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
Her eyes, with uncommon eagerness, wandered over every part of her dress, and were seldom removed, unless to take a general survey of the whole in a pier glass.
From The Looking-Glass for the Mind or Intellectual Mirror by Bewick, John
He walked up and down before a pier glass.
From John Forster by Fitzgerald, Percy Hethrington
