He was slight of stature, and he wore a monoclepermanently fixed in one eye.
As he gave the order, the subaltern let the monocle drop from his eye, and while the command was being obeyed, swung the glass round and round, with the cord between finger and thumb, in a rapid circle.
In my ear murmurs he of the monocle about the Sahara--he is back from the Sahara a week ago: the winter sun in the Sahara!
Take note of the exact mathematical equality in the distances by which Richland and Sir Monocle and I are removed from the chair of the Lady Beautiful.
In his right eye he carried a monocle without a rim and without a ribbon or thread to save it, should it ever have fallen from his eye.
I had even followed him around the deck several times in a desire to be present when the monocle blew out, but the British diplomatist never for once lost his grip on it.
He was a thought overdressed--a big man, dark-haired and well groomed, who toyed with a monocle most unsuitable to his type.
The monocle had fallen from its place, and he was looking down at her with eyes that had a strange glitter.
The monocledropped from his eye, and his face went suddenly white.
He was a severe looking young man, who wore a gold-rimmed monocle on his grey check waistcoat and occasionally in his left eye.
At her side the young Duke of Altern shuffled, his long, thin body curved like a kangaroo, and his monocle bent superciliously upon the mass of common clay about him.
He fixed his monocle savagely in his eye and strode rapidly toward the refreshment hall.
Having delivered himself of this oracular statement, the youth adjusted his monocle and settled back as if he had given finality to a weighty argument.
Then, as he adjusted hismonocle and fixed his jaded eyes upon the fresh young girl, "Bah Jove!
Susanne, as if to break the spell, and careless now, as ever, of the lost authority of Rawlings, fixed his monocle upon that worthy reflectively.
Susanne, his monocle in position, strolled away across the enclosure.
Mr. Samson accepted his coffee and let his monoclefall into it, a sign that he was discomposed to an unusual degree.
A single figure was visible upon it, silhouetted strongly against the low sky, and Mr. Samson worked his monocle into his eye and grasped it with a pliant eyebrow to see the clearer.
Half an hour later, Mr. Samson slewed his monocletowards him.
A Newmarket coat concealed most of his deficiencies; his monocle made the rest of them insignificant.
I note the monocle the young lieutenant is wearing.
Not much to be seen, Tamson," remarked the captain, placing his monoclein his eye.
Prepare to charge," whispered the captain, putting his monocle into his eye.
His English was as faultless as his manner affable and his monocle firm in his eye.
He removed his monocle and slipped it into a waistcoat pocket.
Renwick by this time had risen and stood fitting his monocle into his eye.
He paused for a moment to adjust his monocle and it was fortunate that he did so, for there was a crash of glass at the window just by his head, followed by a cry of alarm within the room.
To acknowledge that he had been outwitted had been galling, but to let this English creature of pipe and monocle indicate, in the presence of his own underlings, the precise means of his discomfiture was bitter indeed.
The tangle of legs and arms took form, and a head appeared, wearing a monocle and a smile.
Renwick did not know whether to be surprised or angry, and finished by being both, glancing at the intruder through his monocle in a manner distinctly offensive.
One was old Cragg; another a tall, thin man with a monocle in his left eye; the third, she found to her surprise, was none other than Jim Bennett the postman.
I saw him last night--monocle and all--acting as old Cragg's confederate.
The man with themonocle slowed the car and came to a sudden stop, rather than run her down.
Wyatt screwed his monocleinto his eye, regarded both sides of the coin attentively, and laid it down.
Wyatt fixed his monocle on the offending miner with bland and exasperating condescension.
Squinting at the viewless ether through his monocle he beheld millions in it; so did William Augustus Destyn and the other sons-in-law.
He executed a ferocious facial contortion, clapped the monocle into his left eye, and squinted fiercely.
Chester Kent, already conspicuous in his spotless white flannels, had made himself doubly so by drawing out a monocle and deftly fixing it in his right eye.
Setting his useful monocle in his eye, Kent examined the work carefully.
Taking the magnifying monocle that Kent held out, the artist scrutinized the lines of the picture.
Yes, I'll come," he said a moment later, deliberately screwing his monocle a little tighter into position and looking at the inventor.
Thrusting desperately his monocle into his eye, he strove to return stare for stare.
The monocle dropped from his eye and hung limply from its ribbon.
Henry adjusted his monocle and looked at her in some surprise.
Henry, refusing to be embarrassed, put up his monocle and stared back, as if surprised at the ill-breeding of this person.
His monocle was in his eye, a cigarette was between his fingers and he looked as if he had been newly washed and ironed and pressed from head to foot.
He turned his cool regard upon Chief Inspector Kerry, twirling the cord of his monocleabout one finger.
He fumbled in his waistcoat-pocket and found a black-rimmed monocle and inserted it in his eye.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "monocle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: eyeglass; glasses; goggles; lorgnette; monocle; peepers; shades; specs; spectacles; sunglasses
