glass Quotes

“So once the grid went up, the realization that there was now only the glass between me and the sidewalk, that I was free to see, close up and whole, so many things I’d seen before only as corners and edges, made me so excited that for a moment I nearly forgot about the Sun and his kindness to us.”

“I knew, could have reference to nothing but a telescope; for the word ‘glass’ is rarely employed in any other sense by seamen.