assayer
Example Sentences
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A whistleblower, mine assayer David Fingado, disclosed the mine was meritless to CNN.
From Salon • Mar. 12, 2022
The King is played in the film by Michael Shannon, a frequent assayer of the quirky and the offbeat in movies.
From Washington Times • Apr. 19, 2016
“It’s one of the first $50 gold coins Augustus Humbert struck when he was appointed U.S. assayer in San Francisco in 1851.”
From Washington Post • Nov. 28, 2011
"It's one of the first $50 gold coins Augustus Humbert struck when he was appointed U.S. assayer in San Francisco in 1851."
From Seattle Times • Nov. 28, 2011
Not even Miss Cullam knew that the report had come from the assayer regarding the first specimen of ore the girls had found.
From Ruth Fielding In the Saddle College Girls in the Land of Gold by Emerson, Alice B.