Her head was graciously inclined towards the monocled youth who stood nearest her.
"The House by the Lock"
C. N. Williamson
He turned and met the monocled stare of the earl.
"Out of the Primitive"
Robert Ames Bennet
As the opening bars of the minuet were repeated at the close only to die away in a poignant farewell, Phyllida felt for the first time, in the swoon of her last courtesy, that she was a doll whose gestures served to amuse a genteel but unearthly audience of monocled Gods.
"The Passionate Elopement"
Compton Mackenzie