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 Anton Otto Fischer
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 Miron Elisha Hard
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 Edna Ferber
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
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