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

Thus doubly reproached, the caminero stood transfixed; and our emotions having found vent, we drove on, leaving him with his hand raised to his brass-bound hat, his mouth open but speechless.

From The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza by Boyd, Mary Stuart