71 Verbs to Use for the Word telescopes

I looked towards the sea, and took my little telescope from my pocket, that I might seem to be intent on watching a distant steamer.

We know now that had the astronomer-royal put sufficient faith in this result to point his big telescope at the spot indicated and begin sweeping for a planet, he would have detected it within 1-3/4º of the place assigned to it by Adams.

Two others, one a young woman from Missouri, who brought with her a fine telescope, and another from Ohio, besides myself, stood at the three telescopes.

Afterwards Mr. Mitchell bought a small Dolland telescope, which thereafter, as long as she lived, his daughter used for "sweeping" purposes.

Mr. Lassell works only for his own amusement, and has been to Malta,carrying his larger telescope with him,for the sake of clearer skies.

"Mr. Lassell has constructed two telescopes, both on the Newtonian plan; one of ten, the other of twenty, feet in length.

They are building immense additional rooms, and are having a great telescope, twenty-seven feet in focal length, constructed.

"Here we are, Fred," he said, seizing a telescope that hung over the cabin door, "within sight of the Danish settlement of Upernavik; come on deck and see it.

In July 1819 I had (as before mentioned) sketched a plan for constructing reflecting telescopes with silvered glass, and had shewn it afterwards to Mr Peacock.

But great poets use the telescope and also the microscope.

"The observatory possesses an equatorial telescope, but it is of mixed composition.

As we saw one weather-beaten man after another raise the telescope, turn deadly pale and pass it on without a word to the next, we knew that all hope was gone.

with great effort, turn that huge telescope down to the horizon to make an observation upon a blazing comet seen there, and when he had found it in his glass, find also that it was not a comet, but the nebula of Andromeda, a cluster of stars on which he had spent much time, and which he had made a special object of study.

Before the servants had time to move, the grey man, bowing modestly, had put his hand in his pocket and pulled out a beautiful telescope, which passed from hand to hand without being returned to its owner.

"For example: 'Galileo greatly improved the telescope.'"Id.

"For example: Gallileo invented the telescope.

he is said to have exclaimed; and closing his telescope, commanded the whole line to advance.

As I slowly passed the telescope over the face of Europe, I pictured to myself the fat, plodding Hollanderthe patient, contemplative Germanthe ingenious, sensual Italianthe temperate Swissthe haughty, superstitious Spaniardthe sprightly, self-complacent Frenchmanthe sullen and reflecting Englishman who monopolize nearly all the science and literature of the earth, to which they bear so small a proportion.

"On June 15th, I went from Windsor to Slough to Doctor Herschel, where I saw the great telescope.

"In sending out telescopes so far as from Boston to Denver, I had carefully taken out the glasses, and packed them in my trunks.

He set the telescope to this group, and asking his son to count the seconds, he allowed the stars to pass by the motion of the earth across the field.

He sat down as he spoke, with his back to a rock, and over his knee he levelled a long brass telescope.

When I had finished my sketch, I shut up my telescope and said "Now we'll go across the river.

Then he lowered his telescope, and turned to Langdon.

I subsequently tried my telescope, but it would not do.

71 Verbs to Use for the Word  telescopes