55 examples of plate-glass in sentences

" "See that plate-glass mirror?"

I sat on a little stool of plate-glass.

All eyes were strained on the plate-glass windows above, and they looked but for one thinga spot, black as night itself, which would mean open water above.

Kippy jumped out and, with every muscle he could bring into action, hit it straight through the plate-glass panel of the billiard-room door.

True, there is not a single shop in it with plate-glass windows: but what matters that, if its citizens have all that civilised people need, and more, and will heap what they have on the stranger so hospitably that they almost pain him by the trouble which they take?

The owner of the Norwood house had an engraving of the ship executed on a plate-glass window of this hall.

Almost the last regular customer had seceded to the "Hendrik Book Bazaar and Periodical Emporium,"a pert rival, that, with multifarious new-fangled tricks of attractiveness, flashed its plate-glass eyes and turned up its gilded nose at Miss Wimple from the other side of the way.

She could have thrown herself from the balcony on to the spikes of the area railings, she could have dashed herself against yonder big plate-glass window looking towards the Green Park, like a bird which shatters his little life against the glass barrier which he mistakes for the open sky.

How little reason they had to envy him, he thought, as he walked around the great building and saw his name glaring at him in gilt letters over the plate-glass windows and on all the delivery wagons, open-mouthed for the packages being wheeled out under the long glass awning.

Fancy coffins, decorated with glittering ornaments, are placed seductively in bright plate-glass windows, and put out for baiting advertisements upon the side-walks: as much as to say, "Walk in, walk in, ladies and gentlemen!

As the carriage stopped in front of the onyx-lined, palm-decorated, plate-glass-mirrored "entrance hall" of the expensive hotel, Aunt Victoria descended, motioning to Sylvia not to follow her.

She had a sudden vision of the white-tiled, velvet-carpeted florist's shop in a corner of Aunt Victoria's hotel where, behind spotless panes of shining plate-glass, the great clusters of cut-flowers dreamed away an enchanted liferoses, violets, lilies of the valley, orchids....

And so Jo drifted into that sad-eyed, dyspeptic family made up of those you see dining in second-rate restaurants, their paper propped up against the bowl of oyster crackers, munching solemnly and with indifference to the stare of the passer-by surveying them through the brazen plate-glass window.

We felt ourselves fairly imaged when standing before her, as in a clear plate-glass mirror.

The first thing, then, is to lay a sensitive coating on a piece of glass,crown-glass, which has a natural surface, being preferable to plate-glass.

But Prescott seemed to look into the machine through a very thick plate-glass window, with Haswell placed directly before it.

The foreman, a distinguished person in braided broadcloth, rose and announced that he was very much interested to learn their views upon this subject as he was the president of a casualty company, and he wished them to understand that thousandsif not hundreds of thousandsof dollars' worth of plate-glass windows were wantonly broken by young toughs, every year, for which his and other insurance companies had to recoup the owners.

The observation car is supplied with a library for the use of passengers, and is fitted with plate-glass windows and easy chairs.

It was at a grand hotel that the party now established themselves, the space, the plate-glass, the gilt, and the general splendor of which made Ralph exclaim in wonder and admiration.

Windows boldly fronted all four cardinal compass-pointshuge, plate-glass windows that gave a view unequaled in its sweep and power.

Where the aft observation pit had been, now only a twisted net of metal-work remained, with all the plate-glass melted and cracked away.

I think of Mr Stevenson as a consumptive youth weaving garlands of sad flowers with pale, weak hands, or leaning to a large plate-glass window, and scratching thereon exquisite profiles with a diamond pencil.

Sigh as we may for the colonial house, we confess that the standards of the time did not include the comfort of hot baths, polished floors, plate-glass windows, elevators, ice-closets, and lawn-mowers.

Behind the pane of plate-glass which bore his name and title burned a modest lamp, signifying to the passers-by that at all hours of the night the slightest favors (or fevers) were welcome.

My color-screen consists of a small plate-glass tank, having a space of 3/16 of of an inch between the glass, filled with a solution of bichromate of potash about one grain strong.

55 examples of  plate-glass  in sentences