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  • Police released a sketch of the man, depicting him wearing a light, gray Yankees cap and eye-glasses with rectangular frames.

    Scam Targets Renters Tamer El-Ghobashy 2011

  • I was going through my usual routine which consisted of hanging my sarong, t-shirt and eye-glasses on the hooks and put the bath caddy down next to the water holder.

    Scorpion in the Bathroom | 08/07/08 Will 2008

  • Imagine a priviledged white male in his early 20s wearing non-prescription eye-glasses, a golf shirt, boat shoes and a keffiyeh, and you can imagine me committing a hate crime.

    Waldo Jaquith - “Hipsters: The dead end of western civilization.” 2008

  • Would you want to continue to sustain people's mind with the false stereotype many people has when they think of scientist or engineer, e.g. someone who has funny looking bunny teeth, wears thick eye-glasses, etc.?

    The Nerd Girls Peggy 2008

  • Would you want to continue to sustain people's mind with the false stereotype many people has when they think of scientist or engineer, e.g. someone who has funny looking bunny teeth, wears thick eye-glasses, etc.?

    The Nerd Girls Peggy 2008

  • I was going through my usual routine which consisted of hanging my sarong, t-shirt and eye-glasses on the hooks and put the bath caddy down next to the water holder.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Will 2008

  • When she'd laid her eye-glasses aside she sat for a while, stirring her tea in a thoughtful, contented manner.

    Watershed 2010

  • (If that were so, we would also reject antibiotics for infectious disease and allow the myopic to stumble around without eye-glasses.)

    Jacob M. Appel: Motherhood: Is It Ever Too Late? 2009

  • Moreover, if her teeth aren't capped, I'm betting they were braced; and I'd also put money down on the fact that Prejean, like all of us, has at some point performed other "unnatural" acts with her organs like chewing gum, wearing eye-glasses, enjoying a Diet Coke or two or ... well you get the idea.

    Brian Normoyle: Gathering Storm: Miss California Trying to Redefine Traditional Breasts for the Rest of Us 2009

  • You are very near-sighted, and you lose your eye-glasses in a crowded room.

    Activities for English Corner (or Oral English class) « Peace Corps: China 2007

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