 | 1808 - 1016 페이지
...business without expressing any disagreeable sensations. Those shells which have pearls adhering to thern, are thrown to one side, and afterwards handed to clippers,...shells by a forceps and hammer. These pearls, called otto-mottoo, imperfect and deformed as they are, have been genehilly estimated at forty pagodas per... | |
 | James Cordiner - 1807 - 384 페이지
...is full. The oysters are taken up, one by one, the shells broken from one another, and washed in the water. The stench proceeding from the canoe during...The roundest and best of them are rendered fit to V be strung with other pearls. Many of them answer for setting in pins and rings. The rubbish is mixed... | |
 | 1833 - 270 페이지
...one another, and washed in the water. Those shells which have pearls adhering to them are thrown on one side, and afterwards handed to clippers, whose...business it is to disengage the pearls from the shells, with pincers. When all the shells are thrown out, the slimy substance of the oysters remains, mixed... | |
 | 1835 - 542 페이지
...expressing any disagreeable sensations. Those shells which have pearls adhering to them are throwrr-on one side, and afterwards handed to clippers, whose...business it is to disengage the pearls from the shells by means of a forceps and hammer. These pearls, imperfect and deformed as they invariably are, have been... | |
 | 1836 - 496 페이지
...one another, and washed in the water. Those shells which have pearls adhering to them are thrown on one side, and afterwards handed to clippers, whose...business it is to disengage the pearls from the shells, with pincers. When all the shells are thrown out, the slimy substance of the oysters remains, mixed... | |
 | 1837 - 168 페이지
...one another, and washed in the water. Those shells, which have pearls adhering to them, are thrown on one side, and afterwards handed to clippers, whose...business it is to disengage the pearls from the shells, with pincers. When all the shells are thrown out, the slimy sub stance of the oysters remains, mixed... | |
 | Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 페이지
...expressing any disi agreeable sensations. Those shells which have pearls adhering to them are thrown on one side, and afterwards handed to clippers, whose business it is to disengage the pearls by means of a forceps and liammer. Tieaepearlsjiraperfect and deformed as they invariably are, have... | |
 | 1843 - 488 페이지
...hours. another, and washed in the water. Those shells which have pearls adhering to them are thrown on one side, and afterwards handed to clippers, whose...business it is to disengage the pearls from the shells, with pincers. When all the sheila are thrown out, the slimy substance of the oysters remains, mixed... | |
 | 1843 - 402 페이지
...expressing any disagreeable sensations. Those shells which have pearls adhering to them are thrown on one side, and afterwards handed to clippers, whose...business it is to disengage the pearls from the shells with a forceps and hammer. A NOBLE BOY. — One day last winter, as two lads, one aged thirteen, the... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1871 - 232 페이지
...expressing any disagreeable sensations. Those shells which have pearls adhering to them are thrown on one side, and afterwards handed to clippers, whose business it is to disengage the pearls by means of a forceps and hammer. These pearls, imperfect and deformed as they invariably are, have... | |
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The labourers and overseers, however, from habit become insensible of the smell, and prosecute their business, without expressing any disagreeable sensations. Those shells which have pearls adhering to them- are thrown to one side, and afterwards handed... 