hand glass
Example Sentences
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I gave her the bowl of powder, the rouge compact, and the lipstick, and she put away the cards and took up the hand glass from the table by her side.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
The prize proved to be a most tempting one, a tiny brush and comb and cunning hand glass in a little satin-lined box.
From Chicken Little Jane by Ritchie, Lily Munsell
In the ditty box are kept such articles as toothbrush, brush and comb, small hand glass, writing material, and odds and ends.
From A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" by Doubleday, Russell
An ordinary hand glass will show how it bears perithecia in all its parts.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha
Emma McChesney, in the act of surveying her back hair in the mirror, paused, hand glass poised half way, to regard her son.
From Personality Plus Some Experiences of Emma McChesney and Her Son, Jock by Ferber, Edna
