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An hundred and fifty miles into the maine in two townes we found with the inhabitants diuers small plates of Copper, that had bene made as we vnderstood by the inhabitants that dwell further into the countrey, where as they say are mountaines and riuers that yeeld also white graines of mettal, which is to be deemed Siluer.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584

a great bed of sand, where they make furrows of the fashion they desire to cast their iron: into these, when the receivers are full, they let in their mettal, which is made so very fluid by the violence of the fire, that it not only runs to a considerable distance, but stands afterwards boiling a great while.

The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account 1846

"Before the mouth of the furnace lyeth a great bed of sand, where they make furrows of the fashion they desire to cast their iron: into these, when the receivers are full, they let in their mettal, which is made so very fluid by the violence of the fire that it not only runs to a considerable distance, but stands afterwards boiling a great while.

Iron Making in the Olden Times as instanced in the Ancient Mines, Forges, and Furnaces of The Forest of Dean 1846

May 19, 2009 at 10:32 am ohai GP! if u haz swallowed a magnet, duz that meen u will attract teh shinee fings? kinda lyke a mettal detektur? mebbe LCB wuz gunna swing u round by teh tayle and see whut u collekt!

Mike soon regretted - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

November 3, 2008 at 11:35 pm ai seez sisteh holdin a small shallo mettal tipe kitteh food dishee thing an behin it, teh clip holdin teh bag shut

itteh bitteh kitteh commiteh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

Her marginal note claiming that "Lattin is not the most/marketable mariadge/mettal" (l. 38) is typical in the way it balances cynical bluntness with wry humor; it betrays Moulsworth's own awareness that adolescent girls in her culture were viewed largely as commodities of exchange.

My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem 1993

At the opposite interstice of the beautifull fountaine without, of the faire sleeping Nymph before mentioned, within the Bathe there was another of statues of fine mettal, and of a curious workemanship, glistering of a golden colour, that one might see himselfe therein.

Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

Then againe may it be said as wel, that men doo chuse their subjects according to the mettal of their minds, & therfore a high minded man chuseth him high & lofty matter to write of.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

I can get up a large company here if we can furnish the mettal.

Augusta County: A. D. Robertson to Lorenzo Sibert, March 18, 1865 A. D. Robertson 1865

So I think you had better go to Oronoco at once & put things through there & then start the gun nearly at the Armory works in Rich'd are stopped for want of mettal.

Augusta County: A. D. Robertson to Lorenzo Sibert, March 18, 1865 A. D. Robertson 1865