Crossword-Solution: MONOCLED 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

These correctly dressed and monocled young men have been put into the national machine, and moulded into fighting material--their graves are thick in Flanders and along the heights north of the Somme, and they have proved themselves equal and superior to what had long been regarded as the finest fighting forces of Europe.

Amongst them we saw several colonels, a general and a very smart monocled major, whose helmet was rather the shape of a fireman's, showing that he was in some crack cavalry regiment--dragoons, I think.

The monocled, languid-aired nobleman had struck a pose against the tender bar, and as Fogg opened the furnace door and the fire box suddenly belched out a sheet of flame and then a perfect cloud of ashes, the passenger of high degree was engulfed.

They included a couple of very pronounced Englishmen, a Russian count, and a trio of Frenchmen, one of whom, an inoffensive little fellow, monocled and dressed to kill, was also a real live count.

Gerhardt, who now was being convoyed out by the monocled martyr in the "stiff shirt." The others passed out informally; Lee had slipped her arm around Dulcie.