Discussion Groups / English Usage / May 2009

Hello:

There's no mention of "radiations" in the text up to this point. With
"ocular,"  I am reading them as side/unpleasant looks/regards. Of course
, it could mean other bodily code:

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[Templer has a pretty confrontation going on for some while and in
various ways with the housemaster, Le Bas]

He [the housemaster] laughed a lot, and this would have been the moment
to leave him, and go on our way. We should probably have escaped without
further trouble if Templer -- feeling no doubt that Stringham had been
occupying too much of the stage -- had not begun to shoot out radiations
towards Le Bas, long and short, like an ocular Morse code, saying at the
same time in his naturally rather harsh voice: "I am afraid we very
nearly jumped on you, sir."

A Dance to the Music of Time, Spring, by Anthony Powell, p. 36
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