pier glass

Example Sentences

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The place is unpretentiously furnished with family antiques, including alabaster figures of Venus & Adonis under an Early American pier glass.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is no pier glass in our house for me to practice on.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

Behind my half-head, in the center of the picture, in the empty sky, a pier glass is hanging, convex and encircled by an ornate frame.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

He walked up and down before a pier glass.

From John Forster by Fitzgerald, Percy Hethrington

Candles of wax she lit before A pier glass standing from the floor; Up to the ceiling, off she tore With eager hands her jewels, then The silken vesture which she wore.

From Songs and Satires by Masters, Edgar Lee