cheval glass

Example Sentences

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The last speech was delivered in front of a cheval glass, before which the speaker had stopped, as if to admire her person.

From The Child Wife by Reid, Mayne

And I could not disprove a thing he said; and when I looked at myself in the cheval glass, I was not at all sure that I did not look like the traditional goblin.

From The Psychical Researcher's Tale - The Sceptical Poltergeist From "The New Decameron", Volume III. by Beresford, J. D. (John Davys)

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 Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

The Phantom, viewing himself in a cheval glass, daubed a dark tint over the gray at his temples.

From The Gray Phantom's Return by Landon, Herman

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 Murray, David Christie