1.   There was a shiny brass bed for Melanie with a round-bellied white chamber pot underneath it.

2.   As soon as he delivered his last line, the shiny brass bell of a sousaphone shot up like a hasty sunrise.

3.   By day I stood with my nose pressed to the glass, counting its compartments and admiring the shiny brass hardware.

4.   Everywhere on the ground were shiny brass bullet casings, ejected after the rounds were fired, testimony to the intense fire-fight described by Afghan tribal troops.

5.   Q. I bought a glass-topped coffee table on four very shiny brass legs.

6.   Shiny brass pots are popular with bosses.

7.   The elevators have been expensively redone in shiny brass, red paint and reproduction-Baroque hardware.

8.   The interiors are swank, with big Jacuzzi tubs, lots of mirrors and shiny brass fixtures.

9.   The shiny brass chain screwed into the wood frame door seemed to annoy the landlord.