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.
"Olivia in India"
O. Douglas
And they told me that through it all he never once lost his dignity or his monocle.
"Italy at War and the Allies in the West"
E. Alexander Powell
But after a second or two of staring through that convenient medium, my monocle, I was able to place the man who had accosted me.
"The House by the Lock"
C. N. Williamson