I have severall times heard great brasse pannes ring by the barking of a hound; and also by the loud voice of a strong man.
Watchmakers and fine workers in brasse use it after smooth filing.
She lieth buried under a plain marble gravestone; thebrasse whereof (the figure and inscription) was remaining about 1684.
The millers in our country use to putt a black pebble under the pinne of ye axis of the mill-wheele, to keep the brasse underneath from wearing; and they doe find by experience, that nothing doth weare so long as that.
Then they suddenly tooke foure or fiue brasse pieces, and placed them on either side of the harborough where we should go out, and hid them with stones and bushes that we should not see them.
The gally had seuen pieces of brasse in her prowe, small and great, she had thirty bankes or oares on either side, and at euery banke or oare seuen men to rowe.
Also there were twelue potgunnes of brasse that shot vpward, whereof eight were set behind the church of S.
And there is a table ofbrasse with Latine letters in memorie thereof.
Forten- Who[se image even but nowBrasse of Norway.
The Prophets then have set down iron and brasse for a firme resistance.
Brasse is taken for a strong and thundering voice, because of its resounding.
Esay, For brass I bring thee gold, and silver in stead of Iron, brasse for wood, and fire for stones.
And they contained not only bones, but many other substances in them, as Knives, peeces of Iron, Brass and Wood, and one of Norway a brasse guilded Jewes harp.
Besides the extraneous substances, like peeces of small boxes, or combs handsomely wrought, handles of small brasse instruments, brazen nippers, and in one some kinde of Opale.
While I was at Paris I went and saw the new Bridge, and Henry 4 his stately statue in brasse sent as a present by the King of Denmark.
A many of our bodyes shall no doubt Find Natiue Graues: vpon the which, I trust Shall witnesse liue in Brasse of this dayes worke.
There were in that forte and habitation thereof four brasse pieces each weighing about 150 lbs.
Was itte for thys Norwegia's stubborn sede Throughe the black armoure dyd the anlace fele, And rybbes of solid brasse were made to bleede?
And because I was ernest to have had it otherwais, the councell took the matter in snuffe, esteeming it a presumption in me to aske lardger previlegese then all other strangers had.
So then I desird they would write a letter to the Kinges Matie.
The ordinance gotten of all sortes brasse and Iron were about two hundred and fortie, whereof the two hundred and some more were brasse, and were thus founde and gotten.
Buried under the communion table, not alter-waies, in the chancell at New Brentford in the county of Middlesex, under a stone broken; brasse lost and inscription.
Thou shouldst get gold, twill yeeld thee ten in the hundred On bare exchange, and raise the price with us; Make us for want coyn brasse and passe it currant Untill we find profit to call it in.
The Reuenge had in her diuers faire brasse pieces that were all sunke in the sea, which they of the Iland were in good hope to waigh vp againe the next Sommer after.
And in the thirde house, there is a stature of brasse of the same bignesse, with a like crowne on his head.
These pillars of brasse were caused to be made by Sultan Soliman grandfather to Sultan Amurath now Emperor.
Their current money in these partes is a kinde of brasse which they call Gansa, wherewith you may buy golde, siluer, rubies, ronske, and all other things.
Hollandes waight, so that a pounde would be worth about a brasse penie Hollands money.
Many of them are blacke and haue clawes of brasse with long nayles, and some ride vpon peacocks and other foules which be euill fauoured, with long haukes bils, and some like one thing and some another, but none with a good face.
YOu must have a boxe made of brasse or Crooked Lane plate, a double boxe, and not above five quarters of an inch deepe: in the midst must be the bottome, and both ends must have covers to come over them.
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