Among the incidental operations are (a) the valuation of the bullion by weighing and assaying it; (b) " rating" the bullion, or calculating the amount of copper to be added to make up the standard alloy; (c) recovering the values from ground-up crucibles, ashes and floor sweepings (the Mint " sweep "); (d) assaying the melted bars; (e) " pyxing " the finished coin or selecting specimens to be weighed and assayed; (f) " telling " or counting the coin. [Please select]
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The sweepings of every country including our own. [Please select]
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Then they threw the shoe and the sweepings a little way off, because they thought to make the place look better. [Please select]
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The plant looked so lovely on the little rough bit of soil which lay between the piles of sweepings. [Please select]
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The Ants who went round the cleared portion may have been guided by the sweepings removed to either side. [Please select]
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Above, in a weakly luminous silvering, it is crossed by enormous sweepings of wet mist. [Please select]
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These coarser feathers are later swept up and are commonly spoken of as sweepings. [Please select]
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_ The soft body feathers and the coarser feathers often called "sweepings" should be kept and sold separate. [Please select]
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No better were the men from New York, "the sweepings of the streets" with morals "infamous." [Please select]
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'Because they always throw out their sweepings in the face of the sun.' [Please select]
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Are those poor sweepings of a groom, That filthy sight, that nauseous fume, Meet objects here. [Please select]
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