The finest that has passed through my hands was twenty-three carats, one grain and a half, assayed at the Tower of London.
I had some assayed which was two carats three grains worse than standard, and contained an alloy of silver, but not in a proportion to be affected by the acids.
Hereupon the Duke leuied his forces, and earnestly assayed to recouer Damfronc: but then hee found that his brother Henrie was secretly, yet surely vnderset by the king of England.
Waltheof sonne to Earle Siward, who in defending the Citie of Yorke against him, had slaine many Normans, as they assayed to enter a breach, hee ioyned in marriage to his Neece Iudeth.
For knowing himselfe not to be of force vtterly to vanquish the French, he assayed rather by faire forbearance to purchase their friendship.
He spoke no English, and my French had been lying 'perdue' a couple of years or so; but I assayed to converse, and eking out my French with Hindostani managed to keep up the conversation without difficulty.
Fair knight, said Palomides, meseemeth we have assayed either other passing sore, and if it may please thee, I require thee of thy knighthood tell me thy name.
Sir, said the king unto Sir Galahad, here is a great marvel as ever I saw, and right good knights have assayed and failed.
Jesu defend me, said Sir Launcelot, when so many kings and knights have assayed and failed, that I should presume upon me to enchieve that all ye, my lords, might not enchieve.
How Sir Gawaine assayed to draw out the sword, and how an old man brought in Galahad.
Ores from there, assayed in this city, showed them to be exceedingly rich in silver and gold--silver predominating.
Then he would get out a greasy sheet of paper which showed that the portion of rock assayed had given evidence of containing silver and gold in the proportion of so many hundreds or thousands of dollars to the ton.
So then, he that assayed to go into these chambers, must turn with the stairs, or he could not go up, no, not into the lowest chambers.
By faith they passed thorow the reed sea as by dry land, which when the egyptians had assayed to do, they were drowned.
When Saul came to Ierusalem he assayed to couple himself with the disciples, and they were all afraid of him and believed not that he was a disciple.
After the lead is put into the cupel, it gets immediately covered with a coat of oxide, which resists the admission of the silver to be assayed into the melted metal; so that the alloy cannot form.
If the ingot of silver to be assayed is found to contain a greater quantity of mercury, one thousandth for example, the humid process ought either to be given up in this case, or to be compared with cupellation.
In such small work as cannot be assayed by scraping off a part and cupelling it, the assayers endeavour to ascertain its fineness or quality by the touch.
The process recommended in the old French official report is as follows:--twelve grains of the gold intended to be assayed must be mixed with thirty grains of fine silver, and cupelled with 108 grains of lead.
I 've brought Mr. Chastine in with me because he assayed some of my ore a few days ago and believes he knows what it's worth.
And the metal of the Silver Queen and the Blue Poppy, now that the strike had been made, had assayed almost identically the same.
First did it show the bitter baleful stour stour > tumult; distress 8 Which her assayed with many a fervent fit, assayed > assailed; put to the test 9 When first her tender heart was with his beauty smitten.
It may be assayed by the same tests as the common magnesia.
The mass left behind may then be digested in weak nitric acid, and the solution assayed for lead by water impregnated with sulphuretted hydrogen.
Her palsied tongue assayedto speak, but Henry caught only the low sound, "My children!
Forty and three times have the constellations described their circles in the heavens since my lip assayed this language; but thy presence has been to my heart like the beams of the rising sun that causes the statue of Memnon to speak.
There we assayed to hold temperance prayer-meetings, but they loved darkness rather than light, and we cast our pearls before swine, who turned and rent us.
Great Britain, which, should be assayed or marked.
Every cup of drink served to the great man of the house was assayed twice, once in the buttery and again in the hall.
When he had drunk this, the servant handed the cup to his master, who, when he saw the liquor assayed before his eyes, accepted it as a liquor of credence which he might drink trustfully.
And wyf, by-cause of thy swete wordes, and eek for I have assayed and preved thy grete sapience and thy grete trouthe, I wol governe me by thy conseil in alle thing.
He hadde assayed hir y-nogh bifore, (400) And fond hir ever good; what neded it Hir for to tempte and alwey more and more?
And sir, by your leve, that am nat I; / for ye han ful ofte assayed my grete silence and my gret pacience; and eek how wel that I can hyde and hele thinges that men oghte secreely to hyde.
At fifty dollars a troy ounce, this lump should be worth about twelve thousand dollars--if itassayed out as pure as it looked.
At the feast of Pentecost all manner of men assayed to pull at the sword, yet none might prevail but Arthur; and he pulled it out afore all the lords and commons that were there.
Sir" said the King unto him, "here is a great marvel as ever I saw, and right good knights have assayed and failed.
Therewith Sir Ector assayed to pull out the sword, and failed.
Actually, though not at the time consciously, he had assayed to strike a bargain with the Almighty.
I just wish to tell you, Mildred, in a few words, what it would mean to the world at large if I assayed the Lombard Deeps Gold Mine.
Her creditors would not wait for payment much longer, but if Philip assayed the new mine, he would be handsomely paid for his pains, and all her own cares would take to themselves wings and fly away.
Jethro a short distance behind assayed to follow; but taking a short cut under the back seat on which huddled the Mifsud family he unexpectedly encountered his ancient enemy Snappy the Mifsud’s collie.
None of the other ladies present assayed to join in the conversation, so perhaps most of them also were mystified.
He appeared to be headed for a point at an angle of about forty-five degrees from his mistress, but it was only his corner-wise way of walking, caused by his defective eye.
Sharpen these pencils, Moses, please, for the drawing lesson.
Molly enjoyed the attentions of Betty and contentedly chewed her cud.
As many of the hens and chickens as could be persuaded were ushered into the yard to add to the numerical strength of the menagerie.
His tail’s druv in too far fer to waggle much though,” returned Moses eyeing the diminutive stump.
But this revision only applied to Sheffield and for some reason Birmingham was omitted, therefore the Birmingham platers, although silver could be assayed at Birmingham, had to put themselves under the ægis of the Sheffield Assay Office.
The evidence before the Parliamentary Committee in 1773 showed that Sheffield had her silver assayed in London, and that Birmingham had also some of her silver assayed in Chester.
Among exceptions not required to be assayed were metal spouts to china, stone or earthenware teapots and shirt buckles or brooches.
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