brass-bound

Presently, the lion was holding a brass-bound wooden tankard the size of a man's head.

The Lives of Felix Gunderson Sugu Althomsons 2010

There were dead fish and live wires and golden keys and brass-bound books, and pine and ice-cream cones.

Falcon Street 2010

He actually has the brass-bound nerve to get up in a public place and say that agencies of the various State Governments are above the law.

Chris Comer appeals case in Texas - The Panda's Thumb 2009

This gives him an innate sense that there are certain things one simply cannot do: he too has a moral compass, though the magnetism of power is such that in years to come we may find it deviating every bit as wildly as the ancestral, brass-bound instrument which Brown carried proudly all the way from Kirkcaldy to Downing Street.

Cameron is not an enigma, he’s an Anglican 2009

Captain MacBride, back again in the Second, ran it with two fists, a dry sense of humor and a generous quantity of brass-bound nerve....

Archive 2008-02-01 Blue Tyson 2008

Captain MacBride, back again in the Second, ran it with two fists, a dry sense of humor and a generous quantity of brass-bound nerve....

Archive 2008-02-01 Blue Tyson 2008

Captain MacBride, back again in the Second, ran it with two fists, a dry sense of humor and a generous quantity of brass-bound nerve....

Archive 2008-02-01 Blue Tyson 2008

An Australian auction house is taking bids on Admiral Lord Nelson's telescope and a brass-bound elm bucket supposed to have seen action in the Battle of Trafalgar.

Archive 2007-07-01 2007

Rusted hinges shrieked as Grace raised the lid on the brass-bound trunk.

Sonnet of the Sphinx Diana Killian 2006

In the tent, at least he had his own cot every night-narrow and hard it might be, yet it was softer than floorboards-and with only him, he had more room than in the wagon DRAGONS 'EGGS even after the rest of his clothes were moved in and stowed in a pair of brass-bound chests.

Knife of Dreams Jordan, Robert, 1948- 2005