cheval glass
Example Sentences
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There were lights on the mantelpiece, on the dressing-table, on the washstand, and two in tall sticks burned before the cheval glass as though it had been an altar.
From Moor Fires by E. H. (Emily Hilda) Young
See him seated before his dressing-glass, a mahogany-framed sliding cheval glass with brass arms on either sides for candles.
From English Costume by Dion Clayton Calthrop
Behind him was the cheval glass and the telephone stand.
From Whispering Wires by Henry Leverage
She knew she had always been a beautiful woman—she was sure, when she glanced at herself in the cheval glass in her bedroom, that she had never appeared to greater advantage.
From The Brute by Frederic Arnold Kummer
An oval cheval glass reflected the floor on whose long unpolished surface sprawled two magnificent white bear skins.
From Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty by J. Scott (John Scott) Williams
