looking-glasses

Nor did he suspect that, even if their religious and philosophic scruples could be overcome, their notions of price and value had developed since the days of beads and looking-glasses.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

You will undoubtedly ask why you were not apprised of these facts sooner, and my response is, because in the work of counter-intelligence the stronger your cards, the more essential it is to keep away from looking-glasses.

Final Resting Place of The Pen 2010

Two delicate looking-glasses may have come from Osterley; framed prints of a Tudor building beside the Thames, link Santa Barbara to wartime Richmond.

Chaplin’s Girl Miranda Seymour 2009

I gave him half a piece of fine white baft, five bottles of powder, two looking-glasses, and two snuff-boxes.

The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 2008

That they excelled in oilpaintings, possessed looking-glasses of crystal, telescopes, microscopes, and thermometers?

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Two hours afterwards we were again visited by fifteen more, to some of whom a present was made of some looking-glasses and handkerchiefs; at the same time they were given to understand that they must not approach nearer to the camp, and signs were made to them to return to their own camp, which they shortly did.

The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

Roses and cupids quivered on the ceilings, up to which golden arabesques crawled from the walls; your face (handsome or otherwise) was reflected by countless looking-glasses, so multiplied and arranged as, as it were, to carry you into the next street.

The Newcomes 2006

There were no looking-glasses in the Presbytery but uncle had a piece not bigger than my two hands for his shaving.

The Arrow of Gold 2006

The maids, I say, will have taken down all that holly stuff and nonsense about the clocks, lamps, and looking-glasses, the dear boys will be back at school, fondly thinking of the pantomime-fairies whom they have seen; whose gaudy gossamer wings are battered by this time; and whose pink cotton (or silk is it?) lower extremities are all dingy and dusty.

Roundabout Papers 2006

Its position above the front door defined it as a landing or passage, and there were no looking-glasses or any bedroom signs about it, or any other window on the first floor, to suggest the possibility of a sleeper within.

Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006