Word: brass
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...announced that a brass band has been discovered in the solar spectrum...
...With brass rivets besides...
...made allusions to my "front of brass...
...which asset my mind about this Venie. Isaac tells me her neck and bust have been jollified by thousands; think of it, Mr. Brimstone, inflect how improper of that girl to be seen in such an informal, decolleti way! How lacking in maidenly preserve she must be! What a brass face the girl must have! The carmine glow profuses my hectic cheeks as I think of it; and then for Isaac not to be ashamed of such coyness! Really, Mr. Brimstone, I'll double my conscription, if you will seek out my Isaac, my stray calf, my angel...
After long and patient waiting, the soul-stirring strains of a Bach fugue, interspersed with variations from Haydn's Third Symphony, were heard, and presently the only, the inimitable brass band hove in sight, the bras being loaned, for this occasion only, by the Echo Board...