pewter
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The work, with a handsome design by Mr. Loquasto, features what look like sheets of pewter leaf hanging from clotheslines, beneath and through which eight dancers in dusky-hued unitards come and go.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
There was a claw-foot tub with pewter fixtures, a charmingly messy bookshelf window-seat, a kitchen painted a cool green.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2024
Instead of pewter, Charrière employs polished stainless steel panels, the largest more than seven feet tall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2023
The team’s primary colors have been red and pewter since 1997.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 16, 2023
Then she opened the door and ran, with the pewter mugs clanking.
From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder
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I go in in the scratch fours for the pewters, and—more by token—my crew won them two years running.
From Tom Brown at Oxford by Thomas Hughes
So to the Cheshire Cheese they repaired, and drank to a long friendship in foaming pewters of porter.
From Young Lives by Richard Le Gallienne
Then one of the customers made her laugh, and she let seven pewters fall, and they be battered outrageous.
From The Broom-Squire by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
"Oh, Carus, they sang it and sang it, hammering their pewters together, and roaring the chorus, and that last dreadful verse: "'Where is the soul of you, John O'Bail, Where is the soul you slew?
From The Reckoning by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
"Now, watchman, have at thee!" roared Mount, as the sloppy pewters were brought.
From The Reckoning by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
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