How To Use Pelter In A Sentence
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Alchemist, are you not all the richer and better that you know the _essential_ gold, and will not have it called pewter or spelter, though in the shops it is only such?
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
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You are so kind and perfect. Even if pelter couldn't obstruct from our steps of supporting you and your homeland in Thailand.
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Long-faced, lantern-jawed old pelter, with a face like a coffin -- they're the kind you have to look out for; they'd go through you like an electric shock!
The Second Chance
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This is the world of the bully and the brigand and assassin, the world of the mud-pelter and brawler, the world of the bent woman, the world of the flea and the fly, the open drain and the baying dog.
The Research Magnificent
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the police were too busy to chase the pelters
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But in general, praise has come a poor second to pelters.
The Sun
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He said he got pelters left, right and centre for it.
The Sun
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A tremendous storm brewing to windward, cut short our intended drive; and, putting the nags to their best pace, we barely succeeded in obtaining shelter ere it burst upon us; and such a pelter as it came down, who ever saw?
Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada
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This is what is called spelter, or the pig of zinc, and this is what is sold to refiners, who take out all the dross or impurities so it can be rolled or used for galvanizing iron, or for other purposes.
The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island
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Mary Jane and I have been wet through once already to-day; we set off in the donkey-carriage for Farringdon, as I wanted to see the improvements Mr. Woolls is making, but we were obliged to turn back before we got there, but not soon enough to avoid a pelter all the way home.
Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record
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The major part of the zinc concentrates necessary for the making of spelter is mined in Australia, and these mines, before the war, were owned by a wonderful combination of German metal companies through direct ownership or under long contracts, and 80% of all the zinc concentrates went directly to Germany while Britain got 3%.
The Finance of the War
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The second is "spelter," or soft fusible brass, and the third is an alloy of silver and brass called silver solder.
On Laboratory Arts
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Do not pelter with me, sirrah! but tell me what this imports.
Rob of the bowl : a legend of St. Inigoe's,
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-- The alloy used for this purpose is termed "spelter," and brass, zinc and tin are its usual components.
Practical Mechanics for Boys
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Colonel Boone had but to hear him out and bare his shoulders for such other blows which Judge Wright sought to pelter him, and we will hear with what blow he was driven from his post as Indian Agent.
The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail
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Mulcahy approached the makeshift altar, its linen crisp, white, and bare apart from the candle sconces and a small plain wooden cross with a grey spelter figure of Christ attached to it with jagged-looking pins.
The Priest
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May I just point out that Mancini has been peltered all season for being this negative catenaccio guy......but seems to me It's OK for King Kenny and Prince Steve to do so.
The day Liverpool played Carlo Ancelotti at his own game – and won | Richard Williams
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At least, she did not fly into any sort of wild pelter, as I'd feared.
THE CURSE OF CHALION
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About two hundred and fifty million pounds of crude zinc, or "spelter," are produced in the United States; forty-five million pounds were exported in 1900, mainly to Great Britain.
Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges
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Long-faced, lantern-jawed old pelter, with a face like a coffin – they're the kind you have to look out for; they'd go through you like an electric shock!
The Second Chance
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spelter," which is really only finely granulated fusible brass, is used for brazing iron joints.
On Laboratory Arts
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The metal is known in commerce as "spelter" when in ingots, and as sheet zinc when rolled.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
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For sentimental reasons I had brought with me the spelter lancer that Bella had drawn on that memorable day.
The Vesuvius Club
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I have a guess what of truth there may be in that; and you the fair Alchemist, are you not all the richer and better that you know the essential gold, and will not have it called pewter or spelter, though in the shops it is only such?
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
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Sketching is always a peltable or mobable offence, as being contrary to the Koran, and sitting down tempts the pelter.
The Research Magnificent
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Zinc (pronounced/ˈzɪŋk/, from German Zink), also known as spelter, is a metallic chemical element; it has the symbol Zn and atomic number 30.
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Rome would be the gainer by it if her very constables were elected to serve a century; for in our experience we have never even been able to choose a dog-pelter without celebrating the event with a dozen knockdowns and a general cramming of the station-house with drunken vagabonds overnight.
Sketches New And Old
