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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    West London's top 10 budget eats 2011

  • The Angel gleamed in the light of Hethor's reading candle bright as any brasswork automaton.

    Archive 2010-07-01 Ulysses 2010

  • The Angel gleamed in the light of Hethor's reading candle bright as any brasswork automaton.

    Starting at the Beginning Ulysses 2010

  • Control units stood in rows: square cabinets of dark, polished wood with glass dials and gleaming brasswork.

    Worldshaker Richard Harland 2009

  • Control units stood in rows: square cabinets of dark, polished wood with glass dials and gleaming brasswork.

    Worldshaker Richard Harland 2009

  • 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.

    The Mysterious Island 2005

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