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brassbound

[bras-bound, brahs-] / ˈbræsˈbaʊnd, ˈbrɑs- /




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The excellent Peter Finch appears as a brassbound industrialist named Krogh who traffics with the Nazis to sustain and increase his fortune.

From Time Magazine Archive

The officer indirectly responsible for the orders that killed both men turns out to be the egregious Kenneth Widmerpool, whose fatuous careerism and brassbound egotism have provided veins of comedy running through all nine books.

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Next day from General Walsh's brassbound ranks emerged two dissenters.

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And thus I stood, with conscience free of blame, Until the brassbound car conductor came And said, "I do not like to interfere, But you must go inside; you can't stand here."

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Taisin had taken out her small brassbound trunk and opened it, but now she paused with her hand on a glass vial.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo




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