How To Use Looking glass In A Sentence
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We are at least half way through the looking glass, on our way to utter chaos.
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James Joyce's view that the Irish view the British through the ‘cracked looking glass of a servant’ no longer pertains.
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'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
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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.’
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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
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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.
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Gustavian looking glasses were symmetrical, with decoration such as beading, rose swags, laurel leaf borders, palmettes, sheaves, and rope-tied crests.
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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.
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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
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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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The crowning glory was the astonishing overmantel looking glass shown in Plate III.
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Gifts of a pair of scissors or a looking glass were made to the caciques or village headmen from time to time to keep them friendly.
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And, most definitely, there is the looking glass trained on an era always described as prudish and restrained -- a welcome revelation that Victorian values may have plagued society at large, but couldn't entirely penetrate life behind closed doors. the controversy Kinsey's work is plagued with.
Cinematical
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With a sigh, he moved the looking glass around to examine the fortifications on their side of the border.
TREASON KEEP
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Through the looking glass or through a scanner darkly, the effect is still a deliberate, sustained and coherent estrangement designed to re-present the world in a warping lens and to lead us to a resolution of realisation.
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He found the looking glass easy enough, though why it was intact he couldn't say.
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At least a part of the social process that leads these minds through that particular looking glass is the personal bloodlessness of their product.
Oppenheimer
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Dido [2] make her bulls hide very extensive & I can stretch my subject. mere poetical flourishes without any moral principle inculcated is like — a false building in a city garden — or Burkes book [3] — or two certain looking glasses. they have often reflected upon me — retaliation is but fair.
Letter 70
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They called it a royall looking glasse: howbeit, in regard of the fond fables, wherewith (but for the most part vnder the shew of religion and piety, whereby it is more difficult to finde out the cousinage) it doeth all ouer swarme, it deserueth not the name of a looking glasse royall, but rather of a popular, and olde wiues looking glasse.
A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas
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The frames of Swedish rococo looking glasses followed the fashions of the day, with the crown and base often ornamented with rich rocaille decoration.
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Some looking-glass makers were originally trained as cabinetmakers, and many looking-glass factories employed cabinetmakers to veneer looking glasses and their accompanying consoles.
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& again disappoints them. tis a very unpleasant state — I cannot ask you to write because in hourly hopes of seeing him & then visiting you — so here I am — alone — & without the half-compensation of correspondence. the looking glass represents me most melancholy in my sable suit. if my eyes were shut a true methodist parson but their cast is different.
Letter 121
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He lodged in a house in High Saint Agnesgate where he wrote mathematical treatise under his own name as well as working on part of Through the Looking Glass.
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Outside the park adjacent to Two Medicine Road, Looking Glass Highway climbs to a dramatic overlook.
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I felt like Alice through the looking glass, enjoying the sublime sea's surreal realm, a marine dominion ruled by stingrays, dolphins, Napoleons, moray eels.
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Pass through watchcase lateral window of face of looking glass of 4 sapphirine crystal, the machine core clarity of wonderful artical excelling nature is visible.
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Convex looking glasses in each pendentive both explode and compress the space.
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He was nicely dressed in slacks and a button-up shirt, with shiny shoes, a tidy haircut, and expensive-looking glasses.
Eventful
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legal" and "legitimate" come from the Latin word "lex" meaning "law"; meaning, in turn, that in diplomacy as in the world through the looking glass, it is an advantage to be able to believe in two contradictory points of view at the same time.
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I like a simple friend, who holds my faults like a looking glass before my face.
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Theory suggests that this singularity might be a window to another part of our Universe, or even to another universe entirely, in a way reminiscent of Lewis Carroll's Alice Through the Looking Glass.
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Step back from the looking glass and the room is dotted with knick-knacks of Australiana.
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Flanking the third looking glass are Mercury, god of trade and profit, identified by his caduceus and broad winged hat, and Euterpe, Muse of music, holding a flute.
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Like Alice through the looking glass, the Russians have entered a French version of wonderland, full of bounty.
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She considered her reflection between the gilded curlicues of the eighteenth-century looking glass in the hallway and decided to begin a diet.
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This system allowed Looking Glass to transmit launch codes to the intercontinental ballistic missiles in their underground silos should ground launch control centers become disabled.
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I like a simple friend, who holds my faults like a looking glass before my face.
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However, it was a huge disappointment when stacked up against Through the Looking Glass, which I maintain is probably the greatest hour of television of all-time.
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Outside, propped against the front wall, is a large looking glass.
Times, Sunday Times
