The assorting of piano keys and putting them in small paper boxes could certainly be performed by women, but I was told it requires considerable experience and judgment.
Carrying bags of feathers, weighing them, assorting and filling other bags, he considered too heavy.
Called at the door of a large wareroom, where I saw men assorting waste paper to be sold for the purpose of being made into new paper.
Assorting and matching the ivory requires so long a time to learn, that we cannot afford to hire any person for less than two years.
Boston, write: "We employ women in assorting the different qualities of ware, in cementing glass and brass parts together, and in cleaning glass.
For assorting they are paid by the week, and receive $2.
In France, women are employed in preparing bristles for brushes, bleaching, washing, straightening, and assorting them.
He was recalling, with considerable effort, the events of the previous night; piecing them together in impossible ways; re-assorting them until they offered some sequence.
His mind was numbed; it was incapable of assortingthoughts and placing them in proper relationship to each other.
After these assorting operations are completed, the jute fibre is made up into bundles or "bojahs" of 200 lbs.
The Men finished assorting and baling up the meat.
Two men employed assorting & examining the meat, the others finishing the doors putting in windows, & covering the house with mats.
I immediately started to work on the task assigned me by the Commander, assorting the dogs first, so that the different king dogs could fight it out and adjust themselves to new conditions while I was rearranging the loads.
In one she saw a happy little German maiden with yellow hair and pale pink cheeks propped up on pillows, busily assorting half a dozen colors of crochet cotton.
For she had whispered, "Schoen, wunderschoen," and stopped assorting her crochet work.
The money of a group accumulated from day to day in the vault is in the morning transported to the assorting room, where it is delivered to the second assortment teller.
When a clerk has finished assorting his cash, he next proceeds to count out the contents of each box, putting up the notes in packages of even hundreds of dollars, and pinning round them yellow straps, if he has unfit money, and pink if fit.
He exaggerates a little, but group 38 is nevertheless the bete noir of the assorting room.
Of this number, those employed in handling money are divided into two forces, under the direction, respectively, of the receiving teller and the assorting teller.
The operation of assorting notes into these groups is known as the first assortment; that of assorting the notes of the groups by individual banks, as the second assortment.
A proper conception of American libraries cannot be obtained without assorting them according to size, which is done in the following table: Number.
The labor of assorting finished, the clerk's next duty is to count up the money of each bank.
The bundles of redeemed currency, having been passed to the assorting room, are delivered to the first assortment teller, who distributes them among the twelve or fifteen first assorters, taking receipts.
At the transfer house the car in which it is placed is drilled quickly into an infreight track, seals are broken, doors opened, and re-assorting begins.
A big assortingor classification yard was built there for outgoing freight, and another for the incoming.
When the assorting process has been in progress for more than an hour at one end of the classification tracks, there are long trains of cars upon them ready to run solid to some large city or important distributing point.
In assorting clothes, put the flannels in one lot, the colored clothes in another, the coarse white ones in a third, and the fine clothes in a fourth lot.
The use of travelling post offices, with mail clerks assorting and distributing the mails from the railways in the course of their trips, was an early feature of the postal service in Canada.
When a mail for Canada reached New York by the British packet, it was taken in hand by the British packet boat agent, who after assorting it, placed it in a sealed bag, which he delivered to the New York post office.
For the rest of the morning Morris sulked in the cutting-room upstairs, while Abe busied himself in assortinghis samples for a forthcoming New England trip.
Once more they fell to their task of assorting and packing the major part of Garfunkel's order, and by six o'clock over fifteen hundred dollars' worth of goods was ready for delivery.
Abe immediately ceased his sample-assorting and walked forward to greet them.
Garfunkel left the store Abe and Morris immediately set about the assortingof the ordered stock.
Subsequently these cars were used for the distribution of letters in large cities, by assorting them on the routes.
A glance into this room shows you a number of men busily engaged in assortingor “blocking” the letters on their route.
January 28 he received thirty-one petitions, and spent that day and the next in assorting and filing these and others which he previously had, amounting in all to one hundred and twenty.
In this process an assorting in reference to size, specific gravity, etc.
The letter arrived at New Haven by due course of mail, and it so happened that the clergyman to whom it was addressed was at the post-office, waiting for the assorting of the mails.
And when, one evening in the middle of February, a Valentine addressed to his paragon strikes his eye as he is assorting the mails, an indescribable pang shoots through his heart.
One month ago, while busily engaged in assorting and rearranging a confusing mass of papers, I found the lost letter.
After he had gone, Bethany still sat at her desk, mechanically assorting the letters.
Bethany sat nervously assorting the letters in the different pigeon-holes of her desk.
Then comes the paper industry, especially employment in work shops for the assorting of rags, and employment in brick yards.
He claims that the German farmers do not even perform the easy task of rationallyassorting their seed.
Machines forAssorting and Dipping, Drying and Boxing.
Crushing:--Among the most useful inventions relating to stone working are machines for crushing stones and ores, and assorting them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "assorting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
