He was struggling to lift down a brass-bound military chest.
Her face contorted in madness, she was carrying a small wooden, brass-bound chest.
The boy stood and held on to the brass-bound chest, rocking his weight back and forth as though he wanted to take a step.
He stumbled backwards in the gravel drive, still clutching the brass-bound wooden chest.
The brass-bound chest slipped from his fingers and fell the few feet down to the rocks and sand below at the edge of the ocean.
He handed the brass-bound chest to the Khan.
Inside, he checked in at the flight desk, confirmed his reservation, then went into the men's room, still carrying the brass-bound chest.
The brass-bound chest lay there on the floor.
He carried the brass-bound chest of the scroll.
Most of what they owned was packed away in a pair of battered brass-bound chests.