Eyes are gazing on boys who explode from springboards to shell the sea, and joyfully splinter its mirrorful of sunset.(Can we date this quote?), Richard Kell, “Two Poems”, in Rann, page 7:
He is indeed, no Fra Angelico holding up a little mirrorful of Heaven, with heart and mind so filled to overflowing with the Beatific Vision, as to leave no room for understanding of earthly misery and sin.1898 November, H. E. Walton, “A Catholic Tribute to Sir Walter Scott”, in The Month: A Catholic Magazine, twenty-fifth year, number 413 / new series, number 23, London: Longmans, Green, and Co.; Baltimore, Md.: John Murphy and Co.; New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: Benziger Brothers, page 462:
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OUR CHEERFUL MIRRORFUL1967, The Omega, page 46:
He felt his mind fading, the keys of the piano red, the glass pillars holding up the world cracking one by one, each with a separate sound like a toothache. Above the splitting he still tried to explain to Joseph, to explain to McKay. He tried to weep. And they didn’t hear him, but ground on. Thousands of them. Mirrorsful of them . . . The keys of the piano were hard, and slightly warm, and stretched away white again like satin ribbon.1967 February, D[avid] G[uy] Compton, “It’s Smart to Have an English Address”, in SF Impulse, volume 1, number 12, page 93:
Yet I concede pride’s pool, that mirrorful, / Aflare with the armadas of a day: / Science like elate Longfellow’s Ship of State, / Praises about the prow, factory-loud / Midships scattering light, a peacock wake; […]1970, Brewster Ghiselin, Country of the Minotaur, University of Utah Press, →ISBN, page 11:
Mountain ponies / Driving before dawn, higher than the kindling streams where gradients were too steep for grass, I glimpsed them, life-like, a mirrorful silvered on the dark, gouged like a frieze along edges of rock.1978, Ted Walker, Burning the Ivy: Poems 1973-77, London: Jonathan Cape, […], →ISBN, page 38:
mirrorful
adj
Etymology From mirror + -ful.
1
Covered in mirrors.
In the mirrorful elevator a few women looked at him with dread lest his soppiness should smirch their fabrics.1921, Rupert Hughes, Beauty, Harper & Brothers, page 152:
The room is a clean, mirrorful knockout; […]1981, Forbes, page 20:
2
mirror-like; reflective.
To use the mirror to position herself differently as a difference that makes a difference, as a mirrorful space which is concave; convex; opaque; transparent; distorted and distorting; disoriented; shattered; broken […]1994, Dorine Mignot, editor, Joan Jonas: Works, 1968-1994, →ISBN, page 18:
I’ve cowarded into a quiet shape / Passing alone into an empty mirror / Refusing to see myself, using my cape / To cover all mirrorful eyes like a deathsheet drape.2010, Samuel Whittemore Fowler, Afoot and Delighthearted, Xulon Press, →ISBN, page 143: