"Damascus steel" Quotes from Famous Books
... the doorway in the hall, on a pair of splendid antlers—his first trophy of the chase,—rested his deer gun, a clean piece of Damascus steel and old English walnut, imported years before. The barrels were forty inches and choked. The small bright hammers rested on the yellow brass caps deep sunk on steel nippers. They shone through the hammer slit ... — The Bishop of Cottontown - A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills • John Trotwood Moore |