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

“Oh, I don’t know,” Beatrice murmured as she consulted a hand glass.

From The Gorgeous Girl by Bartley, Nalbro

And when at the end of his inventions the leader fell back on the hand glass and the cushion, Mildred refused dance after dance.

From Celibates by Moore, George (George Augustus)

I study my profile with a hand glass, getting the double reflection.

From Possessed by Moffett, Cleveland

Takes off her apron and then opens drawer of table and takes a small hand glass and strands it against a flower pot on table.

From Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger by Oland, Edith