There were 2 goldsmiths and an assayer in that boat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Firedoglake » Chocolate Eggs, Faith and the Democratic Party] Reference

Glory, hurry for the sheriff, the assayer -- anyone!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tabitha's Vacation] Reference

"Wouldn't it be wiser to tell the assayer and get him to help?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Tabitha's Vacation] Reference

"This should be enough to convince the assayer about your strike.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Wagers of Sin]

The assayer glanced over his shoulder at the hope-destroying slips.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Furnace of Gold] Reference

"Well," said the assayer, shaking his gray head in a puzzled fashion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tabitha's Vacation] Reference

Now not a single assayer on the planet is available, as all are tied up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zinc Dimes, Tungsten Gold & Lost Respect] Reference

"The assayer will be wanting his horses to-day and it's too far to walk.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Tabitha's Vacation] Reference

In 1854 he travelled to Melbourne, in order to become an assayer at the Australian mint.    From Wordnik.com.  [William Stanley Jevons] Reference

Any other time, he would have wanted to listen to what she had to say about the assayer.    From Wordnik.com.  [SEASONS OF GOLD] Reference

The Marquis de Bedmar is the heir of the assayer and caster in the Mint of Potosi (Peru).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands] Reference

For this purpose it is customary to select the richest lump you can find, and take it to the assayer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography] Reference

When the coins were inspected, the initials of the assayer and the mint mark were immediate identifiers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mint Star | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles] Reference

German assayer, assures me that these rocks are of the very same kind as those which yield the silver in Peru.    From Wordnik.com.  [Westward Ho!] Reference

The children lifted questioning eyes to Tabitha's crimson face, and even the assayer looked down at her curiously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tabitha's Vacation] Reference

The assayer had found no significant gaseous infusions in the samples taken to catch a hovercraft entering or exiting the area.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]

The back wall, except for a doorway into another room, was covered with shelves bearing the tools and chemicals an assayer needed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cold Copper Tears]

Seth Bullock, his Springfield revolver poised on Devlin Breedlove, stepped into the low light and ordered the assayer to his feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [SEASONS OF GOLD] Reference

I ain't never been able to get any of that gold to the assayer.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Drag' Harlan] Reference

While the homely assayer thus spoke, he was making his preparations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warlock o' Glenwarlock] Reference

I was once Professor of -- mineralogical chemist and famous assayer too.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gold Trail] Reference

Sandy introduced Sam as his partner, Westlake as a mining engineer and assayer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rimrock Trail] Reference

The assayer took it, looked it over, and asked if we wanted it assayed for iron.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier] Reference

One of these days we shall have to appoint an assayer of consciences at the Mint.    From Wordnik.com.  [Napoleon the Little] Reference

When we got down sixty feet I sent some pieces of the pay streak to the assayer again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remarks] Reference

The assayer brought into view a shot-gun, while the cashier and clerks armed themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spoilers] Reference

The assayer, bewildered at Sandy's assumption of friendship, waved his hand deprecatingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rimrock Trail] Reference

Virtue must be proved by temptation, and gold comes forth purer from the hands of the assayer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarimonde] Reference

"The assayer will need the 'philosopher's stone' to find gold in any samples from this locality.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Down the Ravine] Reference

I gave my two partners the gist of the conversation with the assayer, briefly and without comment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Branded] Reference

He was loud with reproaches, for the assayer had pronounced the "gold" only worthless iron pyrites.    From Wordnik.com.  [Down the Ravine] Reference

"I wonder," Birt broke out suddenly, "if the assayer won't find no gold in them samples ez Nate sent him.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Down the Ravine] Reference

The assayer tried our ore again and again and found it very rich, but when we shipped to the mills we got almost no returns.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spirit of Sweetwater] Reference

The assayer and weigher of the royal treasury received four hundred pesos and one hundred fanegas of rice in the husk per year.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXVI, 1636] Reference

One assayer got such rich results out of all specimens brought to him that in time he acquired almost a monopoly of the business.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roughing It] Reference