After all, Wolfe observes, other threatened species live in the lease area, starting with a duck called the spectacled eider. From Wordnik.com. [The Edge of Extinction] Reference
Their faces have cream-colored or "spectacled" markings and they are the only bears of South America. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Three of the players were old, stout, gray, and spectacled. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Rachel] Reference
Miss Ann raised her spectacled eyes with something like interest. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
Portia blinked; an image of Penelope, spectacled and severe, rose in her mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Perfect Lover]
Who knew dreaming about the spectacled boy wonder was such a common occurrence?. From Wordnik.com. [Katie Hawkes: An Overactive Subconscious Meets the Dream Dictionary, Round One] Reference
Matanzas, is now on the shady side of 40, a spectacled and scholarly looking man. From Wordnik.com. [History of Negro Soldiers in the Spanish-American War, and Other Items of Interest] Reference
The spectacled passenger with the portfolio arose and got off by way of the front platform. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure] Reference
Mr. Valand is spectacled and given to slender neckties; Ms. Shea, to sundresses and scarves. From Wordnik.com. [Getting Hopheaded in Brooklyn] Reference
He waved a frantic hand to attract attention until a tall, spectacled clerk took pity on him. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
Abd-el-Kader, there was in a battalion of foot-chasseurs a spectacled adjutant named Duterbre. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
Unfortunately, turning his golden-spectacled eyes toward the table, he discovered Vivian Bell's book. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He shaded his spectacled eyes with a trembling hand, as if the light proved a little too strong for him. From Wordnik.com. [The Slave of Silence] Reference
The pale, spectacled face of another slim, tall man, with a white neckerchief, pointed him out as a minister. From Wordnik.com. [Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States. By William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Author of "Three Years in Europe." With a Sketch of the Author's Life] Reference
Only the marauding subantarctic skua Catharacta antarctica feeds on the island, mostly on spectacled petrels. From Wordnik.com. [Gough Island Wildlife Reserve, United Kingdom] Reference
She wasn't sure why, but she liked the fact that she could make staid, quiet, thick-spectacled Stephen Corman squirm. From Wordnik.com. [Lunatics]
Lin grabbed his clothes from the spectacled lady berating both soundly, giving them but little opportunity to explain. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
I had refused to give up the smallest scrap out of that package, and I took the same attitude with the spectacled man. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of Darkness] Reference
The prey base of benthic (bottom) feeding walrus, endangered sea ducks like spectacled eiders, and gray whales is declining. From Wordnik.com. [Impacts of global warming in Alaska] Reference
She (looking over at the bald head and spectacled eyes) had gone straight out of childhood into middle age and respectability. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873] Reference
Road, and that fact alone predisposed me to recognise Mr Pickwick in any spectacled, well-fleshed old gentleman of benevolent aspect. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
Reptiles include the great anacondas (Eunectes murinus), black caimans (Melanosuchus niger) and spectacled caimans (Caiman crocodilus). From Wordnik.com. [Purus varzea] Reference
Even the determined mind of Burbage, stern-featured and steel-spectacled, she moulded to a plastic acquiescence with her own sweet will. From Wordnik.com. [Old Valentines A Love Story] Reference
A German zoo reports that three females spectacled bears have suddenly begun to itch all over and lose their fur, as you see right there. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 4, 2009] Reference
On that fine morning there was no one in the Third Naval Member's office save for one Wran writer, prim, and spectacled and conscientious. From Wordnik.com. [On The Beach]
Palazzo Chupi, the semi-pink wonderland built by the yellow-spectacled artist Julian Schnabel, has finally sold off its triplex penthouse. From Wordnik.com. [Chupi Victory? Schnabel Sells Triplex Penthouse to Bill Brady] Reference
The eighteen recorded snake species include king cobra Ophiophagus hannah and spectacled cobra Naja naja, three vipers and six sea-snakes. From Wordnik.com. [Sundarbans, Bangladesh] Reference
Up and down the paths walked several spectacled men, who were brought up to me and introduced as Professor So-and-So, and Doctor So-and-So. From Wordnik.com. [Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915] Reference
In the bowels of this icebreaker, University of Wyoming researcher Jim Loworn studies a seabird with white eye patches: the spectacled eider. From Wordnik.com. [Battle Over Offshore Drilling In Arctic Dwarfs ANWR] Reference
From its dusty shadows a stooped figure emerged, gray-haired and spectacled, which waited for Stefan to speak with an air of patient humbleness. From Wordnik.com. [The Nest Builder] Reference
Wide-eyed, 3D-spectacled kids get to see, quite viscerally, what happens when they discard something (or someone) that's no longer shiny and new. From Wordnik.com. [Avital Binshtock: An Environmentalist's View of Toy Story 3] Reference
Barely reaching middle height, his spare form, sharp features, sallow complexion, and keen, spectacled eyes, made him look like a son of the soil. From Wordnik.com. [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference
Down it came with unerring swiftness, right through one of the spectacled gentleman's improvised "sky-lights" in the roof, and splashed in the Cuban's face. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras and Other Stories] Reference
Poor dear Wagner, how well one seems to know thee, with thy purblind spectacled eyes peering into fusty books and parchments, or bending over thy crucibles and retorts!. From Wordnik.com. [The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'] Reference
Here enthusiasm and charm made up for occasional soft spots (I swear the wire-spectacled first violinist's height was barely two times the length of of his mini violin bow). From Wordnik.com. [Richard Z. Chesnoff: Two Nights At Tully: Professor Hawking, Yo-Yo Ma & Kids With Fiddles] Reference
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