"Monocle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... some joke and she is laughing at it. He has put his monocle in his other eye in his effort to see the point. He will get it by the next boat. Wish she'd come and tell that joke to me. ...
— As Seen By Me • Lilian Bell
... more properly speaking, doubled himself over at right angles, with a brusque stiffness, upon kissing the hands of the two ladies. Then he raised his impertinent monocle and fixed it in one of his eyes while the doctor ...
— Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) - A Novel • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... readjusted his monocle and stiffened himself to attention—a heroic pose which invariably accompanied his protests. But ...
— Bones - Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country • Edgar Wallace
... end of this second day, however, more attention was upon him than upon the prisoner, and nine-tenths of the people in the court-room could have told how many fine linen handkerchiefs he used during the afternoon, how many times he adjusted his monocle to look at the judge meditatively. Probably no man, for eight hours a day, ever exasperated and tried a judge, jury, and public, as did this man of twenty-nine years of age, who had been known at college as Beauty Steele, and who ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... open the door—Campbell, well groomed, clean-shaven, and gloved even in that warm weather; Tremlidge, the editor of one of the greater daily papers of the City (and of the country for the matter of that), who wore a monocle and carried a straw hat under his arm; and Garlock, the vice-president of an international geographical society, an old man, with beautiful white hair curling about his ears, a great bow of black silk knotted about his old-fashioned collar. The group presented, ...
— A Man's Woman • Frank Norris |
