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Examples
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I'm a crafter, and Liessa had suggested you might do the kind of brasswork I need.
The Death of Chaos Modesitt, L. E. 1995
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The nice thing about the Smokejumpers is that all the "brasswork" (i.e. the eyeletts and hooks) are on a leather flap external to the boot.
Kit Up 2009
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The nice thing about the Smokejumpers is that all the "brasswork" (i.e. the eyeletts and hooks) are on a leather flap external to the boot.
Kit Up 2009
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Once, polishing the brasswork on the hand-rails of the cabin companionway, Daughtry overheard the ancient one explaining his terrible scar and missing fingers to Grimshaw and the Armenian
CHAPTER X 2010
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A little bit of downtown Damascus on the Uxbridge Road, this buzzy Syrian restaurant – all carved wood and ornate Arabic brasswork, satellite TV and genial bustle – offers eye-opening food at remarkably low prices.
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The Angel gleamed in the light of Hethor's reading candle bright as any brasswork automaton.
Archive 2010-07-01 Ulysses 2010
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The Angel gleamed in the light of Hethor's reading candle bright as any brasswork automaton.
Starting at the Beginning Ulysses 2010
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Control units stood in rows: square cabinets of dark, polished wood with glass dials and gleaming brasswork.
Worldshaker Richard Harland 2009
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Control units stood in rows: square cabinets of dark, polished wood with glass dials and gleaming brasswork.
Worldshaker Richard Harland 2009
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The operation lasted two hours, and then not only the case, with its valve, its springs, its brasswork, lay on the ground, but the net, that is to say a considerable quantity of ropes and cordage, and the circle and the anchor.
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