lorgnon

Example Sentences

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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

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 Chartres, Annie Vivanti

She was coldly staring at Harris through a platinum lorgnon.

From The Innocents A Story for Lovers by Lewis, Sinclair

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

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 Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness