lorgnon

Example Sentences

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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 Schubin, Ossip

Again the lorgnon was turned threateningly on Hayden.

From The Silver Butterfly by Christy, Howard Chandler

"Well, you're a pretty girl," said Madame Beattie, dropping her lorgnon.

From The Prisoner by Brown, Alice

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

Valencia Valletort's luminous eyes had gleamed that night under their lashes, and pierced through the lenses of his lorgnon.

From Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories by Ouida