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

For the first time since the summit of the Klappan Range, where her tiny hand glass had suffered disaster, Hazel was permitted a clear view of herself in a mirror.

From North of Fifty-Three by Fischer, Anton Otto

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

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

The checking of each panel was determined by examining with a small high-power hand glass magnifying fifteen diameters.

From Paint Technology and Tests by Gardner, Henry A.