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Sentences starting with brass

Brass bands bray Hail Columbia, huzza after huzza thunders from the shores, and the stately creatures go whistling by like the wind. [5]
Brass stood smirking for a little while, as if he had propounded some choice conundrum; and then said: 'To be short with you, then, it leads me to this. [12]

Sentences ending with brass

Really gentlemen--' 'Well, will you have the goodness to state your business then, Mr Brass? [12]
A burly wine-grower was elected to represent Dionysus and was seated with nothing but some wreaths of flowers to cover his naked limbs, in a four-wheeled sacrificial car of beaten brass. [10]
They were as the clay and the brass. [9]
Then there is the church music on Sundays and holidays, which is largely of a military character; at least, has the aid of drums and trumpets, and the whole band of brass. [4]
Let him have the Bethel minister to comfort and console him, Brass. [12]
There he goes,' replied Brass. [12]
This visit was not intended for Mr Swiveller, but for his friend and employer Mr Sampson Brass. [12]
He found favour in the eyes of Miss Sally Brass. [12]
Kit thinks that if ever there was a good man who belied his appearance, that man is Sampson Brass. [12]
It found a glass trinket ornamented with brass-work --smashed up and ate the glass, and then swallowed the brass. [5]

Short sentences using brass

Brass, Mr Swiveller is yours. [12]
Miss Brass is here, gentlemen. [12]
My name's not Brass. [12]
A pin's brass. [5]

More example sentences with the word brass in them

Mr Witherden, Sir, your handkerchief is hanging out of your pocket--would you allow me to--, As Mr Brass advanced to remedy this accident, the Notary shrunk from him with an air of disgust. [12]
I shall want you to come along with us, Mr Brass, and the--' he looked at Miss Sally as if in some doubt whether she might not be a griffin or other fabulous monster. [12]
Oh, Mr Brass, you know me better. [12]
It seemed but yesterday since she had watched with amused eyes the sherbet-sellers clanking their brass saucers, the carriers streaming the water from the bulging goatskins into the earthen bottles, crying, "Allah be praised, here is coolness for thy throat for ever! [11]
Mr Brass, after writhing about, in a great many strange attitudes, and often twisting his face and eyes into an expression like that which is usually produced by eating gooseberries very early in the season, was by this time awake also. [12]
Kit coming down-stairs would be called in; entertained with some moral and agreeable conversation; perhaps entreated to mind the office for an instant while Mr Brass stepped over the way; and afterwards presented with one or two half-crowns as the case might be. [12]
Mr Swiveller was wondering whether this might be another Miss Brass, twin sister to the Dragon, when there came a rapping of knuckles at the office door. [12]
A copper-colored skeleton, with a rag around him, brought me a glass decanter of water, with a lighted tobacco pipe in the top of it, and a pliant stem a yard long, with a brass mouth-piece to it. [5]
In the bow window jutting out into the street, where the old grandmother sat in her armchair, two green and yellow parrots on brass perches interrupted the conversation, whenever it grew louder, with the shrill screams of their ugly voices. [10]
Mr Sampson Brass, who no doubt had his reasons for looking sharply about him, soon learnt to distinguish the pony's trot and the clatter of the little chaise at the corner of the street. [12]
Iron, steel, brass, white-metal, and so on. [5]
Dick was pondering what these words might mean, and still more what the presence of Mr Brass might mean, when Mrs Quilp came hurrying down stairs, declaring that the rooms above were empty. [12]
In the morning we went out to the woodpile and chopped up the brass candlestick into handy sizes, and Tom put them and the pewter spoon in his pocket. [5]
While the attorney was thus engaged, the dwarf was groping under the table, muttering desperate imprecations on himself, and mankind in general, and all inanimate objects to boot, which suggested to Mr Brass the question, 'what's the matter? [12]
The charming creature was opening her lips to speak in reply, when the door was hastily opened too, and the head of Sampson Brass was thrust into the room. [12]
A brass cannon was on the tender hitched behind it. [9]
Of these, one was Mr Brass himself, who has already appeared in these pages. [12]
A brass button was gone from Deacon Lysander's, and she wanted to sew it on. [9]
Try and get us some golden goblets, Bischen; the wine has no flavor out of these miserable brass mugs. [10]
Now they stood up with only their brass spikes, which were intended to intercept and conduct the lightning.--[ According to an inscription first interpreted by Dumichen. [10]
He went and unhooked a fine brass lantern, of old Dutch workmanship, swung from the ceiling by a chain. [11]
A bullet or two, a button, a brass plate from a soldier's belt, served well enough for mementos of my visit, with a letter which I picked up, directed to Richmond, Virginia, its seal unbroken. [6]
Let the government turn all the hostiles on the frontier into brass bands, and we shall hear no more of the Indian question. [4]
These huge brass tubes, mounted on their scaffoldings and pointed skyward from every choice vantage-ground, have the formidable look of artillery, and give the town the general aspect of getting ready to repel a charge of angels. [5]
They were addressed to some person who had knocked at the office-door; and they had hardly passed the lips of Mr Brass, when this very Kit himself looked in. [12]
Mr Brass says to Miss Sally, "Upon my word," he says "it's a dangerous thing, and it might get us into a world of trouble, and I don't half like it. [12]
It was no time, however, to ask whether anything ailed him; so, possessing herself of the key after one hasty glance about the room, and repassing the prostrate Mr Brass, she rejoined the old man in safety. [12]
While she was thus engaged, Mr Swiveller looked on with a grateful heart, very much astonished to see how thoroughly at home she made herself, and attributing this attention, in its origin, to Sally Brass, whom, in his own mind, he could not thank enough. [12]
We say to those who would take back their several contributions to that undivided unity which we call the Nation; the bronze is cast; the statue is on its pedestal; you cannot reclaim the brass you flung into the crucible! [6]
It was towards this moving spectacle that the staircase and the sweet sounds guided Kit; on whose arrival before his door, Mr Brass stopped his singing, but not his smiling, and nodded affably: at the same time beckoning to him with his pen. [12]
From this point they watched the burial, still well above the heads of the vast crowd, through which the sweetmeat and sherbet sellers ran, calling their wares and jangling their brass cups. [11]
Her under-study is there --a rude human figure behind a brass screen. [5]
Mr Brass would then set the office-door wide open, hum his old tune with great gaiety of heart, and smile seraphically as before. [12]
At the doorways the worker in brass and silver hammered away at his metal, a sleepy, musical assonance. [11]
As soon as the wind had so far subsided that he could stand alone, he went to collect those that still remained, and to have the brass gong sounded which was to summon the combatants to their posts. [10]
Unaccustomed to associate the North American Indian with music, the traveler at once sees the natural relation of the Indians with the brass band. [4]
Finally, Kit informed the gentleman that the premises were now to let, and that a board upon the door referred all inquirers to Mr Sampson Brass, Solicitor, of Bevis Marks, from whom he might perhaps learn some further particulars. [12]
We went through the cool bank, with its shining brass and red mahogany, its tiled floor, its busy tellers attending to files of clients, to the president's sanctum in the rear. [9]
Do you see the bride in her high-waisted gown, and Mr. Calvin in his stock and his blue tail-coat and brass buttons? [9]
The villagers thought the brass balls were magic stuff and as perishable as smoke. [5]
Then she saw that the hair was longer, and more wavy than his, and fell down a little over the velvet collar of a coat with a wide lapel and brass buttons, and that the original of this portrait had worn a stock. [9]
She had heard that piercing ring of smitten brass in the Serapeum. [10]
Mr Brass thought that if he did, the Grand Turk's feelings were by no means to be envied, but he said it was famous, and he had no doubt he felt very like that Potentate. [12]
It was observable that brass ones were in use while I was in Calcutta, showing that it was not yet time to change to porcelain; I was told the change to porcelain was not usually made until May. [5]
Did they believe that a man like Brass could reside in a place like Bevis Marks, and not be a virtuous and most upright character? [12]
Then, Kit's gentleman takes him in hand, but can make nothing of him; and after a great many very long questions and very short answers, Mr Sampson Brass goes down in glory. [12]
The bright Cairene sun starkly glittering on the French chandeliers and Viennese mirrors, and beating on the brass trays and braziers by the window, irritated him. [11]
Gentlemen,' said Brass, striking the hat fiercely with his clenched hand, 'to all these questions I answer--Quilp! [12]
They climbed the steps, tottering now with age and disuse, and Virginia playfully raised the big brass knocker, brown now, that Scipio had been wont to polish until it shone. [9]
We had scarce started to our feet, Mr. Chase and I, when the brass knocker resounded, and Mr. Hammond was let in. [9]
There were four stalls, all replete with brass trimmings, and a box, and the carriage-house was made large enough for the break which Mr. Fern had been getting ready to buy when he had been forced, so unexpectedly, to change his mind. [9]
By day a spray of eagle's feathers waved over his tepee, but the gleam of the brass lantern every night was like a sentry at the doorway of a monarch. [11]
Foremost among them, smooth Sampson Brass and Sally, arm in arm, claim our polite attention. [12]
Now, my dear Sir,' cried Brass, seeing that the Notary was about to interrupt him, 'suffer me to speak, I beg. [12]
Also an ignorant silver watch and a showy brass watch chain. [5]
A new Number Seven,--with electric lights and a bathroom and a brass bed. [9]
You have often seen a patriarch in a picture, on earth, with that thing on --you remember it?--he looks as if he had his head in a brass platter. [5]
Mr Brass, who seemed remarkably inattentive and impatient, mounted on his stool, and beckoning him to come nearer, took him by the button-hole. [12]
Mr Brass, he says, "It's no business of mine," he says; and Miss Sally, she says, "He's a funny chap, but it's no business of mine;" and the lady went away, and slammed the door to, when she went out, I can tell you. [12]
That is to say, worth a brass farthing. [5]
That was, he said gaily, because his earrings were gold, and not brass like those of his comrades. [11]
But dear me,' said Brass, 'what a time Mr Richard is gone! [12]
But never mind,' said Brass, 'never mind. [12]
I had hoped,' said Brass, looking round with a mournful smile, 'to have seen you three gentlemen, one day or another, with your legs under the mahogany in my humble parlour in the Marks. [12]
Miss Brass, Mr Richard is the--' 'Will you keep quiet? [12]
What power can reside in these frail figures of brass or marble? [10]
Upon a great religious or political question, the opinion of the dullest head in the world is worth the same as the opinion of the brightest head in the world--a brass farthing. [5]
Upon a great religious or political question the opinion of the dullest head in the world is worth the same as the opinion of the brightest head in the world--a brass farthing. [5]
Mr Brass, on recognising him, immediately stopped the coach. [12]
The brass stair-rods received an exhaustive polishing and were returned to their places. [5]
When the astrologer reached the market-square he went straight to a juggler, fantastically dressed, who was keeping three brass balls in the air, and took them from him and faced around upon the approaching crowd and said: "This poor clown is ignorant of his art. [5]
As the friends reached the landing-place the brass dome of the Serapeum, which towered above everything, was glittering with dazzling splendour. [10]
Before Paaker had reached the garden-gate, from the pylon of the enormous temple of Amon, was heard first the far-sounding clang of hard-struck plates of brass, and then the many-voiced chant of a solemn hymn. [10]
Preserve his army, put a bow of brass in the hands of those who have armed themselves in Thy Name, and gird their loins with strength for the fight. [2]
As his own position was not a very pleasant one until the matter was set at rest one way or other, he did so; and Miss Brass, plying her snuff-box at a most wasteful rate, corroborated his account. [12]
The noblest material-brown porphyry, emerald-green serpentine, and the dark varieties of marble-had been used, and the mosaic and brass doors, which were nearing completion, were masterpieces of Alexandrian art. [10]
Shall a million ounces of brass and a million ounces of gold be held to be of the same value? [5]
There is no other place in the world where merit is so quickly recognized as in the Stock Exchange, especially if it is backed by brass and a good head. [4]
The Hampton was one of the city's second-class hotels, but sufficiently pretentious to have, in its basement, a "cafe" furnished in the "mission" style of brass tacks and dull red leather. [9]
The brass rings on the high collars of the stallions jingled loudly and merrily, and long whiplashes cracked over the four and six-horse teams which were beginning the day's journey along the highroad. [10]
He had an old long-tailed blue jeans coat with slick brass buttons flung over his arm, and both of them had big, fat, ratty-looking carpet-bags. [5]
At the end of their consultation, which was very brief, the Notary pointed to the writing materials on the table, and informed Mr Brass that if he wished to make any statement in writing, he had the opportunity of doing so. [12]
Mr Brass is of the same opinion, I suppose? [12]
These little bits of brass and iron, the intrinsic value of which might, perhaps, amount to ninepence, were sold at five guineas a pair! [6]
The far-sounding clang of a brass gong roused the poet from his ecstasy. [10]
There was still no result; so I examined these instruments and discovered that they possessed radical blemishes: the barometer had no hand but the brass pointer and the ball of the thermometer was stuffed with tin-foil. [5]
Miss Sally entered next; and there being now four inside, Sampson Brass got upon the box, and made the coachman drive on. [12]
You mustn't mind my working," she added, going to the brass bashin at the fire. [11]
Mr Brass and Miss Sally were lurking hard by, having been, indeed, only routed from the keyhole by Mr Swiveller's abrupt exit. [12]
For his sake, Miss Brass, do us the favour to reveal the whole history of this affair. [12]
When he had made a suitable reply, Mr Brass wrung him by the hand, and fell into a brown study, as did Miss Sally likewise. [12]
Instead of the little knobs of the electric bells, a so-called "bell-rope," about the width of one's hand, provided with a brass or metal handle, hung beside the doors. [10]
The ghostly blue light from a distant arc came slanting in at the window, glinting on the brass knobs of the chest of drawers-another Bumpus heirloom. [9]
Then, Mr Brass left off writing entirely, and, with his pen in his hand, hummed his very loudest; shaking his head meanwhile from side to side, like a man whose whole soul was in the music, and smiling in a manner quite seraphic. [12]
Brightly glowing charcoal lay in front of the bellows which were worked by an automaton, at short regular intervals, while the god and his assistants modelled in brass, stood round the genial fire with tongs and hammers. [10]
But ere the last torch vanished, its light fell upon one of the brass basins which hung in front of the barbers' shops. [10]
The great brass knocker, once resplendent from Scipio's careful hand, no longer fantastically reflects the guest as he beats his tattoo, and Mr. Peale's portrait of my grandfather is gone from the dining-room wall, adorning, as you know, our own drawing-room at Calvert House. [9]
Likewise the dog Ketmehr was gone, and nothing save the brass that was upon his collar remained. [5]
The brass band itself, when we consider it philosophically, is one of the most striking things in our civilization. [4]
The communication performed its errand so well, that within ten minutes of the messenger's return and report of its delivery, Miss Brass herself was announced. [12]

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