handglass

She rubbed her handglass briskly on her woollen vest against her full wagging bub.

Ulysses 2003

Poor little Andy, who had been clinging by tail and claws to his perch, not even dropping the handglass, seemed to think help had come with the man he had grown very fond of by this, so he quickly scrambled down and fled to the big pocket of Captain Hosmer's reefer, a movement almost unnoted by the man in his preoccupation.

All Aboard A Story for Girls Fannie E. Newberry

-- These require to be sown in a cold frame in seed-pans, in the greenhouse, or under a handglass, in good, rich compost, composed of old turf, leaf-mould, some well-rotted manure, and silver sand.

Gardening for the Million Alfred Pink

Harden off, and plant out about the third week in May in ground previously prepared with a heavy dressing of good stable or farmyard manure, protecting the plants at night for the first week or so with a handglass or large flower-pot.

Gardening for the Million Alfred Pink

It delights in a mixture of peat and loam, and is propagated by cuttings placed in sand under a handglass, or, better still, by layers of the lower branches in March, detaching them in the autumn.

Gardening for the Million Alfred Pink

The ayah put the last touches to Beatrice Cary's golden hair, drew back a little to judge the general effect, and then handed her mistress the handglass.

The Native Born or, the Rajah's People 1922

She drank some water, and then taking up a broken handglass she looked at herself, saying:

Liza of Lambeth 1919

Another story has it that when the physician put a handglass to the lips of the dying man and said, "Can you hiss (siffler)?"

A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Edwin Emerson 1914

She rubbed her handglass briskly on her woollen vest against her full wagging bub.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

It was a little mirror, a handglass like her own old one, only framed in ivory, and the writing on the label ran --

The Manxman A Novel - 1895 Hall Caine 1892