Etymology
Origin of rustless
Example Sentences
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Continual assaults with heavy axes, hammers have no visible effect on the shiny, rustless panels.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Mercury has lavish, rustless steel grilles, widely flared fenders protected by heavy bumpers.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It should be suspended by rustless black chains and eyebolts passing through the lower rails.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 3 by Windsor, H. H. (Henry Haven)
The sights of his rifle showed clean as the rustless barrel rested on a log.
From The Roof Tree by Conrey, Lee F.
Rustless, life-born, living-tissued old wood: rustless as flesh is rustless, and happy-seeming as iron never can be.
From Sea and Sardinia by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
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