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pewter
1. “I love these beer steins,” he said, holding out two pewter steins with orange inlays and inscriptions in Gaelic
2. We were returning from such a walk one night when, about forty feet from the house and in the middle of our driveway, we saw a piece of wrinkled and twisted sheet metal colored like pewter which had definitely not been there when we left
3. Breakfast came and he ate it while staring morosely out of the windows, without really seeing, at the heaving, pewter colored sea and grey skies
4. They had completed their supper, but were still drinking, dipping pewter mugs or jewelled goblets into the broken heads of the wine-casks
5. “What is this?” Marcus stirred the bowl with a pewter spoon
6. She found her dress on the fourth try-on it was a Giorgio Armani plunging bias cut pewter
7. Later on she sold the silver service and bought ceramic dishes, pewter bowls and soup spoons, and alpaca tablecloths, and with them brought poverty to the cupboards that had been accustomed to India Company chinaware and Bohemian crystal
8. “I was hoping you’d say that,” Balin said, grinning as he uncorked a large bottle and filled two pewter mugs with amber liquid
9. Pewter clouds marched across the sky above her, darker than they were earlier
10. ” Ambrosius lifted the ornament so that the moonlight sparkled off the pewter
11. Richard Vowell squeezed wine into the ladies' cups then turned his attention to the pewter mugs preferred by the men
12. Senior members ate off dishes and drank from pewter tankards
13. The lead in the pewter gave wine a distinctive taste
14. She and Stan ate as they watched the colorful clouds turn to pewter and the horizon a pale strip of pink
15. “What is there to it? All that lead and tin my informant told me was in the coffin dray – they were obviously fixing on passing pewter for silver shillings
16. Mohammed pressed the button again and a person familiar to Grimes walked into the room carrying a small pewter box
17. He shuffled the papers into some kind of order then turned his attention to the pewter box given to him by Akhim
18. Portus’s head sat on a pewter serving dish, and a shiny green
19. The stars were bright in the sky and there had been no need for a torch as the road stretched out before me like a strip of pewter in the silver light
20. sound was the clink, clink of spoons against the old pewter
21. cheese around the pewter plate
22. and she struggled to find a space for her pewter plate
23. There was a great fire, and that was all the light in the huge apartment, whose floor had grown a uniform grey; and the once brilliant pewter dishes, which used to attract my gaze when I was a girl, partook of a similar obscurity, created by tarnish and dust
24. The clinking and rattling of the glasses and pewter pots as they were being washed, and the gurgling noise made by the beer as it poured into the drinking vessels from the taps of the beer engine, whose handles were almost incessantly manipulated by the barman, the Old Dear and the glittering landlady, whose silken blouse, bejewelled hair, ears, neck and fingers scintillated gloriously in the blaze of the gaslight
25. 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
26. So then we went away and went to the rubbage-pile in the back yard, where they keep the old boots, and rags, and pieces of bottles, and wore-out tin things, and all such truck, and scratched around and found an old tin washpan, and stopped up the holes as well as we could, to bake the pie in, and took it down cellar and stole it full of flour and started for breakfast, and found a couple of shingle-nails that Tom said would be handy for a prisoner to scrabble his name and sorrows on the dungeon walls with, and dropped one of them in Aunt Sally's apron-pocket which was hanging on a chair, and t'other we stuck in the band of Uncle Silas's hat, which was on the bureau, because we heard the children say their pa and ma was going to the runaway nigger's house this morning, and then went to breakfast, and Tom dropped the pewter spoon in Uncle Silas's coat-pocket, and Aunt Sally wasn't come yet, so we had to wait a little while
27. But when supper was announced, and the company adjourned to partake of it, judge of the universal consternation that was visible in every countenance, when, instead of the light tarts, and nice jellies and sillybobs that were expected, we beheld a long table, with a row down the middle of rounds of beef, large cold veal-pies on pewter plates like tea-trays, cold boiled turkeys, and beef and bacon hams, and, for ornament in the middle, a perfect stack of celery
28. On the green-marbled wall was a clock in the shape of a large pewter sun delivering time in a timeless realm
29. There were silver and pewter Goblets, gilt Salvers, silver Sugar Bowls and Tea Kettles (with and without Stands)
30. Outwardly, our Fortunes had improv’d; the Captain’s Cabin was provided with Windows, Light, Air, a Writing Bureau, and dry Berths lin’d with Eider-Downs, as well as Plate and Pewter bearing his Family Crest
31. For the Purposes of Trading, Captain Whitehead had brought along pewter Basons of sev’ral Sizes, old Sheets, Iron Bars, large Flemish Knives, Cases of Spirits, and the large good-colour’d Coral said to be much belov’d by the African Kings
32. The infinity pool was molten pewter
33. A copper lamp illuminated the tablecloth of coarse white linen, the pewter jug shining like silver, and filled with wine, and the brown, smoking soup-tureen
34. This room resembled all drinking-shop rooms,—tables, pewter jugs, bottles, drinkers, smokers; but little light and a great deal of noise
35. An instant later he was in the blind alley of La Planchette, and he entered the Plat d'Etain [the Pewter Platter], where the office of the coach for Lagny was then situated
36. Javert, without saying anything to anybody, took the coach from the Pewter Platter, Cul-de-Sac de la Planchette, and made a trip to Montfermeil
37. A fire had been lighted in the kitchen, and there they were engaged in moulding into bullets, pewter mugs, spoons, forks, and all the brass table-ware of the establishment
38. I could see clearly a room with a sanded floor, clean scoured; a dresser of walnut, with pewter plates ranged in rows, reflecting the redness and radiance of a glowing peat-fire
39. He had left behind his violin, for he identified it too closely with his misfortune, but his mother had obliged him to take his petate, a very popular and practical bedroll, with its pillow, sheet, small pewter chamber pot, and mosquito netting, all of this wrapped in straw matting tied with two hemp ropes for hanging a hammock in an emergency
40. The corrugated iron of the canneries glows with the pearly lucency of platinum or old pewter
41. At that table with its silver soft and dull, shining as pewter, I remember the raised glass of the grape’s holy blood, the stem caressed by the doctor’s strong artist fingers, and even now I can hear the sweet little health and welcome in the singing language of Acadia which once was French and now is itself
42. Receiving the brimming pewter, and turning to the harpooneers, he ordered them to produce their weapons
43. While thus employed, the heavy pewter lamp suspended in chains over his head, continually rocked with the motion of the ship, and for ever threw shifting gleams and shadows of lines upon his wrinkled brow, till it almost seemed that while he himself was marking out lines and courses on the wrinkled charts, some invisible pencil was also tracing lines and courses upon the deeply marked chart of his forehead
44. By the side of the bed was a little table with a pitcher and a pewter mug, together with a diminutive napkin, which had been given to me
