lorgnon

Example Sentences

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For an instant they wavered, for Caterina had sprung upon the float and was gazing at them through her lorgnon.

From Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) by Champney, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams)

Madame la Duchesse deigned to ask as she pointed with her lorgnon to the door.

From The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

Great was his joy at finding "a purely Indian legislative body" and assisting at their deliberations, his lorgnon glued now to one chief and now to another.

From Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 by Various

Showily dressed, with a large black felt mushroom hat and heavy pearl pendants in her ears, she talked with affected languor and used a gold lorgnon.

From By Right of Conquest A Novel by Hornblow, Arthur

In fact, like many an actor in the drama of life, he really knew less about the general mise-en-scene than I, who had only reviewed it through the lorgnon of Tennyson and other contemporary writers.

From Love's Usuries by Creswicke, Louis