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

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 Ferber, Edna

I study my profile with a hand glass, getting the double reflection.

From Possessed by Moffett, Cleveland

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.

And when at the end of his inventions the leader fell back on the hand glass and the cushion, Mildred refused dance after dance.

From Celibates by Moore, George (George Augustus)