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  • Maybe Apres l'Ondee will come to that at some point...or AHA! maybe it is the lookingglass scent to EnP.

    Apres L'Ondee ScentScelf 2009

  • I don't mean the simple thrill of trespass, I mean the thrill of the house itself, which came to me from every surface -- from the polish on the floor, the patina on wooden chairs and cabinets, the bevel of a lookingglass, the scroll of a frame.

    'The Little Stranger' 2009

  • At once the lookingglass began to pour over her a light that seemed to fix her; that seemed like some acid to bite off the unessential and superficial and to leave only the truth.

    A Haunted House, and other short stories 2004

  • That one about the cracked lookingglass of a servant being the symbol of Irish art is deuced good.

    Ulysses 2003

  • A little while before I came away, she chanced to cast an eye upon the lookingglass in passing.

    Chapter VI. Book VIII 1917

  • -- That one about the cracked lookingglass of a servant being the symbol of Irish art is deuced good.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • She had a lookingglass, an arm-chair, a carpet on her floor, and other necessary furniture.

    Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Colour. To Which is Added, a Selection of Pieces in Poetry 1826

  • If one shuts one’s eyes and thinks of the novel as a whole, it would seem to be a creation owning a certain lookingglass likeness to life, though of course with simplifications and distortions innumerable.

    A room of one's own 2006

  • The black Cat presented me with a bow and apologized for not having completed the shield he had promised alledging that the weather had been too could to permit his making it, I gave him som small shot 6 fishing-hooks and 2 yards of ribbon his squaw also presented me with 2 pair of mockersons for which in return I gave a small lookingglass and a couples of nedles. the chief dined with me and left me in the evening. he informed me that his people suffered very much for the article of meat, and that he had not himself tasted any for several days.

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

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