When one looks in a mirror placed perpendicularly to another, his face will appear entirely deformed.
If you are inclined to play a similar trick, you have only to trace, with a small piece of soap, on themirror which is to appear broken, a few fine lines in imitation of cracks.
Madame, it is easy for you to bind my hair, but for myself, I have no mirror and so dress it awkwardly.
Whereupon she summoned one of her servants and bade him place a mirror in the bed-chamber of Solita, wherein she might see herself from top to toe.
And coming into her chamber, Solita beheld the mirror ranged against the wall, and long she stood before it, being much comforted by the image which she saw.
Then she picked up her gloves and turned from the window, with its background of jutting wall, which had been serving her as a mirror in lieu of mirrors packed and being moved out and into the vans below.
Perseus avoided the penalty by only looking at her reflection in a mirror as he cut off her head while she slept.
She covered her face with a mask when out of doors, in order to shield it from the sun; and when at last her mirror informed her that the charms of that face were beginning to wane, she cried: "Let me die rather than lose my beauty!
This doubtless was at the time considered ample, though Seneca, in the later days of luxury, declared that it would not suffice to purchase a mirrorfor the daughter of a freedman.
Without pausing to consider she took up the softly scented blossoms, dried their green stems on her dress, took up the mirroragain and stuck the flowers in her hair.
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.
And there are many girls would sooner hear those words then have a whole loaf--besides you have a mirror I suppose, look in that next time you are hungry.
What fitter birthplace for the poet whom a comrade has called the "Subtlest Assertor of the Soul in Song", the poet whose writings are indeed a mirror of the age?
It still hangs in his drawing-room, where the mirror and one of the quaint chairs above named still are.
She had admitted this to herself as she surveyed her reflection in the tall oval mirroronly five hours before.
But he managed to plaster them all on before the cab stopped and after one glance in the little mirror he was confident the disguise would answer.
A story of particular facts is as a mirror which obscures and distorts that which should be beautiful: poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
He went up to the mantelpiece, and contemplating his face in the mirror said: "Your friend the Buccaneer has made a fool of himself; he will have to pay for it!
Emily deserted themirror before which she was standing.
Her two dwarfs and a big dog have been brought to amuse her, and the King and Queen, reflected in a mirrorat the end of the room, stand watching the scene.
He never made a repetition of the golden hazes of Cuyp, who in his particular field stands alone; but it was a small field compared with that of Turner, who held the mirror up to Nature in her every mood.
Slowly, she turned from her reflection in the mirror and dropped down on the edge of the daintily counterpaned bed.
How could a man whose life was a mirror of integrity, whose ideals were of the loftiest, and who attempted to conform his conduct to them excite such contempt?
He professes to be the dramatic mirror held up to life and to tell the truth as he sees it, that he cannot be persuaded to camouflage it, and that when it is depicted on the stage it shall amuse rather than distress.
Withersoever she turns her shining mirror there Error may not abide, but like a dastardly coward, flies from the glory.
She must, Craven thought, often have stood before a mirror and carefully "memorized" herself in all her variety and detail.
Since she had considered herself in the mirror she had realized that she had attained that critical period in a beauty's life when she must begin incessantly to manage to continue a beauty.
And now, even at sixty--Presently she saw by the look of the landscape that she was nearing Coombe, and she drew a little mirror out of her muff and gazed into it anxiously.
Stretching herself a little she was able to look into an oval Venetian mirror above the high marble frame of the fireplace.
She was not of the type which cannot pass a mirror in a restaurant without staring into it.
In and out, now straight, now in curves and bows, was threaded a ribbon of silver, with here and there a connecting mirror in which flashed the sun.
So far as I am concerned, I am not in the least alarmed about finding someone to whom I shall be as pleasing as I was to you; my mirror and my reputation do not lie.
Then she snatched a mirror from the silent maid and after scrutinizing all the looks and smiles which pass between lovers, she shook out her wrinkled earth-stained robe and flounced off into the temple of Venus (nearby.
The day before I make the trip, I'll signal you by mirror flashes that I am coming; and you will answer from the peak.
The automobile, the mirror signals from Fairlands--it was all explained by the presence and by the menacing attitude of the man who barred his way.
Jack," said the Ranger, "Aaron has got hold of the right end of this, with his mirror flashes.
That is, I understand the general principle--that it's a method of signaling by mirror flashes.
They had finished lunch, when Marston, looking at his watch, took a small mirror from his pocket and stood gazing expectantly toward the distant valley where Fairlands lay under the blue haze.
Paint, shutters, and carpets were absent, benches served for chairs, the only mirror in it was eight by twelve inches, and used in common by Bridget and Mary.
She seemed to be more especially interested in herself, and when Farr departed was fondling into place the masses of her hair before a mirror in the vestibule.
The report in Marion was that he stood before that mirror and made up his expression to suit the character of a day's business.
We're not murderers," he informed the composed visage which the mirror held forth to him.
In the mirror something moved, a shadow, at the corner of the window.
Oh, well," sighed Beth as she laid the mirror down beside her.
At least she was content until Aunt Tillie brought her Miss Peggy McGuire's silver hand-mirror and she saw the reflection of her once beautiful self.
As he failed to find her, he wrote her a note, asking her forgiveness, and stuck it in the mirror of the old hat-rack in the hall.
For life is the mirror of old king slave; 'Tis just what we say or do, Then give to the world the best you have, And the best will come back to you.
And day by day the roses faded from her cheek, her step grew lighter on the stair, and she rapidly declined, till at length she was startled at the shadowy form and face her mirror revealed to her.
The ball was over, and Helen stood in her festal costume, before the ample mirror in her chamber, holding in one hand a white kid glove she had just withdrawn.
He saw himself in a mirror that reflected the inmost recesses of his heart, and he was horrified at sight of the foulness so long concealed.
Once while Helene was dressing her hair she looked up at the maid in the mirror and noticed a strange and rather horrible grin upon her face, which disappeared the moment their eyes met.
Mr. Ricardo, however, was to learn something more of Celia the next morning; for while he was fixing his tie before the mirror Wethermill burst into his dressing-room.
At the end a long mirror was let into the panelling, and a writing-table stood by the mirror.
These awkward fictions reflect the spirit of the age; the simple records of the four Evangelists mirror for us the Spirit of Truth.
In one hand she held a mirror into which, lasciviously, she smiled.
You say to me that ever since you saw that lady's face this world has seemed as a mirror and an unreality to you so that you cannot cease from sighing and longing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mirror" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
