dressing-table love

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  • She watched in her huge dressing-table mirror as one of the maids pulled a ringlet down to its full length, each hair gleaming like gold.

    Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011

  • She watched in her huge dressing-table mirror as one of the maids pulled a ringlet down to its full length, each hair gleaming like gold.

    Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011

  • She watched in her huge dressing-table mirror as one of the maids pulled a ringlet down to its full length, each hair gleaming like gold.

    Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011

  • You shagged some girl on the staircase, I nicked a tenner from her dressing-table drawer.

    Temporary Passport Penny Goring 2011

  • Beyond an oaken dressing-table, with an orderly litter of combs and brushes and dainty feminine knickknacks, there was no sign of its being used as a bedroom.

    Chapter XVIII 2010

  • In the dressing-table drawer, my dad's 1940 diary tells of church visits, downed aircraft and evacuation.

    What I found in my parents' house 2011

  • She watched in her huge dressing-table mirror as one of the maids pulled a ringlet down to its full length, each hair gleaming like gold.

    Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011

  • In the one sweep of vision, Lucile took in Frona smiling with extended hand in the foreground, the dainty dressing-table, the simple finery, the thousand girlish evidences; and with the sweet wholesomeness of it pervading her nostrils, her own girlhood rose up and smote her.

    CHAPTER 19 2010

  • She sat down on her padded dressing-table stool facing him.

    Black Magic Cherry Adair 2010

  • She sat down on her padded dressing-table stool facing him.

    Black Magic Cherry Adair 2010

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