They vainly imagine that, after death, they shall survive in history, or in marbles, which shall leap emulously from their quarries to form such monuments of pride as you have just beheld; but they are miserably deceived; their existence ends at the instant they expire, and their fame, however deeply engraven on brass and marble, cannot have a longer duration than that of a brief moment when compared with eternity!

The ribbon, clamped in two brass clamps so as to be readily renewable, passes bridgewise over a little scooped-out hollow in a disk of ebony (4 cm.

The gun is a seamless brass tube of about forty feet in length, manipulated by the artillerist in the manner of an ordinary cannon.

Slowly it drew forward, the muzzle, the eye, the ears, the mane, coming into sight as the rider still gained upon them, and then above them the fierce face of Despard and the gleam of a brass pistol barrel.

BRASS, the roguish confederate of Dick Amlet, and acting as his servant.

Brass (Sampson), a knavish, servile attorney, affecting great sympathy with his clients, but in reality fleecing them without mercy.

Sally Brass, Sampson's sister, and an exaggerated edition of her brother.

"Now then!" ses my missus, who was leaning up against the dresser with 'er arms folded, "wot 'ave you got to say for yourself walking in as bold as brass with this hussy?" "Bill!"

Iron itself, on the other hand, and crystal beads, brass pans and spreadeagle dollars appreciated in comparison.

"Grandy King George" of Old Calabar, for example, asked of his friend Captain Lace a mirror six feet square, an arm chair "for my salf to sat in," a gold mounted cane, a red and a blue coat with gold lace, a case of razors, pewter plates, brass flagons, knives and forks, bullet and cannon-ball molds, and sailcloth for his canoes, along with many other things for use in trade.

I'd just sold a silver-lead prospect and was proclaimin' my prosperity with soundin' brass and ticklin' symbols.

Anyhow, there she hung like a brass name-plate, and she didn't wabble hardly at all.

These are no mere portraits of wrestlers, such, as peopled the groves of Altis at Olympia, no ideals of physical strength translated into brass and marble, like the "Hercules" of Naples or the Vatican.

Studying these frescoes, we cannot but reflect what nerves, what brains, what hearts encased in triple brass the men who thought and felt thus must have possessed.

[Footnote 60: Ornamented with pearl-shaped beads of a metal resembling brass.]

The brass to her memory is in the north aisle.

The pew is immediately beneath the pulpit, in which a small brass plate may be noticed.

A Suggested Campaign Song ("No brass bands.

The seamen, cleaning brass or polishing wood, were pretending extraordinary occupations in order to get near her.

She stopped at the captain's sleeping room without wishing to pass the threshold, without loosening her hold on the brass doorknob in her right hand.

On the bridge she touched with childish enthusiasm the large brass hood of the binnacle and other steering instruments glistening as though made of gold.

They had a little brass on the top of the toes to keep you from kicking them out and skinning them up.

There was a massive oaken cabinet on one side of the room, a walnut-wood bureau with brass handles on the other.

Heigh-ho holiday: two pieces for five part brass ensemble.

The mystery of the brass bound trunk, by Carolyn Keene, pseud. of Harriet S. Adams & Edna C. Squier.