I wanted to stand with a party on the summit of Mont Blanc, merely to be able to say I had done it, and I believed the
telescope could set me within seven feet of the uppermost man.
The house of his rival was quite open to view; a garden exposed to the sun; cabinets with glass walls, shelves, cupboards, boxes, and ticketed pigeon-holes, which could easily be surveyed by the
telescope. Boxtel allowed his bulbs to rot in the pits, his seedlings to dry up in their cases, and his tulips to wither in the borders and henceforward occupied himself with nothing else but the doings at Van Baerle's.
Dense clouds of smoke or dust, visible through a powerful
telescope on earth as little grey, fluctuating patches, spread through the clearness of the planet's atmos- phere and obscured its more familiar features.
Fentolin, who was holding the
telescope to his eye, touched Hamel on the shoulder.
Belfast, director of the Cambridge Observatory, and reached the station of Long's Peak, where the
telescope was erected which brought the moon within an apparent distance of two leagues.
"Where did you find the
telescope?" Geraldine asked.
`What a curious feeling!' said Alice; `I must be shutting up like a
telescope.'
Just as a photographic plate receives a different impression of a cluster of stars when a
telescope is part of the intervening medium, so a brain receives a different impression when an eye and an optic nerve are part of the intervening medium.
And by a mechanical movement, the skipper put aside the
telescope, and the pursuing ship, relegated to the horizon, appeared again in its true aspect.
The boy held the end of the
telescope against one of the veranda scantlings, while the man gazed through it at the sea.
"If, then, the penetrative power of
telescopes has not been further increased, it is because that power detracts from their light; and the moon, which is but a reflecting mirror, does not give back sufficient light to enable us to perceive objects of lesser magnitude."
I see him every day through my
telescope upon the roof.