A neo-baroque mirror propped on a mantle or a gilded table leg on a bare wood floor is idiosyncratic, not automatic.

She sang the release spell, then lowered the lutar, leaving the mirror propped against the tree stump.

He checked under the berths, leaving the mirror propped against the books on Zina's mattress.

The lucidity of the moonlight lit the mirror propped against the red wall; the rational glass, the master of the visible, impartially recorded the crooning girl.

He could see his reflection, turned gaunt and ashen, in the fragment of mirror propped against the lavatory window.

Eddie looked at her reflection in the mirror propped on top of her dressing table.

The Patrician was shaving, squinting into a scrap of mirror propped against the pillar to catch the light.

The gun bellows as my hands strike center mass, driving him backward over the tub and into the mirror propped against the wall.

Her gaze met her own eyes in the small gilt-framed mirror propped against the dark tent wall, and her cheeks crimsoned.

All of them cast furtive glances at the mirror propped against the chair nearby.