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. ' ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (1996)
It took a long time for me to read the time off my copper-faced Gruen “very thin” watch. ❋ 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. ❋ Ainsworth Rand Spofford (N/A)
"Tell your copper-faced friend that he had better give that swill back to the pigs he stole it from." ❋ A. W. Dimock (N/A)
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. ❋ Frederick Hoffman (N/A)
"Read that," he roared, "just brought in by that copper-faced, shoe-button-eyed son of a sea cook." ❋ J. Watson [Illustrator] Davis (N/A)
The first copper-faced farmer I come across shall surely stand and deliver. ❋ George W. Gough (N/A)
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. ❋ Frederick Hoffman (N/A)
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. ❋ Various (N/A)
A copper-faced metal plate is thus produced, on which are the raised outlines of a letter. ❋ Various (N/A)
Frank to the copper-faced man in the blanket, "sell many baskets to-day?" ❋ Howard Roger Garis (1917)
But the copper-faced Le Borgne remained taciturn and tongue-tied. ❋ Unknown (1903)
A flight of white herons rise, and the sand throws yellow reflected light under their wings; a long, dug-out canoe passes down with a load of colour, red earthenware pots forward, a copper-faced man amidship, in white jacket and indian-red kilt. ❋ Unknown (1900)
Cuthbert laughed over the situation more than a few times, and declared that he need fear no evil from the copper-faced denizens of the timber country so long as a shot remained in their locker -- a grain of Java in their caddy. ❋ George Rathborne (1896)
I watched her last night at parade when she drove out here with that copper-faced old squaw, her mother. ❋ Charles King (1888)
"You two gents is allus a quarrelling," growled a wonderfully copper-faced old sailor, giving his lower jaw a twist. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
At length he found a dam, and leaving his meat, traps, etc., went across to examine it, but reached the opposite side just in time to discover himself to two parties of the copper-faced rascals, who were situated both above and below him, and who sprang up in chase as soon as they saw him. ❋ Unknown (1844)
The little copper-faced tailor's wife adored her husband; he had no money and no enemies; La Cibot's fortune and the marine-store dealer's motives were alike hidden in the shade. ❋ Honor�� De Balzac (1824)
You strip your man of all he has, even to his very shirt, and then he will come to you of his own accord; you won't teach me to suck eggs, brother; ask that copper-faced fellow there. ❋ Johann Christoph Friedrich Von Schiller (1782)
