1879 Jan. 422/1 Seven hundred cattle ‘with rural pictures in their great mirror-eyes’, waited patiently outside for their executioner.
1923 D. H. Lawrence (N.Y. ed.) 89 The red-gold mirror-eye [of a fish] stares and dies.
1951 A. Koestler ii. viii. 306 She felt herself reflected in their watchful mirror-eyes, and was forced to see herself as they saw her.