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1. The fineness of gold, it has been said, is more difficult to be ascertained than that of silver
2. The bank price, or the credit which the bank gives for the deposits of such silver (when made in foreign coin, of which the fineness is well known and
3. Bar or ingot gold is received in proportion to its fineness, compared with the above foreign gold coin
4. In general, however, something more is given upon coin of a known fineness, than upon gold and silver bars, of which the fineness cannot be ascertained but by a process of melting and assaying
5. Slag and fly ash materials with different intensity harden in normal conditions and at steam curing depending on their mineralogical composition, chemical composition and active phases content, fineness, type and concentration of activator
6. Since the establishment of this valuation, the value of silver has been pretty uniform, and there has been no alteration in the standard of the coin, either as to weight or fineness
7. The coin, after any considerable augmentation, has very seldom been brought back to its former weight ; but after the greatest adulterations, it has almost always been brought back to its former fineness
8. ” Is it possible that what appears to us as random is only because we lack the fineness of measuring ability to see the regularity embedded within these chance occurrences? Fractal geometry seems to give us a glimpse of an underlying order while we at the “macro level” see only a chaotic condition
9. He would have asked the king if he could hold it to better look at its fineness
10. During those moments, I kept silent and my telltale face lit up with the sudden fascination that produced the magician in me: his manners, the soft tone of his voice, the gallantry of his forms, and the fineness of his robe (which Beatrice would have nothing to refute)
11. Owing to the exceeding fineness of the vibrations
12. cause of his fineness, beyond knowing by the mind and the senses, and
13. “Ancient cults of the goddess temples minted money, and then put the image of its patron deity on the coin to guarantee fineness
14. Power is proportionate to the fineness of the instrument through which it manifests
15. "� I asked again if she would like some, and again she reasserted her fineness
16. differ in the fineness of their points and the thickness of their shafts
17. The Knight of the Rueful Countenance was still very anxious to find out who the owner of the valise could be, conjecturing from the sonnet and letter, from the money in gold, and from the fineness of the shirts, that he must be some lover of distinction whom the scorn and cruelty of his lady had driven to some desperate course; but as in that uninhabited and rugged spot there was no one to be seen of whom he could inquire, he saw nothing else for it but to push on, taking whatever road Rocinante chose--which was where he could make his way--firmly persuaded that among these wilds he could not fail to meet some rare adventure
18. "Tell me, Anselmo, if Heaven or good fortune had made thee master and lawful owner of a diamond of the finest quality, with the excellence and purity of which all the lapidaries that had seen it had been satisfied, saying with one voice and common consent that in purity, quality, and fineness, it was all that a stone of the kind could possibly be, thou thyself too being of the same belief, as knowing nothing to the contrary, would it be reasonable in thee to desire to take that diamond and place it between an anvil and a hammer, and by mere force of blows and strength of arm try if it were as hard and as fine as they said? And if thou didst, and if the stone should resist so silly a test, that would add nothing to its value or reputation; and if it were broken, as it might be, would not all be lost? Undoubtedly it would, leaving its owner to be rated as a fool in the opinion of all
19. March, patting the damask tablecloths, with a truly feminine appreciation of their fineness
20. But her long habit got in her way, although she held it up by the skirt; and Rodolphe, walking behind her, saw between the black cloth and the black shoe the fineness of her white stocking, that seemed to him as if it were a part of her nakedness
21. The curate took the coral beads from her neck and examined them again and again, and having satisfied himself as to their fineness he fell to wondering afresh, and said, "By the gown I wear I don't know what to say or think of these letters and presents; on the one hand I can see and feel the fineness of these coral beads, and on the other I read how a duchess sends to beg for a couple of dozen of acorns
22. The curate and the bachelor could see plainly enough that the page spoke in a waggish vein; but the fineness of the coral beads, and the hunting suit that Sancho sent (for Teresa had already shown it to them) did away with the impression; and they could not help laughing at Sanchica's wish, and still more when Teresa said, "Senor curate, look about if there's anybody here going to Madrid or Toledo, to buy me a hooped petticoat, a proper fashionable one of the best quality; for indeed and indeed I must do honour to my husband's government as well as I can; nay, if I am put to it and have to, I'll go to Court and set a coach like all the world; for she who has a governor for her husband may very well have one and keep one
23. He had inherited from his mother a fineness of mould, so that his hands were small and vigorous
24. Its coat, chestnut brown above and silver below, would have made one of those wonderful fur pieces so much in demand in the Russian and Chinese markets; the fineness and luster of its pelt guaranteed that it would go for at least ₣2,000
25. Two strands, made of a horn substance covered with down, rose over its tail, which was lengthened by long, very light feathers of wonderful fineness, and
26. It is true that he started home at an hour which should have brought him to Westminster before the time when the crime was discovered, but his own explanation that he had walked part of the way seemed probable enough in view of the fineness of the night
27. “I tell you I can’t bear it, seeing your fineness coarsened by him, knowing that your you, I—” beauty and your charm are in the keeping of a man who-When I think of him touching
28. Whereas purity measures how precious gold is in a percentage basis, fineness measures gold’s purity expressed as a whole number
29. Fortunately, fineness and purity are so similar that gold with 91
30. 67 percent purity has a fineness of 0
31. Despite the size, most gold bars are high quality, with a fineness of 0
32. It has a fineness of 0
33. She was a Girl not much older than myself, with Eyes of piercing green, and Skin of a surprizing Fineness and Pallor
34. Inside the pouch were six unnumbered ten-ounce gold ingots, each with a minimum millesimal fineness of 999
35. "Witness the kind wives who, out of the fineness of their hearts, cause these chaps to run here, biting their fists and hard at drink, trying to understand that unfathomable sex!"
36. At his death, as this was the only linen of any fineness which he had in his house, they buried him in it
37. SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE IS A FINENESS WHICH
38. The material was sand of every degree of fineness and of various rich colors, commonly mixed with a little clay
39. It was just for this fineness of perception, for this delicacy, that Darya Alexandrovna liked Levin
40. Her beauty intoxicated me, but her youth, her fineness, so fragile for such rough hands as mine, awed and humbled me