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It was only the Widow Ashton’s inability to see objects clearly without her pince-nez that prevented her from spotting her daughter-in-law the moment she climbed out of her carriage.

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Gamache does not solve crimes by adjusting his pince-nez and issuing a deduction.

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He showed me some pince-nez reading glasses that Guinness has gotten for him, which make him look even more like an 18th-century European count.

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Improbably bedecked in a bow tie, pince-nez glasses and a mailman’s hat, he held a pickle like a cigar and cracked wise in a voice borrowed from Groucho Marx.

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A pair of cracked pince-nez balanced on the end of his twitching nose.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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