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How to use lorgnette in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word lorgnette? Here are some examples.

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Positioned hierarchically above the crowd like a god, King Leopold looks through a lorgnette but seems not to notice the violence below.
As they spoke, their father observed them from the staircase, holding a lorgnette.
The woman raised a lorgnette and appraised the muddied rugby shirt with pursed lips.
The narrator bought an Art Deco gold lorgnette in a junk-and-jewelry shop in the Old City of Geneva and forgot about it for many years.
As she grew farsighted, she remembered the lorgnette, retrieved it from her jewelry box and wore it everywhere.
Rather, Turturro draws himself up to his full height and beyond, studying his interlocutor as if through an invisible lorgnette.
Well, I do not have my lorgnette on me, but I will try anyway.
He won a national student design competition two years running, once for a white desk phone that had a handset with a long handle, like a lorgnette.
A lorgnette viewer and a pair of anaglyph glasses, required for viewing in stereo, are included with every copy.
But in the stem of this elegant thing, as small as a lorgnette, tiny rose diamonds sparkled sprightly today as they did a century ago.
But this was a new night now, a postwar night lit by cities and industry, and the American Self had caught its reflection in the lorgnette of a fashionable woman in the front row.
Examples from Classical Literature
Its lorgnette eyes, like those of a lobster, were quite independent of each other.
In the morning, when I awake, I sit by my window and direct my lorgnette at her balcony.
From the moment when they entered their box every lorgnette was fixed upon them.
The calabrian raised what she considered her most deadly weapon, her lorgnette.
The lady took down her lorgnette and raised an appealing face.
In the valley, near the Acropolis, Athens itself could be vaguely made out with an ordinary lorgnette.
Mrs. Evringham put up her lorgnette as she greeted the child.
Most of them are fairly hostile to genius or look at it with a lorgnette.
How interesting, said Sapphira, looking at the boy through her lorgnette.
He also pinned several jeweled brooches to Jack Pumpkinhead's red waistcoat, and attached a lorgnette, by means of a fine chain, to the neck of the Saw-Horse.
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