The Copper Beech is seldom used for this purpose, but this is a mistake.
It would be useless planting the Copper Beech on a wet or heavy soil--a light soil suits it best.
Another and smaller table close to the settle was used for this purpose, in front of the wall on which all the brass and copperpans were hanging in shining rows.
When the copper wire was stretched north-east from Victoria Nyanza, through the Usoga country, the natives cut out considerable lengths of it, and at one time about forty miles of wire were carried away and never recovered.
The copper sulphate should be dissolved in twenty-five gallons of water, the best way being to put it into a sack and hang the sack in the water.
The Bordeaux is mixed in the following proportions: three pounds of copper sulphate (blue vitriol), four pounds of lime, and fifty gallons of water.
And likewise we be informed that there is great plentie of Copper in the Emperours Dominions: we would he certified of it what plentie there is, and whether it be in plates or in round flat cakes, and send vs some for an example.
The copper knew I did that job, and had me up on suspicion some time after, and gave me a drag (three months) over it.
He carried the lump home, and put it into the fire till all the earth and stones which clung to it were burned away; and then he fashioned the pure copper into a helmet, and in the front of the helmet he set three of his largest emeralds.
Taking up the copper one, he walked to the mountain till he reached a flat wall of rock.
Green emeralds studded the rocks, green crystals hung from the ceiling or formed rows of pillars, even the copper which made the walls of the cave had a coating of green.
They filled Mr. Lane and Mr. Hariot full of tales of a wonderful copper mine on the River Maratock (Roanoke), where the metal was dipped out of the stream in great bowls.
It is possible that glass was once made as flexible as leather, and that coppercould be hardened like steel.
She had much copper about her neck, a coronet of copper upon her hed.
And there was nothing mercenary about his attachment: he and his friend got upon very cordial terms: they exchanged gifts of shells and copper coin, but nothing was said about pay.
In the morning the savage had recovered his perfect senses, his wounds were dressed, and the brothers with presents of copper were sent away well contented.
Seeing their law so speedy and cheap," Mr. Wingfield thought he would try to recover a copper kettle he had lent Mr. Crofts, worth half its weight in gold.
The company was received with the same hospitality by King Pamunkey, whose land was believed to be rich in copper and pearls.
The copper was so flexible that Captain Newport bent a piece of it the thickness of his finger as if it had been lead.
He carried some copper and a hatchet, which he presented to Powhatan, and that Emperor treated him and his comrade very kindly, seating them at his own mess-table.
This is the port of the Mt Orange and Mt Gotthart copper mines, and the Mt Britten and Eungella gold-fields.
As soon as the liquid is quite cold, filter it through coarse sacking into the copper sulphate solution and add water to make a total of forty gallons.
The copper sulphate is stirred into a few gallons of hot water placed in a wooden tub or earthenware vessel.
When the plants are bearing flowers or fruit, fungicides containing copper must not be used, but a solution of liver of sulphur, one ounce dissolved in six gallons of water, employed instead.
The Bordeaux mixture is made in the proportion of four pounds of pure copper sulphate and two pounds of quicklime to forty gallons of water.
Apparently satisfied with his scrutiny, he snapped the lid shut and wrapped up the box carefully, consigning it to my care, while he hunted some copper wire.
That current is one of the feeblest known to science, for the dynamo that generates it is no ponderous thing of copper wire and steel castings.
He began by winding coil after coil of copper wire about the storeroom in the basement of the museum.
These he was placing together in a peculiar manner, and to them he attached some copper wire which lay in a corner in a roll.
What I have done is to wind single loops of plain wire on each side of that room down there, as well as to wind around the room a few turns of concealed copper wire.
If Brodie squeals to a copper and these people are caught, they can't hold them under the pistol law, anyhow.
I thought I heard a low, moaning sound from an old Flemish copper ewer near me.
Here the trapper had set a strong snare of copper wire, baiting it with a dead rabbit, which crouched in lifelike attitude just behind it, under a bush.
Then, with resolute deliberation, he pulled the body down once more, and held it firmly with his forepaws while he tried to bite the copper wire from its neck.
He bought a dozen copper lamps, put them into a basket, and went to the palace, crying: "New lamps for old!
This is formed of fourteen copper plates exquisitely enamelled.
On our right is the kitchen, "brilliant with glowing coals and rows of shining copper lying well open to view.
Nurse's Stories" says that "nails and copperare shipwrights' sweethearts, and shipwrights will run away with them whenever they can.
Jeweler’s gold is usually a mixture of gold and copper in the proportions of three-fourths of pure gold with one-fourth of copper.
Primers were tried in different forms called “detonators,” but the familiar little copper cap was the most popular.
The earlier specimens of this Sheffield plate, as it came to be known, had the silver on one side of the copper only, but later attempts were made to improve the appearance of finer pieces by covering the underside of the copper with tin.
It is distinguishable from that of copper by possessing a paler yellow than pure gold, while the copper alloy has a color bordering upon reddish yellow.
Through these the conductors were drawn, two half-round copper wires kept in place first by heavy cardboard and afterward by rope.
A ring or watch case marked 14K or 18K means that fourteen or eighteen parts of it are pure gold, the balance of the twenty-four carats being some sort of alloy, copper being generally used.
It was intended to perform the most extended calculations required in astronomy and navigation, and to stamp a record of its work into plates of copper or other material.
The whitening is done by boiling the pins in a large copper kettle, which also contains layers of grained tin and a solution of argol or bitartrate of potash.
The leaves are about three and a quarter inches square and are produced in ten different shades of color, according as the gold was alloyed with much or little copper or silver.
The idea is to break up the surface into various sized dots, as the various gradations of color on the original cannot be transferred by any other method to a sheet of copper and etched.
This extinguisher was of copper construction and had a capacity of three gallons.
Iron ore is said to exist in the mountains north of Beïla, while to the south copper is reported as being found in large quantities; but nothing has as yet been done to open up the mineral resources of the district.
California, and copper mines in Lake Superior, and salt works, and railroads.
I will not stop to tell you that I have rejected about the usual number of offers that young ladies in my position get, and I haven't seen anybody that I care a copper for.
His father was foreman in a copper foundry; and his mother a seamstress.
And, before she had time to consider, Henrietta found herself gently pushed into a small sitting-room, where a middle-aged lady was embroidering at a frame by the light of a large copper lamp.
The ore was charged into it wet, in alternate layers with charcoal, and the process was conducted in precisely the same way as in smelting oxidised copper ores.
The furnace in which the ore was smelted is exactly the same as that used for copper ores, excepting that it is somewhat less in diameter.
Copper has become one of the world's chief metals.
His committee on "Copper" had the names of the presidents of the Anaconda Copper Company, the Calumet & Hecla Mining Company, the United Verde Copper Company and the Utah Copper Company.
Two-thirds of all the copperis produced in the United States.
He encouraged the mining industry by supporting the silver mines of Sala and the copper mines of Falun.
The second and third volumes describe the best methods employed in Europe and America in the manufacture of iron, copper and brass.
The copper of the Bronze Age must have been brought from abroad, and tin, necessary for the production of bronze, is foreign to Scandinavia.
Footnote 1: The specimen described is a leaf of Copper Beech.
I found, greatly to my surprise, that he had not only given diagrams of growth, but that he also had selected a Copper Beech as his example.
Hittorf has shown that these probably consisted of caps of gilded copper fitted over the pyramidion,[156] in those cases where the latter was not ornamented with carved figures.
Copper is also the colouring principle, at least in our days, of those greens which are more or less olive in tone.
The capitals of the columns were overlaid with copper plates, to which the contour of the stone beneath had been given by the hammer.
The weather of so many centuries has made the coppergreen and rusty, and some of the green has run down the shaft of the obelisk.
When Joel stepped into the house, he approached the copper basin in which stood the seven branches of mistletoe and reverently put his lips to each.
Upon entering the house, and even before embracing their mother, the new arrivals stepped to the altar and approached their lips to the seven small twigs of mistletoe that stood dipped in the copper bowl on the large stone.
A little copperbowl lay on the stone in which seven twigs of mistletoe stood.
At the place where Joel, the head of the family, took his seat, stood a huge cup of plated copper that even two men could not have drained.
After Armel was dead, Joel closed the youth's eyes and had him taken to the altar of grey stones, above which stood the copper bowl with the seven twigs of mistletoe.
Hena then took from her copper belt the little gold sickle and crescent that hung from it.
The copper that turns to crimson, the turquoise that turns to violet, the greenish, pointed head that swings and rolls its yoke of slender plumage!
It will be as green as a beryl to-day, and red like copper to-morrow, and perhaps you will need no third adornment.
