How To Use Pince-nez In A Sentence
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He wore pince-nez spectacles, a round-ended stiff collar, and a moustache.
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Kipling had hoped that pince-nez would get him through, but only the imperial poet's influence got his son a commission.
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Most designers featured in the exhibition have chosen to play with the image of their master himself, with his long trunk and short legs, the characteristic derby hat and pince-nez glasses.
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Small, thin, birdlike, she wore a pair of pince-nez on her beaky nose.
GOODBYE CURATE
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It's the brunette with the pince-nez from earlier on.
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She wore side-spring boots -- "prunella," I believe, used to be the trade name -- mittens, and pince-nez.
Three Men on the Bummel
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He drew breath, then looked up, peering over his pince-nez.
SCANDAL'S BRIDE
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He had a neatly trimmed white beard and used a pince-nez for reading.
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Then Gletkin would clear his voice and shove his cuffs into place; and Rubashov would rub his pince-nez on his sleeve and nod bewilderedly and drowsily; for he had identified the tempter with that dumb partner whom he had believed already forgotten, and who had no business in this room, of all places: the grammatical fiction ...
Autumn
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On the dead face the handsome pair of gold pince-nez mocked death with grotesque elegance; the fine gold chain curved over the naked breast.
Whose Body?
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The woman looks barely older than a sixth-former, with her hair styled sharply over to one side and a pair of pince-nez perched on her nose.
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His supervisor is a self-important floorwalker with a pince-nez and a morning suit.
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Incorporated into its elaborate frame are two miniature pairs of binoculars, a pince-nez and a bulbous, Cyclopean glass eye.
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Small, thin, birdlike, she wore a pair of pince-nez on her beaky nose.
GOODBYE CURATE
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Later she would learn the joys of a good read, but the Essex accent and hairdo still single her out from the pince-nez and halitosis crowd that used to dominate publishing.
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Small, thin, birdlike, she wore a pair of pince-nez on her beaky nose.
GOODBYE CURATE
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Gideon is slender, rather unpleasant looking man, with light brown hair, wearing a light red suit and a golden pince-nez.
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She adjusted her pince-nez spectacles and extracted a document from a brown paper envelope.
GOODBYE CURATE
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People were wearing, not just pince-nez, but monocles.
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A forceful orator and an advocate of the strenuous life, Roosevelt with his bushy mustache, pince-nez, and wide, toothy grin was a caricaturist's delight.
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The latter's 1919 portrait of Koch, in a late expressionistic manner, shows the sitter in his role as writer or poet, complete with pince-nez, stiff collar and dark suit.
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Rubbish, " said one of the clerks, a thin elderly man in pince-nez, "nobody will volunteer.
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She held her pince-nez to her eyes and examined her niece critically, her gaze travelling down her form.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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I see Kestrel's body fly backwards, her face stunned and confused, the pince-nez flying off and upwards.
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She adjusts the pince-nez on her nose and sighs.
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People were wearing, not just pince-nez, but monocles.
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He lowered the pince-nez which attached itself precariously to the end of his flattened nose.
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Large blue eyes are watching me from behind a pair of pince-nez.
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Major Baring took off his gold pince-nez and looked at me.
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Under a brow of average height, two grey-blue eyes looked out at me, behind glittering pince-nez, with an air of peaceful interrogation.
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Her dark hair was tied tightly back in a pony-tail and she met my gaze through entirely cosmetic pince-nez.
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The singularity of his appearance was further emphasized by a pince-nez held in place by two black cords tied at the back of his head.
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Carol squinted at the source of the voice, but could only see a pair of pince-nez glasses.
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Two bored office girls hit the town with two wealthy older lechers, taking in the nightlife while fending off their pince-nez'd, top-hatted escorts’ advances.
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For her part, Eliss found Ciaran dusty and hidebound, carrying as he did a clipboard, a stylus and a pair of pince-nez on a steel chain.
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He had a pince-nez on his nose; but as soon as he saw me he took it off (evidently as a mark of politeness), and courteously lifting his top-hat, but without stopping, however, said to me with an elegant smile: “Hullo, bonsoir,” and passing me went downstairs.
A Raw Youth
