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
“It is like this,” said the little scientist, as he pulled up a blade of grass, and examined it under a powerful hand glass to see if any strange insects might be crawling on it.
From Ned, Bob and Jerry on the Firing Line The Motor Boys Fighting for Uncle Sam by Clarence Young
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
I study my profile with a hand glass, getting the double reflection.
From Possessed by Cleveland Moffett
In the ditty box are kept such articles as toothbrush, brush and comb, small hand glass, writing material, and odds and ends.
From A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" by Russell Doubleday
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