cheval glass
Example Sentences
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Soon as the aide-de-camp had closed the door behind him, Santa Anna sprang up from his seat and hastily stumped it to a large cheval glass which stood on one side of the room.
From The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley by Mayne Reid
As at the completion of his toilet he stood with a pair of stiff military brushes working at his hair and whiskers, before a big cheval glass, he looked eminently British for his day.
From VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea by David Christie Murray
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
He 261stared at the cheval glass and the telephone.
From Whispering Wires by Henry Leverage
She stood before this cheval glass to-night a thoroughly happy little person.
From A Mere Chance, Vol. 1 of 3 A Novel by Ada Cambridge
