14 Metaphors for mirror

Were it so, then the mirror, or the camera, were the best of all artists.

Were there not capacious stables in which mirrors of any size could be ground; and a roomy laundry capable of easy conversion into a library, with one door opening on a large lawn, where the "small twenty-foot" was to take its stand?

The mirrors in use among the Aztecs were polished plates of obsidian, trimmed to a circular form.

It seemed to me a year since our departure from Okhotsk; for weeks we had not taken off our heavy armour of furs; mirrors, beds and clean linen were traditions of the remote past; and American civilisation, as we looked back at it across twenty-seven months of barbarism, faded into the unreal imagery of a dream.

The monad mirrors mirrorswhere is the thing that is mirrored?

The acquaintance is of some standing, since The Mirror was the first journal that contained any pictorial representation of these Gardens, or any connected notice of the animals.

Who has spoiled them by flattery, until they are little peacocks to whom a mirror is an irresistible temptation?

At night, 'mid wine and flowers, the bulbul tuned his song: "Bring thou the morning bowl: prepare, ye drunken throng!" Sikander's mirror, once so famed, is the wine-filled cup: behold All that haps in Dárá's realm glassed within its wondrous mould.

The MIRROR (Specula sine macula) is a metaphor borrowed from the Book of Wisdom (vii, 25).

Filled with anguish and breaking into a cold perspiration, he began to repeat between his teeth: "The name of mirror is applied to all polished surfaces" "Ergo, per te, the mirror is the surface," angled the professor.

Ergo, a glass mirror is a metallic mirror; ergo, the terms of the distinction are confused; ergo, the classification is imperfecthow do you explain that, meddler?" He emphasized the ergos and the familiar "you's" with indescribable relish, at the same time winking, as though to say, "You're done for.

we read: "The mirror of Sikander is the goblet of Jem."

The stage, that "mirror of the times," is often the first manifestation of the unquiet heaving and subsequent up-bubbling in the fluid compost of the mass that constitutes a nation.

The mirror's the one real essential for Dorothy Eustis Chase.

14 Metaphors for  mirror