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looking glass

NOUN
  1. a mirror; usually a ladies' dressing mirror

How To Use looking glass In A Sentence

  • We are at least half way through the looking glass, on our way to utter chaos.
  • James Joyce's view that the Irish view the British through the ‘cracked looking glass of a servant’ no longer pertains.
  • 'She'd have been just the thing for me!' cried Lynmere, haughtily rising, and conceitedly parading his fine form up and down the room; his eyes catching it from looking-glass to looking glass, by every possible contrivance; 'just the thing! matched to perfection!' Camilla
  • Is Doc Hunt the skinny beanpole with the frizzy hair and geeky looking glasses? Think Progress » Palin says she’s fine with Limbaugh’s use of the ‘r-word.’
  • The sides of the various glass tubes were as clean as when they were new, and the surfaces of the mercuries were as bright as looking glasses. Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887
  • Jones has found that we are currently in a quandary comparable to that of the Red Queen in Through the Looking Glass: we have to run faster and faster just to stay in the same place.
  • Gustavian looking glasses were symmetrical, with decoration such as beading, rose swags, laurel leaf borders, palmettes, sheaves, and rope-tied crests.
  • Maybe I had been dreaming the first time I saw the girl in the looking glass, but it was too real to have been my own dream.
  • Gronland. of the miracles of water, and aire, this master of fragments hath gathered together into his looking glasse: whereby, although he hath made his owne followers woonder, and the common people to be astonished, yet hath he ministred vnto vs nothing but occasion of laughter. A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas
  • Zeno's and Emilio's aboulic personalities, their incapability of pursuing and sustaining an active participation in life, reflect Svevo's tragic sensibility of life as a disaster and his meditation on vulnerability and death, filtered through the looking glass of bitter-sweet irony mixed with ineffective wisdom.
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