lorgnon
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"What lace is that around your neck?" calls out Anna, angrily, looking at her mother through her lorgnon.
From Boris Lensky by Ossip Schubin
She even put up her lorgnon and though she was not very tall, she contrived to look Hector through them straight between the eyes.
From The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
"Who is this elegant gentleman?" asked the Baroness, raising her lorgnon, still wholly absorbed in contemplating the interesting foulard back.
From Felix Lanzberg's Expiation by Ossip Schubin
Nancy, paralyzed with astonishment, saw him sit down, saw his plausible back and explanatory gestures, while the woman still looked at her through her long-handled lorgnon.
From The Devourers by Annie Vivanti Chartres
The lady put up her lorgnon and bowed amiably to Miss Landgrave, who was talking eagerly to her uncle....
From Melomaniacs by James Huneker
Some of the women stared at the people going by with lorgnons.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
They both put up their lorgnons and gave her a swift glance.
From Gordon Keith by Thomas Nelson Page
From their seats women put up their lorgnons to look at her, passers-by turned round and stared.
From The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by William John Locke
Suddenly there was a stir, followed by a hush in the conversation, and monocles and lorgnons went up.
From Gordon Keith by Thomas Nelson Page
I saw more than one matron of the North Side set stiffen in her seat, while Mrs. Belknap-Jackson and Mrs. Effie turned upon her the chilling broadside of their lorgnons.
From Ruggles of Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson
