(1) Monotone, monotonous, monoplane, monopoly, monocle, monarchy, monogram, monomania; (2) monosyllable, monochrome, monogamy, monorail, monograph, monolith, monody, monologue, monad, monastery, monk.

Jan.Pardon (he adjusts his monocle and looks at Antonthen goes out).

A cousin of mine was at Eton with the son of D'Oyly Carte, the man who produced the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, and one night he told me about this peculiar schoolboy who dressed fastidiously and wore a monocle and who, when one of the masters inquired after his health, replied "Sir, I grow thinnah and thinnah."

In pursuit of his business he entered a certain farm-house, to find the baby already in possession of another officer, a heavy red creature with a monocle, who was rocking the infant's cradle seventy-five revolutions per minute and making dulcet noises on a moustache comb.

It is impossible to dissociate vanity from the use of the monocle.

Ordinarily the wearing of a monocle seems like an announcement to the world that you are a person of consequence.

Optical Instruments N. optical instruments; lens, meniscus, magnifier, sunglass, magnifying glass, hand lens; microscope, megascope^, tienoscope^. spectacles, specs [Coll.], glasses, barnacles, goggles, eyeglass, pince-nez, monocle, reading glasses, bifocals; contact lenses, soft lenses, hard lenses; sunglasses, shades [Coll.].

I think it is partly your manner and greatly your monocle; you have such a detached air, and often I have noticed you very unresponsive when people were trying to be amusing.

The admiral and his aid were greeted by a smart young German officer with a monocle, and galloped off into the hills, while we fell into the hospitable hands of another German, a civilian volunteer in red fez and the blue and brass buttons of the merchant marine, cast here by the chance of war.

Johnny, in all things the glass of fashion and the mould of form, wore them as he wore his monocle, quite unconscious of his own reasons for both.

Now that he was arrayed in proper British clothes, once more comfortable in the uniform of his regiment and had his monocle in place and was with Jane again, everything looked radiantly different.

We had a strange Lieutenant one trip who came from a depot ship at Southampton and wore a monocle.

The Mate picked him up out of the scuppers and we dried his clothes over the boilers, but the monocle was never seen again.

I saw him rise naked from his cot one morning, and the first thing he put on was the rimless monocle.

The consul, though he wore a monocle, was without the pretense of officialdom except to other officials and, of course, at receptions, dinners, and formal gatherings.

By the way, he wears a monocle.

The dog had no business going to sleep" he paused and inserted his monocle for the purpose of looking up the precise spot where the accident had occurred.

" Dizzy écouta avec attention, mit son monocle, considéra Lord Odo, et dit enfin: "11 y a un argument sérieux dans ce que vous me dites là.

During the Two Hundred Years in which my Ancestors temporarily resided in the States, they must have absorbed some of the Characteristics of this Uncouth and Vulgar People, and as a Result the Sins of the Father are visited upon the Child even to the third and fourth Generations, and I cannot hold a Monocle in my Eye to save my Life.

His lordship glared fiercely through his monocle in the direction of the far-away log, his watery blue eyes blinking as malevolently as possible, his long, aristocratic nose wrinkling at its base in fine disdain.

" "Chawmed, I'm suah!" muttered Wyatt, adjusting his monocle.

Wyatt fixed his monocle on the offending miner with bland and exasperating condescension.

Wyatt screwed his monocle into his eye, regarded both sides of the coin attentively, and laid it down.

Where?" "Down there just in front of the pit, talking to that bald-headed idiot with the monocle.

He has put his monocle in his other eye in his effort to see the point.