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Examples
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You can get the same thing with a 22-inch barrel (I would go with this one) or a blue-steel and walnut model with a 22-inch barrel.
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"His body is weak, but his eyes are the blue-steel eyes of a young man," the official said.
Ratko Mladic Arrested: Inside The Raid That Nabbed The Suspected War Criminal 2011
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You can get the same thing with a 22-inch barrel (I would go with this one) or a blue-steel and walnut model with a 22-inch barrel.
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You can get the same thing with a 22-inch barrel (I would go with this one) or a blue-steel and walnut model with a 22-inch barrel.
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What if an army of blue-steel robots burned Atlanta in ‘Gone with the Positrons,’ or a swashbuckling crew of mechanicals took to the high seas in ‘Robots of the Caribbean?’
Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2008
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In the second version, “we see him trying to suggest that Mast is himself sorting out his motives: and such more specific images as ‘beautiful blue-steel bullet-charged weight’ instead of ‘beautiful blue-steel pregnant weight’ help to eliminate the abstract language.”
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The world was going to hell in a basket, but if he could only hold on to the pistol, remain in possession of that extra margin of safety its beautiful blue-steel pregnant weight offered him, he could be saved, could come through it.
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In the second version, “we see him trying to suggest that Mast is himself sorting out his motives: and such more specific images as ‘beautiful blue-steel bullet-charged weight’ instead of ‘beautiful blue-steel pregnant weight’ help to eliminate the abstract language.”
Revising Fiction by David Madden: Leading by Example (and with TOC Checklist) 2009
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The Daly Field Grade Mauser comes in most popular standard and magnum calibers, in blue-steel or all-stainless versions, with a sleek polymer stock and a 22-inch barrel (24 for the magnums).
Rifle & Gun Rest Philip Bourjaily 2007
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The sense of personal defensive safety that it gave him was tremendous…The world was rocketing to hell in a bucket, but if he could only hold onto his pistol, remain in possession of the promise of salvation its beautiful blue-steel bullet-charged weight offered him, he could be saved.
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