I get the bottle while he opens a desk drawer containing two glasses.
Wonderland posted videos taken with a hidden camera—in a cross necklace, or inside a watch or glasses—of him hitting on women.
He turned around, not sure what to make of the girl in the glasses and NYU hoodie calling him like she knew him.
He did not wipe away the tears, but the long lenses of the television cameras showed him blinking them back behind his glasses.
Behind glass doors it displayed an assortment of glasses, stacked tea cups; a small row of books; a bouquet of fake flowers.
As the waiter would have refilled the glasses, Blythe stopped him.
As the next toast fell to his lot, he would ask them to charge their glasses.
It was the gray-headed man with the glasses and the kindly look about the eyes.
Garson brought his fist down on the table with a force that made the glasses jingle.
From the bar came the jingle of glasses and loud, cheerful conversation.
"spectacles," 1660s, from plural of glass (n.).
late 14c., "to fit with glass;" 1570s, "to cover with glass," from glass (n.). Related: Glassed; glassing.
Old English glæs "glass, a glass vessel," from West Germanic *glasam (cf. Old Saxon glas, Middle Dutch and Dutch glas, German Glas, Old Norse gler "glass, looking glass," Danish glar), from PIE *ghel- "to shine, glitter" (cf. Latin glaber "smooth, bald," Old Church Slavonic gladuku, Lithuanian glodus "smooth"), with derivatives referring to colors and bright materials, a word that is the root of widespread words for gray, blue, green, and yellow (cf. Old English glær "amber," Latin glaesum "amber," Old Irish glass "green, blue, gray," Welsh glas "blue;" see Chloe). Sense of "drinking glass" is early 13c.
The glass slipper in "Cinderella" is perhaps an error by Charles Perrault, translating in 1697, mistaking Old French voir "ermine, fur" for verre "glass." In other versions of the tale it is a fur slipper. The proverb about people in glass houses throwing stones is attested by 1779, but earlier forms go back to 17c.:
Who hath glass-windows of his own must take heed how he throws stones at his house. ... He that hath a body made of glass must not throw stones at another. [John Ray, "Handbook of Proverbs," 1670]
glass (glās)
n.
Any of a large class of materials with highly variable mechanical and optical properties that solidify from the molten state without crystallization, are typically made by silicates fusing with boric oxide, aluminum oxide, or phosphorus pentoxide, are generally hard, brittle, and transparent or translucent, and are considered to be supercooled liquids rather than true solids.
Something usually made of glass, such as a window, mirror, drinking vessel.
glasses A pair of lenses mounted in a light frame, used to correct faulty vision or protect the eyes. Also called spectacles.
A device, such as a monocle or spyglass, containing a lens or lenses and used as an aid to vision.
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