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  • Presently, the lion was holding a brass-bound wooden tankard the size of a man's head.

    The Lives of Felix Gunderson Sugu Althomsons 2010

  • There were dead fish and live wires and golden keys and brass-bound books, and pine and ice-cream cones.

    Falcon Street 2010

  • He actually has the brass-bound nerve to get up in a public place and say that agencies of the various State Governments are above the law.

    Chris Comer appeals case in Texas - The Panda's Thumb 2009

  • This gives him an innate sense that there are certain things one simply cannot do: he too has a moral compass, though the magnetism of power is such that in years to come we may find it deviating every bit as wildly as the ancestral, brass-bound instrument which Brown carried proudly all the way from Kirkcaldy to Downing Street.

    Cameron is not an enigma, he’s an Anglican 2009

  • Captain MacBride, back again in the Second, ran it with two fists, a dry sense of humor and a generous quantity of brass-bound nerve....

    Archive 2008-02-01 Blue Tyson 2008

  • Captain MacBride, back again in the Second, ran it with two fists, a dry sense of humor and a generous quantity of brass-bound nerve....

    Archive 2008-02-01 Blue Tyson 2008

  • Captain MacBride, back again in the Second, ran it with two fists, a dry sense of humor and a generous quantity of brass-bound nerve....

    Archive 2008-02-01 Blue Tyson 2008

  • An Australian auction house is taking bids on Admiral Lord Nelson's telescope and a brass-bound elm bucket supposed to have seen action in the Battle of Trafalgar.

    Archive 2007-07-01 2007

  • Rusted hinges shrieked as Grace raised the lid on the brass-bound trunk.

    Sonnet of the Sphinx Diana Killian 2006

  • In the tent, at least he had his own cot every night-narrow and hard it might be, yet it was softer than floorboards-and with only him, he had more room than in the wagon DRAGONS 'EGGS even after the rest of his clothes were moved in and stowed in a pair of brass-bound chests.

    Knife of Dreams Jordan, Robert, 1948- 2005

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