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1  It was a serene summer night; the harbour lay like a darkened mirror at their feet.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In AFTER THE RACE
2  She turned away from the mirror slowly and walked along the shaft of light towards him.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD
3  She had taken off her hat and cloak and was standing before a large swinging mirror, unhooking her waist.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD
4  The artistes talked among themselves nervously, glanced from time to time at the mirror and rolled and unrolled their music.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A MOTHER
5  As he passed in the way of the cheval-glass he caught sight of himself in full length, his broad, well-filled shirt-front, the face whose expression always puzzled him when he saw it in a mirror, and his glimmering gilt-rimmed eyeglasses.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD
6  He saw himself as a ludicrous figure, acting as a pennyboy for his aunts, a nervous, well-meaning sentimentalist, orating to vulgarians and idealising his own clownish lusts, the pitiable fatuous fellow he had caught a glimpse of in the mirror.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD
7  She changed her blouse too and, as she stood before the mirror, she thought of how she used to dress for mass on Sunday morning when she was a young girl; and she looked with quaint affection at the diminutive body which she had so often adorned.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In CLAY