“The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.”

“Metal glasses, unlike those based on silica, are electrically conductive, which can be either an advantage or a disadvantage, depending on the application.”

“Would you like ⟳ a glass of wine?”

“Fill ⟳ my glass with milk, please ⟳.”

“There is half a glass of milk in each pound of chocolate we produce ⟳.”

“Here was my chance. I took the old man aside, and two or three glasses of Old Crow launched him into reminiscence.”

“At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[…]In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own ⟳ select ⟳ circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.”

“We collected art glass.”

“She adjusted her lipstick in the glass.”

“1599, Thomas Dekker, Old Fortunatus, Act III, Scene 1, J.M. Dent & Co., 1904, p. 67, […] for what lady can abide to love ⟳ a spruce silken-face courtier, that stands every morning two or three hours learning how to look ⟳ by his glass, how to speak ⟳ by his glass, how to sigh ⟳ by his glass, how to court his mistress by his glass? I would wish ⟳ him no other plague, but to have ⟳ a mistress as brittle as glass.”

“Beholding her charms in the glaſs, ſhe wandered over a wilderneſs of vain fancies.”

“As of old, he took down his portable glass hanging on a nail, and carefully wiping it, replaced it in its case.”

“Haviers, or stags which have ⟳ been gelded when young, have ⟳ no horns, as is well known, and in the early part of the stalking season, when seen through a glass, might be mistaken for hummels […]”

“He got a good glass for six hundred dollars. His new job gave him leisure for star-gazing. Often he bid me come ⟳ and have ⟳ a look ⟳ Up the brass barrel, velvet black inside, At a star quaking in the other end ⟳.”

“He caught the rebound off the glass.”

“He fired the outlet pass ⟳ off the glass.”

“The glass is falling hour by hour, the glass will fall ⟳ for ever / But if you break ⟳ the bloody glass you won’t hold ⟳ up the weather.”

“glass frog; glass shrimp; glass worm”

“Were my Wiues Liuer / Infected (as her life) ſhe would not liue / The running of one Glaſſe.”

“Her new camera was incompatible with her old one, so she needed to buy ⟳ new glass.”

“[N]o sooner had we entered Holbourn than letting down one of the Front Glasses I enquired of every decent-looking Person that we passed ‘If they had seen my Edward?’”

“Ladies are usually conveyed about Calcutta, or any where for short distances, in a kind of palanquin, called a boҫhah... Its deep shape ⟳, and its seat, much resemble ⟳ the [English sedan chair]; but having two doors, one on each side, with one window in front, as well as a small one behind, all furnished with Venetians and glasses, give ⟳ it, in those respects, some claim ⟳ to alliance with the [chariot].”

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