This is because in the French tradition, they would drape hugely expensive white linen damask over a simple walnut table and place a silver mirror on top.

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The guy also would have had a little silver signaling mirror to attract passing aircraft and a pistol with a limited number of flares.

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Here are the four of us we all grew up in the same boring suburb of Dublin: I am the fat, jokey one with the flaking nail polish, though it is always interesting flaking polish, like mirror silver or navy blue.

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The fund is designed to mirror the performance of silver prices.

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The silver Vauxhall Astra, which had a broken wing mirror, was hired for Ms Spence about two weeks before she vanished.

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I'd given up trying to solve this decorating conundrum when, on a recent trip to India Jane, an affordable furniture shop in London, I spotted a silver-framed, three-sided stand-up mirror.

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