He recently made the hand-screen connection and now is adept at playing nintendo and using the mouse on the computer--and he's not even 2 yet! ❋ Becca (2009)
Elfride had turned from the table towards the fire and was idly elevating a hand-screen before her face, when she heard the click of a little gate outside. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The tiny face in the hand-screen grinned sheepishly. ❋ Robert Bloch (1955)
Arthur a beautifully-ornamented hand-screen to shade the heat from his face; as he sat with his feet on the fender, listening to his father's and aunt's conversation. ❋ Mary L. Code (N/A)
He lay back in a comfortable chair looking at his cousin, who, sitting on a low seat opposite the drawing-room fire, shaded her eyes from the glare with a little hand-screen. ❋ Lanoe Falconer (N/A)
Its warm red light softly illumined her whole face and figure, for in her abstraction she had let the hand-screen fall, and was stroking mechanically the little sleek head that nestled against her. ❋ Lanoe Falconer (N/A)
Mrs. Gay, shielding her cheek from the firelight with a peacock hand-screen. ❋ Unknown (1911)
At length she stretched out her arm and took up from the table a little threadbare Chinese hand-screen. ❋ Unknown (1912)
"So you came all the way home to see your poor useless mother," murmured Mrs. Gay, shielding her cheek from the firelight with a peacock hand-screen. ❋ Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1909)
The Duchesse shaded her eyes from the fire with a hand-screen, and it came between us, and I could not see her face, but her voice changed. ❋ Elinor Glyn (1903)
Lois raised the hand-screen she held, so that Dick could only see the curls about her forehead and one small curve of her ear. ❋ Margaret Wade Campbell Deland (1901)
We were sitting by the fire one evening in the twilight; she was playing with a hand-screen, but suffering the flames to paint her face and throw into relief the sensitive merry lips and the eyes so full of varied meanings. ❋ Anthony Hope (1898)
Shading her eyes with the hand-screen, she was able to watch his play of feature, and note how the first forced smile of bravado faded into an expression of crestfallen gravity. ❋ Basil King (1893)
The hand-screen with which she shielded her face protected her not only from the blaze, but from his scrutiny. ❋ Basil King (1893)
He holds up his hands for the hand-screen that the mother waves about him. ❋ Unknown (1892)
He made some excuse, but I saw through it and insisted, and at last he handed me one of the discs of polished silver set in a wooden frame like a hand-screen, which serve as looking-glasses in Zu-Vendis. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
Dolly's little wretch of a hand-screen was quite trembling in her hand, it made her so desperate to feel, as she did, that she was of such small consequence to him that he could treat her as a child, and make a sort of joke of his confidence. ❋ Frances Hodgson Burnett (1886)
Mollie stared at the poor little daub on her hand-screen and met his philosophy indifferently enough. ❋ Frances Hodgson Burnett (1886)
She turned away, making a transparent little pretence of requiring a hand-screen from the mantelpiece, and, having got it, she too sat down, and fell to examining a wretched little daub of a picture upon it most minutely. ❋ Frances Hodgson Burnett (1886)
