Wells assays the culture of America.

With ore assaying 150 oz. to 175 oz. of silver to the ton, 75 lb. of mercury are put in at the commencement, another 75 lb. at intervals during the middle of the process, and finally another lot of 75 lb.

300 Then to the stream, when neither friends, nor force, Nor speed, nor art, avail, he shapes his course; Thinks not their rage so desperate to assay An element more merciless than they.

I that had power, to kill him, will assay henceforth My utmost industry to save his life.

Sir William O'Shaughnessy Brooke, F.R.S. (b. Limerick 1809, d. 1889), professor of chemistry and assay master in Calcutta, is better known as the introducer of the telegraphic system into India and its first superintendent.

Here is part of the lament of "The Lord Clifford": Because my father Lord John Clifford died, Slain at St. Alban's, in his prince's aid, Against the Duke my heart for malice fired, So that I could from wreck no way be stayed, But, to avenge my father's death, assayed All means I might the Duke of York to annoy, And all his kin and friends for to destroy.

The director of the Mint has general supervision over all mints and assay offices.

well then, I pray, What sports, what pastimes, shall we first assay? TOSS.

That I had not overrated my acumen was proved by her next in order, which, I was pleased to note, assayed a markedly larger percentage of the milk of human kindness.

There is no chance to measure or weigh or still less assay the qualities of the machine.

Yet is love a flame wherein the lover's soul must be purified; it is a flame which assays high queens just as it does their servants: and thus, madame, to judge between us I dare summon you."

She looked at him somewhat piteously, assaying a smile with the lips that trembled.

I have his I.O.U. for the amount of my fee for assaying several specimens from his claim, said specimens being all iron pyrites.

well then, I pray, What sports, what pastimes, shall we first assay? TOSS.

After him Liodes, and Amphinomus, and Polybus, and Eurynomus, and Polyctorides, assayed their strength, but not any one of them, or of the rest of those aspiring suitors, had any better luck: yet not the meanest of them there but thought himself well worthy of Ulysses's wife, though to shoot with Ulysses's bow the completest champion among them was by proof found too feeble.

She hath assayed a struggle unachievable.

"Vayne man," sayd she, "that doest in vaine assay A mortall thing so to immortalize; For I my selve shall lyke to this decay, And eke my name bee wyped out lykewize.

"A paltry hundred thousand? "Nay, without my hatmy helmet!I should be valueless to myself and everybody else; so estimate my worth and you can assay the value of my hat.

" "Ah, sir," said King Bagdemagus, "I shall it bear to-morrow for to assay this strange adventure.

"Now, fair nephew," said the King unto Sir Gawaine, "assay ye, for my love.

The fencer Spectacus Hath been as fortunate as thou thyself; But when that Crassus' sword assayed his crest, The fear of death did make him droop for woe.