brass-collar

I'm left out in the cold; I can't begin to _sabe_ what the senator and these railroad brass-collar men are driving at.

The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush

Gurth had the inexpressible satisfaction of feeling himself related indissolubly, though in a rude brass-collar way, to his fellow - mortals in this Earth.

Past and Present

Once for all, he is to be loose of the brass-collar, to have a scope as wide as his faculties now are: -- will he not be all the usefuler to you, in that new state?

Past and Present

Gurth had the inexpressible satisfaction of feeling himself related indissolubly, though in a rude brass-collar way, to his fellow-mortals in this Earth.

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.

But no man is, or can henceforth be, the brass-collar thrall of any man; you will have to bind him by other, far nobler and cunninger methods.

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.

Once for all, he is to be loose of the brass-collar, to have

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.

_brass-collars_, -- not at all: that this brass-collar method, in all figures of it, has vanished out of Europe forevermore!

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.