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Examples
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She fished again, and was rewarded with a silver-mounted whisky flask.
Bunches of Knuckles 2010
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Among the highlights will be a French silver-mounted and gold-inlaid flintlock shotgun from 1810 that is expected to fetch in excess of €45,000; and a gun made for enlisted men of the Saxon Electorate Palace Life Guards from 1580-1590 that is expected to sell for at least €15,000.
The Fire Power of Pistols Margaret Studer 2011
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Other objects fulfill the "gentleman's library" conceit—an 1877 ivory-and-silver "owl" perfume bottle by London silversmith William Frederick Williams; a silver-mounted Gorham inkstand, circa 1894; and a detailed metalwork model of a Chinese ship resting on a wavelike carved-wood base.
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Bonham's A silver-mounted inkstand will be auctioned at Bonhams.
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He was buried with his weapons, his armor, wealth in the form of gold coins and gold and garnet fittings, silver vessels and silver-mounted drinking horns and cups, symbols of power and authority, and clothes, piled in heaps, ranging from fine linen overshirts to shaggy woolen cloaks and caps trimmed with fur.
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Instead of a smoking, blood-stained ruin, there was the plush and gilt of the circle bar at the St James's Theatre, instead of the Sapper jacket and .44 revolver there was an opera cloak and silver-mounted cane, and instead of dead Zulus for company there was Oscar Wilde.
Watershed 2010
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After he has gotten himself up regardless of expense, in showy, baggy trowsers, yellow, pointed slippers, fiery fez, silken jacket of blue, voluminous waist-sash of fancy Persian stuff filled with a battery of silver-mounted horse-pistols, and has strapped on his terrible scimitar, he considers it an unspeakable humiliation to be called Ferguson.
It Never Changes Rogers 2007
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He usually wore a pair of ivory-hilted and silver-mounted pistols thrust into a richly embroidered sash.
THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007
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This official appeared a most gorgeous creature; with silver-mounted pistols and all sorts of knives and dangling things hanging about him.
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‘Look at that sword, sir,’ says I, pointing to an elegant silver-mounted one, in a white shagreen case, that hung on the mantelpiece, under the picture of my father, Harry Barry.
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