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“Yes, what of them,” he asked, his kind eyes twinkling behind pince-nez glasses.
365 tomorrows » Roi R. Czechvala : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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Just wait for the Towering Infernal of a Paulson-Portland Parking Plex to be revealed in some pince nez'd planner's pastel-colored public power point presentation, complete with a sacreligious Aaron Copeland soundtrack and the usual pre-paid phony cadre of politely enthusiastic front-and-back-row applausers.
Study: Lents baseball stadium would draw crummy crowds (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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I can't see any "pince à linge", (une pince à linge = clothes peg) so, I guess le mistral had a day off!
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“Yes, what of them,” he asked, his kind eyes twinkling behind pince-nez glasses.
365 tomorrows » 2010 » March : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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Or maybe a small pince-nez or somethin 'like that?
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
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I can't see any "pince à linge", une pince à linge = clothes peg so, I guess le mistral had a day off!
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Now he was clearly visible: the feathery moustache, one lens of the pince-nez gleaming, the other not there.
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
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Very well, the grandlings were raucous and dishevelled, and I ain't at my best sprawled supine on the carpet leaking brandy, but to judge from his lordship's disgusted aspect and Miss Prentice's frozen pince-nez you'd have thought I'd been teaching them to smoke opium and sing "One-eyed Riley".
THE NUMBERS 2010
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Now he was clearly visible: the feathery moustache, one lens of the pince-nez gleaming, the other not there.
Mikhail A. Bulgakov - Master and Margarita (Book Review) 2008
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Or maybe a small pince-nez or somethin 'like that?
Baby Got Glasses 2008
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