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  • Lorgnette in hand, Cyrène was sitting in the music chamber of the Hôtel de Noailles, scanning the bars of a sheet of music sent her by her suitor.

    The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette William Douw Lighthall

  • He was contributing at that time some much appreciated letters to various magazines under the signature of "The Lorgnette," which were subsequently republished as a volume bearing the same title.

    As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century Marian Gouverneur

  • But one day a Scrappy Kid, whose Mother didn't have any Lorgnette or

    Fables in Slang George Ade 1905

  • She always carried a 99-cent Lorgnette in one Hand and a Smelling-Bottle in the Other.

    Fables in Slang George Ade 1905

  • Brush, and after she had sized up the front room through the Lorgnette, she would say: "My Good Woman, does your Husband drink?"

    Fables in Slang George Ade 1905

  • Insurance Money, she retained both her Aplomb and the Lorgnette.

    Knocking the Neighbors George Ade 1905

  • The manuscript was preserved at Dux, together with another form of the same, having the sub-title of 'La Lorgnette Menteuse ou la Calomnie demasquee'.

    Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 30: Old Age and Death Giacomo Casanova 1761

  • The manuscript was preserved at Dux, together with another form of the same, having the sub-title of 'La Lorgnette Menteuse ou la Calomnie demasquee'.

    The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761

  • _The_ Fable _of the_ Good Fairy _with the_ Lorgnette, _and why_ She Got _It_ Good 33

    Fables in Slang George Ade 1905

  • a Dux dans le mois de Juin de l'Annee, 1791, 'which recurs again under the form of the' Polemoscope: La Lorgnette menteuse ou la Calomnie demasquge, 'acted before the Princess de Ligne, at her chateau at

    The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761

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