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  • In the sunlight, the chrome-steel of the shaft gleamed in flaming splendor.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Blue Tyson 2010

  • He led the way inside, through bare-walled corridors and down an iron stairway to a lounge furnished with chrome-steel office tables and chairs.

    I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010

  • In the sub-level he gazed about in bewilderment, for the room was littered with gleaming chrome-steel Christmas on Ganymede 33 machine parts.

    Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories Greenberg, Martin H. 1990

  • What's more, the slipper sailed off the foot with which he kicked, so that he ended by slamming his bare toes hard against the solid chrome-steel of the robotic shin.

    Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories Greenberg, Martin H. 1990

  • At this point a chrome-steel reinforcing strip almost two feet wide ran down the shelves of the case.

    The Drawing of the Three King, Stephen, 1947- 1987

  • Dieter had acquired a 1938 Oldsmobile touring car, the handsome one with the heavy chrome-steel bars across the grille and the overdrive which allowed the driver to shift the monstrous thing out of normal high gear, where the engine continued to grind, and into a superdrive in which the engine merely kept the momentum already in the car moving forward.

    Space Michener, James 1982

  • The chrome-steel collar shimmered with reflected crystal glints.

    Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

  • He leaned boredly against the wall of a rickety building which once had proudly borne the chrome-steel casing characteristic of early 27th

    Starman's Quest Robert Silverberg

  • In the centre of the quadrangle stood the quaint old chrome-steel statue of Our Ford.

    Brave New World Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1932

  • The cylinders were machined out of solid nickel chrome-steel ingots, and the machining was carried out so that the cylinder walls were under 1/6 of an inch in thickness.

    A History of Aeronautics Evelyn Charles Vivian 1914

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