pewter
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The candles retail between $42 to $50 for a pair, and recently, she developed a handsome pewter candle shaver that will be released in the winter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
The person who catches the biggest fish goes home with an engraved pewter cup.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
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
There was a gleam of rubbed wood and burnished pewter.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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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
Seated on the benches were a number of men, women, and girls, all with pewters or glasses before them, and the air was thickening with smoke of pipes.
From Thyrza by George Gissing
"Now, watchman, have at thee!" roared Mount, as the sloppy pewters were brought.
From The Reckoning by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
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
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