The periscope is turned on and you are able to view the outside by clicing on the lense. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference
How the levers on the right side of the periscope is placed decide what you see outside. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference
The tinkle of broken glass sliding down the bamboo tube told that the periscope was a wreck. From Wordnik.com. [Panther Eye] Reference
The Torre Del Mangia bell tower that looks like a periscope is a flight of fantasy in brick and stone!. From Wordnik.com. [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference
The mirror affair, which Mr. Holcombe called a periscope, was put in that day and worked amazingly well. From Wordnik.com. [The Case of Jennie Brice] Reference
It can even carry a camera to serve as a kind of periscope for the sub's controller. From Wordnik.com. [New Scientist - Online News] Reference
She has her little "periscope," her magic mirror, which shows the liar himself, as well as the world, what he is like. From Wordnik.com. [Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers] Reference
The captain turns the periscope around, scanning the waters. From Wordnik.com. [Some Naval Yarns] Reference
"Lower foremost periscope into the well," ordered the captain. From Wordnik.com. [Some Naval Yarns] Reference
This periscope was not in use and had not been above the surface. From Wordnik.com. [Some Naval Yarns] Reference
He looked neither to right nor left but was still at the periscope. From Wordnik.com. [Some Naval Yarns] Reference
A recent example is your May 19 periscope piece "WMD -- Looted and Lost?". From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call: An Unequal War] Reference
Post the men found that the ordinary square periscope was almost useless. From Wordnik.com. [The Kangaroo Marines] Reference
Jason looked through the second-driver's periscope as the outer gate lifted. From Wordnik.com. [Deathworld] Reference
We were there, and one could imagine the tiny periscope just above the water. From Wordnik.com. [Some Naval Yarns] Reference
I believe a small charge is made for looking at him through the periscope there. From Wordnik.com. [Letters from France] Reference
Four men were engaged in taking down a bent and partially ruptured periscope tube. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Volunteers with the Submarine Fleet] Reference
Krannon had his face buried in the periscope mask and silently fought the controls. From Wordnik.com. [Deathworld] Reference
First, periscope makes the anti-Bush administration/big-business connection once again. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call] Reference
"Well, there is one less periscope, if I know anything," replied the navigating officer. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Volunteers with the Submarine Fleet] Reference
"Tube ready?" asked the commander, his head hidden between the black flaps of the periscope. From Wordnik.com. [Some Naval Yarns] Reference
It was the tall periscope that received the shot, which struck it about four feet from the top. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Volunteers with the Submarine Fleet] Reference
By nightfall the little fleet of three undersea craft was speeding southward at periscope depth. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung] Reference
This periscope was concealed in the chimney of a partially ruined farm building within our lines. From Wordnik.com. [The Emma Gees] Reference
Instead, they've set up a periscope that allows her to view a series of videotaped advertisements. From Wordnik.com. [PUSHING THE BUY BUTTON] Reference
Next day Starkey decided he could not see enough with a periscope, so took a look over the parapet. From Wordnik.com. [The Emma Gees] Reference
"Now, why don't that stick float, instead of sailing along like a periscope?" pondered the captain. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old] Reference
In the distance nothing was visible but the conning tower and the two periscope tubes, but that was enough. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Volunteers with the Submarine Fleet] Reference
CorrectionIn the April 30 periscope item "Clubbing for Kids," the musician Brady Rymer's surname was misspelled. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to the Editor] Reference
It was not visible from the periscope, which a second after the signal to fire had been brought down under the surface. From Wordnik.com. [Some Naval Yarns] Reference
"Where is that steamer bound?" asked Ralph, who noticed a large two-funnel steamer crossing the field of the periscope. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Volunteers with the Submarine Fleet] Reference
One morning, to their horror the men, through the periscope, saw the child standing above the trench on the German side. From Wordnik.com. [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference
Alfred was at the wheel, while Ralph was peering through the periscope, for this interested them from the moment they boarded the ship. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Volunteers with the Submarine Fleet] Reference
A Bedouin shepherd walked by the camouflaged holes the A-Team had dug for itself Sgt. 1/c Troy Colson popped up a periscope from his hole. From Wordnik.com. [Exclusive: Behind Enemy Lines] Reference
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