looking-glass

looking-glass englanniksi

1. (synonym of). (defdate)

2. (quote-book)|title=A Divine Looking-glass: Or, The Third and Last Testament of Our Lord, Jesus Christ,(nb...)|location=London|publisher=Printed (...) and reprinted for Lodowick Muggleton,(nb...)|year=1661|section=title page|sectionurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=JeNDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP13|oclc=606594251|passage=A Divine Looking-Glaſs: Or, The third and laſt Teſtament of our Lord, JESUS CHRIST, (..) title

3. (quote-book)|year=1711|page=4|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=dcVbAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP16|oclc=1062218884|passage=Even ſo the account of your Looking-glaſs puts us in hopes of ſome mighty Diſcoveries to be made by the Help of it, and at the ſame time, ſeems to carry its own Contradiction along with it; for a Pocket Looking-glaſs, is, doubtleſs, a moſt prepoſterous Help for taking a ''Clear View'' of a ''Great Coloſſus'', unleſs it be one of thoſe, that contract the largeſt Bodies into a ſmall compaſs; and then it may give us an Idea of the Proportions, but not a clearer View of all the Partcular Beauties or Deformities.

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5. (quote-journal), and White, Cochrane & Co.,(nb...)|month=November|year=1812|volume=XX|issue=XL|page=274|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.21084/page/n282/mode/1up|oclc=950902861|passage=He &91;(w)&93; commanded his physician to tell him exactly how long he had to live; and when he answered, ‘about half an hour,’ he asked for a looking-glass, and said, with a smile, that he did look ill enough, and saw ‘''qu’il ferait une vilaine grimace en mourant.''’

6. (quote-journal)|month=September|year=1828|volume=VI (New Series)|issue=33|page=324|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/monthlymagazineo06mont/page/324/mode/1up|oclc=317115224|passage=Two days before Captain Clapperton|Hugh Clapperton died, he requested to be shaved, as he was too weak to sit up. After the operation, he asked for a looking-glass, remarked that he was "doing better," and should certainly "get over it." The morning on which he died, he breathed loud, became restless, and shortly afterwards expired in Lander|Richard Lander's arms.

7. (quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Bell (publisher)|George Bell,(nb...)|year=1845|volume=I|section=footnote †|page=225|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ekk1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA225|oclc=77903558|passage=Many sorts of glass were in the market, called Lambeth or Ratcliffe, Normandy, German, white and green, Dutch, Newcastle, Staffordshire, and Bristol glass, looking glass and jealous glass. (..) Looking glass plates were sometimes used in windows.

8. (RQ:Thackeray Vanity Fair)

9. (quote-book) by (w)|year=1856 March 17–18| year_published=1981| page=167| pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=46pRAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA167| isbn=978-0-300-02743-3| passage=17th Drew in the dead body in the corrected sketch in Pen & Ink. It is rather dreary. Worked at sundries from Self in the looking glass (8 hours). / 18th worked all day from self in looking glass in shirts & draws. (..)

10. (RQ:Tolstoy War and Peace)

11. (RQ:Allingham China Governess) A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.

12. A way into a bizarre world (from the book ''the Looking-Glass|Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There'' (1871) by (w).

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13. (quote-journal) I know that some Republicans feel as if they've fallen through the looking glass.