Use mirror in a sentence
Sentences ending with mirror
- Seldom did Jane Withersteen enter her room without looking into her mirror. [13]
- Finally, with a venomous access of irritation, I said I would leave without the sock; so I rose up and made straight for the door--as I supposed--and suddenly confronted my dim spectral image in the unbroken mirror. [5]
- Then we could turn from this scene to the Lake, and see every branch, and leaf, and cataract of flame upon its bank perfectly reflected as in a gleaming, fiery mirror. [5]
- Now we had to make ready in all haste for dinner, and never had Ann made such careful and diligent use of our little mirror. [10]
- Even the smallest things appeared perfectly clear to his sharpened eyes, and yet he seemed to see them as if reflected in a brilliant mirror. [10]
- It was of the finest steel, heavily plated with silver, richly ornamented with engraved designs, and polished like a mirror. [5]
- Justice held the scales and sword, Truth was gazing into her mirror. [10]
- Glancing up, he saw his face in a mirror. [11]
- Up to this point she had, as it were, been looking into one mirror. [9]
- True, it is only a trifling thing; but so is mist on a mirror. [5]
Sentences containing mirror two or more times
- Every morning it is a mirror of the world, more or less distorted and imperfect, but such a mirror as it never had held up to it before. [4]
More example sentences with the word mirror in them
- And how soon would anguish of soul utterly destroy the spell, which was slowly, slowly, yet steadily diminishing, and, when the mirror revealed wrinkles which the skill of no Olympus could efface, when she----No, she was not created to grow old! [10]
- One set of words was the truthful mirror of her thoughts; no others, however apparently identical in meaning, would do. [14]
- In St. Louis, William Marion Reedy, editor of the St. Louis Mirror, had seen this famous tour de force circulated in the early 80's in galley-proof form; he first learned from Eugene Field that it was from the pen of Mark Twain. [5]
- My own mirror will ask itself if it has not changed owners. [10]
- He is meek, whose soul is open, clear and pure as a mirror, and the greatest philosophers, the noblest minds I have met in life and history were also meek. [10]
- Eight nimble hands, which were often aided by Iras's skilful fingers, toiled busily, and soon the latter could hold up the mirror before Cleopatra, exclaiming from the very depths of her heart, "Like the foam-born Aphrodite and the golden Hathor! [10]
- A little later, when the veil had lifted, it became a mirror for the hills and crags, the blue reaches of the sky. [9]
- Fran Lerch perceived what was passing in her mind, and instilled courage until she had finished her work and held up the mirror before Barbara. [10]
- She was like wet clay on which even the light touch of a butterfly leaves a mark, her sister like a mirror from which the breath that has dimmed it instantly and entirely vanishes. [10]
- In no other way could certain phases of our society be made to appear so distinctly as when reflected in the once pure mirror of a woman's soul. [4]
- I knew I was pale as death, for as I turned to leave the room I caught sight of my face in a little mirror tacked on the door, and I hardly recognised myself. [11]
- The magnificent star was missing; in its place she wore at the square-cut neck of her dress two beautiful halfblown roses, and her mirror had showed her how becoming they were. [10]
- The spirit of vanity in his soul laughed in delight, and the lad soon knew the way to the large Venetian mirror, which was carefully kept in the hall of state. [10]
- My only mirror used to be a stream of water in summer," she added, "and a corner of a looking-glass got from the Hudson's Bay fort in the winter. [11]
- And I raised up, garbed as I was, not for public exhibition, right in front of a mirror fifteen or sixteen feet high. [5]
- He did not turn round but looked at her in the mirror, as though it were the last look he might give on earth. [11]
- The power of truth had given each its full emphasis and held up to Miriam a mirror that showed her an image from which she shrank. [10]
- About half-way he took a rest, and admired the reflection of the moon in the bright mirror of the water, and he could not but think of Petrus' court-yard that had shone in the same silvery light when he had climbed up to Sirona's window. [10]
- Then she stopped to take pleasure in her own image displayed in a large mirror which stood on a dressing-table, and between whiles she compared the couch, on which she lay clown again at full length, with those in Paulina's house. [10]
- After that journey to Ryazan he found the country dull; his former pursuits no longer interested him, and often when sitting alone in his study he got up, went to the mirror, and gazed a long time at his own face. [2]
- Suddenly it occurred to her with a shock that she was doing exactly what she had despised Lise for doing, and leaving the mirror she hurried her toilet, put out the light, and got into bed. [9]
- It was as though she held up a mirror and compelled me to look at my soul features. [9]
- He turned himself this way and that before the great mirror, admiring his finery; then walked away, imitating the prince's high-bred carriage, and still observing results in the glass. [5]
- Every feature of the spectacle was repeated in the glowing mirror of the lake! [5]
- The verdure of the Park was freshened to an incredible brilliancy by the dew, a thin white veil of mist was spread over the mirror of the waters, the trees flung long shadows across the turf. [9]
- These were perhaps the only times when her face was the mirror of her confused, vague and troubled youth. [11]
- Turning away from the mirror, she went and sat down again on the edge of the veille. [11]
- She stood before the mirror, rubbing her face with oatmeal and frowning hard. [11]
- His eyes, in the mirror, did not meet mine, but were fixed, as on some distant and pleasing prospect, though there was, as always, a slight disdain at his mouth. [11]
- It was not the mirror trick, of course, which Mrs. Felix Lorraine and other dangerous historical personages have so long made use of. [6]
- She therefore commanded the mirror to show her again the army and Moustache, the field-marshal, who was a cousin of her late husband. [10]
- Her face was the mirror of her mind, and it had no ulterior thought. [11]
- Boris paused in the middle of the room, looked round, brushed a little dust from the sleeve of his uniform, and going up to a mirror examined his handsome face. [2]
- The queen received the marques with distinguished honor, for he was esteemed the mirror of chivalry. [4]
- When, before leaving the house, he looked at himself in a mirror, he said to himself with some satisfaction, that he, as he stood, was worth as much as the whole of Mena's estates. [10]
- As soon as the host of The Mirror heard this tale, he minded him of that strange, dark man and, when that way-farer came not home to his inn, he made report thereof to the judges. [10]
- The sight of the hapless pair placed Hosea's own terrible future before him as if in a mirror, and for the first time he groaned aloud and covered his face with his hands. [10]
- The mother smoothed the folds of her dyed silk dress before a large Venetian mirror in the wall, and in her trodden-down shoes briskly ascended the carpeted stairs. [2]
- This time, on the contrary, mirror in hand, he directed the work of the skilful servant with many an objection, showing as much vanity as in his youth. [10]
- The Rhine and the canals will grow crimson, for much blood will flow into them and they will mirror an unequalled conflagration. [10]
- In front of the bright silver mirror he could not cease from making faces. [10]
- Turning to leave the bedroom she caught sight of her face and figure again in the big mirror, and she seemed to herself like some other woman. [11]
- When she reached the "little house under the hill" (as Catherine called the chamber beneath the eaves), she beheld reflected in the mirror an image like a tall, white flower that might indeed have belonged to a princess. [9]
- I understand all that, and I shall learn what more is coming, for whatever appears in the mirror of the wine is infallible--but it must become still more distinct. [10]
- And all this stretch of river is a mirror, and you have the shadowy reflections of the leafage and the curving shores and the receding capes pictured in it. [5]
- The Queen was standing with her back to the mirror, the Duchesse de Polignac and some other ladies beside her, when my father brought me up, and her Majesty was smiling. [9]
- There stood her spinning-wheel and sewing-box; and a bright Venice mirror, which, in jest, she would call "Dame Inquisitive," showed her all that passed on the river and the Fleisch-brucke, for her house was not far from those which stood facing the Franciscan Friars. [10]
- As he did so he caught sight of his face in the mirror over the mantel-piece. [11]
- Passing a mirror she glanced into it. [2]
- Lise, in this sense, was indeed virtuous, and her mirror told her she was beautiful. [9]
- I can still see myself in a short pink skirt, with a wreath of roses on my fair curls, wings on my shoulders, a quiver on my back, and a bow in my hand, standing before the mirror very much pleased with my appearance. [10]
- And when I saw myself in the mirror I was frightened out of my wits. [5]
- Then Barry Whalen saw him glance searchingly at his master's face in a mirror, and again that baleful light leaped up in his eyes. [11]
- When she came ready dressed into the ballroom to await her father, and looking in the large mirror there saw that she was pretty, very pretty, she felt even more sad, but it was a sweet, tender sadness. [2]
- Then the duchess reached once more for the mirror to assure herself that her eyes had not been deceived, but her fingers trembled so with excitement that the glass slipped from her hand and fell to the floor where it broke in a thousand pieces. [10]
- When all seemed quiet, Myrtle lighted her lamp, stood before her mirror, and untied the string that bound her long and beautiful dark hair, which fell in its abundance over her shoulders and below her girdle. [6]
- Then Julie picked out her smartest ribbons, capered at the mirror, and dusted her face with oatmeal, because she thought that he would ask her to meet him at the Bois Noir, as he had done long ago. [11]
- The last mention of Sigismund by Smith is after his escape from captivity in Tartaria, when this mirror of virtues had abdicated. [4]
- The walls were of dark stone-dark, too, were the pillars and ceiling--all dark and glittering; most portions were smoothly polished stone, shining like a mirror. [10]
- But he did not know where he ought to stand; and so, through error, he stood between the picture and the mirror. [5]
- Miss Thorn had not forgotten a small mirror. [9]
- I myself do not care to linger long when the mirror shows me my image. [10]
- She permitted her niece to come into her room, and then: sank into a chair before the mirror of her dressing-table, and scanned her face there. [9]
- There is no need of Mrs. Felix Lorraine's reflection in the mirror, to tell us that she is plotting evil for us behind our backs. [6]
- Her worshipping maid, near dead with fatigue, watched her furtively, but avoided the eyes in the mirror which had a half-angry look, a look at once disturbed and elated, reckless and pitiful. [11]
- Give me back my ring and take instead this mirror, which will always show to you and yours whatever you hold most dear, even when you are far away from it. [10]
- Then I twisted my head over my shoulder as if I were noting the shape of my back and the set of my clothes in a mirror, and thrust a leg out in the manner of an exquisite. [11]
- At the same moment a deep sonorous voice called out with a loud and hearty shout of laughter: "A mirror--give me a mirror, Eulaeus. [10]
- Hand me the mirror, the maul-stick, and the colors. [10]
- Standing before the mirror, she looked at herself long, laughing feverishly. [11]
- Then, in the mirror, he saw also something else. [11]
- Looking into a mirror on the wall--it had been a gift from her grandfather--she smiled at herself. [11]
- Our religious instruction might serve as a mirror of the opinions which were pleasing to the minister. [10]
- She held the metal mirror so as to conceal her face from the captain of the watch, put the little flask to her lips and emptied it at one mouthful. [10]
- Above the carved mantel of yellowing marble was a quaintly shaped mirror extending to the high ceiling, and flanked on either side by sconces. [9]
- While she was loosening her golden tresses and gazing into the mirror, her eyes again sparkled with joy. [10]
- With satisfaction he looked in the mirror in the hall as they passed inside the house. [11]
- Bright rays of light flashed from their whirling ranks all the time, for each dancer had a mirror fastened between her shoulders, which flashed while she was in motion, and reflected the scene when she was still. [10]
- A cracked mirror lay on an old straw mattress, the contents of which were airing themselves through wide rips and rents. [6]
- And in the large mirror behind the clock she beheld an image she supposed, dreamily, to be herself. [9]
- And so Lali, just here on the edge of Marion's future, looking into that mirror, was catching the reflection of her own life. [11]
- And I had judgment, and I would have had to pay for that mirror if I hadn't recollected to say it was Twichell who broke it. [5]
- As she held it in her hand, and then put it on before the mirror, she smiled a little, faintly, at its appearance. [4]
- Henderson looked at it as if it had been a mirror of his own destiny, and expressed his admiration. [4]
- For this, also, is an office of the novel, as it is of the drama, to hold the mirror up to nature, and to human nature as it exhibits itself. [4]
- When she glanced into the mirror, she was astonished at herself. [10]
- She glanced furtively into the little mirror at the side. [9]
- By the door, inside, was fastened a small old-fashioned looking-glass frame, with two little fragments of the original mirror lodged down in one corner of it. [5]
- These represented familiar incidents from famous love tales: Tristan and Isolde seeing the face of King Mark in the mirror of the spring, Frau Venus as, surrounded by her court, she receives Tannhauser in the Horselberg, and similar scenes. [10]
- He surveyed himself in the mirror. [11]
- She therefore persisted in sending messengers to those lands where, to judge by the costume of the people, the appearance of the country and buildings, as shown in the magic mirror, George was most likely to be found. [10]
- He now took in his hand a volume he called the mirror of his soul, and in which he noted many things "for the confession," that he desired to determine to his own satisfaction. [10]
- At this point in her meditations she consulted the mirror, to behold a modest, slim-waisted young woman becomingly arrayed in white linen, whose cheeks were aglow with health, whose eyes seemingly reflected the fire of a distant high vision. [9]
- A large mirror hung on the wall opposite Halbeck. [11]
- Ian Belward buttoned his close-fitting coat, cast a glance in the mirror, and then eyed Gaston's fine figure and well-cut clothes. [11]
- The yard porter, his arms akimbo, stood smiling with satisfaction before the large mirror. [2]
- After looking at him from head to foot, saying nothing but with no small contentment, he clapped him kindly on the shoulder and led him, as though by chance, up to the Venice mirror in the dining-hall. [10]
- Kitty looked at herself suddenly in the mirror-the half- length mirror on the opposite wall--and she felt her hands clench and her bosom beat hard under her pretty and inexpensive calico frock, a thing for Chloe, not for Juno. [11]
- She looked at herself in the tall, bevelled mirror in the best chamber. [6]
- She nodded to herself in the mirror on the wall opposite. [11]
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