pewter

How To Use pewter In A Sentence

• Two pewter mugs banged down in front of us, spilling liquid.
• I watched his hands, tipping measured amounts of powder from a pewter horn, tapping in a ball and wad with a short ramrod.
• That has to be very cool to see your literary creations made corporeal in pewter (and then hand painted!). Pick Your Pewter Poison
• And how my comrade, the other pewter soldier, lives! Andersen's Fairy Tales
• Over the centuries the techniques of making all forms of metal ware: pewter, copper, brass and bronze, iron and steel, have varied.
• The most important spoon in the Jamestown collection, and one of the most significant objects excavated, is an incomplete pewter spoon -- a variant of the trifid, or split-end, type common during the 1650-90 period. New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America
• But it is unseemly to see such a Grand Potentate in such a state of decay: the son of Bajazet Ilderim insolvent; the descendants of the Prophet bullied by Calmucs and English and whipper-snapper Frenchmen; the Fountain of Magnificence done up, and obliged to coin pewter! Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
• The First Church of Deerfield retains two large plates, or chargers, marked by the London pewterer Samuel Ellis I.
• The home accents are embellished with an antique effect with the help of a variety of plating like bronze, silver, nickel, chrome, pewter and black nickel.
• But he raised a pewter tankard of foaming ale to celebrate the success of his campaign and will be back next week