"Metal" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... under one roof,—a two-storied building in the lower part of Pearl Street, dingy and unattractive in outward appearance, but crowded in its interior with articles of beauty and worth,—Flemish paintings and rich metal work, Venetian glasses and velvets, Spanish and Moorish leather goods, silverware, watches, jewellery, etc. The window of the large room in which all was stored was dim with cobwebs, and there was no arrangement of the treasures. They were laid in the drawers of the great Dutch presses and in cabinets, ...
— The Bow of Orange Ribbon - A Romance of New York • Amelia E. Barr
... acquire all the store we can, rejecting no coin for its minting but only if its metal be base. So shall we bring out of our treasuries ...
— On the Art of Writing - Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 • Arthur Quiller-Couch
... of paltry paper!" said he. "I suppose it's the old sportsman's custom to get rid of most of his heavy metal ...
— Stingaree • E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
... the river, piled up yon Organ-hill, produced the caves of Widderin, the great crater-hollow of Mirngish, and accommodated us with that brisk little earthquake which we felt just now. For you know that we mortals stand only on a thin crust of cooled matter, but beneath our feet is all molten metal." ...
— The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn • Henry Kingsley
... the unmistakable pallid hue of death he thought at first that she slept. In the thin, delicate hands, crossed upon her bosom, there was placed, after the manner of those of her faith, a small metal crucifix. Her hair, silky and jet black, was short like a man's, and the exquisitely-modelled features, which even the coldness of death had not robbed of their beauty, showed the Spanish blood that, but a few hours before, had ...
— By Reef and Palm • Louis Becke
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