Who bought this admittedly very boring glasses case for you?
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So to only receive a glasses case in return was a little irritating.
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I had a sleeping pill in my glasses case, where I'd also stowed my contact-lens container.
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You get the carrying case (which is like an extra-large glasses case), the controller, spare propellers, and a quick start guide.
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Once, I told my assistant, Ashley Parker — now a Washington Post White House reporter — to send him a glasses case embroidered with a lobster.
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The zip pocket has worked well for storing chargers, a glasses case, passport, and other smaller items I want to keep secure in the bag.
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It will often sit in the middle of the bag, acting as a kind of wall separating my keys from my wallet and glasses case.
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I keep a thermos of tea, pens, a pad of paper, an orange, a glasses case or two, a computer and charger, and a magazine and a book in it.
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There's a Soviet camera hidden in a glasses case, an East German microdot message in a hollow tooth, a fake-pregnancy suit for female C.I.A. spies and a fake scrotum concealing a transmitter for the men.
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In it, the cat is perched atop a desk, and as its human places various objects near its paws — a lighter, a glasses case, a wallet — it pushes each item off the desk and onto the floor.
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Based on the short time the scanners have been in operation, Nunnally has faith in their accuracy—after several false positive alerts, he claims the software learned that the metal glasses case he carries wasn't a threat.
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At any given moment, the tote contains a reusable water bottle, my pocket items (wallet, phone, keys), some pens, a notepad, knockoff Apple earbuds, a glasses case, a pack of gum, tissues, some weed and a vaporizer, an old checkbook, a magazine, and a book.
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"The glasses were entrusted to the care of the British Library by Austen's great-great-great-niece in 1999, along with Austen's treasured portable writing desk (in which they had been stored) and several other Austen artifacts, including an ink well and an embroidered glasses case," Tuppen wrote in an email.
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"If you asked me who was most likely to shoot up the school in a hypothetical situation, I would have jokingly said Devon, since he made so many jokes about reaching into his bag and pulling out his glasses case or saying, 'Don't come into school tomorrow,'" said one STEM student who was a friend of Erickson's.
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The 50-page text of his campaign speech folded over twice in Roosevelt's breast pocket and a metal glasses case slowed the bullet, saving his life. Schrank was immediately disarmed, captured and might have been lynched had Roosevelt not shouted for Schrank to remain unharmed. At Schrank's trial, the would-be assassin claimed that William McKinley had visited him in a dream and told him to avenge his assassination by killing Roosevelt. He was found legally insane and was institutionalized until his death in 1943.
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In English, some plurale tantum nouns have a singular form used only attributively. Phrases such as "trouser press" and "scissor kick" contain the singular form, but it is considered nonstandard to say "a trouser" or "a scissor" on their own. That accords with the strong preference for singular nouns in attributive positions in English, but some words are used in the plural form even as attributive nouns, such as "clothes peg", "glasses case" – notwithstanding "spectacle case" and "eyeglass case". In English, a word may have many definitions only some of which are pluralia tantum.
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Three and a half years after he left office, Theodore Roosevelt ran in the 1912 presidential election as a member of the Progressive Party. While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on October 14, 1912, John Flammang Schrank, a saloon-keeper from New York who had been stalking him for weeks, shot Roosevelt once in the chest with a .38-caliber Colt Police Positive Special. The 50-page text of his campaign speech titled "Progressive Cause Greater Than Any Individual", folded over twice in Roosevelt's breast pocket, and a metal glasses case slowed the bullet, saving his life.
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Nouns used attributively to qualify other nouns are generally in the singular, even though for example, a dog catcher catches more than one dog, and a department store has more than one department. This is true even for some binary nouns where the singular form is not found in isolation, such as a trouser mangle or the scissor kick. This is also true where the attribute noun is itself qualified with a number, such as a twenty- dollar bill, a ten-foot pole or a two-man tent. The plural is used for nouns: a glasses case is for eyeglasses, while a glass case is made of glass (but compare eyeglass case); also an arms race versus arm wrestling.
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