brass-bound
Example Sentences
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The program’s loyal and generally older viewers were so brass-bound in the 1990s that when Mr. Bode took over, even his beard proved controversial.
From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2022
Tour masters, schedules, reservations, brass-bound and inevitable, dash themselves to wreckage on the personality of the trip.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
At 8:45 Father took the old brass-bound Bible from its shelf.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
He wore a black leather jerkin with metal studs and carried a brass-bound club as long as his arm.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
Only a box, lying on the middle of the platform, under the shadow of the lofty thatch—a small, brass-bound chest such as sailormen love and ships carry everywhere!
From Where the Pavement Ends by Russell, John
