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Crossing briefly this mirrory still Galilean blue water to the heaven of the affluent, the users-up, unconsciously remote from knowing themselves our owners and starvers, occupying as they always have, to no purpose, the mansions and the beauty of the earth for this short while before we all meet and enter at the same door.

Brett Ashley McKenzie: "Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor... Well, Maybe Not" 2008

We also sampled the ethereally smooth and densely flavored chilled carrot puree with chive cream swirled on its mirrory surface.

The Candidates Dine Out 2008

Then we prayed to Allah and besought Him; but the storm blasts ceased not to blow against us nor the surges to strike us till morning broke when the gale fell, the seas sank to mirrory stillness and the sun shone upon us kindly clear.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Let's just pray that we beat the mirrory Ukrainian transvestite, or else we really will be upset.

Eurovision Betting Odds: Bad Scooch! Naughty Scooch! 2007

The mirrory surface of the lower river thus becomes mottled with light and shade, and the reflected image of the trough-cliff is broken into the most fantastic shapes.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

He poked them, examined them with that little mirrory thing, had me bite hard on bits of wood and plastic, everything, and would they play?!!

sheepdip Diary Entry sheepdip 2002

A great, wide, low room; beams deep and black, with here and there a brass bit hanging; waxed floors, polished to mirrory perfection; a great bed clad in snowy draperies, with a snow-white _duvet_ of gigantic proportions.

In and out of Three Normady Inns Anna Bowman Dodd

The pat of every float in the wheel, as it struck in the water, echoed with individual distinctness, and the hubbub created thereby, in the otherwise unruffled lake, left its trace visible on the mirrory surface for so great a distance as to justify a disputatious man in questioning whether the term "trackless way" was applicable to the course a vessel had passed over.

Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray

Was it Nitouche, the head-cook, who was grumbling because the kitchen-wench had not scoured the brass saucepans to the last point of mirrory brightness?

In and out of Three Normady Inns Anna Bowman Dodd

They stepped into the saloon at the corner -- a bright, mirrory place, whose tiled floor was covered with sawdust, and whose bar shone like mahogany.

The Nine-Tenths James Oppenheim 1907