"brass" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Mr. Carr conceded that he had taken away one treasure: a three-foot high brass compass casing from a rumrunner that sank mysteriously off Cuttyhunk Island in 1923.
- Feeling the brass compass which weighed down his pocket, Kerans said: "So you're frightened that the increased temperature and radiation are alerting similar IRM's in our own minds?"
- Tyler and I were walking in the woods around campus one afternoon during the fall of our sophomore year when we came across a brass compass lying there on the ground.
- On June 4, Easy was issued its ammunition, $10 worth of new French francs just printed in Washington, an escape kit containing a silk map of France, a tiny brass compass, and a hacksaw.
- So you found one damned brass compass.
- Many other objects were found to be sources of deviation in ships, including iron particles in brass compass bowls; iron nails in a wooden compass box or binnacle; and metal parts of clothing.
- MacDonald had brought him a chest bulging with medals, gilt buttons, cheap brass compasses, steel knife blades, and other bits of attractive rubbish.
- The main lobby has a marble floor with an inlaid brass compass design.
- The berths in the sloping bulkhead, the narrow shelves, the basin of water, a glint of the ocean's phosphorescence reflected through the porthole burnishing the brass compass.
- The brass compass mounting and engine controls were brightly polished.
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