Wash the brasswork with roche alum boiled to a strong ley, in the proportion of an ounce to a pint.
The second is to wash the brasswork with roche alum boiled in strong ley, in proportion of an ounce to a pint; when dry, rub it with fine tripoli.
Forty or fifty francs will buy one, the price depending on the amount of chasing on the brasswork of its great pendulum.
My hammock was seemingly swung amidships, and judging from the side upon which I looked--save the man at the wheel and a couple of hands polishing brasswork forrard--I appeared to have the entire deck to myself.
Every morning a porter polished the brasswork of the platform in heraldry of the luxury within.
At times the gleam of the brasswork would exercise the same hypnosis over his senses as the scintillation of the jewelry counters of the store, and he would rub his hands crisply together.
Otherwise it was hot--unequivocably hot; and where the glisten of brasswork was exposed to the overhead noonday sun the inadvertent contact of the bare hand with the said brasswork was sufficient to make the owner jump.
Not so bad," he conceded modestly, as he surveyed the array of glittering brasswork and polished vulcanite.
The decks were to scrub, the hull to wash, the port lights to be cleaned and the brasswork to be shined.
The brasswork and polished breeches of the guns were polished by the vigorous rubbing by muscular sailors, until they shone again.
The brasswork about the cabins and the breeches of the guns was dazzling in its brilliancy.
They made the corners of the brasswork shine and brought smiles to the faces of the saints in their niches.
From Lucknow some fine trays are secured; and many beautiful brass ewers, bowls, and basins have been obtained from Haidarabad, where not only comparatively modern but early eighteenth-century brasswork is to be found.
This probably gave makers the cue when designing ornamental brasswork which could be used as household decoration.
It is not a far remove from the kitchen to the houseplace, and it is there that some of the more decorative brasswork of eighteenth-century workmanship is chiefly to be found.
There is some very rich brasswork in the frames of the old banner screens, made of beautiful needlework panels, over which so much time must have been spent.
These all come under the special notice of the collector of copper and brasswork who turns his attention to domestic antiques.
By an Authority received from James II the members of the Braziers' Company were granted the right to search and prove all copper and brasswork wrought with a hammer within the City of London.
Old brasswork may be relacquered by the amateur with a little experience, practice, and care.
Perhaps the most elaborate productions based on the antique are the ecclesiastical brasses of which there is ample choice in the old brasswork in so many cathedrals and parish churches.
The brasswork from Holland, largely imported into this country at the commencement of the eighteenth century, although decorative, cannot be claimed as artistic.
The brasswork of Benares is well known, and it is still one of the most important features in present-day Oriental bazaars and shops.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brasswork" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
