The goldsmith or silversmith in the Low Countries, in Italy, in Nuremberg, easily became a sculptor in the highest sense of the term, and not infrequently turned his attention successfully to other arts.
But, in its dry state, to the silversmith for filigree purposes it is likely to be of advantage.
So far as some of the work of the silversmith is concerned, the process of soldering is a very delicate operation, and ought not to be undertaken by an unpractised hand.
When he reached home, the silversmith was greatly disturbed, for he had such a short time to make the crown in.
The king was astonished when he saw the beautiful crown, and again invited the silversmith to the feast.
The bridegroom was fooled and had to go away, and the astonished silversmith fell on his knees, begging for pity and mercy.
A few days after, the king summoned the silversmith again to make another crown within twenty-four hours.
Immediately he was dressed like a prince, and went to the palace, where he hid in the kitchen, saw his brother married, and then took a big stick and gave the silversmith a sound beating.
The practical examples have lost this severity, the handles are more the handles of the working silversmith than the designs of the drawing master.
Hancock, a silversmith of Sheffield, said that his work had been injured by scraping.
It has been employed in minor pieces by the silversmith as it was successfully used by Hepplewhite in his carved mahogany chair-backs.
In 1767 a workingsilversmith was prosecuted by indictment upon Stat.
It duplicated all with which the silversmith could endow his plate and it represented toil and infinite pains, the genius of Sheffield, in producing results which are unequalled as tours de force in metal technique.
Mr. Spilsbury said that scrapers had the opportunity to deliver to the assayer better silver than they scrape from the work, and that the assayer had the opportunity of favouring what silversmith he pleased.
As spoon-warmers and for other purposes the silversmith found this model from old Josiah's conchological collection remarkably practical and accordingly lost no time in imitating it.
As will be shown later the relationship between the art of the potter and that of the silversmith has always been somewhat closely allied.
What the silversmith did the platers did, and followed the fashions in rapid simulation of styles just catching the public taste.
Josiah had his own back, for the pierced ornament is distinctly taken from the silversmith and is more proper to his art than to that of the worker in clay.
The rumour of his conversion soon spread, and many visited the workshop where the silversmith sat at his daily occupation, questioning him, hearing his story, and taking note of the great change in him.
The processes of the Navajo silversmith may be best understood from descriptions of the ways in which he makes some of his silver ornament.
The rats doubtless died from plague and the hungry fleas in due time attacked the nearest persons at hand, the unfortunate occupants of the silversmith shop and the two women who frequented the room also.
The cement floor was broken and permitted fleas from the dead rats to enter the basement room of the house which was occupied by the silversmith shop.
I was told by a silversmith in New York, that a good burnisher can earn from $5 to $7 a week, and he thought it took about a year to learn to become a good worker.
The business is poorly paid, and a silversmith can employ but a very small number of burnishers, but manufacturers of plated ware employ more.
Thus died Stephen the silversmith of Strelsau, happy in his death because Osra the Princess had not refused him thrice.
Therefore it may be that there had been a sweet madness in her heart, and that Stephen the silversmith had done a great thing, a thing that would appear impossible, before he died.
The silversmith moved backward, closely followed by the Cossack and several others of his kind, and pulled the curtains aside, with a sweeping gesture of invitation to search at will.
The silversmith turned thoughtful for the moment, hesitating as to his next word.
Having disposed of this dangerous exhibit in his back room, the silversmith hastened to the front to pacify, if possible, the unruly intruder.
Both Billy and Henri were quick to observe that the silversmith was about all in, so to speak, and more than willing to play quits.
The silversmith seemed satisfied that he had effectually unseated Billy from his highhorse position, and in cat and mouse attitude awaited complete surrender.
Two gunny-sacks, bulging at both ends and roped in the middle, might have furnished evidence that the silversmith was taking most of his stock with him.
The silversmith assumed a busy manner, shifting the stock display on the shelves, winding clocks, and generally bustling about as if making up for lost time.
Having squared themselves with the Cossack, Nikita, the passing of the silversmith would be a final clearance of old scores.
After the close of the war, he resumed his business of a goldsmith andsilversmith in 1783.
They were likely to know both the Queen's silversmith and 'the Queen's confessor,' and Godfrey they may have known.
One day, during such a visit, the silversmith went out alone to try a stream not many miles distant from his friend's residence, and while so engaged a heavy shower swept across the scene.
The silversmith lost no time in communicating the facts to the banker, who at once obtained a warrant, and, with two constables, proceeded the same evening to the inn to put it into execution.
On a brass plate upon the door of this establishment there appeared the name of Jacob Nowell, silversmith and money-changer.
The old silversmith received his son with obvious coolness, and was evidently displeased at seeing Marian and her father together.
The silversmith grew pale with anger during this speech of his son's.
The voice trembled a little; and the silversmith had raised himself from his chair, and was looking eagerly towards the door as Norton Percival entered, not caring to wait for any more formal invitation.
He was interested in the solitary silversmith for Marian's sake, and very willingly sacrificed an occasional evening for his gratification.
My dear sir, I have never trusted any one in my life," answered the silversmith promptly.
The silversmith grandfather had a brother who was a merchant.
It would not be difficult to add a few lines to Millicent's small, thin face and place it on the shoulders of the old silversmith or of his brother, the dealer in antiques.
He knew the silversmith well enough to nod as he passed his door--a young, laborious man with a rapt, uncertain face and a tumbled mane of black hair.
There is a silversmith here, who, like the rest of the miserable inhabitants, having nothing to do, discovered that he could make gold rings.
In the meanwhile, the debtor exhibiting the talent of an able conveyancer, transmuted the silver into gold, and now laughs at the credulity of London tradesmen, and sets the silversmith at defiance!
The silversmith had now no other resource than that of taking the ~188~~ proposed bill, and waiting the expiration of the month, for payment.
Brasbridge, the silversmith of Fleet Street, who wrote his memoirs, has described a sixpenny card club held here at a later date.
When the speech is spoken, the great anvil is set forth, with a silversmith holding on it a plate of massive silver, and three other workmen at work, keeping excellent time in their orderly strokes upon the anvil.
Brasbridge, the silversmith of Fleet-street, was a frequenter of the Globe.
The superstructure, which converts it into what is known as an imperial crown, was added by Alejo de Montoya, another silversmith of Toledo, who began it in 1574, and completed it twelve years later.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "silversmith" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
