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reflection as in: my reflection in the mirror
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I was looking at my reflection in her sunglasses.
reflection = image
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- She looked at her reflection in the pond.
- This mirror gives a flattering reflection that makes you look a little thinner.
- Sorry, I've just never been allowed to stare at my reflection for this long. (source)
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I took in my own reflection, framed by creamy tiles.
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reflection = image (seen on a mirror or other shiny surface)
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In the window, the boy grinned almost maniacally at his reflection, and in his shorts and tank top, he quietly abducted his older brother's bike and pedaled it up the street, heading for Hubert Oval.
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reflection = an image (seen on a mirror or other shiny surface)
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He stops me before I can look at my reflection.
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reflection = image (as shined back by a smooth surface)
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She glanced at her reflection as she ran past the window of a furniture repair shop.
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reflection = image (seen on a mirror or other shiny surface)
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We did Ayena Masshaf, where they gave us a mirror and threw a veil over our heads, so we'd be alone to gaze at each other's reflection.
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reflection = image (seen on a mirror)
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We switched trams, and after four more stops we arrived at a street split by a beautiful canal, the reflections of the ancient bridge and picturesque canal houses rippling in water.
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reflections = images (seen on a shiny surface)
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Roland sees him too, catching his reflection in the bathroom mirror, but he doesn't release Risa.
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reflection = image
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If she was really there, he'd touch her, their reflections were so close together, but he felt only air — she and the others existed only in the mirror.
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reflections = images (seen in a mirror)
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They drank, lowering their flat heads, meeting their own reflections in the still water.
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reflections = images (seen on a mirror or other shiny surface)
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I watched my reflection not only in the mirror, but in store windows and across the television when it wasn't on, trying to get a fix on my looks.
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reflection = image shined back
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He could see the reflections of the trees at the other end of the lake.
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reflections = images (seen on a mirror or other shiny surface)
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There was just enough moon in the sky to light up her curly blond hair and cast a reflection in her glasses.
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reflection = image
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Crow stiffened as she stared at her distorted reflection in the shining silver.
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reflection = image (as shined back by a smooth surface)
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They stood before the mirror, where instead of Peter's cruel reflection there stood a dragon and a unicorn.
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reflection = image (seen on a mirror)
- Mae Tuck didn't need a mirror, though she had one propped up on the washstand. She knew very well what she would see in it; her reflection had long since ceased to interest her. (source)
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Reflections of blue and gray swirled on the water as a fresh breeze ruffled the spruce boughs and sent ripples along the shoreline.
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reflections = images (seen on a mirror or other shiny surface)
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The ocean perked up a little from the reflection of these colored slivers in the sky.
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reflection = images shown back
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This little knucklehead was kissing his reflection in the mirror and got his lips stuck!
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reflection = image (seen on a mirror)
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He looked in the pool for his reflection, but his breathing troubled the mirror.
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reflection = image (on the surface of the pool)
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There was a reflection of Judith's excitement in his own pale face.
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reflection = image as seen on a mirror--figuratively
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She remembered her time in the maze when she stood in this very room and saw, in place of her own reflection, Redd's face staring back at her from that same glass.
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reflection = image (seen on a mirror)
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I watched the Baron's eyes linger here and there on my reflection in the mirror.
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reflection = image
- David, putting on his tie, watched Paul's reflection in the mirror. (source)
- I look at my reflection in the restaurant's glass and find myself with a massive, curly mustache. (source)
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I glanced at my reflection in the full-length mirror on the wall.
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reflection = an image (seen on a mirror or other shiny surface)
- On every kind of pretext she would run away from work and go to the drinking pool, where she would stand foolishly gazing at her own reflection in the water. (source)
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There was a dim sheet of water no longer overshadowed, and on its sliding surface there were dancing and broken reflections of clouds and of stars.
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reflections = images (seen on a mirror or other shiny surface)
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In the quiet hours when the puzzling reflection of former days like a blurred mirror, projects beyond me the figure of my present existence, I often sit over against myself, as before a stranger, and wonder how the unnameable active principle that calls itself to life has adapted itself even to this form.
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reflection = image shined back
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Here and there a wild plum leaned out from the bank like a white-clad girl tip-toeing to her own reflection.
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reflection = image (seen on a mirror or other shiny surface)
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I started, for it amazed me that I had not seen him, since the reflection of the glass covered the whole room behind me.
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reflection = image shined back
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Sometimes a light glimmered out of the physician's eyes, burning blue and ominous, like the reflection of a furnace, or, let us say, like one of those gleams of ghastly fire that darted from Bunyan's awful doorway in the hillside, and quivered on the pilgrim's face.
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reflection = image (as shined back by a smooth surface)
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The star of day, pale but nevertheless still splendid, was setting in the horizon, glorifying at once the heavens and the sea with bands of fire, and casting upon the towers and the old houses of the city a last ray of gold which made the windows sparkle like the reflection of a conflagration.
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reflection = an image (seen on a mirror or other shiny surface)
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"We have to hurry," the reflection said.
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reflection = image
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Nothing moved but himself, his shadow, and his fleeting reflection in shop windows he passed.
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reflection = image (seen on a mirror or other shiny surface)
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Harry was so close to the mirror now that his nose was nearly touching that of his reflection.
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reflection = an image (seen on a mirror or other shiny surface)
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I automatically turned my head sideways when I saw my reflection.
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reflection = image (seen on a mirror)
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He peered at his reflection and disliked it.
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reflection = an image (seen on a mirror or other shiny surface)
- I see something in front of me—my own faint reflection. (source)
- Gale comes up behind me and we examine each other's reflection. (source)
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I wasn't looking at him directly but at his reflection in the mirror.
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reflection = image
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A woman standing right behind his reflection was smiling at him and waving.
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reflection = an image (seen on a mirror or other shiny surface)
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His eyes were glowing, the reflection of a tiny flame dancing in each one.
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reflection = image
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Something had moved in the looking glass: not a reflection of herself, of anything in the room.
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reflection = image (seen on a mirror)
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I see the walls of a tank around me, and my shadowed reflection across from me.
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reflection = an image (seen on a mirror or other shiny surface)
- He pulled the cloak over his head and his reflection vanished completely. (source)
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Genevieve studied her reflection in the bathroom looking glass.
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reflection = image (seen on a mirror)
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It is too late to look away, but instead of scolding me, she smiles at our reflection.
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reflection = an image (seen on a mirror or other shiny surface)
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The reflection directly in front of Alyss was off somehow, inexact.
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reflection = image (seen on a mirror)
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If I tilt it right, I can almost see my reflection over the hands.
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reflection = an image (seen on a mirror or other shiny surface)
- He saw his reflection, pale and scared-looking at first. (source)
- That, I think, is our true reflection; it is as small as we actually are. (source)
- But a moment later, the reflection smiled at him. (source)
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But Alyss could no longer be sure in which direction the reflection had gone.
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reflection = image
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Then they were gone and Alyss' reflection once again occupied the glass.
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reflection = image (seen on a mirror)
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I can look at my reflection whenever I want.
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reflection = an image (seen on a mirror or other shiny surface)
- I look at my reflection in the small mirror on the back wall and see a stranger. (source)
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Her reflection in the looking glass suddenly rippled and morphed into an image of Redd.
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reflection = image (seen on a mirror)
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My reflection, however, looks small and squat.
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reflection = an image (seen on a mirror or other shiny surface)
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She turned from Dodge Anders and glimpsed her reflection in a looking glass.
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reflection = image (seen on a mirror)
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"Mother!" she and her reflections gasped.
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reflections = images (seen in a mirror)
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I open my eyes and for the first time stare openly at my own reflection.
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reflection = an image (seen on a mirror or other shiny surface)
- Uriah stares at his reflection in the elevator doors and pats his hair down. (source)
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"Hello?" she said, and again a chorus of voices said it with her--the voices of her reflections.
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reflections = images (seen in a mirror)
- Alyss was alone among the defeated Hatters, her reflections back in their looking glasses. (source)
- Her sobs were magnified tenfold as her reflections cried with her. (source)
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She turned away and examined her reflection one last time.
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reflection = an image (seen on a mirror or other shiny surface)
- I don't have to ask him; I know it like I know my own reflection. (source)
- I grabbed my backpack and glanced at my reflection in the mirror. (source)
- When the film ends, I catch my reflection in the theater's bathroom. (source)
- I searched my reflection with new eyes, with new knowledge. (source)
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He looked away from me, examining our reflections in the mirror across the room.
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I avoid looking at him directly, but I catch a glimpse of his reflection in one of the shiny control consoles along the wall.
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reflection = an image (seen on a mirror or other shiny surface)
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I looked in the mirror at our reflection, at the twelve girls, sleek and shiny, pirouetting blurs of black, white and pink.
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reflection = image (seen on a mirror)
- I thought of our wedding night, gazing at each other's reflection in the mirror under the green veil, and how her cheeks blushed when I whispered that I loved her. (source)
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While Hatsumomo was rinsing out her brushes, she glanced several times at my reflection in the mirror.
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reflection = an image (seen on a mirror or other shiny surface)
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The big glass windows here were lidded eyes that didn't care—that barely saw them, barely gave them back reflections.
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A flicker of movement in the reflection made Cole glance up, but then he realized the movement was a fish hovering near his knees.
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Arriving in the late afternoon, Sydelle Pulaski looked up and saw only the dim, warped reflections of treetops and drifting clouds in the glass face of Sunset Towers.
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I stared at the reflection.
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If there was a single moment when the breach between us, which had been cracking and splintering for two decades, was at last too vast to be bridged, I believe it was that winter night, when I stared at my reflection in the bathroom mirror, while, without my knowing it, my father grasped the phone in his knotted hands and dialed my brother.
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reflection = image (seen on a mirror)
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Sure enough, his reflection looked back at him, just his head suspended in midair, his body completely invisible.
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reflection = an image (seen on a mirror or other shiny surface)
- His panic fading now that there was no sound of Filch and Snape, Harry moved nearer to the mirror, wanting to look at himself but see no reflection again. (source)
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The reflections did not fade and he looked and looked until a distant noise brought him back to his senses.
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reflections = images (seen on a mirror or other shiny surface)
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I see my reflection everywhere, warped by the curve of the walls, broken by patches of rust and grime.
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reflection = an image (seen on a mirror or other shiny surface)
- I sneak a look at my reflection when she isn't paying attention—not for the sake of vanity, but out of curiosity. (source)
- In his reflection, his head is small and pressed in on one side, and his arm looks like it is bending backward. (source)
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She reached out toward the looking glass and--Ah!--the reflection grabbed her and pulled her into it.
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reflection = image (seen on a mirror)
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In my reflection, I see a narrow face, wide, round eyes, and a long, thin nose—I still look like a little girl, though sometime in the last few months I turned sixteen.
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reflection = an image (seen on a mirror or other shiny surface)
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The reflection brought her to a stop in what appeared to be a rest area, a mirrored room wider than the corridors along which they'd passed.
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reflection = image
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Alyss turned to see her father, Nolan, beaming at her from one of the looking glasses in place of her reflection.
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I look at the reflection in the mirror: my wide eyes, the bed with the gray sheets pulled taut, the dresser that holds my clothes, the bookcase, the bare walls.
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reflection = an image (seen on a mirror or other shiny surface)
- I can see my reflection from all angles: the gray fabric obscuring the shape of my back, my long neck, my knobby-knuckled hands, red with a blood blush. (source)
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Being led first one way and then another, Alyss felt sure her reflection was taking this complex route only to confuse her.
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reflection = image
- The reflection wouldn't let go of her wrist and pulled her at a fast clip past looking glass halls that branched and snaked into the distance, past mirrored alcoves and dead ends. (source)
- "Wait here," the reflection said. (source)
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On every side of her were looking glasses as tall as forever, and no matter what direction she turned, she saw her reflection infinitely repeating into the mirrored distance.
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reflection = image (seen on a mirror)
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reflection as in: lit by the reflection
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I watched the reflection of the sunlight in the underside of the pool umbrella.
reflection = light seen after it bounces off a surface to another
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Bats hear the reflection of sound waves off of objects.
reflection = the process of bouncing light, sound, or other energy off of a surface
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Sunlight reflections played upon the palm leaves above the lagoon.
reflections = light seen after it bounces off a surface to another
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Radar works by recognizing the reflection of radar waves off of objects.
reflection = the process of bouncing light, sound, or other energy off of a surface
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Those are no possum's eyes, I know their glassy reflection too well.
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reflection = shine
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Once he caught sight of a flash of gold, but it was just a reflection from one of the Weasleys' wristwatches,
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reflection = light seen bouncing off a surface
- The steps bent around the corner, and as he shone his light, an odd reflection glinted back, and then, a moment later, he saw it: a car! (source)
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They could no longer see the palms of the oasis—only the gigantic moon above them, and its silver reflections from the stones of the desert.
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reflections = light that bounced off a surface
- The ceiling swam with bright reflections, and sunlight streamed across the dusty, chip-strewn floor. (source)
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We were on Tenth when a siren came on behind us and I saw the reflection of the red light flashing in the windshield.
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reflection = light seen bouncing off a surface
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A scrap of roofing tin propped up near the fire acted as a stove and baked the biscuits with its hot reflection.
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reflection = energy bounced off of a surface
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Even Finny seemed to color a little, unless it was the reflection from his pink shirt.
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reflection = colored light bouncing off a surface and shining onto another
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Then he sat carefully on a fallen trunk near the little cliff that fronted the lagoon; and the tangled reflections quivered over him.
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reflections = light that bounced off a surface
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The maid didn't answer, but opened the wrapping around the kimono as quietly as she could, and tipped it this way and that to catch the reflection of the light.
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reflection = light seen as it bounces off a surface
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The eastern sky above the firs was flushed faintly pink from the reflection of the west, and Anne was wondering dreamily if the spirit of color looked like that, when she saw Diana come flying down through the firs, over the log bridge, and up the slope, with a fluttering newspaper in her hand.
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reflection = light seen after it bounces off a surface to another
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An expression of unspeakable joy lightened the countenance of Milady; but this expression was fleeting as the reflection of lightning.
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reflection = light seen as it bounces off a surface
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The palms that still stood made a green roof, covered on the underside with a quivering tangle of reflections from the lagoon.
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reflections = light seen after bouncing off a surface to another
- Normally the underside of the green roof was lit by a tangle of golden reflections, and their faces were lit upside down—like, thought Ralph, when you hold an electric torch in your hands. (source)
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In fact, we must not dissemble that the oscillation of the tall trees and the reflection of the moon in the dark underwood gave him serious uneasiness.
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reflection = light seen bouncing off a surface
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In this cave are twenty lamps continually burning, which, from the reflection of the adamant, cast a strong light into every part.
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reflection = light seen after it bounces off a surface to another
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I did so, and immediately all the troops gave a shout between terror and surprise; for the sun shone clear, and the reflection dazzled their eyes, as I waved the scimitar to and fro in my hand.
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reflection = light seen bouncing off a surface
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As it approached nearer over the place where I was, it appeared to be a firm substance, the bottom flat, smooth, and shining very bright, from the reflection of the sea below.
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reflection = light seen after it bounces off a surface to another
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reflection as in: is a reflection of American values
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The diversity of our police force is a reflection of our community.
reflection = representation
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The author uses gloomy weather as a reflection of a depressing situation.
reflection = expression
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The failure is a reflection of a broken system.
reflection = representation or demonstration
- The restaurant's popularity is a reflection of the growing interest in healthy eating.
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This incident is an isolated failure and not a reflection of our ideals or the behavior of our thousands of employees.
reflection = representation, demonstration, or expression
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What deceived me was my own happiness; for peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me.
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reflection = expression or demonstration
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DANFORTH—it is the reflection on himself he resents: I am sure of it, Marshal.
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reflection = indication or demonstration (of character or competence)
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I search his eyes for any sign of hurt, any reflection of the agony of torture.
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reflection = expression or demonstration
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I regard you highly, Mameha-san, but it's a poor reflection on you to recommend her to me.
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reflection = indication or demonstration (of character)
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She used the same tone, but to her the unrest seemed deeply personal, a reflection of what had been going on within her heart for years.
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reflection = demonstration or expression
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Aren't you the one who's always going on about cinema as a reflection of life?
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reflection = representation or expression
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It is not worth minding. It is no reflection on you; it is no more than what the greatest admirals have all experienced, more or less, in their time.
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reflection = indication of quality
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"I do not censure her opinions; but there certainly is impropriety in making them public."
"Do not you think," said Fanny, after a little consideration, "that this impropriety is a reflection itself upon Mrs. Crawford, as her niece has been entirely brought up by her?" (source)
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reflection as in: After reflection, I think...
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Upon reflection, I should have been more patient with her.
reflection = careful thought
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- I need more time for reflection.
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You never stop to think—whatever comes into your head to say or do you say or do it without a moment's reflection.
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reflection = thought
- He too, at first, seemed disposed to refuse; but, after some reflection, he granted me the privilege, and proposed the following terms: I was to be allowed all my time, make all contracts with those for whom I worked, and find my own employment; and, in return for this liberty, I was to pay him three dollars at the end of each week; find myself in calking tools, and in board and clothing. (source)
- "Gentlemen," exclaimed d'Artagnan, whom reflection never abandoned, "gentlemen, think of what you are about." (source)
- Accordingly I hid myself in some thick underwood, determining to devote the ensuing hours to reflection on my situation. (source)
- Henry Crawford had too much sense not to feel the worth of good principles in a wife, though he was too little accustomed to serious reflection to know them by their proper name; (source)
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After two hours of smoking and hard reflection Matthew arrived at a solution of his problem.
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reflection = careful thought
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"Well now, you must mean the Avenue," said Matthew after a few moments' profound reflection.
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reflection = thought
- The tale was quickly told, but it awakened various trains of reflection. (source)
- As a general reflection on Fanny, Sir Thomas thought nothing could be more unjust, (source)
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- "What a pity," he added, after an instant's reflection, "that she should have been in such hands!" (source)
- After a little reflection, he went on with a sort of desperate calmness. (source)
- As I sat, a train of reflection occurred to me which led me to consider the effects of what I was now doing. (source)
- Then again the kindly influence ceased to act—I found myself fettered again to grief and indulging in all the misery of reflection. (source)
- Thus Elizabeth endeavoured to divert her thoughts and mine from all reflection upon melancholy subjects. (source)
- After a moment's reflection, Mr. Crawford replied, "I know Mansfield, I know its way, I know its faults towards you." (source)
- After a long pause of reflection I concluded that the justice due both to him and my fellow creatures demanded of me that I should comply with his request. (source)
- She would rather die than own the truth; and she hoped, by a little reflection, to fortify herself beyond betraying it. (source)
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This was a letter to be run through eagerly, to be read deliberately, to supply matter for much reflection, and to leave everything in greater suspense than ever.
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reflection = careful thought
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At first his countenance was illuminated with pleasure, but as he continued, thoughtfulness and sadness succeeded; at length, laying aside the instrument, he sat absorbed in reflection.
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reflection = thought
- Idleness had ever been irksome to me, and now that I wished to fly from reflection, and hated my former studies, I felt great relief in being the fellow-pupil with my friend, and found not only instruction but consolation in the works of the orientalists. (source)
- This was a most unjust reflection, but Fanny could allow for it, and let it pass: Julia was vexed, and her temper was hasty; but she felt that it would not last, and therefore, taking no notice, only asked her if she had not seen Mr. Rushworth. (source)
- It was some time before she could get his attention to her plan, or any answer to her demand of his opinion: he was in a reverie of fond reflection, uttering only now and then a few half-sentences of praise; but when he did awake and understand, he was very decided in opposing what she wished. (source)
- At this time a slight sleep relieved me from the pain of reflection, which was disturbed by the approach of a beautiful child, who came running into the recess I had chosen, with all the sportiveness of infancy. (source)
- This interfered with the solitude I coveted for the prosecution of my task; yet at the commencement of my journey the presence of my friend could in no way be an impediment, and truly I rejoiced that thus I should be saved many hours of lonely, maddening reflection. (source)
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I shall be able to write much that I could not say, and shall be giving her time for reflection before she resolves on her answer, and I am less afraid of the result of reflection than of an immediate hasty impulse; I think I am.
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reflection = careful thought
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I spoke; I told them to retire and consider of what had been said, that I would not lead them farther north if they strenuously desired the contrary, but that I hoped that, with reflection, their courage would return.
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reflection = thought
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But reflection brought better feelings, and shewed her that Mrs. Grant was entitled to respect, which could never have belonged to her; and that, had she received even the greatest, she could never have been easy in joining a scheme which, considering only her uncle, she must condemn altogether.
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reflection = careful thought
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As the night advanced, a fierce wind arose from the woods and quickly dispersed the clouds that had loitered in the heavens; the blast tore along like a mighty avalanche and produced a kind of insanity in my spirits that burst all bounds of reason and reflection.
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reflection = thought
- The interval was, consequently, spent in inaction; his grief only became more deep and rankling when he had leisure for reflection, and at length it took so fast hold of his mind that at the end of three months he lay on a bed of sickness, incapable of any exertion. (source)
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My mother and sister are home for 18:00--Reflection, a half hour of downtime before dinner.
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reflection = (in this book) a time for careful thought
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reflection as in: a humbling reflection (memory)
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In this passage, the author shares some of her reflections on life as a waitress.
reflections = memories and thoughts about them
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When I retire I want to slow down, reflect, and possibly write a book with some of my reflections.
reflections = memories and thoughts
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Ideas were too similar to reflection, and my reflections were always of the expression on my father's stretched face the moment before he'd fled from me.
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reflections = thinking about the past
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My reflections were so consuming, I didn't even realize that I'd been mulling them over until well past two in the morning.
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reflections = thoughts
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Still, I'll never be good at it and I assure you it is a humbling reflection.
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reflection = thoughtful observation
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While occupied with these reflections, a knock came at the door of the study, and the minister said, "Come in!"
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reflections = thoughts
- "Without reckoning, monsieur," added Planchet to his master's audibly expressed reflections, "that we perhaps owe our lives to him." (source)
- Pursuing these reflections, I thought that if I could bestow animation upon lifeless matter, I might in process of time (although I now found it impossible) renew life where death had apparently devoted the body to corruption. (source)
- If the gentleman would but persevere, if he had but love enough to persevere, Sir Thomas began to have hopes; and these reflections having passed across his mind and cheered it, (source)
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Ideas were too similar to reflection, and my reflections were always of the expression on my father's stretched face the moment before he'd fled from me.
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reflection = thoughts and memories of the past
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These were my first reflections, but I soon learned that Mr. Kirwin had shown me extreme kindness.
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reflections = thoughts
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- Yet my reflections were not the most comfortable. (source)
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"As to that," cried d'Artagnan, after a moment of reflection, "I shall surmount it, be assured."
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reflection = thought
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These reflections determined me, and I resolved to remain silent.
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reflections = thoughts
- And she resumed her seat, as if plunged in reflections entirely personal. (source)
- Such were my reflections as I commenced my journey; but as I proceeded, my spirits and hopes rose. (source)
- He was lost in these reflections when the goldsmith entered. (source)
- She probably imagined that she was thinking about the Aids and their missionary box and the new carpet for the vestry room, but under these reflections was a harmonious consciousness of red fields smoking into pale-purply mists in the declining sun, of long, sharp-pointed fir shadows falling over the meadow beyond the brook, of still, crimson-budded maples around a mirrorlike wood pool, of a wakening in the world and a stir of hidden pulses under the gray sod. (source)
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...but she could not help this reflection on the Admiral. "Henry, I think so highly of Fanny Price, that..."
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reflection = thought
- She cried bitterly over this reflection when her uncle was gone; and her cousins, on seeing her with red eyes, set her down as a hypocrite. (source)
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It had the graveyard, originally Isaac Johnson's home-field, on one side, and so was well adapted to call up serious reflections, suited to their respective employments, in both minister and man of physic.
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She should have to do the honours of the evening; and this reflection quickly restored so much of her good-humour as enabled her to join in with the others, before their happiness and thanks were all expressed.
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When the evening was over, she went to bed full of it, her nerves still agitated by the shock of such an attack from her cousin Tom, so public and so persevered in, and her spirits sinking under her aunt's unkind reflection and reproach.
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I had sufficient leisure for these and many other reflections during my journey to Ingolstadt, which was long and fatiguing.
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In fact, as this last reflection indicated—this instinctive return to hope—sentiments of weakness or fear did not dwell long in her ardent spirit.
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I threw myself into the chaise that was to convey me away and indulged in the most melancholy reflections.
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At length Athos, after serious reflection and becoming more pale than usual, made a sign of assent to d'Artagnan, who by it understood he was at liberty to speak.
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These were reflections that required some time to soften; but time will do almost everything; and though little comfort arose on Mrs. Rushworth's side for the misery she had occasioned, comfort was to be found greater than he had supposed in his other children.
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So strange a reception naturally gave Milady ample matter for reflection; so seeing that the young officer did not seem at all disposed for conversation, she reclined in her corner of the carriage, and one after the other passed in review all the surmises which presented themselves to her mind.
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I cannot describe to you the agony that these reflections inflicted upon me; I tried to dispel them, but sorrow only increased with knowledge.
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- Such and such-like were the reasonings of Sir Thomas, happy to escape the embarrassing evils of a rupture, the wonder, the reflections, the reproach that must attend it; happy to secure a marriage which would bring him such an addition of respectability and influence, and very happy to think anything of his daughter's disposition that was most favourable for the purpose. (source)
- More than once the agitation into which these reflections threw me made my friends dread a dangerous relapse. (source)
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The second commissary was as much bewildered as the first had been by the simple and firm declaration of the Musketeer, upon whom he was anxious to take the revenge which men of the robe like at all times to gain over men of the sword; but the name of M. de Treville, and that of M. de la Tremouille, commanded a little reflection.
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Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions; and, in observing the appearance of the country, the bearings of the roads, the difference of soil, the state of the harvest, the cottages, the cattle, the children, she found entertainment that could only have been heightened by having Edmund to speak to of what she felt.
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These are the reflections of the first days; but when the lapse of time proves the reality of the evil, then the actual bitterness of grief commences.
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- It was at the moment when she was plunged in the deepest and darkest of these reflections that the door of the chamber opened, and the king entered. (source)
- Mrs. Price, in her turn, was injured and angry; and an answer, which comprehended each sister in its bitterness, and bestowed such very disrespectful reflections on the pride of Sir Thomas as Mrs. Norris could not possibly keep to herself, put an end to all intercourse between them for a considerable period. (source)
- And you, my friend, would be far more amused with the journal of Clerval, who observed the scenery with an eye of feeling and delight, than in listening to my reflections. (source)
- His reflections were not very cheerful. (source)
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Her elder cousins mortified her by reflections on her size, and abashed her by noticing her shyness: Miss Lee wondered at her ignorance, and the maid-servants sneered at her clothes; and when to these sorrows was added the idea of the brothers and sisters among whom she had always been important as playfellow, instructress, and nurse, the despondence that sunk her little heart was severe.
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Sometimes, with my sails set, I was carried by the wind; and sometimes, after rowing into the middle of the lake, I left the boat to pursue its own course and gave way to my own miserable reflections.
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We say the gravel he trod under his feet, for d'Artagnan made these reflections while walking solitarily along a pretty little road which led from the camp to the village of Angoutin.
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The Guards, under the command of M. Dessessart, took up their quarters at the Minimes; but, as we know, d'Artagnan, possessed with ambition to enter the Musketeers, had formed but few friendships among his comrades, and he felt himself isolated and given up to his own reflections.
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- I learned from Werter's imaginations despondency and gloom, but Plutarch taught me high thoughts; he elevated me above the wretched sphere of my own reflections, to admire and love the heroes of past ages. (source)
- Such were my reflections during the first two or three days of my residence at Ingolstadt, which were chiefly spent in becoming acquainted with the localities and the principal residents in my new abode. (source)
- I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self. (source)
- These reflections have dispelled the agitation with which I began my letter, and I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose—a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. (source)
- These were the reflections of my hours of despondency and solitude; but when I contemplated the virtues of the cottagers, their amiable and benevolent dispositions, I persuaded myself that when they should become acquainted with my admiration of their virtues they would compassionate me and overlook my personal deformity. (source)
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His apprehension was so clear, and his judgment so exact, that he made very wise reflections and observations upon all I said.
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I never suffer a word to pass that may look like reflection, or possibly give the least offence, even to those who are most ready to take it.
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I confess this reflection was obvious enough; which, however, I could not forbear, lest the reader might think those vast creatures were actually deformed: for I must do them the justice to say, they are a comely race of people, and particularly the features of my master's countenance, although he was but a farmer, when I beheld him from the height of sixty feet, appeared very well proportioned.
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Scared and confounded as I was, I could not forbear going on with these reflections, when one of the reapers, approaching within ten yards of the ridge where I lay, made me apprehend that with the next step I should be squashed to death under his foot, or cut in two with his reaping-hook.
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- But I had no time to pursue these reflections; for the gray horse came to the door, and made me a sign to follow him into the third room where I saw a very comely mare, together with a colt and foal, sitting on their haunches upon mats of straw, not unartfully made, and perfectly neat and clean. (source)
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Yet, so far have you been from answering my expectation in any of your letters; that on the contrary you are loading our carrier every week with libels, and keys, and reflections, and memoirs, and second parts; wherein I see myself accused of reflecting upon great state folk; of degrading human nature (for so they have still the confidence to style it), and of abusing the female sex.
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As every person called up made exactly the same appearance he had done in the world, it gave me melancholy reflections to observe how much the race of human kind was degenerated among us within these hundred years past; how the pox, under all its consequences and denominations had altered every lineament of an English countenance; shortened the size of bodies, unbraced the nerves, relaxed the sinews and muscles, introduced a sallow complexion, and rendered the flesh loose and rancid.
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- When I checked my avatar's reflection in a computer monitor, I saw that I no longer looked like Matthew Broderick.† (source)
- I bet you Mrs. Norris only saw the reflection....† (source)
- It was still very early, only just past true dawn, and the water was so calm he could see his reflection.† (source)
- It was a lovely view, as you could see not only the fireworks themselves but their reflections in the Jogues River.† (source)
- A precious stone of various colors and varieties, the finest characterized by its iridescent reflection of light, and formerly believed to possess magical virtues.† (source)
- Maybe he was trying to imagine her, at that very moment, as she gazed back at her own reflection for the hundredth time in the toilet bowl of some stranger.† (source)
- Instead, it came to serve as a reflection of the type of person he really is.† (source)
- As soon as they moved, the reflection from the strings revealed the patterns in the air currents they disturbed.† (source)
- From this angle, between the buildings, we couldn't see the lights, just their flickering reflection.† (source)
- Then after a moment of reflection, he added: As a younger man, I used to feel the same way about my sister.† (source)
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- As scarcity has given way to plenty in my own life, these moments of retail reflection force me to consider just how lucky I am.† (source)
- She felt as if she were looking at her own reflection.† (source)
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- I kept my eyes locked on the gazing ball so I would only glimpse Medusa's reflection, not the real thing.† (source)
- He stared at me—we were so close that I could see my distorted reflection in his large Ray-Bans.† (source)
- It may be the reflection of nothing more than a minor change in the environment.† (source)
- After nearly three hours of hearing their heartbreaking reflections, we promised to do what we could to find out who else was involved in their niece Vickie's death.† (source)
- She turned to the mirror, and Eddie noticed her reflection.† (source)
- She pursed her lips at her reflection, straightened up a little, and then continued her path down the road.† (source)
- Sometimes on these outings, when they pass by a store window, Laila catches their reflections in it.† (source)
- The side mirror was tipped inward, brushed askew by branches, and Langdon saw the reflection of Sophie sitting quietly in the back seat.† (source)
- You can see your reflection in that camera over there!† (source)
- Maybe it was just a trick of the light, a reflection of moonlight from some exposed piece of unrusted metal.† (source)
- I would go to my bedroom window and stare at my reflection in the glass and the trees behind it and just listen to the song for hours.† (source)
- Like a cat licking its reflection in a glass.† (source)
- In the window glass as night falls, he watches her reflection feel its way toward the bed.† (source)
- Bod talked to Mr. Owens about this, and, after a few moments' reflection, his father said, "It's just women, I reckon.† (source)
- Not the slightest glare or reflection, not a smudge anywhere.† (source)
- She caught my reflection in the mirror.† (source)
- To persevere was always a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy, and one's perspective.† (source)
- "We get a distorted and broken reflection," she said.† (source)
- I bent over and looked down at my own murky reflection in the water.† (source)
- They might look like big slugs, or be flat like reflections.† (source)
- Did Parr create us, or was he simply a reflection of us?† (source)
- I took two more breaths and pretended I was hearing Momma reading to me about the Billy Goats Gruff or the Fox and the Grapes or the Dog That Saw His Reflection in the Water or some other story she'd checked out of the library.† (source)
- Or was this some sort of general reflection on animal breeding?† (source)
- I half expected her to walk right up to her reflection and kiss it, she is so obviously in love with herself.† (source)
- I sometimes wonder if the reflection of that watch in the clear water is what attracted the shark.† (source)
- She'd been back in Rosewood for less than ten minutes, and Aria could practically hear Ali's voice at every bend in the road and see her reflection in every house's oversize bay window.† (source)
- Alex and Josie were exactly the same height; looking into her daughter's eyes, Alex could see a tiny reflection of herself.† (source)
- S. Lewis's Reflections on the Psalms.† (source)
- This loft, if it stood for anything beyond incredible good luck in the Manhattan housing market, was also a reflection of her mother's taste, put into practice by a dutiful daughter: simple, ample, plain, functional, frugal, even spiritual.† (source)
- In the bathroom, I stare at my reflection, tell myself that it's just tonight.† (source)
- Something shifted in the reflection of the window, and she whirled as she beheld the man standing behind her.† (source)
- I grab the pillows off the bed and chuck them at the reflection in the mirror of the girl I no longer know.† (source)
- When I'd recovered a little, I looked up to see another gleam ahead of me—not a reflection of my phone, but a weak glimmer of daylight.† (source)
- Across the deep-running green waters, the western twin stood like a reflection of its eastern brother.† (source)
- She saw my reflection behind her and smiled.† (source)
- I watch for hours, and as I do, I see the reflection of clouds as they begin to bounce off the water.† (source)
- They talk to their reflections.† (source)
- Reynie turned to meet Mr. Curtain's gaze, and saw in those silvery lenses the reflection of his own uncertain, frightened face.† (source)
- You see them from time to time, reflections on the water mostly.† (source)
- There's absolutely no reflection in them, and I realize with horror that they're black because his irises are bleeding.† (source)
- A reflection from the sun hits my eyes.† (source)
- I adjust the mirror so I can see reflections of reflections, miles and miles of me and my new jeans.† (source)
- It was near enough to the water's edge, raised upon a projecting bank, to cast an interesting reflection in the lake, and from most perspectives the row of pillars and the pediment above them were charmingly half obscured by the elms and oaks that had grown up around.† (source)
- Because as soon as Violet saw the flickering reflection, she remembered the scientific principles of the convergence and refraction of light.† (source)
- Flora tried to look the boy in the eye, but all she saw was a reflection of herself in his dark glasses.† (source)
- She couldn't continue her reflections because the chickens were starting to make a huge ruckus on the patio.† (source)
- "That doesn't sound like my Margo," she said, and I thought of my Margo, and Lacey's Margo, and Mrs. Spiegelman's Margo, and all of us looking at her reflection in different fun house mirrors.† (source)
- We children would help Song Po-po polish the mahogany table and Grandma's four prized red-and-gold dowry trunks until we could see our reflections in the wood and leather.† (source)
- He had grown used to the ghostly light behind the candle's flame, that quivering reflection in the window.† (source)
- Her mechanical parts were the only disturbing thing in Cinder's reflection, and that had been done to her on Earth.† (source)
- As though the intelligence that decodes life's hidden patterns—that connects reflections to images, glints to light, weaves to fabrics, needles to thread, walls to rooms, love to fear to anger to remorse—was suddenly lost.† (source)
- We're both sitting in front of the mirror, looking straight ahead at our distorted reflections in the broken glass.† (source)
- Deep Thought paused for a moment's reflection.† (source)
- After dinner, as my maids quietly helped me prepare for bed, a single sentence lifted me from my reflections.† (source)
- At the last moment, as my lips touched her neck, I caught sight of my reflection in the mirror, and thankfully that was enough to make me pause.† (source)
- She looked down at the turntable, at her own reflection in the tinted acrylic lid.† (source)
- Hannah smiled awkwardly at her reflection and turned away.† (source)
- And when I looked away for a second and then looked back, I saw her reflection behind me, in the mirror.† (source)
- As I seem to be going through a period of reflection at the moment and letting my mind range over anything and everything, my thoughts have naturally turned to Father and Mother's marriage.† (source)
- As one contributor to the Massachusetts Teacher suggested, "it is when thus relieved from the state of tension belonging to actual study that boys and girls, as well as men and women, acquire the habit of thought and reflection, and of forming their own conclusions, independently of what they are taught and the authority of others."† (source)
- At one point, Enrique glances into a store window and sees his reflection.† (source)
- The reflection in his glasses makes it impossible to see his eyes, and I wish he would take them off.† (source)
- Bernie Kosar jumps off the bed, sits beside me, and watches my reflection.† (source)
- So the chances are I won't ever come across it now, and on reflection, I'm glad that's the way it'll be.† (source)
- Its reflection flared across the river toward our house, a long, blaring finger aimed at me through our frail bedroom curtains.† (source)
- The pearlescent moon peeked over the mountains, bathing the land in a ghostly reflection of daylight.† (source)
- Starlight sparkled in the barbed wire, and there were curious reflections and layerings of shadow, and the big white moon added resonance.† (source)
- Its blade looked as if there was dried blood on it, but perhaps it was only the reflection of the fire.† (source)
- And if they murder, the victims are usually the ones who look like them, the ones closest to who they are — the mirror reflections.† (source)
- He looked down and was relieved to see a faint reflection off a surface—not the dirt and rock of the tunnel, but a floor smooth and dark like polished mica.† (source)
- Wine and food were in abundance and people ate until they could see their reflections on each other's stomach.† (source)
- Standing close to its edge she watched her reflection there.† (source)
- Staring at her sister's jubilant reflection in the mirror, Kris felt a stab of jealousy.† (source)
- A second later Moneta joined him, her body becoming a cascade of reflections, water over quicksilver over chrome.† (source)
- I see the reflection of a girl sitting behind me.† (source)
- I sit down on a stool in front of the mirror, and she stands behind me, her eyes dutifully trained on the task at hand rather than her reflection.† (source)
- Against the tumble of her deep golden hair, the soft blue of her gown was a reflection of the deep blue of her eyes.† (source)
- The paving stones in the alley sparkled gold from the reflection of the lanterns.† (source)
- After brief reflection he chose to go straight ahead; he clicked his tongue, and the horse trotted on.† (source)
- I guess I do have a reflection.† (source)
- The dark Edward in my dream last night was a reflection only of my fear of the word Jacob had spoken, and not Edward himself.† (source)
- He studies the items in the window, and his reflection in the glass, wearing the cap she'd bought for him.† (source)
- But by the time organizers got around to asking me to do it, they'd renamed their series "Journeys," asking selected professors "to offer reflections on their personal and professional journeys."† (source)
- The watery images may further portend disaster in recalling the myth of Narcissus, who, falling in love with his reflection in the water, attempted to join it and so drowned.† (source)
- Don't believe that old rubbish about vampires not casting a reflection: of course we do; we are solid, after all.† (source)
- There was no seeing into those eyes, no reflection.† (source)
- Let us as much as possible, train out creepers, and branches of trees, upon bridges, pulling down and nailing the branches, aiming to obtain shade and reflection of foliage and broken obscuration of water.† (source)
- You're not growing younger yourself, I reminded my reflection.† (source)
- I stared hard at the ballooning pink reflection, believing this might be the last thing I would look upon before my eyes were chewed out of my skull.† (source)
- The mountain's peak sparkled as usual, and its reflection rippled on the surface of Loomis Lake.† (source)
- Sophie tried to beat her reflection to it with a lightning movement but the other girl was just as fast.† (source)
- And so, larded with their love for him, their passionate belief that he hung the moon and that any conjugal love they might ever know would only be a pale reflection of their love for him, larded with this was a desperation as strong as the will to survive.† (source)
- The moon hung like a locket over the city, casting pearly reflections on the water of the East River.† (source)
- She could see her reflection in the darkened glass, lips parted, eyes wide, and then the condensation of her breath obscured it.† (source)
- Upon reflection, thought Hugh, "You tell Michael, 'I want you to block until the whistle blows: Well, he takes that real literal:' Sean and Tim Long took Michael off to one side.† (source)
- Overton's reflection was grinning at itself.† (source)
- I was standing in front of the mirror, the camera held at my stomach, shooting up to catch my reflection.† (source)
- Several long remembrance and reflection sessions were organizedat the academy to commemorate Zhou's great contributions to China.† (source)
- The rendering is so perfect that Y.T. can see a miniaturized reflection of the office windows in each drop of condensation.† (source)
- His house would be the reflection of himself, his family, and the prestige he planned to give the surname that his father had stained.† (source)
- The eyes in which I could now see my own reflection were blood black, the sockets filled from the terrible wound in his skull.† (source)
- The Valiants were undefeated and leading their division, and Anderson couldn't help but see the team's success as a reflection of the progress he'd made in his own life.† (source)
- A few minutes later I went into the bathroom and saw my reflection in the mirror.† (source)
- Reflection I wasn't allowed to leave his "secret backyard" until my youngest daughter was two and we went to the Brentwood Cornfest.† (source)
- I never felt like their mistakes should be a reflection on me and my character.† (source)
- They should leave a little before sunset, when the reflection in the water of the high bluffs near Pope's Creek extended out into the Potomac until it nearly met the shadows cast by the Virginia woods.† (source)
- The air was so soft and the sea so calm and clear that Florentino Ariza felt as if he were his own reflection in the water.† (source)
- I don't suppose there's much difference between a prison and a cloister, and people have always gone to cloisters for self-reflection.† (source)
- I look back up to his eyes and see my reflection there.† (source)
- She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.† (source)
- Leto lifted his water flagon, held it aloft where the suspensor, lights shot beams of reflection off it.† (source)
- I don't know whether I passed out or fell asleep, but reflections of red and blue lights chase each other around the garage walls when my eyes open again, and I'm being hustled into the back of a blue-and-white van.† (source)
- I passed the glass door, and from the light of the outside lamp I saw the reflection of a ridiculous boy, a clumsy boy.† (source)
- She suggested I go to her restaurant but when I got there and stared through my reflection in the glass at the people inside, all of them versions of people I already knew, I decided to go home.† (source)
- I took two steps forward and squinted at my reflection in one of the skillets hanging from the pot rack.† (source)
- When she leaves, I inspect my reflection in the mirror—the first time since arriving in Minnesota I've looked in a whole piece of mirror unclouded by spots and damage.† (source)
- But when he aimed his flashlight at where the deer had been, Dan saw a glint in the darkness, like a reflection on steel.† (source)
- There would be plenty of time for reflection later, we assumed, after we all had summitted and got back down.† (source)
- Quentin and I saw their reflections in the case when they came up behind us—Buck and some of the other football boys, looking huge in their green and white letter jackets.† (source)
- A white dresser, pale purple wallpaper, a flashing alarm clock, a mirror on the opposite wall, and our reflections there.† (source)
- So wound up with nothing like, the dumb dog who dropped his bone to go after the reflection of the bone in the pond.† (source)
- Brutus says, "No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself / But by reflection, by some other things."† (source)
- A sliver of light was spilling in from the barn and she watched its reflection on the dead calm water of the pool.† (source)
- I Went to Try On the Swimsuit Few things are quite as humbling as cinching yourself up in a completely revealing bikini and standing in front of a full-length reflection, rotating like a bird on a spit, trying to admire the naked truth staring back at you: body slim but not fine-tuned boyish hips, just barely qualifying as curves, uncertain breasts, cup size stalled somewhere between A (plus) and B (minus), womanhood desperately trying to escape, succeeding once a month, like it or not, ready or not.† (source)
- She then leans close to the mirror and stares at the reflection of her face as if she expects something to happen.† (source)
- Thinking that maybe I had a hole in the seat of my britches, I looked over to my reflection in a plateglass window.† (source)
- He hated himself for the sincerity of this reflection and was baffled, as always, by the particular and dangerous nature of its injustice.† (source)
- The reflection is rippling in the river—water and stone dancing.† (source)
- I pressed my nose against the glass and cupped my hands around my eyes to stop reflections, and saw a bucket smeared with a dry brown crust.† (source)
- The Rapex is a reflection of the gender-based violence that is ubiquitous in much of the developing world, inflicting far more casualties than any war.† (source)
- Instead, I whispered, "You look really young," to my reflection, and pulled on my jeans and a black sweater.† (source)
- Grades to my parents are a reflection of your worth.† (source)
- I realized I was engaged in the kind of reflection, the kind of study of the world, which I so admired in Ghosh.† (source)
- You could see the reflections of all the red and white lights of the cars in the puddles along the highway.† (source)
- They were so much like windows into the stone walls that I laid my hand against the glass to block reflections and I tried to look through them, as if I could see into the walls beyond.† (source)
- For a second, he seemed to be looking at himself in the soup, looking for his ghostly reflection there.† (source)
- "I just want to look as serious and businesslike as possible," I say, and frown sternly at my reflection.† (source)
- She looked up from the sink and gasped as she caught her reflection in the windowpane—but when had she grown old?† (source)
- To which his friend, after a bit of sly reflection, replied, "Come to think of it, my hearing's not too good either"), and it was generally thought that the choosing of the jury would take several days.† (source)
- He recorded what he saw and what he felt in equal amounts, as if he were balancing the great scales of observation and reflection.† (source)
- The walls and ceiling were covered with mirrors, whose reflections danced dizzily along with them, and the footmen bowed coldly.† (source)
- "I shall be desolate if you don't remember me, Prince," she cooed at her reflection.† (source)
- He sees his reflection in a locked glass case with dusty trophies and starts doing jumping jacks to loosen up.† (source)
- For a second he took a sleepy comfort from that reflection, but a second later it ceased to be true.† (source)
- Almost without reflection he turned his horse's head and rode toward the forlorn Himes boarding-house.† (source)
- And as she examined her reflection, I checked her out, secretly, the way her red hair crinkled down her back.† (source)
- "Peek-a-boo," he says, looking at our reflections.† (source)
- —General George Washington The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep.† (source)
- Because Tomas found this question second-rate, he sat down one day, wrote down his reflections on Oedipus, and sent them to the weekly.† (source)
- It shows a man in his forties wearing a pale shirt open at the throat, the image washed by reflections and sunglint, with many jostled moments.† (source)
- As its rays fell upon the great Time-giant, he turned red too: and in the reflection of that sun the whole waste of shoreless waters looked like blood.† (source)
- Donleavy looked at the audience once (on reflection, I'm sure that he wanted only to reassure himself that we were really there), adjusted his glasses and began to read from a sheaf of papers.† (source)
- Fryer came to wonder: is distinctive black culture a cause of the economic disparity between blacks and whites or merely a reflection of it?† (source)
- Corporal Whitcomb regarded the low attendance at religious services as a sad reflection of his own status.† (source)
- Once, when I was little, I watched one of the birds attack its own reflection in the side mirror of a truck.† (source)
- Its reflection was almost as bright as the moon itself, and Lew stood on his head just to make sure he could tell the difference.† (source)
- On the surface, I saw only my own round reflection.† (source)
- That it's, say, a reflection of what Ann felt for Dent?† (source)
- Looking at his reflection in the dark window, Litvinoff believed something had been peeled away and a truth revealed to him: He was an average man.† (source)
- Max saw his own reflection in her huge pearly eyes as she spoke in her strange voice that sounded of several women.† (source)
- Once more I glanced at my reflection, dismissing the thought of running a brush through my brown hair.† (source)
- I will not fear the shadow that is walking out of the pretty light, because I have found my fear down here in the dark, and I shall reach out and touch him as he reaches out to touch me.... His fingers met his reflection and touched smooth golden metal, in a slab about the size of a man.† (source)
- He's lost in his own reflection, the one staring back at him, bloated and distorted, in the shiny hollow of the teaspoon he's twirling between skeletal fingers.† (source)
- One afternoon, alone in the upstairs bathroom, I caught my reflection in the big mirror with surprise.† (source)
- My valuable advice, though still free to you, often needs proper reflection.† (source)
- I saw her reflection in the glass fanning herself with a small palm-leaf fan coloured blue and red at the edges.† (source)
- But he knows that if Teddy loses in the Kennedys' home state, it will be a reflection on JFK's political strength—or lack thereof.† (source)
- Our shattered reflections flow along a wall of broken mirrors, making the scene seem even more chaotic.† (source)
- He had not done any strenuous walking for a long time, and the reflection looked rather flabby, he thought.† (source)
- Water, green leaves, moving reflections of leaves, the splashing of the raindrops and some curious thing that appeared to be standing in the water and to be made of vertical gray lines—these were all that could be made out.† (source)
- Fang had never seen him in daylight before, only in flickering reflections from oil-can fires in the train tunnels below New York City.† (source)
- He stares out of the window at the snow, at the fuzzy jewels of reflection from the Christmas-tree lights.† (source)
- They have large eyes, especially when they are young, but this one's were so large from fear and pain that I could see my reflection in them.† (source)
- And yet I held the soft gown up to me and walked by the window, thrilled as a girl, trying to catch a glimpse of my reflection in the pane.† (source)
- It takes two races to mongrelize a race—if that's the right word—and when we white people holler about mongrelizin', isn't that something of a reflection on ourselves as a race?† (source)
- The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks.† (source)
- After studying the reflection, she added a bit more color to her cheeks and clear gloss on her pouty lips.† (source)
- He could see the moonlight's reflection in her glassy eyes.† (source)
- Instead of drifting down Elm Street alone, on his way to the movies, looking at his reflection in store windows, Rene Gagnon was going in style, in an open limousine.† (source)
- They bathed the underleaves of the apricot trees with their fiery reflection.† (source)
- While still in the Illustrian Quarter, I pass a large glass display of saddles and bridles and stop short, startled at my own reflection, at the haunted, hollow-eyed creature looking back at me.† (source)
- "Look!" he urged, stretching his arms forward, unsure what she could see in the reflection of the dark, dusty window.† (source)
- And so those who live in Louisiana and Texas who feel strongly that their vernacular is a reflection of their loyalty to their culture, they're going to maintain that.† (source)
- Checking her reflection in the back of her cereal spoon, she thought they looked surprisingly natural.† (source)
- Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it.† (source)
- I caught myself wishing for someone to show the letters to, someone who could give me a proper reflection of my importance.† (source)
- The beams shot forward, bouncing back in blinding reflection off the metal and the chrome of the automobile in front.† (source)
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