Looking-glass Sentence Examples

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  • He rose, held her hand, and led her to the looking glass.

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  • Alice was followed (in the "Lewis Carroll" series) by Phantasmagoria, in 1869; Through the Looking-Glass, in 1871; The Hunting of the Snark (1876); Rhyme and Reason (1883); A Tangled Tale (1885); and Sylvie and Bruno (in two parts, 1889 and 1893).

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  • An exposition of their doctrines was published in 1656 under the title of The Divine Looking-Glass.

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  • Even as late as 1846 The Divine Looking-Glass was reprinted by members of the then almost extinct sect.

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  • She was still sitting before a looking-glass with a dressing jacket thrown over her slender shoulders.

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  • She padded silently downstairs to where the looking-glass leaned against the scullery wall.

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  • As in Through the Looking Glass here too there are games of chess, called wizard chess, being played.

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  • For example, Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass are both available on the site.

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  • My furniture, part of which I made myself--and the rest cost me nothing of which I have not rendered an account--consisted of a bed, a table, a desk, three chairs, a looking-glass three inches in diameter, a pair of tongs and andirons, a kettle, a skillet, and a frying-pan, a dipper, a wash-bowl, two knives and forks, three plates, one cup, one spoon, a jug for oil, a jug for molasses, and a japanned lamp.

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  • What was it? exclaimed Natasha, holding up the looking glass.

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  • According to a British consular report for 1904 there were 153 manufacturing establishments in the city producing cotton, linen and silk textiles, leather, boots and shoes, alcohol and alcoholic beverages, beer, flour, conserves and candied fruits, cigars and cigarettes, Italian pastes, chocolate, starch, hats, oils, ice, furniture, pianos and other musical instruments, matches, beds, candles, chemicals, iron and steel, printing-type, paint and varnish, glass, looking-glass, cement and artificial stone, earthenware, bricks and tiles, soap, cardboard, papier mache, cartridges and explosives, white lead, perfumery, carriages and wagons, and corks.

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  • One large bundle held their all--bed, coffee-mill, looking-glass, hens--all but the cat; she took to the woods and became a wild cat, and, as I learned afterward, trod in a trap set for woodchucks, and so became a dead cat at last.

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  • The splendent surface has suggested for this mineral such names as specular iron ore, looking-glass ore, and iron glance (fer oligiste of French writers).

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