cheval glass
Example Sentences
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There were lights on the mantelpiece, on the dressing-table, on the washstand, and two in tall sticks burned before the cheval glass as though it had been an altar.
From Moor Fires by E. H. (Emily Hilda) Young
It was an antique room, full of the most beautiful, world-forgotten old furniture, one piece of richly carved oak being a cheval glass that showed her Marion Macrae from head to feet.
From Playing With Fire by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
He would, of course, choose an appropriate motif,—a woman trying on a scarf before a cheval glass, for instance, or a young workwoman carrying a band-box on her arm.
From The Gods are Athirst by Emilie Jackson
An oval cheval glass reflected the floor on whose long unpolished surface sprawled two magnificent white bear skins.
From Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty by J. Scott (John Scott) Williams
She stopped at the cheval glass and arranged her hair with a series of twists that formed a turban secured by loops.
From Whispering Wires by Henry Leverage
