brass-mounted

• “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.”

  Fictionaut: Obituary

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

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• ““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!””

  Simon & Schuster: Nevermore

• “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

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

  Arrow's Fall

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

  Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature

• “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

• “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

• “He almost quarrels with the young farmer about his corrugated glass lantern and his large, brilliant, one-paned lantern with the polished concave tin back, and his brass-mounted globe lantern: they have resplendent lanterns on the hills.”

  Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878

• “His camp-bedstead was wedged between two rather fine Georgian mahogany pedestals complete with brass-mounted urns, and it was evident that he kept his clothes neatly folded in and about a sideboard now too large for any private household.”

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