pewter

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

He remembers two politicians who would eat together and regularly put in the same order: "Two working man's portions of your beef and two pewter mugs of your finest ales."

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2024

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

I could see clearly a room with a sanded floor, clean scoured; a dresser of walnut, with pewter plates ranged in rows, reflecting the redness and radiance of a glowing peat-fire.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Thereupon Sally put on her bonnet, leaving her pewters half scoured, and ran rather than walked to the village.

From The Story of Kennett by Bayard Taylor

In return, Tammas, whose forte lay in invective and alliteration, called him behind his back, "A wenomous one!" and "A wiralent wiper!" to the applause of tinkling pewters.

From Bob, Son of Battle by Alfred Ollivant

Well, I'm sick with envy of the fellow," said Starr, "and I for one daren't trust myself any longer, especially on an empty stomach, among his pewters and blue beasts and brasses.

From The Chauffeur and the Chaperon by Karl Anderson

One of the houses bore a bush, and I saw two men peering at us through the open window, pewters in hand.

From The Maid-At-Arms by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Here he paused a moment listening, and then on a sudden struck the door a couple of blows, which made the pewters ring again.

From My Lady Rotha A Romance by Stanley J. Weyman