander out into the living room around ten in gym shorts and glasses. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

While I dressed I heard Brett put down glasses and then a siphon, and then heard them talking. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

He came over to the bird and took off his glasses to rub his eyes. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Some of the dockers, training their field glasses on Tom Smith’s face as he led the horse back to the barn, noticed a glaring incongruity. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The driver smiles, but his eyes are hidden behind the black plastic glasses, and Salim cannot tell whether there is any humor in that smile or not. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Chandeliers with Pleiades Corp’s signature color, royal purple, illuminating the faces of actors in fancy clothes, holding martini glasses and smiling as they stared out at a fake nebula. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Leon would pick Bailey: one of the weak kids, high honor student, but shy, introverted, always reading, his eyes red- rimmed behind the glasses. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Curious, he trained his field glasses on Smith through the cottage window. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a short man with a small round face and a pair of large, dark-rimmed glasses. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ma and I raised our glasses for his toast. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Malcolm became so interested in the latter sort of conversation that he’d rest his armful of empty glasses on the table and join in, but only after having listened intently. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, well. I just feel like I should know a girl a little before I trot out the man-tits. Where are your glasses?” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

He made another trip for a pint of whisky and two glasses and set a glass on the table in front of each chair. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She finally arrived hauling her many workbags, glasses on top of her head. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

She wears glasses like Grace too, but hers have steel rims instead of brown ones. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He forks into the squash and looks at me through his glasses. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The Western Union man put his glasses back on. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Dinner was prawn cocktails in wine glasses for starters, lamb chops with chef’s hats with duchesse potatoes and braised celery for main, and a Baked Alaska for "dessert," not "afters." Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I don’t understand,” he said for what seemed to be the thirtieth time, blinking stupidly behind his glasses. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

“I need a couple more glasses. And besides, where else you going?” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she cleared a plate or refilled water glasses. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Without waiting for him to answer she brought the rum and poured two glasses. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The younger one was shy and awkward and seemed much more comfortable simply bringing her things: bags of ice, glasses of water, tea with honey. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

When they're gone, Mom starts bustling around, cleaning up and taking glasses into the kitchen, all bright and cheery. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except for his designer glasses and brown leather Italian loafers, he oozed corporate respectability. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

But I’m used to watching this madness unfold from home, with my glasses on. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She looked at me through her thick glasses, and I wished I were bigger and could punch her. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Emily’s face burned so furiously she thought her eyes might act like magnifying glasses in the sun and set her binder paper on fire. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He crawled around the television, putting on his brown horn-rimmed glasses to read tags, then taking them off to see what was written on the back of the cabinet. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I’m about to ask the attendant approaching me, but I’m interrupted when he hands me a pair of glasses. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He scurried over with three glasses of fruit juice before busding off to wrench a broken beer bottle out of someone’s hand. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Shreve was coming up the walk, shambling, fatly earnest, his glasses glinting beneath the running leaves like little pools. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Beatty, who wore her glasses on a chain around her neck and had her hair done at the beauty parlor over in Winnemucca every week, told Mom she needed to discipline her students. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’d made a gallon of iced tea earlier and brought out four full glasses. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

In the pause that follows, a gale of laughter rises from a few tables over, rippling through the air before settling back down, disappearing into the low, steady hum of conversations and clinking glasses. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I grabbed one of the glasses of water sitting on my desk, and drank. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Ten gold-rimmed glasses Father brought back from America where he trained before I was born. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

And just as I caught sight of the glasses I remembered grasping Rinehart's girl's hand. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vonetta brought in the plates and made another trip for the glasses. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Beyond him Lyra could see the other men around the table, with bags of gold stacked neatly, and papers and pens, and glasses and a crock of jenniver. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I have put everything I can into my one suitcase—clothes, shoes, a good wind-up clock, some soap, an extra pair of glasses. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In it are two pens, a toothbrush, and a pair of glasses. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know,” she answered, pushing her glasses back up her nose. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Tucker leaned against the counter and clipped his mechanical pencil to the frames of his glasses. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

What the cameras didn’t show was that behind his glasses, my father’s eyes were glistening too. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Here you are, old pal,” said Bunny, fumbling among the cups and glasses. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The woman comes around to take my plates and refill our water glasses but Pete waves her off. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s wearing trendy glasses with frames too big for her face and chunky leather boots. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

And then—I watched through the window—she went back to her desk, sat, put on her glasses, and looked at something a long way out from the library. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He got a big kick out of it when I was about ten years old, and I’d go around emptying all the beer glasses lying around the house. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I drink mine straight from the bottle and, seeing this, she pushes the glasses aside, does the same. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

One of the servers scooped a dollop of peanut butter into the bottom-heavy glasses, and another filled them with warm milk from the urn. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She was not wearing her glasses and she held tightly to the bannister during her descent. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carl threw a bag of chips on the kitchen table and poured us tall, icy glasses of soda—him a Coke, and me a Dr Pepper. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then there are shelves displaying vintage video games and consoles, as well as prototypes of what look like the earliest versions of the NeuroLink glasses. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then I’d miss, because with my thick glasses, I basically have no depth perception at all. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

On one end of the room is a wooden counter with glowing bottles behind it, and a sea of glasses on top of it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Her voice broke, and she took off her glasses to wipe away tears. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

We went into my house, took turns in the bathroom, and I poured a couple of glasses of water. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

A short man wearing glasses and a waiter’s apron stepped forward from the crowd of marchers. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Then he put on his glasses and she could hear him breathe deep. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

My glasses are old and used, several generations behind, but they work fine. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He squinted at it, pushing his glasses further up on his freckled nose. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

She reached for the reading glasses sitting on top of her head. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He put his head close to mine and studied me through thick glasses under the streetlamp. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even her glasses had black frames instead of their usual red ones. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Behind the glasses, tiny eyes like black peas flitted from me to Farid. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Andrew slapped his hand to his forehead, nearly smashing his goggle-sized glasses. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

She peered at them over her glasses, frowning. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The teashop man was pouring frothy glasses of chai when we arrived. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I listen to Ruby giggling after Grammy tells her that she looks like a movie star in her new glasses, and memories roll through my mind of Grammy clapping too loud at school concerts. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

His smiling face without the thick glasses looked funny. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Yes, the girl was pretty, with her serious brown eyes behind horn-rimmed glasses. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

There are twelve velvet chairs arranged in a circle, and in each sits an official in full black uniform, his or her shoulders adorned with shining gold epaulettes, sipping from delicate glasses. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Without the glasses perched on his nose, he looked like a different person. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She removed her glasses and wiped her eyes. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The principal looked at Mom over his black-rimmed glasses but remained seated behind his desk. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

And then, as if someone had changed the prescription on her glasses, she suddenly saw how wild her ideas had gotten. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Which you never answered, by the way, even though something was obviously wrong. You were frowning all through class, and not even at Mikayla. Does my owner wear glasses?” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Some ten feet in front of them stood a short, plump man wearing enormously thick glasses that reduced his eyes to molelike specks. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The champagne bottles and the glasses shattered on the floor as he sprang and began staggering to the door. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Those claws, of course. And when they peck at your glasses.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dad looked over the top of his glasses at Mother, and she reddened. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has the same knuckly red hands, the same metal-rimmed glasses, the same hair crown as Mrs. Smeath, only hers is all gray, and the hairs on her face are gray too and more numerous. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He wore glasses, and his hair was very untidy. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Gogol is unaccustomed to this sort of talk at mealtimes, to the indulgent ritual of the lingering meal, and the pleasant aftermath of bottles and crumbs and empty glasses that clutter the table. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The kind old eyes behind the glasses burned with a fire I had never seen. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

L. Roy shakes my hand and looks at me over his glasses. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Harry seized the wand lying beside his camp bed, pointed it at the cluttered desk where he had left his glasses, and said, “Accio Glasses!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Lola carries in a tray of rice cakes wrapped in banana leaves and two glasses of milk. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

She slipped on a pair of glasses and inspected the key. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was wearing tails and a stovepipe hat that rested at an angle above his dark glasses, smiling through the smoke at the people who resisted his appeals. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked the rhythm right away, and I knew that it was the song that Fred had danced to in his bug-eyed glasses. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

But it's hard to put glasses on someone else's head, and finally Colin reached up and nudged them up the bridge of his own nose, and he could see. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“Ian MacArthur is a wonderful sweet fellow who wears glasses and peers out of them with delight.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

A shower of bottles and glasses splashing whiskey crashed against the balcony. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leeuwenhoek’s microscope evolved from the magnifying glasses employed by drapers to examine the quality of cloth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They all lifted their glasses of Chianti in a toast to Smith’s statement. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Most of them have abandoned their blue clothes in favor of black-and-white ones, but they still wear their glasses. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Others were making discreet but frequent runs back to the bar to replenish empty glasses. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was getting brandy and soda and glasses. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Mr. Curtain threw his silver glasses to the floor, as if without them he would have seen the truth much sooner. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He wore round glasses, and on his forehead was a thin, lightning-shaped scar. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Colin was holding his hand underneath his glasses, against his left eye, in obvious discomfort. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

I wish he had glasses to give me. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Telling her how I feel,” she added, peering at me over the rims of her glasses. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

His glasses were rimless at the bottom; his nose pierced at the septum. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Mr. Kane puts on his glasses, takes them off, polishes them, puts them on, looks at the ceiling. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

August took off her glasses and cleaned them on the scarf at her waist. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had on his feed backpack and his special glasses, which were showing him words. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sure. Caveman glasses off. Cool voice, by the way. Do re mi and all that.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Right,” she giggles, her index finger pushing her glasses higher. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Certainly when Slughorn, who had been busy with decanters and glasses, turned to face the room again, his eyes fell immediately upon Harry. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

She pushed her glasses up on her nose, like she did when she was feeling especially fired up about something, Rishi had noticed. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He turned, his glasses pale bronze in starlight. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Through the darkness of his glasses Jones looked at the stranger. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waited, but his frown only deepened until he pushed his glasses up to rub at his eyes. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“That’s the thing. I don’t want to wear glasses. Then I’ll be a girl who not only needs crutches but also wears glasses. Everyone will feel sorry for me!” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Grandpa reaches for a tissue, wipes his damp eyes behind his glasses, and blows his nose. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Tranquilino turned up his hearing aid, and, after fumbling in his pockets for a pair of glasses, he perched the cracked lenses on his nose, muttering, “Eh?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t stop me from sneaking in some use of my hacked phone and glasses, of course—but it has kept me from applying for any real job I can do well. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She just removed her glasses and wiped them with a cloth she took from a case on her desk. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The servers, all young people dressed in white tunics like the one who gave us wine, move wordlessly to and from the table, keeping the platters and glasses full. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He scribbled something on the pad, then handed the glasses and the scrip to Jason. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It’s just something we do occasionally, like wearing 3-D glasses for a movie, like eating ice cream too fast on purpose to see who gets a headache, maybe even like stealing each other’s lunches. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Seating himself at the dressing table, Bernabe peeled the sanitary cellophane wrappers off two glasses and poured them each a drink. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon, we’re both standing around Dray, his cake, his girls, and his boys raising our glasses of champagne. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Eventually, a tall woman with glasses stepped up to the microphone. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Beetee still has the pallor of someone in convalescence, but behind those ill-fitting glasses, his eyes are alight with excitement. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

My father took his glasses off and rubbed his eyes. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

I didn’t see a bear, didn’t see a salamander, didn’t see foxfire, didn’t see anything actually—just perpetual dribbles and droplets of rain adhering to my glasses. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She was young and pretty, with horn-rimmed glasses and red hair, and she had this huge smile when she said my name, but I just glared at her. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In the other boot, his nerd glasses and car keys. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The other two quickly put down their glasses, like children who have been caught doing something naughty. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

And other glasses ting along too, like a song. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

This time have your tester give you three glasses, two of which are filled with one of the Colas and the third with the other. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Short-cropped salt- and-pepper hair, glasses, he was a patient, almost invisible arbiter of justice with an occasional strained pitch in his voice to punctuate the frustrations this case had inspired in him. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Come on, mi niña, let’s not think that way. If you need glasses, you will wear them and hold your head high.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Sticky was scrubbing his glasses so hard they squeaked, and Constance had her eyes squeezed tightly shut, unconvincingly feigning sleep. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Dennis also brought some soda mixers and two dozen glasses he got from his mother by telling her I was having a birthday party and they were needed for the lemonade. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

My mom’s boss looks at her over his glasses. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Joseph adjusted his glasses and pointed down the street. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

His visitor adjusted his glasses and the breath whistled in his nose. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I have mouse-brown cowlick-y hair, glasses that are about an inch thick, and braces that look like I tried to swallow a train wreck. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pushes on her glasses, considers a new plan. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Dark- rimmed glasses over her long-lashed eyes make her look very professional and also pretty. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were three desks behind the counter, one of which was manned by a large, red-haired woman wearing glasses. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He took off his glasses and wrapped them in a piece of cloth. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Finally, she put the glasses back on the night table, lenses down. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The gaudy frames of the glasses were cheap, drawing attention to features that needed no heavy emphasis. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thick lenses in her wire-frame glasses make her eyes look big. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And “This is Giles,” said Maxim, prodding my arm, and Giles stretched out an enormous paw and wrung my hand, squeezing the fingers limp, genial eyes smiling from behind horn-rimmed glasses. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Cal jutted his chin out to keep his glasses well back on his nose, but he kept his hands close to the tree. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He stared at me, pulled his glasses down from his forehead, looked at the papers inside the folder with my name on it, and glared. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

If it makes you uncomfortable— He stopped me, wagged a finger, then hooked his glasses off his nose, letting them dangle on' the string around his neck. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he knew it would take him a while to get used to city life—like drinking out of glasses. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You mean the naval officers don’t like to hear us throwing glasses?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crooks removed his glasses and wiped his eyes with his fingers. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

He squinted at me through the tiny, crazed glasses. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

As Maybeth soaped and rinsed, and the boys dried, and Dicey put away the glasses, dishes, knives, forks, pots and pans, they sang. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the one we took in his bedroom where I’m wearing his glasses and he’s squinting and we’re smiling because we won some happiness before I lost him. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

And now, he said finally, he would ask the company to rise to their feet and make certain that their glasses were full. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

“What? A criminal with dark glasses? A Bourbon Street character? Please, Gus. Not this. Leon Levy is dead only a few years. Let him rest in peace.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two dozen glasses followed his in a bright shower of crystal. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fujiko picked up her glasses again and held them between her thumb and forefinger. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Another tall, brown-skinned man wearing square glasses walked up to the altar from the front row. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coughing and wheezing, he put on his skullcap, his glasses, saw both lenses had cracked, and took them off. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Bronx-bred, he kept his head shaved and wore designer tortoiseshell glasses. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picks up his glasses, begins cleaning them with his clay-splattered shirt, making them dirtier. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him that the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I didn’t say anything else and he coughed and adjusted his glasses and said he was tired and frustrated and just wanted his money or an exchange so he could get on home. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm not sure what I expected, but this man's face, with its neatly trimmed beard and round glasses, is nothing like my reflection. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Magic Eye flashes his dark glasses at the general a second, then stands, and sidles to the door. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom fills all of our glasses with water. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He grinned and handed the field glasses to Molly. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I open my backpack, and Mom cleans her glasses on the bottom edge of her shirt. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meg blinked and shoved shakily at her glasses and there was Charles Wal-lace standing indignantly in front of her, his hands on his hips. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched as he bent over his new gray shirts, pushing his glasses up on his nose while applying a precise military crease to the middle of each breast pocket. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think they fit you perfectly, Ruthie. You look very nice, very chic! They go well with your glasses and your books! Why don’t you walk in them and see how they feel?” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I know Miss Leefolt don’t want me giving him one a the glasses. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

After she had returned with the chair and a little picnic cooler of ice cubes, she arranged her best jelly glasses on the mantelpiece before her mother’s picture. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben sniffs and, beneath his glasses, wipes his eyes. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

When the guard brought Branwell into the visitors’ room, he still looked pale, but his glasses were not smudged now, and I could see his eyes. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

From our rooms we could hear the glasses clink and the radio turned up. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

His glasses and tall hat did not seem ridiculous. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, bending over close to the minor, peeking over his glasses, he inspected his head. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He surveyed the woods again, although his breath had fogged his glasses. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moonlight reflected off his glasses and lit up his eyes. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He had a habit of pushing his thick glasses up the bridge of his nose. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The hard ridge of his glasses pressed into my temple. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“I just got off a plane,” said Forrest, rubbing his jaw and squinting through his glasses. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He wears thick glasses, which he touches over and over again as he testifies. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

You let your youngest walk to school tomorrow, she won’t make it I guess that was why Liz had on the glasses and the bandanna. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dimple’s eyes were now flat marbles behind her glasses. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She wears the same clunky glasses Violet had on today. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The eyes behind his glasses were bright green, and on his forehead, clearly visible through his hair, was a thin scar, shaped like a bolt of lightning. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Silverstein is a slender, short man in his late forties, with a mustache and glasses, and he has an alert, quick gaze. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His little glasses were crooked on his face as he smoothed his blue button-down shirt. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“You look better without the glasses,” he says. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Finch kisses me hello, and his eyes are brighter than the other night, or maybe it’s that he isn’t wearing glasses. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He pulled off his glasses and rubbed his eyes. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

At dinner he meets her father, a tall, good-looking man with luxuriant white hair, Maxine’s pale green-gray eyes, thin rectangular glasses perched halfway down his nose. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He blew on it to dry the ink, then closed the book and folded his glasses. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a frail-looking man, whose thin silver glasses seemed to be in serious danger of sliding off his nose with every quick movement. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

A boy two chairs away blinks behind glasses. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Val shook her head and started washing glasses behind the bar. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She has steel-rimmed glasses, behind which her eyes are hard to see, and black shoes with Cuban heels, and a tiny lipless smile. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up the book and the glasses, but his eyes were still upon me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the lamp table were her reading glasses and a high pile of books. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Clifton lowered his head to look at us above his glasses and then he told us the answer. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

He needed street clothes, soap, shoes, a cap, a pair of glasses. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He didn’t need the looped glasses to look like a jerk. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

His eyes gleamed dangerously behind his rimless glasses, and his muddy jowls were square and hard. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Longstreet took out his glasses, rode that way, out into the open, looked. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

All four glasses were empty when the children put them down. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Making his way into the kitchen, he got down dusty, long unused plates and bowls and glasses; he began washing them in the sink, running the rusty hot water until it cleared at last. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Emily had huge blue eyes that were magnified even larger by a pair of horn-rimmed glasses, and she was the only other girl in class, besides herself, who wore two long braids. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

A week ago, in Kansas City, Perry had bought a pair of dark glasses—fancy ones with silver-lacquered rims and mirrored lenses. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t point out who was who, or I missed it, so I stood there confused until the tall, skinny woman with glasses gave a small harrumph and waved at her partner. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She always wore long skirts rather than jeans, and little glasses pressed too far into her face. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had drunk several glasses of brandy and I said yes by God on Bulgaria too and on Japan. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Joseph dried off his glasses and pounded on the stage door. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Dedicated Coke drinkers were asked to take a sip from two glasses, one marked Q and one marked M. Which did they prefer? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Mr. Powell took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes again. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He never would own up to being drunk; he’d always say he had a headache or needed to get the prescription for his glasses readjusted. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Sorry,” he muttered, sitting up and feeling cold sweat trickling down behind his glasses. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

But she said, “Oh, honey. I forgot my glasses at home. Can you read it to me?” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He tried on the glasses, which had thin frames of Imperial gold. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Mrs Who wafted over to her, tiny feet scarcely seeming to touch the ground, the lenses of her glasses glittering. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a minute there was nothing but ice clinking in our glasses. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We visited an army unit at the front, and at one point I took a pair of field glasses and could actually see French troops across the border. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We emptied our plastic glasses, chased with coffee, and I refilled. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why, it’s potty wee Potter!” cackled Peeves, knocking Harry’s glasses askew as he bounced past him. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Calling a six-year-old kid with glasses “four eyes” might be very hurtful and painful, but at least in some way it makes them a part of a group. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He looked briefly through the glasses, aiming them a bit to the northeast. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Leon unfolded the canvas chairs and they sat with their glasses in a shallow circle facing the pool. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Ruby is wearing her new glasses as she pushes open the screen door. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The lady with the cheeks and small glasses looks at you with a gaze of false but practiced kindness. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Our spoons clinked in the glasses as we mixed up the ice, and Lolo told me about his farming days in the Philippines. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Leona turned around and stared at them through her thick glasses and they quieted down, but the minute she turned her back they started again, in a softer voice. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

His eyes were wide and gloomy behind his owlish glasses. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I feel his hands against my cheek as he slides a pair of glasses over my nose. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I took off my glasses and Jake showed me how to rotate the focus knob. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like how he only wears his glasses when nobody’s around: Nobody’s supposed to see how much he needs. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He pulled his glasses down to where they belonged and shuffled through the papers again. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I literally just spent two nights with her, and I had no idea she wore glasses. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

She had short, curly graying-blond hair and a white face full of deep lines behind huge glasses. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

After Ugwu brought the glasses, Special Julius said, “Have you heard that Harold Wilson is in Lagos? He is bringing the British army to finish us off. They say he came with two battalions.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I get out, her friend—the twinkly guy with a face of freckles and cool retro glasses—is standing by the bathroom door. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He went flying into the bar, knocking over a couple of glasses. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

When he was gone Horace peered in at Carl Heine’s face again—letting Art’s young deputy wait in silence—then washed his glasses at the sink. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was no one in the Terrace Room, but there were two empty glasses on the table. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Professor Trelawney whispered, lowering her face to the ball, so that it was reflected twice in her huge glasses. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

But as we settled into the living room with our glasses of wine, it didn’t take long for the conversation to start flowing. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Every now and then, the pilots of the helicopters would catch a glimpse of a small girl wearing glasses crouching in the giant’s right ear and waving to them. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked past the open kitchen window and took the glasses from the cupboard. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

She adjusts her glasses up on her face and swings her backpack onto her lap. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at him quizzically, her face and glasses tinted a silver blue from the phone. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

My dad had his laptop out—the ethernet cable dragging all across the floor—and his reading glasses on his head; he waved me over when I walked into the room. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Or why people should just wear glasses and stop touching their eyeballs.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

He was a small man with a round face and giant glasses. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Larson adjusted his reading glasses and took the pages over by the windows where the light was better. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

My hair catches in a hinge, but he’s careful to be sure the glasses are tucked over my ears. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Father fills the space she leaves by adding logs in the fireplace and refilling both their brandy glasses. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I take off my glasses, wipe my palms across my eyes, and let them close, grateful the painkillers will dull all the aches with sleep. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Inigo, at the age of twenty-seven, began having a few extra glasses of wine at night, to help him get to sleep. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Julian put on his glasses and sat down. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“May I speak with you, Elisheva?” she says, tipping her head down so she can stare at me disapprovingly over the tops of her glasses. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

With my glasses, I see cracks lining sidewalks, the petals on dandelions, the iridescent mother-of-pearl buttons on Danielle’s blouse, and all the words and sentences and math problems that Mrs. Margolis writes on the blackboard. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

When I said that, she took off her glasses and put down her pen, all calm, and started tapping her fingernail on the thick folder in front of her. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He tilted his head down and looked over his glasses at me. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t like I was using one of her glasses. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then her eyes fell upon a bottle of gin and two glasses that had certainly not been present a few seconds before. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s been coming on for a while,” said Percy, mopping his eyes under his glasses with a corner of his traveling cloak. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“This is Mrs. Garcia,” said Mr. Tushman, and the lady smiled at Mom and took off her glasses and got up out of her chair. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Mapper was nearby, hunched over some scrap of paper and fiddling with his glasses, ignoring the play entirely. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

There were goblets, sherbet glasses, ice-cream glasses, wine glasses, green glass coffee cups with matching saucers, and water glasses. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My dad’s Chinese,” she explained, filling two glasses full of water from the refrigerator door. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

We were sitting in the deep leather chairs, the champagne in the ice-bucket and our glasses on the table between us. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Then he was in the study, carrying a tray with three glasses of tea, sugar, spoons, and some of his mother’s cookies. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I carried the glasses with me for weeks, until one evening I crushed them underfoot in rage and despair, shattering the glass into splinters, because he wasn’t coming back. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

There was no Alka-Seltzer, so Francis went in and got a bottle of ginger ale and some glasses and ice and we sat for a while as the afternoon got brighter and hotter. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I could hear, but not see, that Mum was washing up glasses from the night before. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

She raised her head and peered through her glasses to see who had interrupted her. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t lie to us, sir,” said the spook with the glasses. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

She poured us two tall glasses of cold milk, and Twig and I made our way down to the basement. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

My glasses were so caked with mud that I could no longer see anything clearly. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a shelf of glasses along a wall and I grab one, twisting the handle above the spigot. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I poured us some wine in these long-stemmed glasses, and for a few moments we just sat looking at each other—her with the feather in her hair and me with my moustache. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

He dried his glasses, took a breath, and looked at his broken watch. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Thomas watched one of them look down to write something, another reach up and put on a pair of glasses. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Pour this tea over glasses that have been filled to the brim with ice. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“She was nice to me,” Maya insisted, pushing her glasses up her nose. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

"Of course, of course," she said, going to a cabinet and removing a decanter and a set of glasses in which she poured about an inch of clear liquid. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reading glasses hung around her neck on a brightly colored, woven cord, the kind from a global imports shop. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Straightening her glasses, she tried not to look too pleased. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Or merely taken off his glasses, wiped them with his handkerchief, shaken his head, and smiled? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Antonapoulos tasted the dishes with his wooden spoon and they drank glasses of red wine. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

So she keeps the marchers' glasses filled, adds more corn bread and potato salad to their plates, stands in the kitchen ready to slice lemon pound cake into generous pieces. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

There was water in a pitcher in the icebox, so I filled two glasses and brought them outside. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined the man picking up his radio—every detail, from the way he would fumble for it without his glasses to the way his jeans would wrinkle. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She does that thing where she takes off her glasses and puts 1 of the end pieces to her lips. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Carousel after carousel of tchotchkes—key chains, shot glasses, magnets. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

A young man wearing glasses and pajamas and no slippers lunged into the room with his mouth open. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

There, as Frank told the story, she “lays out worksheets, points to one example, then another, then a third. She stands back, with eyes tranced behind her rimless glasses.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Adam, holding the child by his upper arm, leaned over and poured whisky in both glasses. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

For a swift instant, between the gesture and the opaque glitter of his glasses, I saw the blinking of sightless eyes. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took the glasses from him and pressed my finger on the lens. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I’m also the only one in the family who wears glasses. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

His lively blue-gray eyes were somewhat hidden by the glare of the sun off his wire-rimmed glasses. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“I — don’t — want —” said Percy thickly, as the twins forced the sweater over his head, knocking his glasses askew. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The fire’s reflection made two flashing yellow eyes on Emo’s glasses. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then Aunt Saba, which Poppy said meant “morning,” appeared carrying a large brass tray filled with steaming glasses of musky-smelling tea—maramia—an herb good for the stomach. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I have a few small cuttings taking root in water glasses by the window. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Then he dried his steel-rimmed glasses on a towel and, because he was fastidious, got his surgical gown on. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then he took the eyepiece out, replaced his glasses, and fixed the boy with a sour and suspicious look. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“They ambushed me. Took my glasses. Threw me in the pool. They were gone by the time I got out, but it was slippery and I fell back in. Now you’re here. The end.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Hideo’s mother exclaims something about making us a snack and bustles off, leaving her glasses on the table. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was a bullet hole in the doorframe and broken glasses of Star beer, a popular brand in the country, and empty cigarette packets on the verandah floor. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

A black guy with glasses sits at the end of the bench, opening peanuts and putting the shells in his left vest pocket, the peanuts in his right. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Ang Dorje is a tough, nuggety rock of a man and we had already shared several glasses of Chang, the fiery local brew. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Moses pulled X-Ray’s glasses out of his front shirt pocket, held them a moment, then dropped them on the lawn. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

He pulled his glasses out of his pocket and put them on again. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

"I see," the judge replied, and adjusted his glasses as he wrote something down. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Compatibility may be what it’s ostensibly about,” Dimple responded, pushing her glasses up on her nose. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know, Mitch,” Morrie muses, adjusting his glasses as he reads, “with work like this, we may have to get you back here for grad school.” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henry will send a snap from a seven a.m. polo practice and promptly receive one of Alex at two a.m., glasses on and coffee in hand, in bed with a pile of notes. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

They too wore dark glasses, their hats were set high upon their heads, the brims turned down. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was before me, towering, indignant, I could not remember how, when I was young, his laugh used to shake his gut and make his glasses shine. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He was relieved by an-other officer so that he could change into a clean shirt and wipe off his glasses. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

People stopped talking throughout the room as they noticed the pair and watched as the co-chairs of the charrette came together and raised their glasses in the air. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

And so it was that I entered that enormous L-shaped room, on his arm, in my cashmere finery, to the applause, and then the raised glasses of fifty relatives. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Scatcherd’s small glasses flash as she turns her head from side to side. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She wore a shiny gray wig, wire-rimmed glasses, and a calico apron. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Finn knew Joe was really watching the screen embedded in his own glasses. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She didn't want to see herself reflected in his dark glasses. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Arthur turns to me with his glasses still on. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Even though it’s an old, grainy phone video, it fills my view through my glasses like a giant screen. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He pushed his glasses up and stared at it for a moment. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The heat of his breath clouded his round glasses. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had horn-rimmed glasses and was convinced they made her ugly, even though she had a long neck and the straightest, smoothest hair I’d ever seen. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it wasn’t just because of the blue glasses. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It will include the broken glasses and damaged furniture.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put his reading glasses on again, leafed through a book, and started to read. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He arranged the food, leaving half-eaten bits on the plates, poured wine to different levels in all the glasses, and finally, with great precision, returned the napkin to the floor beneath the chair. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He unrolled the paper and watched Jay’s eyes get wider behind his scratched-up glasses. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Exactly,” said Dumbledore, looking very seriously over the top of his half-moon glasses. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Then we drop water onto them out of our water glasses, and the paper caterpillars expand and look as if they’re crawling. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Werfel put on his glasses and stumped into the guest room to inspect it. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Howard looked at me over the top of his glasses and said, “Pineapple.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Behind her the elegant meal, with its many plates, goblets, glasses, and silverware, was gone. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

La Chilindrina always wore a red sweater twisted in the back—like she couldn’t figure out how to dress herself—thick, black-framed glasses, and her hair in two ponytails. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Butler plucked a set of night-vision glasses from his belt and placed them in Artemis’s outstretched hand. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I heard deep voices and the clinking of glasses coming from another room. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

He ambled over to the bar and set out three glasses and a silver ice bucket and a big pitcher and began to mix drinks from several different bottles. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Henry, the light winking off the steel rims of his glasses, gave no indication of having heard her. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The woman with the glasses was checking her watch. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Lane started to say something to that, but the waiter was suddenly there to take away the empty Martini glasses. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

I was hot and sweaty, and the earpieces of my glasses were cutting deeply into the flesh above my ears as a result of the head movements that went with my pitching. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I nailed Volkswagen in the glasses, knocking them off his face. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

There's a man next to the minister, with horn-rimmed glasses and hair very cleanly combed. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of his spare glasses lying on the desk; the empty bed; the family photographs smiling in the dark. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Well, I saw no point in worrying him, if that’s what you mean,” said Henry, adjusting his glasses and going back to his book. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

His father-in-law looked at him over his glasses. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

But then Twinkle had drunk four glasses of whiskey in a nameless bar in Alphabet City, and forgot all about it. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He pushed at his ugly black glasses and added, “Your Backpack Buddy.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

X-Ray had a large bruise on his right cheek, and he wasn’t wearing his glasses. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

She had two bags of stuff with her, including her purse, and her purple just for show glasses were pushed up, holding her curls back. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

When we get to within view of the porch, I see Dad, arms crossed, his reading glasses shoved onto his forehead and his concerned face on. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Klaus was a little older than twelve and wore glasses, which made him look intelligent. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

The look he leveled at me over his glasses would have turned a weaker soul to stone. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Madame Manec sneaks Marie-Laure chocolate bars, slices of cake; this morning they squeeze lemons into glasses full of water and sugar, and she lets Marie-Laure drink as much as she likes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Valeska was a white man in his forties whose fit, medium frame suggested someone who stayed active; the glasses he wore added to his serious demeanor. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Look at her clothes and her hair and her glasses and her luggage with the wheels. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

But Dave with the awkward glasses told us that Michael killed himself. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

When they got to the booth, Lily said, “Did you make sure these glasses were clean?” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Howard shook his head again, making his red hair flop down over his glasses. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“Seriously, I tried that once with your glasses. For the first time, I saw the rings of Saturn.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put on my glasses and signed my name in cursive. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He called for the butler to bring champagne and glasses for everyone, right there in the foyer, so they could toast Rowan’s audacity. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

One was very tall and thin; squinting through his rain-washed glasses Harry recognized the barman who worked in the other Hogsmeade pub, the Hog’s Head. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Patrice Lumumba had stopped speaking for a moment to take off his glasses and mop his forehead with a white handkerchief. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I set out two plastic mugs and two glasses, poured coffee, and set a bottle of whisky within easy reach. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stopped, adjusted her glasses, and turned back to face her mother once again. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wears glasses but spends a lot of time looking under them. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning I went to see the German with the wire-rimmed glasses at the city hall. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Tom nodded gloomily and returned to wiping glasses; Harry, Hermione, Hagrid, and the Weasleys walked through the bar and out into the chilly little courtyard at the back where the dustbins stood. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Gone were his faded bell- bottoms, his granny glasses. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“You sure you need two glasses? I could bring one glass and two straws.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“You know who I’m talking about. Great big boy. Wears glasses.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Soon he came out, a gangling, tall, reddish-brownskinned fellow, at that time thirty- five years old; when my purpose was made known, he brisded, his eyes skewering me from behind the hom-rimmed glasses. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nerd at the window—I shouldn’t call him a nerd, but he’s white with an Afro and thick black glasses, plus he’s got a black, silver-buckled belt and white tennis shoes. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Thirsty lined up the sparkling glasses on a shelf and arranged the brass trays behind them. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She’s taken off her glasses, too, and is staring at me with the same shocked expression I’d seen on Jena’s face. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Does she wear glasses with fashionable frames, has she had her lids lifted, does she streak or tint? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I pull out the glasses and slip them on. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The brothers nodded and, with final smiles of farewell, left the dim circle of the candle’s glow and crossed the darkness toward the open barn door, the glasses chinking against the bottles as they went. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She blinks up at us through glasses that magnify her eyes. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Not at the moment. Go on home, Sal. Tell Anne I shall be along after I’ve lifted a few glasses in celebration.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

But not hit a man in glasses Aren’t you even going to open it? The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

And lots of people have thin glasses in their houses and they don’t know you can do this. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

We all raised our glasses and repeated the blessing. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Even his glasses looked dollish: they were thicker than window louvers, tinted a strange bluish shade, and framed in white plastic. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Dimple pushed her glasses up on her nose, feeling fingers of curiosity tap their way along her skin. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I’m sure my eye is pulling, so I push up my glasses and blurt it out. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Ahmad had epilepsy and always wore a wool vest and thick black- rimmed glasses—he was one of Assef’s regular victims. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He let his glasses slip down on his nose and reached up to massage his temples. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had super white teeth and she wore glasses, which I liked. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Strong fingers covered with liver spots adjusted the glasses. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was the drugged, sleepy feeling that came from sipping glasses of milk, drinking them slowly so that they would last a long time, and drinking enough for the first time in my life. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Out!” exclaimed her husband, with something like genuine consternation in his voice as he laid down the vinegar cruet and looked at her through his glasses. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shuts the door, shaking his head with a smile, and walks slowly into the kitchen where he finds his parents, aunt, and uncle all raising champagne glasses into the air. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

When I came out I walked straight into a thin old woman with wiry hair and large, square glasses. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But right after the eclipse, I was wearing these thick lenses that I now call my regular glasses. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He settled his glasses on his nose and watched her for a second. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Paul said, taking off his glasses and staring at me. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Piggy handed Ralph his glasses and waited to receive back his sight. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I can barely dry off my glasses because my clothes are so wet. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

As Harry took off his glasses and climbed into his four-poster, he imagined how it must feel to have parents still living but unable to recognize you. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He takes his glasses off and squints at me. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Grandma Post let us have leftover peanut-butter pie for breakfast while she played solitaire, occasionally looking up through her thick glasses at the Perry Mason rerun she had on, the volume blasting. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

He takes off his thick-rimmed glasses, fitted by a Calcutta optometrist, polishes the lenses with the cotton handkerchief he always keeps in his pocket, A for Ashoke embroidered by his mother in light blue thread. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Everyone wanted a piece of Clover City’s Miss Teen Blue Bonnet,” she slurred one night after a few glasses of wine. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

With the tip of her finger, she moves a strand of gray hair back into place, and adjusts her glasses. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

They rounded a corner in the lane, sleet coming thick and fast, blurring Harry’s glasses. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Her thick glasses reflected the light as she looked to the front. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

See if you can get a mental picture of her. 3RD JUROR: What d’ya mean, no glasses? Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lowered the glasses and pulled down the cotton mask from his face and wiped his nose on the back of his wrist and then glassed the country again. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

How crazy it was that this little plastic disc with images of a girl in big glasses and shiny braces was illegal. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He looked at his pants, pushed up his glasses nervously, and quickly glanced around. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other, there’s clinking and shouting as white-jacketed white men set up glass after glass of lemonade, forming pyramids of full glasses on the counters of their red and white striped concession stands. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Her glasses were on a little Donald Duck night table, folded neatly and laid stems down. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He takes his glasses off and rubs the little reddish indentations along the sides of his nose. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He smiled and handed me the two glasses. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“Frankly,” said Henry, unhooking his glasses and giving them a quick swipe with his handkerchief, “it strikes me as just the type of stupid thing that Bunny would do.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They heard banging and a clinking of glasses. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I peek in the car and notice that the woman behind the wheel is basically a duplicate of him with long hair and glasses. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Doctors tried to correct it with glasses, but had no luck. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Finch wears pajama bottoms but no shirt, and glasses. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

All it’s done so far is give me a headache and make my glasses sit crooked. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Dad took off his glasses and rubbed them on his shirt for about five minutes. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

When the mother and father were gone, Will brought the whisky in from the forge and the clan had a meeting in the kitchen with whisky passed around in round-bottomed jelly glasses. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes were big behind his black-framed glasses, and his bald head glinted under the fluorescent classroom lights. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She shakes her head, not like she’s angry, but like she’s been wandering around for an hour looking for glasses that were on her head the whole time. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He’s grinning so much I think his glasses are going to fall off. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

His eyes were orange with the light from his feed glasses. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kissed him again and handed him his glasses. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Genie, she took me back to the bar and we had more ginger beer, but this time in those skinny champagne glasses. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He was lean and of middle height, and his movements were careful, as if he thought he might break something inadvertently, as if he was unused to delicate glasses and fine tableware. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was the way she looked at me, squinting through her glasses while chewing on her lower lip. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Addison shook the glasses from his face and peered at the bird, his eyes wide with concern. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Dad put his glasses on to study the magazine. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He looked about the hallway and to the landing below, at the champagne glasses and half-eaten samosas and napkins smeared with lipstick abandoned in every comer, on every available surface. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He raised his glasses and looked to the clearing smoke. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pushes up his glasses and chuckles a little. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He puts his glasses back on, and, I don’t know, if you wanna put together some analogy on how he’s seeing the world with new eyes or something, be my guest. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Her long nails painted deep red, her racing glasses flashing back the late-morning sun. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

She pushed her black-rimmed glasses to the top of her nose and answered the phone, which had just rung. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“It would be a shame if you had to wear glasses.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stowing the Invisibility Cloak and his glasses inside his new robes, he rejoined the other two. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Ralph stood away from the pile and put the glasses into Piggy s groping hands. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Even with the glasses, everything has an unfamiliar slant to it. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I squint at the drained milkshake glasses and mound of empty chocolate pudding cups taking up practically the entire space. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“They were so just talking about you!” said Maya, giving them her dirtiest look through her black-framed glasses. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I felt I had crossed into another world, that little pieces of my old self had been left behind on the black asphalt floor of the school yard alongside the shattered lens of my glasses. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Ah, good evening Harry,” said Dumbledore, looking up at him through his half-moon glasses with a most satisfied expression. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

On the Monday after the West Charleston game, Ogden Loring stopped in front of Ben’s desk, removed his glasses and began cleaning them with his silk paisley tie. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took off his glasses and held them out to Ralph, blinking and smiling, and then started to wipe them against his grubby wind-breaker. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The woman stares at me for a second over her neon-green reading glasses, and then she slaps a pad of paper on the counter. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It makes no sense to cheer from so far away, so instead Fiona grumbles, “Who does she think she is, always wearing those glasses?” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

That caused hearty laughter all around and glasses raised. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The glasses are quite remarkable, but I still sorely miss having the use of my left ear. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He had a terrific smile—a million freckles on his face—and new wire-rimmed glasses that made him look smart. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

It’s part of him, like his brown hair or his glasses or his name tag and lab coat. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She put the tray down on the cigarette table, pushing all these glasses out of the way. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

A young man with round wire glasses walks toward us quickly from the ship’s ramp. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Fred laughed, but when it was his turn in line, he put the glasses on top of the postcard and the album. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

She peered over her reading glasses at the whole class. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He had removed his glasses and looked more vulnerable with his eyes sunken deep in his face. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Taking the jacket out, he began to clean the glasses. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Piggy took off his glasses, stepped primly into the water and then put them on again. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Her glasses reflect the fluorescent light above us, so I can barely see her eyes. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Johnny, Mirren, Gat, and I snuck glasses of wine and felt giddy and silly. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I grabbed the exact glasses and put them on. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Except when you lost,” said Andrew, nervously fidgeting with his glasses. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Piggy came with it, in shorts and shirt, laboring cautiously out of the forest with the evening sunlight gleaming from his glasses. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Luna has his reading glasses on, and he looks like he hasn’t shaved in weeks. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He brought a rod and I got out my own and rigged a spinning reel, and had to find my glasses to tie on the bright painted popper. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had one arm of his glasses in his mouth, and was chewing on it. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

This is where the Burnham students go after school to smoke and to drink glasses of Coca-Cola with maraschino cherries in them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

My dad held Mr. Patterson’s glasses, so that he could wipe the tears from his whole face. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The vintage, Victorian-style red-and-tan wallpaper, the smell of old book glue, the clink of glasses and hum of quiet conversations and occasional laughter...it was just quirky and different enough to be worthy of Dimple. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The woman behind him, a tiny old lady who, to me, fit the description of the perfect grandmother—small, wrinkly, glasses, and feisty as hell—slapped him on the back of the head. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Garret Charles looks at me, peering again through his glasses, and says, “Changing your garments won’t be necessary.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

But then he took his glasses off, used his thumb and pointer finger to pinch the tears away. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

"Your glasses are about to fall off," the nurse said softly. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“For good reasons or not, we all have things we’re shy about,” said Mr. Benedict with a significant look at Sticky, who immediately took to polishing his glasses. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

With his glasses on, Mr. Benedict checked the watch and gave a nod of satisfaction. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

She took off her glasses and massaged her forehead. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She looks at me through her glasses—she’s already taken her contact lenses out. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

He took his glasses off and rubbed the bridge of his nose. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He sat up, one hand still on his scar, the other reaching out in the darkness for his glasses, which were on the bedside table. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

They were everywhere—the dark glasses, the ironed pants, the pomaded hair. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a bunch of photos of him without glasses. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Hambro lived in the West Eighties, and once in the vestibule I tucked the hat under my arm and put the glasses in my pocket along with Brother Tarp's leg chain and Clifton's doll. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They examined her through monocles and magnifying glasses, with metal instruments that embossed her chest and forearms, thighs and forehead with a blue geometry. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She studied Jones’ face, but the glasses prevented her reading anything there. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the dressing room, Mrs. Trepid changed back into her own dress, took out her glasses, and examined the price tag. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Henry who’s seen him in glasses and tolerates him at his most annoying and still kissed him like he wanted him, singularly, not the idea of him. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Harry fell backward, his glasses askew, clutching the Cloak around him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Cleotilde pushed at her hair, a mass of tight coils, and adjusted her glasses, as though first preparing herself before she presented her passport and license. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I put two plates on the island and try to grab the forks, napkins, and glasses in one hand—she would call it a lazy man’s load. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

My brain damage left me nearsighted in one eye and farsighted in the other, so my ugly glasses were all lopsided because my eyes were so lopsided. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

O’Brien took the decanter by the neck and filled up the glasses with a dark-red liquid. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Superplumes of the type on which Yellowstone sits are rather like martini glasses–thin on the way up, but spreading out as they near the surface to create vast bowls of unstable magma. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

When she finished, she took off her glasses. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

When I was finished I stood up, brushed the dirt from my knees and my elbows, and located my glasses. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there were Mr. Clutter’s glasses sitting on a bureau. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

His glasses slide to the edge of his nose as he wipes his face. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Within seconds he was back, bearing a dusty bottle and three glasses upon a tray. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

She took off her glasses and polished them on a paper towel. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Picture a four-foot-eleven praying mantis suffering from extreme malnutrition, with a long nose and glasses that were last in style when President Truman wore them. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

In response Luce’s right eyebrow rose from behind his glasses. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They both have glasses and white freckled skin and Sunday bows on the ends of their brown wiry braids, like Grace. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He slipped the light-pen into the pocket of his shirt and removed his black-framed reading glasses, which hung in front of his chest on a thick cord. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

My face was sprayed with the saliva of enthusiasm, and I decided that the next time I stood in the spotlight it would be wise to wear dark glasses. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You won’t be able to wear glasses for a while, son,” the doctor told me. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I imagine an old white lady with gray hair and old-fashioned glasses hanging from her neck. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Harry was sitting up, putting his glasses back on, and picking up his wand. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t have had time to put glasses on then. 3RD JUROR: Wait a second . . . 8TH juror: And here’s another guess. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

My Polish papers would not do, said the little German man from behind the desk, one finger pushing up his wire-rimmed glasses, because I had never provided proof of my birth. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Her hair is always in a bun, and her glasses are always slipping down her nose; her clothes always remind me of a curtain or a sofa. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

August replaced her glasses, walked to Rosaleen, and examined the stitches on her forehead, the cut under her eye, the bruises along her temple and arms. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind his glasses, his eyes were steady and very blue. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The hair of the wives was piled high about the room, eyelashes fluttered, and ice tinkled in full cocktail glasses. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Summer let the glasses fall to the tip of her nose. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

His glasses slide to the tip of his nose and he looks out at me from the top of the frames. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

When he got back to the table he saw that Emo’s glasses were sitting crookedly on his puffy face. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I have to laugh at myself, already looking at that time through rose-colored glasses. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“The lady with the glasses sitting next to my dad.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

The wife and the two daughters and the son raised their glasses to their lips. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of these is a man who edits the city paper, and after some persuading and several glasses of wine, he manages to get Friedrick to show him the journal. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The Commander sighs, takes out a pair of reading glasses from his inside jacket pocket, gold rims, slips them on. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chapman had a medium build, curly hair, and glasses that suggested he didn't mind looking like someone who spent time reading and studying. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Grandpa stared at me over his glasses, and then back at the money. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat on the side of my bed and rustled through the drawer of the night table, through the tissues and reading glasses and Christian Science leaflets belonging to one of Francis’s aged female relatives. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She wears small gold glasses when she reads, which seems to be whenever she isn’t doing chores. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“The teaching would be nothing, but my students are rude and disrespectful. They hide my glasses so that I cannot see the lesson. Last week they put a scorpion on my desk.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dad’s eyes fill with water and he blinks a lot and I think maybe he needs to get those funny glasses Atticus wears. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nurse is a white-haired little old lady with glasses. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Then he moved about collecting all the glasses that weren’t broken. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if it were a signal, everyone rises to their feet, lifting their glasses. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore big round glasses and buzzed on about drugs in a whiny insect voice. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The Foleys poured glasses of sparkling apple cider into fancy wine glasses and handed them out on little trays. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

And I saw the newspaper spread open on the kitchen counter, Harold’s glasses on top, his favorite coffee mug with the chipped handle off to the side. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miles shoved his glasses up to rub his eyes. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Dimple glared at him, eyes sparking behind her glasses. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The other boy only glared at me through his thin, silver-framed glasses, his lips pursed in disapproval, the same way my mom’s used to when she found out I had stayed up past my bedtime. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She already got the blue dress on I ironed this morning, the one with sixty-five pleats on the waist, so tiny I got to squint through my glasses to iron. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“We separate it into three glasses and add the hairs.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Sweat drips down my forehead into my safety glasses, fogging them up. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Don’t kick the wall,” Papa said absently as he adjusted his glasses. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Tee adjusted an invisible pair of glasses and stuck out her front teeth. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Piggy took back his glasses and looked at the smoke with pleasure. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I put on my glasses, place my weapons in readiness, and settle down to keep watch. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Miss Shaw, the teacher in the third-grade class I was assigned to, had steely gray hair and pointy-rimmed glasses and a stern mouth. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Werner sees the roving cane and opaque lenses of her glasses and realizes that she is blind. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Her dad readjusted his glasses as he considered her question. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

On some of the tables glasses stood half-empty; in one ashtray a cigarette had burned down to the butt; a plate of risotto stood next to a basket of stale rolls as hard as cardboard. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Siobhan has long blond hair and wears glasses which are made of green plastic. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought you wore glasses, Potter?” breathed Greyback. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He had a bushy mustache; shaggy gray hair; and wore round, wire-rimmed glasses. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

One of the others—a brown-skinned young man in glasses—says, “Go on. Tell them. There’s no reason to keep secrets anymore.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her glasses take up most of her face, and her curly red hair is in a bun. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Dos batidos de mango,” she said as she handed us the glasses garnished with little mango wedges. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

His glasses giving his eyes some small protection from the smoke, he raked the firestorm below, seeking a sign of life, a limb or a face that was not yet charred like wood.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until much later that my mom had a few glasses of white wine and told me what happened to her sister. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mother narrows her eyes behind her reading glasses. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He stared at me over his reading glasses. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He pushed up his Harry Potter glasses and lifted his tray in my direction. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

She was pretty, with wild black hair and huge brown eyes she hid behind square frame glasses. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I could see my reflection in her glasses. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Just as they all lifted their glasses, Mami leaned into the table. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Tía Inés walks into the kitchen with the last of the drinking glasses. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He got twenty dollars to put tape on the bridge of his glasses, wear too-short pants, and don argyle socks for three days. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Her eyes widening behind her glasses, she leaned in closer. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Based on that, Erik was telling his friends this story: The reason for the Coke-bottle glasses on my eyes was that I had stared at the sun, unprotected, during that eclipse. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had red hair and wore ugly black glasses. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Catherine says, her glasses on the tip of her nose as she rearranges Henry’s thick hair, “You’ll thank me when you’ve not got a great cowlick in your official portrait.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I turned and busied myself with the glasses. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Every employee is required to own a pair of safety glasses, and to wear them in areas where manufacturing is going on. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And anyhow, I’d be with Samira, who I knew scared them whenever she glared through her blue glasses and flipped her long braids like a whip. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

After a few glasses of wine, the father started in on what should be done if he did not live to see his next birthday. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

There are half a dozen spots where scientists, in hard hats, gloves, and safety glasses are down in the rock and dirt, working. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

She did not wear glasses, and I wondered if she’d read a word of it. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

It won’t be a far walk, but August in Florida is brutal, so it doesn’t take long for my glasses to fog up and the curls at my temples to spring into tight coils. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He’s not wearing his glasses though, which explains why he just waves at me. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She removed the empty glasses and walked away. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden the chaplain reached out and took off Andy’s glasses. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a large crack running down the right lens of Esperanza’s glasses. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She removed her thick-framed glasses and began to rub her eyes. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mom set two glasses of milk on the table. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

She wore glasses that were so thick it was a wonder they could stay up on her tiny button nose. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t large in any sense of the word—he looked like he could have been an accountant, with thick glasses and hunched shoulders from spending too many hours at a desk. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The glasses were sitting there, I was walking by on my way to the bathroom, and no one was looking. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

And a tall, stout African-American man with oversize glasses wearing a gray suit, holding a manila folder. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The human boy was standing not two feet from her, his eyes hidden behind mirrored glasses. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

A man of striking ugliness; fat, with a bullet-head set on a short neck, with a nose much too wide for its face, upon which he wore black-lensed glasses. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Lewis asked, eyes blinking rapidly behind his glasses. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

There’s probably more alcohol on the floor up here than in glasses down there. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Her hair is middle-parted, gathered into a chignon, and she wears stylishly narrow tortoiseshell glasses. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Marco waves at the woman behind the bar, who then brings them two glasses of Bordeaux, leaving the bottle on the table next to a small vase holding a yellow rose. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The glasses vibrate on the tray in my hands. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She went into the kitchen, where there was an electric stove and a refrigerator that no longer worked and was used to store glasses and dishes so Poppy couldn’t get at them. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Piggy was rubbing his glasses on his shorts and squinting at the sea. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

My dad’s glasses fall off and slide across the floor. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“I’m shocked,” answered Maya, taking her glasses off to wipe them. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

In order to pick up her path she was walking directly toward the house, toward the terrace where a paraffin globe lamp shone among glasses, bottles, and an ice bucket. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Beads of sweat rolled off his forehead and onto the bridge of his nose, making his glasses slip down. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Hmm,” he says as he peers at me over his glasses, his eyes showing concern. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

In his office Luce sat down in his Eames chair, looked up at Milton and Tessie, and adjusted his glasses. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She was crocheting six doilies for Doc’s beer glasses. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I removed my glasses and tucked the white hat carefully beneath my arm and walked away. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The waiter arrived with two more glasses of champagne and what he called “Belgian white asparagus with a lavender infusion.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Mary Anne crashed off the kitchen table, her glasses shattering on the floor, but she came back across the room, running blindly, going into battle against a blurred enemy. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A pair of stage "twins"--who turned out to be the girls in yellow--did a baby act in costume and champagne was served in glasses bigger than finger bowls. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

His postcard of Miles Davis wearing the bug-eyed glasses was pinned to the bulletin board above his desk. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The black plastic arms of his glasses were so tight they’d etched deep grooves into his head, but he couldn’t afford new ones. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He finds Luna in his office, horn-rimmed reading glasses doing nothing to detract from his usual appearance of a movie star who tripped and fell sideways into politics. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

When he came back, we drank the mango juice, which Sisi served in tall glasses, while he talked about the coup. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He gave one to the middle-aged woman in oversized glasses and a plaid pant suit who was sitting beside him. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Howard wiped his glasses with the end of his T-shirt and put them back on. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

What made it spectacular were the virtual worlds the battles were set in, each one so realistic that putting on your glasses was like dropping you right into that place. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Alex removed the man’s glasses and put them in his garbage bag. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I take off the protective glasses and look past the electric saw machines and wood planks for Tommy. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Then by all means, let Katniss go first,” he says, pausing a moment to wipe the steam off his glasses. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

If you wore special glasses you could see them spinning through the sky among the bats and homing birds—blondes, wars, famines, football, food shows, coups d’ etat, hairstyles stiff with hair spray. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A doctor with silver hair and black-rimmed glasses led my mother out of the room. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

So she makes me drink two glasses of water. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“I’m mentioned,” said Mr. Weasley, his eyes widening behind his glasses as he reached the bottom of the Daily Prophet article. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Even his horn-rimmed glasses seemed like a disguise. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

His fingers worked well enough to write with a pencil, or hold up his glasses, but he could not lift his arms much higher than his chest. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hurried to the desk, picked up the man’s glasses case, and threw it to him. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The principal’s office is this way,” whispered a petite woman with dark hair and glasses. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They said that I had manipulated the order of the three glasses to make it more difficult for them. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

It seemed forever, though, before Grandma slipped into the door and handed us glasses of water and cookies. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He took off his glasses; he massaged his forehead. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The house was full of cups—mugs and glasses everywhere, like they had been multiplying during the party. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

One of the librarians—a woman named Birdie, who has blue streaks in her hair, square-rimmed black glasses, and tattoos of red roses down the length of her arms—looks up from her computer monitor. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

After you have both done this, you raise your glasses high up again in a sort of silent final salute, and only then does each person look away and set down his glass. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So,” he pushed his glasses up, “what do you want to be when you grow up?” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Harry nodded and rubbed his glasses on his shirtsleeve. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I got some ice and a couple of glasses and we took a fifth of Famous Grouse with us into the shadowy living room, our shoes clicking across the ghastly wilderness of white linoleum. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The very first thing to hit the ground were his glasses. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

One was square-jawed, wide-shouldered, great hair, looked like he had played football in high school, badly bitten fingernails, the other had a receding hairline, silver-rimmed round glasses, manicured nails. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Dr. Rhodes is a few feet away, and she looks at me over her glasses. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

But someone takes one of the clear, bubbly glasses and hands it to me. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

With this simple calibration, the glasses should now be able to know my brain’s preferences and variations enough to sync up everything in Warcross to me. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His little round glasses were winking in the light. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He had been small enough to sit on her lap and play with her reading glasses—he might have been four or five. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

His glasses had fallen off when he ran. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

As she turned toward us, her eyes hidden by dark glasses, we could see how erect and proud she stood despite the fear she must have been feeling. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she put her glasses back on and busily wrote on the papers in front of her. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

In her most embittered moments we wrapped her in shawls, washed her face from the cistern tap, and brought her glasses of yogurt and rosewater. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I’m not lying, he was wearing a white lab coat and—I couldn’t believe it—dark glasses on a chain looped around his neck. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She wore her rimless glasses that Frank always liked to steal, and her fuzzy gray fleece pullover that smelled like cinnamon. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He looked at me over his glasses and said kind of sharp, “Never mind. I have my reasons.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her long braids were coiled in a bun, and she wasn’t wearing blue glasses—so it took me a second to recognize Samira. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then the woman in the funky glasses walks away from her true love in the suede shirt at computer terminal #3. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

She took off her glasses and rubbed the depressions on each side of her nose. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was still in his uniform as I had seen him through the glasses in the early afternoon. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me, Catherine,” she repeats, looking over her glasses at David. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The potatoes were in the oven, the beans in a covered pan, the table set with forks and a platter of sliced tomatoes and glasses of water. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I sleep better out here than I usually do,” said Henry, adjusting his glasses and bending back over the lexicon. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

In one hand he held a silver tray on which stood five cocktail glasses, each one half filled with a viscous brown substance. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She took her glasses off and wiped them on the hem of her skirt. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had pinned his Head Boy badge to the fez perched jauntily on top of his neat hair, his horn-rimmed glasses flashing in the Egyptian sun. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She peers at me over her half-moon glasses. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Before she gets in, she says to me, “I like your glasses.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She carried the bottle to the round table in the middle of the room and filled the two small glasses with rum. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

His glasses sat skewed on his nose, and he was smiling so big she could see his molars. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Bren gave a nod, dropped his glasses to the edge of his nose, and channeled Pitbull. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

On Tuesday, I sat again before the little man and his wire-rimmed glasses. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Diego was talking to a short girl, perky with pink glasses and a blue stripe in her blond hair. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Because,” he said, his head tilted low so that he was looking at us all from over the tops of his glasses, “they have so many problems.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Chubs was trailing behind us, his eyes hidden as the drooping sunlight caught his glasses. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They’re all the stories people tell after dinner, over glasses of tea. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’m not likely to find out, am I?” said Harry, seizing his Firebolt and pushing his glasses straight. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

John Eye brought in a tray with three filled shot glasses on it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes shone behind her glasses, brilliant, fiery. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Fine. It’s these glasses!” he says in disgust. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

We boys looked at each other and then held out our glasses. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Quickly he filled two glasses with beer and the two of them stepped close to the window. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was when I got my new glasses. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She adjusted her glasses and peered at it for a long time. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He heard her start sniffling about thirty seconds in, and saw her take off her glasses. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“It’s for some kind of lockbox,” he said, holding it up to his face and looking at it over his glasses. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

We clinked glasses just like people in the movies. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“No,” Summer repeated, adjusting the glasses so they were straight. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He searches the audience for someone he knows, but it isn’t his crowd—lots of lit majors with leather satchels and gold- rimmed glasses and fountain pens, lots of people Ruth would have waved to. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I recognize it instantly as the current generation of Warcross glasses that are being sold in stores—much more powerful than the old rentals I’ve been using up until now. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He nodded and put his glasses back on. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Now her parents lifted their glasses, and in her father's eyes, Sandi noted gratitude and in her mother's eyes a moistness that meant barely checked tears. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Maddie brought us three glasses with little umbrellas in them, all set on a nice glass tray. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Murky cabinets of medals, of glasses, of swords. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Three waiters descended on the table, filling water glasses, adjusting silverware and plates. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

But then she entered that awkward preadolescence stage, all pimples and big glasses and brand-new curves, and Lázaro acted like he didn’t know what to make of this new creature. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

He was a literature professor, neurotic and blinky behind his glasses, who Blaine once said was the only person at Yale that he trusted completely. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It sprung open and as he looked down at his clothes and books in the snow, his glasses slid off his nose. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I called,” a pretty, light-skinned woman in glasses said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

She probably wears the glasses out of vanity rather than necessity, because she thinks they make her look smarter—my father said so. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She pushes her glasses up and brushes her bangs out of her face. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“You drunk up two glasses a grape juice, I know you got to go.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The boats in the bay were part of it, and the string section of crickets in the baking grass, and the ice melting in our lemonade glasses. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I set her glasses down on her dresser. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She stepped toward me, and the yellow lamplight glazed her glasses so I could no longer make out her eyes. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I replaced my glasses and started off again, riding parallel to that high gray wall. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Clutter, who wore rimless glasses, removed them and pressed her eyes. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a long silence, Tranquilino creaked onto his feet and fetched two glasses, filling both a third full of cheap bourbon. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair would come down and drift between her glasses and her eyes, and the glasses would fall off her wet nose and spin and swing at the end of their black ribbon. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Two big tears had run from beneath his glasses down the sides of his cheeks. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She got some juice and some glasses for the children. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He squeezes his eyes shut, causing his glasses to slide down the bridge of his nose. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The way she saw it, glasses were like crutches. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The priest reached across to the shelf beside his chair and took down a bottle and two small glasses. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Nonnie slipped her glasses on and off her nose, trying to take in the sight, and finally let them hang on the ribbon around her neck while she clapped her hands like a little girl. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

A circular table with three stools around it was set with plates, glasses, napkins, and desserts. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I slipped his glasses off and set them on the nightstand. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Even then, we had to purchase the glasses ourselves. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His glasses were missing and his eyes were unfocused. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He eased Sticky’s slippers from his feet and his glasses from his nose, setting them, along with the plant book, upon a bedside stand. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

It took us a while to find the glasses. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s rations in the bottom drawer of the cabinet, and the jug of water on my desk is iodine-treated. Those plastic glasses are clean. Ish. Help yourself.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The girls from my barracks have made this little side room into a bridal suite, with glasses and teapots full of flowers. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He had the brandy bottle and glasses, and Eleanor thought that they must make a companionable little group, the four of them, sitting around Theodora’s room at four in the morning, drinking brandy. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

She raises her right hand to her glasses, and I notice she’s wearing bracelets, her only jewelry. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

His eyes without the glasses were blind, unwavering, strange. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Harold was smiling, his eyes were friendly behind his horn-rimmed glasses. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bull turned toward the far wall and, giving a signal to the other pilots in the room, all thirteen of them hurled their glasses into the fireplace already littered with bright shards of glass. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I filled the glasses and helped her clear the plates, and then we went out through the kitchen into the barnyard. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arthur and I go into the kitchen and grab eight glasses for this one bottle of cider. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

But he left the room and quickly returned with a tray of water glasses. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Hilly’s watching her maid, Yule May, refill our tea glasses. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He went below in the darkness, drank two glasses of water to celebrate finding land, then went back up to the cockpit to sit and wait for dawn. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reporter who interviews me wears red plastic-rimmed glasses and scribbles my answers in a tiny notepad. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Google glasses. One of ten pairs in the world!” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“The good one is giving you that gut feeling,” offered the kid with the black-framed glasses. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The Germans chased down the train, searched the baggage, repatriated the glasses, and sent the Americans on to Berlin. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

I caught Chubs looking back toward it over his shoulder, just once; the distant orange glow reflected in the lenses of his glasses. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

As the girl started on the other leg of the trousers, the boy with the glasses picked up the man’s shoes and waved them to the crowd. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leaning out of the cloud, looking down, is a wrinkled white man with glasses. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

She had a mass of faded yellow hair unbecomingly arranged in a large bun, wore glasses, and had a long, mild, amiable face rather like a sheep. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

After he had laughed, cleared his throat, and cleaned his glasses one more time, Ogden Loring began the class. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Gilly came in, the huge woman smiled shyly at her over the top of her reading glasses. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Dill hugged Lydia again, knocking her glasses crooked. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Now there are enough old issues of the Globe stacked in the corners of the apartment to wrap all their plates and glasses. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“But they hit it off,” she says as she pushes her glasses back up. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

It’s more than we’re supposed to have, considering our rations, but it’s not just that—she’s filled our glasses to the brim, so that you can’t lift them without spilling some. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He looks so serious behind his round horn-rimmed glasses. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

He blinked over the top of his glasses at the young mouse. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She set out bowls and spoons and glasses of milk. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked over the tops of her tortoiseshell glasses, assessing Miranda’s complexion. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

August poured us glasses of ice water from the refrigerator. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

One inescapable conclusion: Kerri Gardner knows about my glasses, but she doesn’t think there’s anything wrong with me. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He popped open the bottle and poured five glasses. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He was a pale guy with thick, black-framed glasses that made his eyes look tiny. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then I threw the package with the cap and glasses as hard as I could, yelling as it disappeared into the night. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Pasta bowls, bread plates, glasses, two forks, two spoons, and a butter knife. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He fingered his glasses and stared at me a long time. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tilted his head down and nudged his glasses with his shoulder, but they didn’t straighten. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Harry felt around for his glasses, put them on, and sat up. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Soon-Lee pushes her glasses up, and they kiss on the lips, lingering until Thomas’s friend from the next table yells, “Get a room!” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

They had the same color outfits as the ballplayers and they all wore these big red-frame glasses with no glass in them. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Snape stood there, seething, staring from Fudge, who looked thoroughly shocked at his behavior, to Dumbledore, whose eyes were twinkling behind his glasses. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

There, sure enough, was Percy Weasley, striding across the snowy yard, his horn-rimmed glasses glinting in the sunlight. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

After he polished his glasses, Mr. Loring put them back on and stared unsteadily at Ben. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He cleaned off his glasses to get a better look and found himself walking towards a mysterious glow. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

When he was done explaining, his father removed his reading glasses and set them on top of his paper. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She looks glamorous, with a kerchief over her head and dark glasses like a movie star. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Just then a door on the second landing opened, and a face poked out wearing horn-rimmed glasses and a very annoyed expression. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Joseph cleaned his glasses and looked into the mirror at his red eyes, his messy hair, and his rumpled shirt. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He put down his heavy suitcase, dried off his glasses, and coughed. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Then he takes off his round wire-framed glasses and peers into my face. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

He said, With my glasses I could be helpful. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Because of the thick glasses, her eyes had a bloated appearance as though they were both trapped in a goldfish bowl. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw the glasses come off, and the old red handkerchief come out. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or else I was home waiting for him, drinking four glasses of water before he arrived so I could watch him eat whatever there was without my stomach growling. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore dark-framed glasses, a cream- colored jacket with the zipper half open, and a pair of sharply creased light-brown pants. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I moved slowly up the walk, watching as she fished two shot glasses from her pocket. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He wore round glasses held together with a lot of Scotch tape because of all the times Dudley had punched him on the nose. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

They wore shiny, textured gray-blue suits and wide ties and sported long sideburns and slightly too large brown- tinted polarizing glasses. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dill got up to refill their water glasses. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The bartender, a severe-eyed young woman in gelled hair and unstructured black, is polishing glasses behind the long table that serves as the bar. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“What do glasses have to do with anything?” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Her glasses are askew, and her eyes are empty of feeling. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The rest of the meal was quiet, me pondering why anyone, even him, wouldn’t want friends, and him glaring, the lights of the highway reflecting in his glasses. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I shove the briefcase to the edge of my bed and lay back before sliding the glasses onto my face. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The waitress came back with two glasses of water. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I turn to Brandy, pushing my glasses up my nose. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Mundungus did not look particularly reassured, but Moody was already pulling half a dozen eggcup-sized glasses from inside his cloak, which he handed out, before pouring a little Polyjuice Potion into each one. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I push my bangs away from my glasses. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Olanna imagined him at the edge of his chair, pushing his glasses back as he spoke. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Eventually, with the aid of several glasses of champagne, Tsukiko persuades her to abandon the effort, drawing her out into the sunken garden to distract her. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

There’s a tear streaking down his cheek, sliding out from under his glasses. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

"We don't want to fight him after dark. There's only the one pair of glasses." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

From here, with my new glasses on, I can see the virtual names of streets and buildings blinking in and out as I move around the room. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Don’t use hardly with a negative verb, as in: She can't hardly see without her glasses. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Simon, a taller version of Trevor but with glasses, came out of the house and picked up the sleeping bag, tucking it under his arm. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

He pushed his glasses back up his nose. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

When he spoke, he sometimes looked up and to the side through his glasses, as if searching for what he wanted to say. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He pushed his glasses higher on his nose and then squinted. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I like him better with his glasses, but no-glasses is a good look on him, too. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He adjusted his frameless glasses and looked the tall man in the eye. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Mom was always forgetting her glasses, or her keys, or something or other. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Tagoe takes off his glasses, wiping his tears with the back of his hand, and closes it into a tight fist. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

In fleeting clear spells of lucidity, when Amaranta would bring him his meals he would tell her what bothered him most and would accept her sucking glasses and mustard plasters in a docile way. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I pour us glasses of chilled mango juice. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

She nodded, pushing her glasses up on her nose. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Maya peered over her glasses at the Savanna table. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He opened the wine and poured two glasses full. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

In the elevator I imagine a bird decorator who’s wearing my dad’s glasses—the funky rectangular ones he wears when he has a meeting—and flipping through a bird-size binder full of twig samples. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The glasses are not used to help show a person the outside world but, rather, a flow of information. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Looking over the rims of his reading glasses, he slowly unfolded the paper. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Shielding them with one hand, he groped hopelessly for his glasses with the other. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Fluted glasses appear from somewhere behind him and are set up on Marlena’s vanity. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z