From the Duluth Herald, 1920.

"What's my name?  Hello—we've met before—but do you know my name?  My name is Sir Kreemy Knut."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1954.

Lots of fun anthropomorphized monocle business here, including a glass wafer nearly slipping on a banana peel, and a patch of crystal giving austere glances and objecting to being bored.  Also, don't miss the unusual word "zeroatic" to describe an ice-cold greeting.  From Interviews with a Monocle by Leopold Jordan, 1902.

From Black and White Budget, 1901.

From Hollins College's 1929 yearbook.

From Purple Parrot, 1931.

From The Film Daily, 1924.

From Clemson University's 1918 yearbook.

It makes sense for an anthropomorphized monocle to be a cyclops.  From Wake Forest's 1958 yearbook.

"A shame and a disgrace."  From DePauw's 1911 yearbook.

Synonyms for a monocle:

magnifying glass
disk of crystal
the glass
the token of ceaseless interrogation

Picadilly window

glass onion

“The monocle is everything.  Man.  A crystallization.  A gel.  A micella.  God.” —Blaise Cendrars, Dan Yack (1927, translated by Nina Rootes, 1987)

“The monocle at his eye was like a veil to hide the soul, a defence against inquiry, itself the unceasing question, a sort of battery thrown forward, a kind of field-casemate for a lonely, besieged spirit. It was full of suggestion. It might have been the glass behind which showed some medieval relic, the body of some ancient Egyptian king whose life had been spent in doing wonders and making signs—the primitive, anthropomorphic being.” —Gilbert Parker, The Right of Way (1901)

[snippets collected through the course of our research]

"O, how perfectly absurd!"  From Tulane's 1921 yearbook.

An emerald monocle that shows the viewer the moment of his death.  We have one, and it's flattering to wear, but for some reason we keep it in a drawer.  From Unknown, 1939.

Technically, it's the sun's monocle that burns us.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1925.