look-in'-glass

Updated: June 14, 2025

What are you throwin' that light in my face for?" But he laughed at the joke, and he laughed more when Dave shouted back, "I ain't throwin' no light in your face." "Yes, you are; you've got a piece of look-in'-glass, and you're flashin' it in my face." "Wish I may die, if I have," said Dave, so seriously that Frank had to believe him. "Well, then, Jake Milrace has."

William Dean Howells - The Flight of Pony Baker: A Boy's Town Story