The death of the duke of Mantua left him to his own resources, and for several years he earned a precarious maintenance from these restorations and the commissions of goldsmiths and jewellers.
The goldsmiths had their shops in the street of Cheap; but fraudulent traders of their craft, and not members of their guild, set up shops in obscure lanes, where they sold goods of inferior metal.
Among these travellers were some whose object was traffic, probably in the portable articles of jewellery for which the Saxon goldsmiths were famous throughout Europe.
On Shrove Tuesday early the goldsmithsinvited me and my wife to dinner.
There was a time when Lombard Street was the only bank, and the goldsmiths there were all called bankers.
Nana had applied to Labordette who had brought twogoldsmiths to see her.
He added that if she chose this last subject the goldsmithsintended making Night in her own likeness.
The goldsmiths had declared that no queen anywhere slept in such a bed.
Meanwhile the goldsmiths had failed to keep their promise, and the bed was not delivered till one day about the middle of January.
Whilst goldsmiths who possess a capital of a hundred thousand tomans have left their shops open, how is it that this petty merchant of vegetables, whose poor shop used always to be open, has shut it up to-day?
Hereupon the Sultan at once called for his horse, and mounting, took the way pavilion-wards, when Alaeddin, after dismissing the goldsmiths and jewellers had retired into his closet and had rubbed the Lamp.
Between the ascent of the corner and the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants.
After him repaired Malchijah one of the goldsmiths to the house of the Nethinim, and of the merchants, over against the gate of Hammiphkad, and to the ascent of the corner.
These are, however, sufficient evidence of the skill and taste of the Moscow goldsmiths of the period and of their dexterity in the use of enamel.
The sceptre of the Tsar Michailovitch is of similar enamelled work, and is probably a good specimen of the effect of western influence on the goldsmiths of Moscow.
The old patterns, however, were still in request in remote provincial places, and villagegoldsmiths adhered "indifferent well" to the antique traditions of their craft.
In the Museum of the Louvre we have a gilder's book, and the gold-leaf which it contains is as thin as the gold-leaf used by the German goldsmiths of the past century.
The wages of goldsmiths and jewellers are everywhere superior to those of many other workmen, not only of equal, but of much superior ingenuity, on account of the precious materials with which they are entrusted.
Incidentally, this, like the deposits at the goldsmiths and the Bank, became an opportunity for the investment of savings and an inducement to create more capital.
During most of the seventeenth century the goldsmithswere the only bankers.
The goldsmiths then loaned it to merchants or to the government, obtaining for it interest at the rate of eight per cent or more.
Sidenote: A fraie in L[=o]don betweene the goldsmiths and tailors.
When the sultan rose from table, he was informed that the jewellers and goldsmiths attended; upon which he returned to the hall, and showed them the window which was unfinished.
He accordingly sent for the most considerable jewellers and goldsmiths in his capital.
But the bankruptcy of goldsmiths and the sword-blade company, from the fall of South-Sea stock, occasioned such a run upon the bank, that the money was paid away faster than it could be received from the subscription.
On the twenty-ninth day of the month the stock had sunk to one hundred and fifty; several eminent goldsmiths and bankers, who had lent great sums upon it, were obliged to stop payment and abscond.
You have in your treasure five tons of gold; let the goldsmiths of your kingdom manufacture them into all manner of vases and vessels, into all sorts of birds and game and wonderful beasts; that will please her.
A great many goldsmithsare already run off, and more will daily.
Their bonds were in such discredit, that a run commenced upon the most eminent goldsmiths and bankers, some of whom having lent out great sums upon South Sea stock were obliged to shut up their shops and abscond.
Paththar is also a name given to goldsmiths by other castes.
Aladdin, who was now satisfied that the jewelers and goldsmiths saw that they could not possibly do the work, ordered them to undo what they had begun, and to return all the jewels to the sultan and the vizier.
In the meantime the jewelers and the goldsmiths were introduced into the sultan's presence, and returned to him the jewels they had brought back.
The jewelers and goldsmiths examined the three and twenty windows, and after they had consulted to know what each could furnish, they returned to the sultan.
For two hours again these goldsmiths tried to open the reliquary, and failed, as the first had done.
More than once, as we shall see, the reliquary has been in the hands ofgoldsmiths and skilled workmen.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "goldsmiths" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
