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
The room was a drawing-room, a large, stately sort of a drawing-room, and there had been a huge pier glass, gilt-framed, between the heavily curtained front windows.
From Doors of the Night by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard
It had been a famous joke to drag that light card-table before the pier glass, which reflected the hand of the unwary gamester.
From The Storm Centre by Mary Noailles Murfree
