The assayer and himself at once exchanged places, and, unheeding the many eyes fixed upon him, Darrell seated himself before the long table and deftly began operations.
After an extended inspection of the different departments of the large milling plant, he was taken into a small laboratory, where the assayer in charge was testing some of the recently discovered ore for the presence of certain metals.
He was the most trusted and eminent mine assayer in London, and had before now done useful work for Grayleigh, who was chairman of several other companies.
I never could make out what assaying meant, but it seems to be a way of raking in gold, and I was told to-night by Mr. Halkett that you are the most trusted assayer in London.
His report as assayer will save the situation; that is, if it is first-rate.
The mail that night bore a sample of white quartz to a custom assayer in Vegas, but Virginia guarded her secret well.
A great deal of water had flowed down the gulch since he had advised her to keep her stock, but the assayer at Vegas was worse than negligent--he had not reported on the piece of white rock.
And then to cap it all that miserable assayer sent in his belated report.
In addition, however, the assayer will require quite a bulky lot of apparatus, reagents and chemicals.
The blow-pipe is especially useful, though to the skilled assayer often unnecessary.
We give an illustration, reproduced from an ancient manuscript, of an assayer tasting wine.
The result was encouraging in the extreme; for in the course of an hour the assayer sent in his report, from which it appeared that a ton of rock equal to the sample, would yield $1,324.
We had at one time an assayer in our camp, who obtained such rich results from every specimen of rock brought to him, that he soon had a virtual monopoly of the business.
They let several of the principal miners into the secret, and as there had been some doubts of the reliability of the reports of the assayer in question, they readily assented to assist in proving the truth of the matter.
The greater care that is exercised in this operation, the less liable is the assayer to accidents from the breaking of the muffle; which it is both expensive and troublesome to fit properly into the furnace.
By these means all confusion is avoided, and without this regularity it would be impossible to preserve the accuracy which the delicate operations of the assayer require.
The most expert and experienced assayer by the cupel, produces merely a series of approximate conjectural results, which fall short of chemical demonstration and certainty in every instance.
Gay Lussac is theassayer of the Bureau de Garantie at the Monnaie Royale, an office which corresponds to the Goldsmiths' Hall at London.
We shall be glad to receive the assayer you hope to procure, as soon as possible, for we cannot get one in this country equal to the business in all its parts.
Nobody would trust the stamp of a private assayer as he trusts the stamp of the Government, because the private assayer could never succeed in placing his personal disinterestedness so absolutely above the suspicion of fraud.
He got the address of the assayer from the hotel proprietor, and was soon at the official's office.
He would take to a government assayer the ore he and his companions had received, and learn whether the mine was or was not a good one.
I had an additional report from the governmentassayer at Yazoo City, and the ore is richer than ever.
Dick called on the governmentassayer and told him what he and his chums had seen.
It's in too deep for that, and they could hardly hope to fool the assayer that way.
I'm a-ridin' ter the SettleMINT ter git word from the assayer 'bout'n the gold ez I hev fund.
The assayer will need the 'philosopher's stone' to find gold in any samples from this locality.
I wonder," Birt broke out suddenly, "if theassayer won't find no gold in them samples ez Nate sent him.
He was loud with reproaches, for theassayer had pronounced the "gold" only worthless iron pyrites.
At Pioche, Nevada, an assayer was suspected of giving greater values to samples than they merited.
But the assayer knew his furnace hadn't lied and he couldn't believe grindstone makers were mixing silver with sand to make the stones.
We've got the goods on him now," the outraged prospector announced and it was decided to give the assayer a coat of tar and feathers.
The assayer is busy, and I walk back into his room, and while I’m there in trots McNamara in a hurry.
The assayer brought into view a shot-gun, while the cashier and clerks armed themselves.
Mr. Spilsbury said that scrapers had the opportunity to deliver to the assayer better silver than they scrape from the work, and that the assayer had the opportunity of favouring what silversmith he pleased.
The result was that theassayer wrote a very touching and grieved letter to the boys, saying that he was an old man anyway, and he wished they would consider his gray hairs and not try to palm off their old groceries on him.
By some mistake or other it got mixed up with some sample specimens of ore from 'The Brindle Tom Cat' discovery, and was sent to the assayerin New York instead of the insanity smelter and refiner, as was intended.
It was I who took the sample to the assayer and carried the news of the bonanza to Garvin.
Exit James Garvin," quoth Jeffard, moved to smile again; and he crossed the avenue to the shackly building with the sign of the assayer besprent upon the windows.
Jeffard unwrapped the samples one by one, and the assayer examined them with many dubious head-shakings.
The assayer took it, looked it over, and asked if we wanted it assayed for iron.
Nothing now remains but to weigh it; then the proportions of the several metals contained in the brick are known, and the assayer stamps the value of the brick upon its surface.
One assayer got such rich results out of all specimens brought to him that in time he acquired almost a monopoly of the business.
A button or globule of perfectly pure gold and silver is left behind, and by weighing it and noting the loss, the assayer knows the proportion of base metal the brick contains.
Due publication of the whole matter was made in the paper, and the popular assayer left town "between two days.
The party also included Governor Hoyt, Assayer Murphy, Postmaster Hayford, and several other prominent men.
The assayeris busy, and I walk back into his room, and while I'm there in trots McNamara in a hurry.
As the assayer rose to his feet, he observed across the street the proprietor of the corner grocery standing in his doorway with his hands in his pockets.
The old man had detected the hurrying snowflakes passing across the face of the sun, and though to Uncle Tom there was nothing unusual to be seen, the assayerunderstood the signs.
The assayer with three men from the town had arrived and the rescue of the quintette at the bottom of the shaft was speedily effected.
The children lifted questioning eyes to Tabitha's crimson face, and even the assayerlooked down at her curiously.
The assayer will be wanting his horses to-day and it's too far to walk.
Wouldn't it be wiser to tell the assayer and get him to help?
The proposal was promptly made and we installed Everton as our assayer and expert in the town offices, fitting up a laboratory for him which lacked nothing that money could buy in the way of furnishings and equipment.
Also, I wondered how her bookish, studious father had ever contrived to break with the scholastic traditions sufficiently to become an assayer for a Western mine.
He is the best, or at least one of the best, metallurgical chemists in the district, and it goes without saying that an honestassayer counts for everything in this mining game.
Sam followed with the assayer who now began to realize that Sandy's interference had established a friendship that would continue protective.
My customers told me that they'd put a flea in Russell's ear that the camp assayer was not to be interfered with, so there is some value in an education, you see.
That young assayer Russell started to bulldoze when Sandy took a hand.
The young assayer had no holster to his belt, seemingly no gun.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "assayer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: analyst; analyzer; assessor; meter; researcher; surveyor; tester; topographer
