A looking-glass is one of the choicest of the decorations. From Wordnik.com. [Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California] Reference
In the sloping sides are set several bits of looking-glass. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
I see them as plain as ever in the looking-glass of memory. From Wordnik.com. [Shakspere, Personal Recollections] Reference
But the looking-glass did not tell Denys anything of all that. From Wordnik.com. [The Girls of St. Olave's] Reference
My French grammar, was, as usual, set up beside my looking-glass. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
All settled to the bottom, an 'the lake as clear as a looking-glass. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
A Hallowe'en mirror is made by the rays of the moon shining into a looking-glass. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Hallowe'en] Reference
For if the Soul be only Nature's mirror, her looking-glass, whence the melancholy?. From Wordnik.com. [The Substance of a Dream] Reference
But, before I say any more, I want to tell you of the fate of mother's looking-glass. From Wordnik.com. [The Angel Children or, Stories from Cloud-Land] Reference
Since dress was an important matter in the Colony, the looking-glass was indispensable. From Wordnik.com. [Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century] Reference
A girl with a looking-glass in her hand steps backward from the door out into the yard. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Hallowe'en] Reference
She looked for a mirror and found only a looking-glass of Venice, dull in its wide ebony border. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Over all this the four lamps shed their light, which the looking-glass did its best to multiply. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
"Wish we only had a looking-glass here so that you could see yourself in it, Camel," went on Plunger. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
Freddy, enraged at this, rushed out for a stone, and, bringing it in, hurled it at the looking-glass. From Wordnik.com. [The Angel Children or, Stories from Cloud-Land] Reference
In each of them he could see himself reflected, and he was very fond of looking at himself in a looking-glass. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Stories for the Story-teller] Reference
He had no idea it was himself he saw, never having seen the looking-glass before, nor his own reflected image. From Wordnik.com. [The Angel Children or, Stories from Cloud-Land] Reference
The vision in the looking-glass, too, told her that her own face was winsome, and the new array not unbecoming. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
These streams are instead of a looking-glass; their clearness presents us with an opportunity of seeing our own features. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
"I don't know," debated the brown beauty, surveying herself in a looking-glass by means of an awkwardly held hand-mirror. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
When Marcia was ready she stood back from the little looking-glass, with a frightened, half-childish gaze about the room. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
A stranger the other day asked me for a looking-glass that he might see how his new hat looked, and then informed me that. From Wordnik.com. [Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)] Reference
She gave a little toss to her head, and turning away toward an adjacent looking-glass, took off her veil and settled her hat. From Wordnik.com. [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference
Girls walk down cellar backward with a candle in one hand and a looking-glass in the other, expecting to see a face in the glass. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Hallowe'en] Reference
Neither is she the conventional young English lady, or she would not sit on a fence and look at herself in a pocket looking-glass. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
So in he went, and almost the first thing he saw was mother's looking-glass, hanging over the table between the two front windows. From Wordnik.com. [The Angel Children or, Stories from Cloud-Land] Reference
More than a dozen laces were broken in endeavouring to give them a fine slender shape, and they were always before the looking-glass. From Wordnik.com. [Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk] Reference
You're much happier than I am; you have only to look in the looking-glass and you'll see that, and yet you all persist in saying that. From Wordnik.com. [Sarah's School Friend] Reference
She peeped into the front-chamber, pecked a little at the carpet, and clucked with surprise when she saw herself in the looking-glass. From Wordnik.com. [The Nursery, November 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 5] Reference
Tables of various sizes, a great looking-glass, a number of chests, several chests of drawers, and pictures were among the furnishings. From Wordnik.com. [Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century] Reference
She crossed the room to the looking-glass with a quick, exultant step, but having reached the dressing-table, drew back with almost a cry. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
He had an old hat in front of him, and inside of the hat he had a looking-glass, so that he could see on his deal every card he dealt out. From Wordnik.com. [Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi] Reference
I have just seen her again in the garden, hanging on the arm of that great lanky fellow, her eyes fixed on his like a lark fascinated by a looking-glass. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Zita was a little longer than usual before her looking-glass on that occasion, and was as pretty and fresh as a mountain daisy, when she came down at last to join me below. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
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