copper-faced

If Miss Cave had possessed either feeling or sense, she could not have been so perfectly impassible to my regard as she showed herself - she must have preferred me to that copper-faced despot. '

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

The Indian women, it must be confessed, are not unwilling to be bought or stolen, but they are not to the white man what they are to the copper-faced rival.

The Giant Indians of Tierra Del Fuego 1996

It took a long time for me to read the time off my copper-faced Gruen “very thin” watch.

White Butterfly Walter Mosley 1992

For the lettering, copper-faced types are used to set up the desired sequence of letters and words, and care and taste should be exercised to have (1) Types neither too large, which present a clumsy appearance, nor too small, which are difficult to read.

A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries Ainsworth Rand Spofford

"Tell your copper-faced friend that he had better give that swill back to the pigs he stole it from."

Dick in the Everglades A. W. Dimock

We presumed, with some reason, these copper-faced damsels — for they were all mulattos, and some of them handsome — had taken French leave of their customers, or possibly they were going on a voyage of discovery to find out whether the water of St. Domingo was softer for washing linen than that of Cuba.

A Sailor of King George Frederick Hoffman

So should we have thought had we not seen our copper-faced acquaintance who had in such unmannerly fashion shut the door in our faces.

A Sailor of King George Frederick Hoffman

"Read that," he roared, "just brought in by that copper-faced, shoe-button-eyed son of a sea cook."

The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades J. Watson [Illustrator] Davis

The long arm of the lever, containing the proper "tracer" or follower, is moved by the operator around the outside of the pattern on the copper-faced metal plate, causing the blank to be moved by the shorter arm around and against a rotating cutting tool.

The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing Various

A copper-faced metal plate is thus produced, on which are the raised outlines of a letter.

The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing Various