hand glass

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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

I got a hand glass in my house and when I shaves on Sunday mornin's, I often wonders who I is.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 by Work Projects Administration

“It is like this,” said the little scientist, as he pulled up a blade of grass, and examined it under a powerful hand glass to see if any strange insects might be crawling on it.

From Ned, Bob and Jerry on the Firing Line The Motor Boys Fighting for Uncle Sam by Young, Clarence

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