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 Edith Oland
They are iron if one touch them with a faltering hand, glass if you brush them with a strong arm.
From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Charles Th?odore Henri de Coster
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
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 Henry A. Gardner
