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.
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Mercury has lavish, rustless steel grilles, widely flared fenders protected by heavy bumpers.
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For they contain rustless iron, and where iron does not rust man cannot live, nor can any other animal or any plant.
From Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries by Slosson, Edwin E.
Swimming tights should be wrung out dry, either by hand or by a wringer kept near the swimming place, and hung out on a rope or rustless wire, stretched back of the tent.
From Camping For Boys by Gibson, Henry William
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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