Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Unwavering in political allegiance; consistently voting a straight party ticket.
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Examples
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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 Francis Lynde 1893
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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 1838
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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 Thomas Carlyle 1838
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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. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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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. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Once for all, he is to be loose of the brass-collar, to have
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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_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. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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