pierglass

Dr. van Roos made quick observations at the midpoint of her Wednesday afternoon Stockholm group: the miller's daughter played with hem of her Chanel jacket, Hansel stared at his fingers, Rapunzel checked her headscarf in the pierglass while her thumbs worried a dark stone, probably that same filthy trichobezoar.

Still Crazy After All These Years John Wentworth Chapin 2011

It would serve to buy that pair of gilt cornices or the heavy gilt-framed pierglass on which she had set her heart.

Australia Felix 2003

In the mirror of the giltbordered pierglass the undecorated back of the dwarf tree regarded the upright back of the embalmed owl.

Ulysses 2003

Mr Dedalus looked at himself in the pierglass above the mantelpiece, waxed out his moustache ends and then, parting his coattails, stood with his back to the glowing fire: and still from time to time he withdrew a hand from his coat-tail to wax out one of his moustache ends.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 2003

There were holly and ivy round the pierglass and holly and ivy, green and red, twined round the chandeliers.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 2003

Wax-lights stood on the mantelpiece before a gilt-framed pierglass; coloured prints hung on the walls.

Australia Felix 2003

There were holly and ivy round the pierglass and holly and ivy, green and red, twined round the chandeliers.

The Perceptions of James Joyce 1958

Mr Dedalus looked at himself in the pierglass above the mantelpiece, waxed out his moustache ends and then, parting his coat-tails, stood with his back to the glowing fire: and still from time to time he withdrew a hand from his coat-tail to wax out one of his moustache ends.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922

There were holly and ivy round the pierglass and holly and ivy, green and red, twined round the chandeliers.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922

There were holly and ivy round the pierglass and holly and ivy, green and red, twined round the chandeliers.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922