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  • There are typical bronze vases from the Society of Engineers of Japan, and a striking desk-set of writing apparatus from Krupp, all the pieces being made out of tiny but massive guns and shells of Krupp steel.

    Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 2 1910

  • There are typical bronze vases from the Society of Engineers of Japan, and a striking desk-set of writing apparatus from Krupp, all the pieces being made out of tiny but massive guns and shells of Krupp steel.

    Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer 1905

  • On the calendar of a bronze desk-set, the first four days of March were already cancelled.

    The Lighted Match Charles Neville Buck 1904

  • You are always doing such things, Clive; you have simply covered my dressing-table with silver; my bureau is full of pretty things, all gifts from you; you've given me the loveliest furniture of my own, and books and desk-set and -- and everything.

    Athalie Frank Craig 1899

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