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• The secretary with the gold pince-nez was the CEO's, and although he had seen her often he had never spoken to her--much less been spoken to. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
• He also made a little involuntary preliminary cut at him with the pince-nez, as much as to say, "If this my weapon were of a size commensurate with my wishes and your colossal impudence, your head would lie upon the ground, young man I have had the pleasure of meeting Miss Brandt at Lady Elspeth Gordon's and elsewhere. —  Pearl of Pearl Island
• Do I see another learned brother He peered keenly at me through his pince-nez, and I gazed at him in some embarrassment This is my friend Jervis, of whom you have heard me speak," said Thorndyke. —  The Red Thumb Mark
• I asked bluntly The doctor readjusted his pince-nez, and seated himself with some deliberation on the foot of the bed The instinct to assist a hunted fellow-creature," he observed, "is almost universal." —  A Rogue by Compulsion
• He used a pince-nez, and was constantly putting it to his eyes, as though troubled with short-sightedness I presume your matter cannot wait, sir," said Jost, surveying him coolly, without rising from his seat,--"but if it can It cannot!" —  Temporal Power

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