She lifted her gold lorgnette and looked Emily well over.
Frances Hodgson Burnett Emily Fox-Seton (1901)
The well-to-do stared through their lorgnettes in delight at quaintly dressed fisherfolk and their families.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Short-sighted, when she lifts her lorgnettes to her eyes, her gaze becomes profound and inquisitive, and her interlocutor feels pierced to the very depths of his soul.
Paul Preston DOVES OF WAR: Four Women of Spain (2002)