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  • I grab a pen and paper from the desk, sit down and scribble a couple of notes, flip the brass-mounted hourglass, stare at the trickling sand, scribble some more.

    Obituary 2010

  • A small brass-mounted powder-horn completed the equipment.

    la charge de la compagnie Franche de la Marine du musée Stewart au fort de l'île Ste-Hélène de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • A small brass-mounted powder-horn completed the equipment.

    Archive 2008-06-22 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • “You are looking at the most savagerous son of a wildcat there ever was—the original iron-jawed, brass-mounted, copper-bellied King of the Wild Frontier!”

    Nevermore Harold Schechter 1999

  • A figure was leaning over the one above us, and as we pulled up a brass-mounted rope ladder came clattering down to us.

    The Gates of Noon Rohan, Michael Scott, 1951- 1992

  • They rose together and entered the huge, brass-mounted double doors of the Council chamber.

    Arrow's Fall Lackey, Mercedes 1988

  • They rose together and entered the huge, brass-mounted double doors of the Council chamber.

    Arrow's Fall Lackey, Mercedes 1988

  • Mrs. Bilkins, who was dusting the brass-mounted chronometer in the hall, stood transfixed, with arm uplifted.

    Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature Various

  • Vanity may be discovered as readily in singularity, however simple, as in the naked savage who struts about as proud as a peacock, with no covering but a gold-laced cocked hat on his head and a brass-mounted sword at his side.

    Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray

  • Seeing B---- 's jointed and brass-mounted fishing-pole, he took it for a theodolite, and supposed that we had been on a surveying expedition.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 Various

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