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

Takes off her apron and then opens drawer of table and takes a small hand glass and strands it against a flower pot on table.

From Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger by Oland, Edith

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

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

Pancha took up a hand glass and turning her back to him studied her profile in the mirror.

From Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California by Bonner, Geraldine