GLASSES in Classic Quotes

Simple words can express big ideas - learn how great writers to make beautiful sentences with common words.
Quotes from Dubliners by James Joyce
Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Search Panel
Word:
You may input your word or phrase.
Author:
Book:
 
Stems:
If search object is a contraction or phrase, it'll be ignored.
Sort by:
Each search starts from the first page. Its result is limited to the first 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.
Common Search Words
 Current Search - glasses in Dubliners
1  They clinked glasses and drank the toast.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A LITTLE CLOUD
2  The bar was full of men and loud with the noise of tongues and glasses.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In COUNTERPARTS
3  Gradually as the last glasses were being filled the conversation ceased.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD
4  She set these on the table and invited us to take a little glass of wine.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE SISTERS
5  The light music of whisky falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In GRACE
6  The gentlemen drank from their glasses, set the glasses again on the table and paused.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In GRACE
7  Then, at her sister's bidding, she filled out the sherry into the glasses and passed them to us.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE SISTERS
8  On the sideboard were arrayed dishes and plates, and glasses and bundles of knives and forks and spoons.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD
9  Going down the stairs his glasses became so dimmed with moisture that he had to take them off and polish them.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
10  Simultaneously Mr. Alleyne, a little man wearing gold-rimmed glasses on a cleanshaven face, shot his head up over a pile of documents.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In COUNTERPARTS
11  The alert host at an opportunity lifted his glass to Humanity and, when the toast had been drunk, he threw open a window significantly.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In AFTER THE RACE
12  I've been to the Moulin Rouge," Ignatius Gallaher continued when the barman had removed their glasses, "and I've been to all the Bohemian cafes.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A LITTLE CLOUD
13  Their cries reached me weakened and indistinct and, leaning my forehead against the cool glass, I looked over at the dark house where she lived.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In ARABY
14  The dark damp night was coming and he longed to spend it in the bars, drinking with his friends amid the glare of gas and the clatter of glasses.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In COUNTERPARTS
15  Little Chandler said nothing until the barman returned with two glasses: then he touched his friend's glass lightly and reciprocated the former toast.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A LITTLE CLOUD
16  Three days' reddish beard fringed his jaws and every two or three minutes a mist gathered on his glasses so that he had to take them off and polish them with his pocket-handkerchief.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
17  The high colour of his cheeks pushed upwards even to his forehead, where it scattered itself in a few formless patches of pale red; and on his hairless face there scintillated restlessly the polished lenses and the bright gilt rims of the glasses which screened his delicate and restless eyes.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD
Your search result may include more than 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.