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  • Had him a big brick store with mahogany counters, beveled glass mirrors, and big colored signs for Coca-Cola, Mother's Friend (Take to Make Childbirth Easier), Fletcher's Castoria, Old Dutch Cleanser, McKesson and Robbins liniment, and all like that.†   (source)
  • Tom twirls his tumbler and the beveled glass catches the light, sending spectrums of color dancing on the wall.†   (source)
  • The few accountants and bookkeepers who found themselves laboring alongside revolutionary factory workers and lethargic peasants might have calculated that even had each man turned out one complete stone every day-which was not the case, for each stone had to be cut from the steep cliffs, lowered, re-cut, beveled, polished, and transported-they would have had to labor for many years to mark the graves of their fellow soldiers.†   (source)
  • Beyond the beveled-glass windows was a backyard and pool, which outdoor lighting had transformed into a storybook scene full of sparkle and glister.†   (source)
  • I trace my fingers around the beveled edge of the glass table and try to predict what kind of concoction he's going to walk back with just to taunt me.†   (source)
  • The concrete landing pad was several hundred feet from a large rectangular house of heavy wood and thick beveled glass.†   (source)
  • "Yes, yes, yes," I say, dumb and glad that I am affirming both notions of Liv's, especially because they immediately occur to me as somehow off, not at all wrong or terrible but perhaps improbable; and I feel, too, suddenly overwhelmed with the wide flows of information that have come to me today, the flash flood after the rains, and perhaps naturally I imagine good Anne Hickey again, though more clearly now, in her white turtleneck and leaf-colored sweater, greeting me on a wondrous autumn afternoon in front of the beveled glass door of my shop, her hair and eyes aglow in the lovely, burnishing light.†   (source)
  • Trouble did pause in his beveling, then.†   (source)
  • The Reverend Bevel Summers.†   (source)
  • bevel the surface
  • Bevel stared at him once and then moved into the folds of Mrs. Connin's coat and hid himself.†   (source)
  • This preacher is name Bevel and there's no better preacher around," Mrs. Connin said.†   (source)
  • That's Bevel," Mrs. Connin said, taking off her coat.†   (source)
  • Bevel sat down on the ground, dazed with relief, and grinned up at them.†   (source)
  • She kept Bevel by the hand and eased her way up to the front.†   (source)
  • The three boys followed them inside and closed in on Bevel.†   (source)
  • "He told me this morning his name was Bevel," Mrs. Connin said in a shocked voice.†   (source)
  • Bevel stood looking around him at the room.†   (source)
  • Bevel," she said, turning to look at the people behind her, "same as his.†   (source)
  • From time to time Bevel stared at him again from around Mrs. Connin.†   (source)
  • "Listen," Mrs. Connin said, "have you ever been Baptized, Bevel?"†   (source)
  • Bevel rolled his eyes in a comical way and thrust his face forward, close to the preacher's.†   (source)
  • He said his name was Bevel, the same as the preacher's.†   (source)
  • And this is a coincident-his name is Bevel!†   (source)
  • Bevel turned from Mr, Connin to a colored picture over the bed of a man wearing a. white sheet.†   (source)
  • There were some murmurs and Bevel turned and grinned over her shoulder at the faces looking at him.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Connin was on the back porch and caught Bevel up as he reached the steps.†   (source)
  • Bevel shifted his direction again toward the room where he slept.†   (source)
  • "Bevel," he said in a loud jaunty voice.†   (source)
  • Take off that coat and hang it on the bed post, Bevel.†   (source)
  • I was trying to think of some polite way to refuse when Gyuri pulled the whopping bevel-cut diamond off his pinky and — hopefully, like a child presenting a home-made gift —held them both to me on his open hands.†   (source)
  • The lettering was exactly as Owen preferred it—it was his favorite style—and the beveled edges along the sides and the top of the grave were exceedingly fine.†   (source)
  • I wanted the granite doorstop that Owen had made for Dan and my mother, his wedding present to them, the lettering in his famous, gravestone style—JULY 1952—and neatly beveled along the sides, and perfectly edged at the corners; it was crude, but it had been Owen's earliest known work with the diamond wheel, and I wanted it.†   (source)
  • And the pedestal upon which Owen had stood her—in contrast to Mary's own rough finish (granite is never as smooth as marble)—was highly polished, exquisitely beveled; Owen had cut some very fine edges with the diamond wheel, creating the impression that Mary Magdalene either stood upon or was rising from her grave.†   (source)
  • The cuticles were neat and trim, with no sign of tears, while the nails themselves had been cut straight across—not too long, not too short—and the edges smoothly beveled.†   (source)
  • You mean lumberyard work?" he asked, all the while keeping his eyes on the drawer-front he was beveling.†   (source)
  • Down the stairs two at a time, three at a time, under the crystal cascade of beveled teardrops, he grabbed at the banister to keep his balance.†   (source)
  • They got on the car and sat down a few seats behind the driver and Mrs. Connin took Bevel on her knees.†   (source)
  • As soon as he stopped singing, Mrs. Connin lifted Bevel up and said, "Listen here, preacher, I got a boy from town today that I'm keeping.†   (source)
  • I don't want to see him," Bevel said.†   (source)
  • Bevel's eyes were dark and dilated.†   (source)
  • Bevel jumped on it but the hound was experienced and had already withdrawn when his feet hit the spot.†   (source)
  • Well I declare," she murmured, "Bevel!"†   (source)
  • Bevel walked on the outside edge, holding Mrs. Connin's hand and looking down into the orange and purple gully that dropped off from the concrete.†   (source)
  • One of Bevel's eyes was closed and the other half closed; his nose was running and he kept his mouth open and breathed through it.†   (source)
  • Then he turned his face to the people and began to preach and Bevel looked over his shoulder at the pieces of the white sun scattered in the river.†   (source)
  • There was a loud laugh from the old man sitting on the car bumper and Bevel grasped the back of the preacher's collar and held it tightly.†   (source)
  • Whoever heard of anybody named Bevel?†   (source)
  • While he preached, Bevel's eyes followed drowsily the slow circles of two silent birds revolving high in the air.†   (source)
  • It's Bevel," Mrs. Connin said.†   (source)
  • Bevel had never seen a real pig but he had seen a pig in a book and knew they were small fat pink animals with curly tails and round grinning faces and bow ties.†   (source)
  • By the time Bevel came to the field speckled with purple weeds, he was dusty and sweating and he crossed it at a trot to get into the woods as fast as he could.†   (source)
  • The Reverend Bevel Summers.†   (source)
  • Bevel didn't see him at all.†   (source)
  • Bevel asked.†   (source)
  • "Bevel!" his mother said.†   (source)
  • "Bevel," he repeated.†   (source)
  • "Bevel," he said.†   (source)
  • He trimmed and beveled the edge of the blue patch.†   (source)
  • (But-) ing beside the beveled curbstone, applied his ear to the narrow breast†   (source)
  • You can see by an old grave that the earth sinks down on the bevel.†   (source)
  • Common stairs were beveled to an edge, hollowed to an aching trough by the tread of many feet, blackened beyond washing by the ground-in dirt of streets.†   (source)
  • Timothy followed behind Wilkie, and Timothy's shovel beveled the bottom of the ditch and smoothed it ready for the pipe.†   (source)
  • It was only toward sleep one knew himself still lying on the cobbles, felt the cobbles under him, and over him and scudding ever toward him like a black foam, the perpetual blur of shod and running feet, the broken shoes, new shoes, stubby, pointed, caked, polished, buniony, pavement-beveled, lumpish, under skirts, under trousers, shoes, over one and through one, and feel them all and feel, not pain, not terror, but strangest triumph, strangest acquiescence.†   (source)
  • The animal magnetism of a dead body makes the stress come slanting, so the seams and joints of a coffin are made on the bevel.†   (source)
  • I'm going to bevel it," he says.†   (source)
  • So I made it on the bevel.†   (source)
  • Cash I made it on the bevel.†   (source)
  • Ted balanced over to the low beveled mirror in the buffet, regarded his charms, and smirked.†   (source)
  • The afternoon-bridge of the Jolly Seventeen which followed Carol's lonely doubting was held at Juanita Haydock's new concrete bungalow, with its door of polished oak and beveled plate-glass, jar of ferns in the plastered hall, and in the living-room, a fumed oak Morris chair, sixteen color-prints, and a square varnished table with a mat made of cigar-ribbons on which was one Illustrated Gift Edition and one pack of cards in a burnt-leather case.†   (source)
  • The floor was of a reddish hue, waxed and polished, and in every direction were mirrors— tall, brilliant, bevel-edged mirrors—reflecting and re-reflecting forms, faces, and candelabra a score and a hundred times.†   (source)
  • It was a bust in half-profile—somewhat smaller than life-size, with the neck bared, a veil draped across the shoulders and breasts—set in a wide, black, beveled frame edged in gold nearest the canvas.†   (source)
  • At the back of the barmaids rose bevel-edged mirrors, with glass shelves running along their front, on which stood precious liquids that Jude did not know the name of, in bottles of topaz, sapphire, ruby and amethyst.†   (source)
  • It was bright and commodious, with a beveled mirror set in the wall at one end and incandescent lights arranged in three places.†   (source)
  • When you lifted the gracefully beveled lid, a well-secured brass rod raised automatically to hold it in place at a protective angle, and inside you saw, set slightly lower, the turntable with its green cloth cover and nickel rim, plus the nickel spindle that fitted into the hole of the ebonite disks.†   (source)
  • There he lay, his knees pulled up, one leg crossed over the other, his field guide facedown on his chest, the spine forming a little gable; he held the thick beveled circle of his magnifying glass up to his ordinary blue eyes and examined a blossom, whose corolla he had partly removed with his pocketknife so that he could study its receptacle, which now swelled to a bizarre fleshy structure under the powerful lens.†   (source)
  • A man with a wife and seven children, a carpenter with a fair reputation as wise, not maddened by passions, not given to foolishness—regular of habit, dignified in bearing, a dedicated craftsman (no edge unbeveled, no ragged peg, no gouge or split)—once crept from his house at the edge of the town while his family slept, and fled down snowy paths through woods to the house of a hunter away in search of game.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unbeveled means not and reverses the meaning of beveled. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • Hatter Madigan and Bibwit Harte hurried to clear the dried brush from the portal entrance-a thick, ancient-looking glass with bevelled edges located in a part of the forest rarely frequented by Wonderlanders.†   (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is more commonly spelled beveled.
  • At the entrance to the park there are two stone gateposts, four-sided, bevelled at the top, Egyptian-looking.†   (source)
  • Cash made it clock-shape, like this seam bevelled and with every joint a scrubbed with the plane, tight as a drum and neat as a sewing basket, and they had laid her in it head to foot so it wouldn't crush her dress.†   (source)
  • At the corner of Duke Street Higgins and Nosey Flynn bevelled off to the left while the other three turned back towards the city.†   (source)
  • The outer shell, the masonry, seemed rather to enclose the future so that it was an electric-like shock, a definite nervous experience, perverted as a breakfast of oatmeal and hashish, to cross that threshold, if it could be so called, into the long hall of blue steel, silver-gilt, and the myriad facets of many oddly bevelled mirrors.†   (source)
  • All the steps are bevelled underneath.†   (source)
  • was enclosed on its outer side by a wall of prodigious stones, in which, for ventilation, narrow apertures were left bevelled like modern port-holes.†   (source)
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