There, rustless and fresh as the day it was installed, was a bank of instruments; the rogue hunted among them until it found one that possessed a flexible membrane. From Wordnik.com. [Starchild Omnibus]
And the second world where the ruins of a giant city had stood choked with jungle vegetation, where he had made a blowgun from tubes of rustless metal as a weapon gift for small winged men -- but were they men?. From Wordnik.com. [The Defiant Agents] Reference
A pan, a platter, or a solid board, as will be readily seen, is not so good for drying as a wooden frame of convenient size that has small slats or fine, rustless-wire netting, or screening, attached to the bottom. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 5: Fruit and Fruit Desserts; Canning and Drying; Jelly Making, Preserving and Pickling; Confections; Beverages; the Planning of Meals] Reference
That is to say, it must be unkinked, rustless, and unscored. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeroplane Speaks] Reference
I have roused my men from each Ulster glen in the glitter of rustless spear and shield. From Wordnik.com. [The Four Winds of Eirinn] Reference
It should be suspended by rustless black chains and eyebolts passing through the lower rails. From Wordnik.com. [Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 3] Reference
As Madame Beck ruled by espionage, she of course had her staff of spies: she perfectly knew the quality of the tools she used, and while she would not scruple to handle the dirtiest for a dirty occasion — flinging this sort from her like refuse rind, after the orange has been duly squeezed — I have known her fastidious in seeking pure metal for clean uses; and when once a bloodless and rustless instrument was found, she was careful of the prize, keeping it in silk and cotton-wool. From Wordnik.com. [Villette] Reference
"Artificial leg with automatic joints and rustless chromium-plating; I can swim, ride, drive a car and dance. From Wordnik.com. [Autumn] Reference
rustless, narrow-slitted and heavy-ridded, at one and the same time as sharp as a ferret's and as indolent as a basking lizard's. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 11] Reference
These cases were stored in tiers of rectangular vaults -- like closed, locked shelves -- wrought of the same rustless metal and fastened by knobs with intricate turnings. ". From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
These records, Lovecraft's narrator tells us, were "written or printed on great sheets of a curiously tenacious fabric, were bound into books that opened from the top, and were kept in individual cases of a strange, extremely light rustless metal of grayish hue. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
As Madame Beck ruled by espionage, she of course had her staff of spies; she perfectly knew the quality of the tools she used, and while she would not scruple to handle the dirtiest for a dirty occasion -- flinging this sort from her like refuse rind? after the orange has been duly squeezed -- I have known her fastidious in seeking pure metal for clean uses; and when once a bloodless and rustless instrument was found, she was careful of the prize, keeping it in silk and cotton-wool. From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6] Reference
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