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Meanings of single eyeglass in English

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Usage of single eyeglass in English
1
Peter Knott's single eyeglass wandered over the unwieldy frame sitting opposite him.
War-time Silhouettes
2
He gazed at her, always through the single eyeglass.
Emily Fox-Seton / Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The M...
3
Count Spicca, whom he thus addressed, paused and looked round through his single eyeglass in some surprise.
Saracinesca
4
He wore a high hat, a white waistcoat and a single eyeglass, because it looked dandified, no doubt.
The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 2
5
Mr. Wilkins adjusted the single eyeglass he carried with him for occasions like this, and examined Mrs. Fisher carefully.
The Enchanted April
6
In his eye a single eyeglass was adjusted, and as he walked he swung his hat delicately in his tightly gloved fingers.
Saracinesca
7
He sat in a low chair, pouting his lips, playing with his single eyeglass, and looking as sulky as an ill-conditioned school-boy.
The Woman with the Fan
8
The white lock, the single eyeglass, the remarkable hat-thesewere much dearer to him than any nocturnes or arrangements that he ever threw off.
Heretics
9
She was followed by a rather dapper young man of medium height, and who, most incongruously in that wild Northland, sported a single eyeglass.
A Mating in the Wilds
10
It was a man, a real man-nota boy-with a drooping, fair moustache, a single eyeglass in one eye, and a camellia-bud in his buttonhole.
The Getting of Wisdom
11
"Is he actually keeping you?", shouted the chief engineer, whose single eyeglass glittered in the firelight.
Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard
12
"Ah," he observed, turning upon Bart and critically adjusting a single eyeglass, "is this the express agent?"
Bart Stirling's Road to Success; Or, The Young Express Agent
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