The bush swarmed with monkeys, and when the moon rose, silvering the river with her light two lions were seen to cross the open.
When they looked up, the moon was silvering the tops of the trees, and the distant peaks of the Welsh mountains, and glimmering and flashing to and fro, like strings of diamonds, on the water.
The moon's broad disk over the headland was silvering the objects dimly.
A patent for a very ingenious process for silvering glass was taken out in November 1843 by Mr. Drayton.
An ancient steel-mirror is indeed said to have been once found, but as some marks of silvering were perceived on it, a question arises whether the silvered side was not properly the face of the mirror[147].
In some electro-plating establishments the silvering solution is kept constantly stirred by simple mechanical arrangements; in others, continual motion is given to the suspended articles.
The articles having been weighed, are now immersed in the silvering solution, and left until a sufficient amount of silver has been deposited on them.
Then mix both liquids together in the silvering vessel and suspend the glass to be silvered face downwards in the solution.
I have been told women are employed in silvering metals in France.
The preparation used for the silvering of copper vessels is a solution of cyanide of silver in potassic cyanide, to which is added finely powdered chalk.
Quicksilver is used in the extraction of gold, the silvering of mirrors, the construction of barometers, and various scientific instruments and appliances; also for the preservation of insects, and occasionally for their destruction.
After this they undergo a treatment of ordinary plating solution to receive the full amount of silvering required.
The process of silvering coins is exactly similar to that of plating knives, spoons, forks, etc.
One is empty, and shows the wires made in various sizes to hold securely the coin intended to be immersed in the bath containing the silvering solution.
This additional silvering is no improvement wherever there has been a proper first coating.
The copper being covered with the silvering is to be speedily well washed in water, in which a little soda is dissolved, and as soon as the surface is of a fine silvery whiteness, it is to be dried with a very clean warm cloth.
Having prepared the copper-plate, well rub it with salt and water, and then with the silvering powder.
As in certain conditions of the atmosphere we can scarcely get a spark from the electrical machine, so there are times when the galvanic battery works feebly, and when the silvering goes on much more slowly than usual.
The beautiful manner, too, in which this silvering work is done!
That spectre grim that countless hearths Seems ceaselessly to haunt; And yet, as if in mocking mirth, She smiled on that drear spot, Silvering brightly the ruined eaves And roof of that poor cot.
Tin, united with mercury, forms the silvering for looking-glasses.
This is excellent in silveringbrass and copper articles.
Still stretched on the floor, I woke to find the September constellations faintly silvering the pale blue crystal of the Northern Lights; and the earth sighing as if for refuge from the rising moon.
A moon just past its quarter was sinking in the heavens and silvering the jessamine at my window.
The silvering room may be also used for other manipulations in the process, such as fuming the paper and washing the prints, and should be furnished with all the conveniences for such work, which consist of Nitrate of Silver.
Close to the second Holly was a young Birch, the trunk about four inches thick and already in the early pride of its silvering bark.
Tin worth L1 when manufactured into Leaves for silvering glass became L1.
Some portion is consumed in the wear of coin, in that of silver plate, and a portion in silvering and embroidering.
The experiment of silvering glass may be performed by rubbing a drop of mercury on a small piece of tin foil, and pressing it upon a piece of glass with the finger, or a piece of soft leather.
Notwithstanding these numerous avocations, the hours seemed to move on leaden pinions till the sun set, and he descried the moon's fair cressent silvering the gilded doom of Saint Michael's church.
The gray peaks and gable of the Hawtry cottage massed themselves back of him and in the silvering moonlight he looked like a white eagle perched on an eyrie.
Miss Adair's exclamation when he had imparted his news just as a young moon was silvering the poplar under which they sat on an old stone bench at the bottom of the sunken garden.
Frost had come, silvering the stiffened earth, and patches of it still lingered in shady places.
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