I was about to touch one of the ingots of lead with my toes.
The silver was found, and the little boxes in which the ingots were packed in saw-dust were carried out and stood down by the blazing fire--twenty of them; and just as this was done there was the thud of a cannon away off the mouth of the Gap.
I might raise the level of the ledge by piling the ingots on it!
When the ingots were all in place, and shaken into steady position, we got on the ledge together and began to test the security of our platform; it would be too late to find out any flaw of construction when the tide should have risen.
Tin is also represented in small ingots and, as we shall afterwards more particularly notice, it was used to decorate the inside of various dishes of earthenware.
The corners are well filled; the floor of the furnace, recently levelled with fresh sand, is firmly beaten down with the heavy paddle, and all is ready to receive the ingots or blooms.
It will not be long before the busy Titans are stripped to the waist, turning the ponderous ingots and blooms over and over, and raining the blows upon the yielding metal.
If they cannot handle the porter and bring their ingot or bloom to a successful finish they are quickly removed and better men put in place of them, for iron and steel ingots are too valuable to be wasted with impunity.
These ingotsare of the finest red copper, and as thick as the finger.
For, he argued, those little ingots the Cuban had shown them had shelly accretion firmly attached, and it was probable that a good deal had been knocked off.
The talk was all of the treasure, and the specimen ingots that Laure had shown them were mentioned, while to Hester's horror she found that the Cuban was apparently forgotten.
I'll give you twenty ingots a piece, my lads," said Laure.
For there before him lay neatly packed, as they had been by busy hands at least two hundred and fifty years before, hundreds upon hundreds of little rough ingots of gold.
This last was decided on, especially as, by blasting away the sand, the silver ingots to a great extent might be cast away with the covering.
A few ingots were found and sent up directly, but it was evident to both, as they compared notes, that the work of many days must follow before they could get at the bulk of the treasure that lay below.
I'll give you a hundred of those silver ingots down below.
His pile of ingots was trembling as if shaken by a miniature earthquake.
There were bolts of heavy fabric and stacks of ingots neatly corded.
Each of these ingots weighed well over a hundred and fifty pounds.
Deeply thankful for the peculiar eccentricities of Martian architecture, he hurriedly proceeded to pile ingots on the closed trapdoor.
Shelby transferred several more ingots to the pile just to make sure that the monster could not enter.
The liquid steel is poured into ingots and these ingots while still hot are rolled into the shape used for the market.
When melted they are poured into ingots and drawn or shaped to sizes for the market under different kinds of power hammers.
Krupp is now introducing the Bessemer process for producing ingots of any size at about the cost of wrought-iron.
Krupp, of Prussia, casts ingots of above 20 tons' weight, and has forged a cast-steel cannon of 9 inches bore.
The metal is made after the manner described in another chapter and is cast into the form of suitably-sized ingots which are afterwards squeezed in enormous hydraulic presses into the rough shape required.
However the steel is made the ingots are reheated and either hammered under a powerful steam hammer or pressed in an enormous hydraulic press.
The total was to be counted not in millions but in billions, and this prodigious looting of the New World gave to Spain such wealth and power that her centuries of greatness were literally builded upon foundations of ingots and silver bars.
At the bottom of Vigo Bay, on the coast of Spain, lies that fleet of galleons and one hundred millions of dollars in gold ingots and silver bars.
The little flagship was literally brimful of silver bars, ingots of gold, pieces of eight, and jewels whose value has never been accurately known.
Here was a province which, if it had not gold, had the material for many luxuries which must otherwise be bought with gold, and his clear Italian brain perceived that ingots of gold and silver are not the only treasure of kings.
Balsamo himself tested theingots and showed the result to his guest.
Ten minutes subsequently, the two hundred thousand crowns' worth of the precious metal was lying on the damp oakum bed, in four ingots altogether.
Saying a few words in German to him, the servant wrapped up the ingots of gold in their wads of ropeyarn, and took them all up as a boy might as many oranges in a handkerchief, a little strained but not hampered or bent under the weight.
From a very early date, therefore, we may be sure that ingots of tin were exported by this route to the continent, and then transported overland by the Rhone valley to the shores of the Mediterranean.
To this day antique ingots of the valuable metal are often dug up in hoards or finds along the line of the ancient track.
Ruim itself, as less liable to attack than an inland place, formed the depôt for the tin trade, and the ingots were no doubt shipped near the site of Richborough.
Particulars are given as to the silveringots which formed the currency of Tatary, and the paper-money of Cathay.
It is cast for convenience sake into ingots weighing one to 50 taels.
So it was that, with something of the feelings of the resurrectionists, a bold, dark party went to rob the charnel-house of the sea, to spoil it of its golden bones and wedgy ingots of silver.
On one of these little islets or keys, hard by Caillon Bay, the rumor went that the buccaneer had sunk a Spanish galleon laden with pieces of eight andingots of despoiled Mexico.
This press can forge ingots up to 45 inches in diameter.
Now, to disembark these ingots at the port of Vigo was depriving them of their rights.
Captain Nemo took the ingots one by one, and arranged them methodically in the chest, which he filled entirely.
From these cases and from these barrels escaped ingots of gold and silver, cascades of piastres and jewels.
His quick eye had caught some writing on the lid of the box of treasure, and while all were admiring the solid ingots of precious metal laid bare before them, Edie kicked the piece of wood aside without being observed by any one.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ingots" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
