Mirrors

Examples

• They went into the great blank rooms, the walls of which bore the marks where the pictures and mirrors had hung. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• These mirrors are hinged at O O, and when swung outward rest by their external edges against the bar P, and then occupy the position shown by the dotted lines G′ G′. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• What are those little mirrors set in wood for? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• No, only the trade of cutting gems and shaping mirrors. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Thus we came to Richard, poring over a table covered with dusty bundles of papers which seemed to me like dusty mirrors reflecting his own mind. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The tongs made a pleasant clicking sound and I could see Catherine in three mirrors and it was pleasant and warm in the booth. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Upright pieces of wood, _d h_, _e f_, at each end, are furnished with slides or clips to hold the drawings, which are reflected from the inclined mirrors, and seen in them by each eye separately. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Full souls are double mirrors, making still An endless vista of fair things before, Repeating things behind. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• In the middle of a narrow slip of wood, _d e_, about 12 inches long, the two mirrors, _a b_, are fixed, inclined at the required angle from their line of junction at _c_. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Cleverly arranged mirrors sending a ray of light from one to all the others and back again to the first will produce the same effect. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• To be brief, Jos stepped in and bought their carpets and sideboards and admired himself in the mirrors which had reflected their kind handsome faces. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• A little in connexion with the absent mirrors, but not much, for I knew my loving girl would be changed by no change in my looks. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I saw her in three other mirrors. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• They are mirrors which throw into his humble home reflections of the scenes of busy life everywhere. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• All the mirrors in the house are brought into action now, many of them after a long blank. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Those who bought the prints had meant to buy jewels and mirrors, and if they had done so I should have made a bigger profit. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• There were many mirrors, two chairs and a large bed with a satin coverlet. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The illusion produced by these apparatus is the result of a play of mirrors. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• I have found new ways to polish stones and mirrors, said he, but those are in my line of work. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Announced by a servant in livery, we entered a drawing-room whose hearth glowed with an English fire, and whose walls gleamed with foreign mirrors. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The whole array of toilet articles, including combs, brushes, mirrors, shoe horns, etc. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• And the mirrors are very attractive. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Neither of these could be called mirrors, however, because although they reflect light, they reflect it so irregularly that not even a suggestion of an image can be obtained. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The cutting of the type and the studying out of new and better ways of holding them together took a great deal of time, and meanwhile the sales of gems and mirrors had fallen off. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• She saw herself in one of the mirrors and put her hands to her hair. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• I sat on the high stool before the pleasant mahogany, the brass and the mirrors and did not think at all. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.

Editor: Samantha