Brasses

She sold me a copy of Monumental Brasses (#75 in the series), and placed in front of me the frightening prospect of having now to spend the rest of my life completing the set.

Collecting King Penguins 2009

Many can be had for as little as $15, the price I paid Nancy for Brasses.

2009 September 06 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2009

She sold me a copy of Monumental Brasses (#75 in the series), and placed in front of me the frightening prospect of having now to spend the rest of my life completing the set.

2009 September 06 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2009

Many can be had for as little as $15, the price I paid Nancy for Brasses.

Collecting King Penguins 2009

Brass 'article may deter others from traveling to Oaxaca, but it only made me never to want to travel with the Brasses.

Nice LA Times article on Oaxaca 2004

His only regret in regard to the matter was in having to leave the Marchioness alone and unprotected in the hands of the Brasses, and little did he dream that to the small servant herself, to the Marchioness, rather than to him, Kit and his mother were to owe their heaviest debt of gratitude -- but it was so to be.

Ten Girls from Dickens Kate Dickinson Sweetser

While the subject of the thefts was under discussion, Kit Nubbles, a lad in the employ of a Mr. Garland, passed through the office, on his way upstairs to the room of the Brasses 'lodger, the single gentleman, who was an intimate friend of Kit's employer.

Ten Girls from Dickens Kate Dickinson Sweetser

Indeed the poor little creature experienced so much trouble and delay from having to grope for them in the mud, and suffered so much jostling, pushing, and squeezing in these researches, that between it, and her fear of being recognized by some one, and carried back by force to the Brasses, when she at last reached the Notary's office, she was fairly worn out, and could not refrain from tears.

Ten Girls from Dickens Kate Dickinson Sweetser

"Engravings of Sepulchral Brasses in Norfolk and Suffolk," after stating that merchants or burgesses were probably the only classes except the military that were represented on monuments, goes on to observe that

The Customs of Old England

Brasses are likewise well polished, the Bell will go as well at the first, as ever: Now by the neglect of this, the roughness of the Gudgeon will wear the Brasses so unequally, that the Bell will never go smooth and steddy.

Tintinnalogia, or, the Art of Ringing Wherein is laid down plain and easie Rules for Ringing all sorts of Plain Changes Richard Duckworth