cheval glass
Example Sentences
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The old cheval glass was as truthful in its way as Gainsborough, but Gainsborough had never such a lovely subject as Phyl.
From The Ghost Girl by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
The last speech was delivered in front of a cheval glass, before which the speaker had stopped, as if to admire her person.
From The Child Wife by Mayne Reid
Near the window stood a superb full-length Empire cheval glass, the kind that women love to dress by and survey their beauty.
From The Easiest Way A Story of Metropolitan Life by Eugene Walter
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
The Phantom, viewing himself in a cheval glass, daubed a dark tint over the gray at his temples.
From The Gray Phantom's Return by Herman Landon
