Use "metal" in a sentence
metal example sentences
metal
metals
1. "I poo-poo'ed it at first," Jorma said, "but those starships are completely made out of metal
2. • Cinch Gopher Trap has a metal plate with a cinch lasso which catches the gophers
3. She could hear the horns and metal and glass twisting and grating and cracking against itself
4. She shamelessly watched the creature trapped in a maze of metal wrinkled like crumpled paper
5. Herndon had suggested the Colonel might even have intentions for the starship itself, a million tons of metal
6. My sister could build enough bots to render more metal from Narrulla than there is in your starship
7. ’ He said, reaching across and unscrewing the metal lid with one quick twist
8. "Not to her," she said, "she has all the metal she wants
9. with a metal press, an old pre-war monster that should have been pensioned off with
10. What if the four tons in there was something made mostly of metal? What if it was a huge bronze statue? We know they made things like that
11. Ajarn was one of the best there was and while he handled his mai sak and khem sak, the bamboo and metal ritual tattoo sticks, as though he were about to commit murder with them, the designs were as perfect and fine as medieval calligraphy
12. "That's all made of metal isn't it?" Estwig gasped as the landing legs extended
13. He had a thick and detailed metal stick strapped over his shoulders, shiny black low-calf boots and several shiny black canisters strapped to his upper thighs
14. BANG! Suddenly the metal door burst open, slams against the wall
15. Glenelle was a little leery because he handled it with his flippers thru the handles of long metal tongs
16. It poured like it was heavy as molten metal and fumed the like pits of hell
17. The metal detector sounded as he stepped through
18. co-conspirator’s severed head, which was stuck on a pole of silver metal
19. I gasped, fighting the constriction in my throat, feeling the pain of tightening metal hoops across my chest
20. The debris she knocked in the redsuits’ direction collided with other pieces on the way to create a storm of jagged metal and packing containers coming at them almost as fast as the junk itself
21. The metal storm headed straight for Horcheese and her redsuits, and Jordo ordered her to get the hell out of there, but Burn shouted over him
22. A second later, Burn fired thrust in her direction of travel and brought Audacity to a dead stop between the approaching metal storm and the redsuits
23. I winced at the sound of complaining metal
24. Together with the suited American, the two guards lifted and carried me, trussed like a roasting bird, and carefully laid my body in a metal box underneath the flat bed back of the lorry
25. I lay prone in a metal coffin slung underneath a flat-bed truck, sheathed and bound, breathing with difficulty through my nose because of the tape over my mouth
26. Beside me, to my right, I could hear the whine of the transmission shaft as it ground away through the everyday time and space of the world beyond the metal box in which I was slowly suffocating
27. Metal, glass, stone, silver or gold; because the container is an expedient
28. After each halt the truck then began its ponderous attempts at acceleration, jerking through the gears, sliding me slowly towards the rear of the box where my head would hit hard metal
29. Something else I remember is him making glue … he had a little metal pot which he heated and melted the stuff in, no idea what went into it
30. It looked like the wastes of Baluchistan this time, but furred with those metal whiskers
31. What's going on? The sonic war against me is getting more and more unbearable day by day and I just can't stand it any more! For some strange reason, I am surrounded by all kinds of noise pollution: Every morning, at 7:30 am, my father gets out to the yard and keeps himself busy with meaningless tinkering and hammering at pieces of wood or metal for hours! When I return from work at 4:00 in the afternoon and lie in bed so as to have a brief nap, dad goes upstairs, to Alice's half-built penthouse, and starts hammering at stuff again till 5:30 that I leave for the gym! He doesn't really repair anything, he just enjoys the noise! The yard and the penthouse are full of rusty tools, old dilapidated furniture and all kinds of junk dad finds on the road and carries home! I often complain about the noise and the piggery but he never listens; on the contrary, he swears like a trooper!
32. The basin was fixed to the wall by two long metal brackets that extended out from the wall along a groove moulded in the porcelain
33. Wedged between the metal and the porcelain there was a small scrap of folded paper
34. At other times, when their orders growled with pain and confusion, we suffered the blows and the smarts of fist and hard metal
35. All of the land that any of them had purchased with their bits of metal was well into the rural land, the only small holds were right along the brooks out here, the land they discussed was high on the plateaus between
36. Hot metal tracks shimmered, giving back the heat absorbed during the long sultry day, groaning to themselves as the thermal stresses wrenched at their very fabric
37. He pulled at the tailgate, screwing up his scrawny, twitching features, and slowly but surely, emitting mineral groans and metallic shrieks, the metal and glass door began to inch upwards until, with the tailgate at seventy-five degrees, the little man was able to clamber onto the space made by the flattened seats, cross his legs, and utter a loud harrumph
38. Silver: This metal symbolizes inspirations which will give you good earnings and social recognition
39. Closing her eyes, fighting against the sharp disinfectant smell of the hospital, she forced herself to picture the interior of the bus … nauseating diesel fumes … a dingy, well used fabric covering the seats, chipped and faded paint on the accoutrements of metal … or was it plastic? She found it hard to tell sometimes … she heard again the chatter and laughter of the young people as they swayed along the aisle towards the door as the vehicle approached the bus stop
40. metal and a hammer on it
41. of heavy metal musicians were jamming together
42. According to the official news wires Marat had been given a hero’s funeral after his murder by the forces of true-blood reaction, but here Danton stood, unmoving in the candle glow, staring at his recently departed co-conspirator’s severed head, which was stuck on a pole of silver metal
43. Between them they manhandled the two ruffians to the rubbish store, threw them in and rammed the door shut, using a nearby length of discarded metal bar to jam the door firmly
44. They expect Alan to walk up there, like a willing morsel to a metal monster
45. the sound of metal on glass,
46. five hundred pounds of fin and metal
47. making strange objects from the spare bits of metal in the
48. the silver touch of cold metal and the honey tongue
49. The boy feels the shock and awe of jagged metal
50. He had not known the Kassikan had ever launched a space mission, much less one using this much metal
51. Nobody else seemed the least perturbed by the fact that there must have been a couple of hundred of us packed inside that metal tube
52. of sheet metal, folded and stamped into the basic flow
53. the rose of an old metal watering can
54. to the tiger as the creaking metal
55. With every screech of metal on the wooden floor and with every yelp that came out of his mouth as he smashed his shins into rotting theatre seats, Archibald expected to be attacked by the hounds of hell, but nothing stirred within
56. To my surprise, I see that there is no metal bit in the gg’s mouth, only thin leather straps round the animal’s head and the reins joining under the chin
57. ‘No, shouldn’t there be a metal bit or something in the mouth?’
58. In his universe there wasn’t enough metal to run wires between chips, only optical energy was transmitted
59. The natives were so desperate for metal they went down in seven hundred feet of water with nothing but hand pumps and re-floated the crashed shuttlecraft to scavenge it
60. All they will succeed in doing is dropping another metal devise to the earth; and we will pick it up and put it with all the others in the lava pit
61. themselves up with iron bars, a pocketknife and a length of metal
62. “When you first board the ship and the hatch opens, look for a thin strip of blue metal
63. He closed his eyes and listened; creaks and groans of metal on metal; hissing of other steam vents towards the back of the large room
64. passengers shut the metal windows to protect themselves from the stones
65. every screech of metal on the wooden floor and with every yelp
66. 'We are coming!' Mama said as his group pushed the rusted metal gate of the
67. kinds of metal I had ever heard of, but the answer
68. became apparent that the metal was harder than all
69. I asked, “Is your Heart-Wall made of metal that is
70. harder than any metal that actually exists on earth?
71. made of a metal that was harder than any metal that
72. who has a Heart-Wall made of metal, but a certain
73. kind of metal, stronger than any metal that exists on
74. Full Metal Alchemist, Brave Heart, Total Recall, The Terminator, Batman,
75. to that you will hear “I like anything BUT metal and rap
76. Shiploads of cordwood were being burned and shiploads of pottery, textiles, furniture and metal goods were being loaded
77. six hours of surgery using metal plates and other
78. Brent looked over the area and judged quickly that if he removed the metal at the rear he
79. metal plate out of the ship
80. There are hundreds of metal tines on a large, circular wheel, and the entire contraption is pitted and brown with rust
81. metal, but only when you caught a glance out of the corner of your
82. The sound of metal rings out on hard, cold floor tiles
83. The ornament was contained within a metal setting, which might
84. Images flash up in Maggie's head, images of burning fuel and twisted metal
85. But there is no sound of squealing tyres, no rending of metal
86. As soon as he is cocooned within metal he flicks open a large road atlas
87. The club is industrial, modelled on old machinery; scaffolding, mocked-up turbine housings and a science fiction proliferation of metal walkways
88. The drinking areas downstairs are divided by metal grates and there is hardly any furniture
89. A few metal seats are fixed to the outer walls
90. Shaun skips up the metal staircase and checks out the two girls leaning over the balcony
91. He can see the staircase clearly from here through one of the metal grid walls, which gives him time
92. He makes sure that Leona isn’t wearing any metal jewellery, removing her watch and a costume bracelet from her left wrist
93. Their footsteps echo off matt blue walls as they pass wards and treatment areas signed in white lettering on blue metal
94. helped, as did the metal and concrete barriers which appeared
95. The passenger window is open a couple of inches and the sound of the wind catching on slabs of metal and glass rushes into the car
96. had long since removed, but the metal fence supports were still
97. caught a flash of polished metal in the trees at the side of the road
98. sparks and a scream of tortured metal
99. folded paper of a ten shilling note into a small purse of the metal
100. At the top of the stairs he has installed a wrought iron garden gate, which is six foot tall and secured against a similarly heavy metal door frame with a padlock
1. She came here on a starship miles long made almost entirely of various metals, high in aluminum
2. The Brazilian starship had almost doubled this world's supply of some metals
3. Ingredients: SUPERSEAWEED is a blend of over five liquid seaweed’s from around the world, selected especially for their purity (no heavy metals, toxin’s, etc
4. It's not really very heavy for its size, it couldn't be a treasure chest, all metals are much heavier than that, it's lighter than a section of tree trunk that size and I've moved them with the rockosaur
5. There's some parts they can't fabricate yet, they're condensing metals from the plasma stream but it's slow
6. They’re made for finding metals and high density materials at a distance
7. They were the largest concentration of metals that had ever been observed, and had been closely studied because of that, but it was their motions of the previous year that caused them to send for him
8. the metals I could name
9. The current account balance is 1,44,33 beads of iron or equivalent in other precious metals payable to designated committeeman of the Kassikan, that would be me, no later than one year from this date, that would be Nightday of Chezhervizhod 100,21,23
10. In spite of the lack of metals, electricity, and energy resources, there were some advanced technologies on the planet
11. It stood to reason that with the planet so poor in metals, they should be behind in industrial technology and electronics
12. The great improvements in the coarser manufactories of both linen and woollen cloth furnish the labourers with cheaper and better clothing; and those in the manufactories of the coarser metals, with cheaper and better instruments of trade, as well as with many agreeable and convenient pieces of household furniture
13. Hence arises a demand for every sort of material which human invention can employ, either usefully or ornamentally, in building, dress, equipage, or household furniture ; for the fossils and minerals contained in the bowels of the earth, the precious metals, and the precious stones
14. The coarse, and still more the precious metals, when separated from the ore, are so valuable, that they can generally bear the expense of a very long land, and of the most distant sea carriage
15. The price, therefore, of the coarse, and still more that of the precious metals, at the most fertile mines in the world, must necessarily more or less affect their price at every other in it
16. Silver is very seldom found virgin, but, like most other metals, is generally mineralized with some other body, from which it is impossible to separate it in such quantities as will pay for the expense, but by a very laborious and tedious operation, which cannot well be carried on but in work-houses erected for the purpose, and, therefore, exposed to the inspection of the king's officers
17. The lowest price at which the precious metals can be sold, or the smallest quantity of other goods for which they can be exchanged, during any considerable time, is regulated by the same principles which fix the lowest ordinary price of all other goods
18. The demand for those metals arises partly from their utility, and partly from their beauty
19. These qualities of utility, beauty, and scarcity, are the original foundation of the high price of those metals, or of the great quantity of other goods for which they can everywhere be exchanged
20. As the prices, both of the precious metals and of the precious stones, is regulated all over the world by their price at the most fertile mine in it, the rent which a mine of either can afford to its proprietor is in proportion, not to its absolute, but to what may be called its relative fertility, or to its superiority over other mines of the same kind
21. The most abundant mines, either of the precious metals, or of the precious stones, could add little to the wealth of the world
22. That abundance of food, of which, in consequence of the improvement of land, many people have the disposal beyond what they themselves can consume, is the great cause of the demand, both for the precious metals and the precious stones, as well as for every other conveniency and ornament of dress, lodging, household furniture, and equipage
23. As art and industry advance, the materials of clothing and lodging, the useful fossils and materials of the earth, the precious metals and the precious stones, should gradually come to be more and more in demand, should gradually exchange for a greater and a greater quantity of food ; or, in other words, should gradually become dearer and dearer
24. The increase of security would naturally increase industry and improvement; and the demand for the precious metals, as well as for every other luxury and ornament, would naturally increase with the increase of riches
25. The quantity of the precious metals may increase in any country from two different causes ; either, first, from the increased abundance of the mines which supply it; or, secondly, from the increased wealth of the people, from the increased produce of their annual labour
26. The first of these causes is no doubt necessarily connected with the diminution of the value of the precious metals; but the second is not
27. If the two countries are at a great distance, the difference may be very great; because, though the metals naturally fly from the worse to the better market, yet it may be difficult to transport them in such quantities as to bring their price nearly to a level in both
28. Whatever, therefore, may have been the increase in the quantity of the precious metals, which, during the period between the middle of the fourteenth and that of the sixteenth century, arose from the increase of wealth and improvement, it could have no tendency to diminish their value, either in Great Britain, or in my other part of Europe
29. The system was meager like A's, but metals were much more accessible
30. But in the East Indies, particularly in China and Indostan, the value of the precious metals, when the Europeans first began to trade to those countries, was much higher than in Europe; and it still continues to be so
31. The same superabundance of food, of which they have the disposal, enables them to give a greater quantity of it for all those singular and rare productions which nature furnishes but in very small quantities; such as the precious metals and the precious stones, the great objects of the competition of the rich
32. But the mines which supplied the Indian market with the precious metals seem to have been a good deal less abundant, and those which supplied it with the precious stones a good deal more so, than the mines which supplied the European
33. The precious metals, therefore, would naturally exchange in India for a somewhat greater quantity of the precious stones, and for a much greater quantity of food than in Europe
34. Upon all these accounts, the precious metals are a commodity which it always has been, and still continues to be, extremely advantageous to carry from Europe to India
35. The continual consumption of the precious metals in coin by wearing, and in plate both by wearing and cleaning, is very sensible ; and in commodities of which the use is so very widely extended, would alone require a very great annual supply
36. The consumption of those metals in some particular manufactures, though it may not perhaps be greater upon the whole than this gradual consumption, is, however, much more sensible, as it is much more rapid
37. In the manufactures of Birmingham alone, the quantity of gold and silver annually employed in gilding and plating, and thereby disqualified from ever afterwards appearing in the shape of those metals, is said to amount to more than fifty thousand pounds sterling
38. A considerable quantity, too, must be annually lost in transporting those metals from one place to another both by sea and by land
39. }, the annual importation of the precious metals into Spain, at an average of six years, viz
40. According to this account, therefore, the whole annual importation of the precious metals into both Spain and Portugal, mounts to about £ 6,075,000 sterling
41. The annual importation of the precious metals into Cadiz and Lisbon, indeed, is not equal to the whole annual produce of the mines of America
42. The whole annual consumption of gold and silver, therefore, in all the different countries of the world where those metals are used, may, perhaps, be nearly equal to the whole annual produce
43. It may even have fallen so far short of this demand, as somewhat to raise the price of those metals in the European market
44. We do not, however, upon this account, imagine that those coarse metals are likely to multiply beyond the demand, or to become gradually cheaper and cheaper
45. Why should we imagine that the precious metals are likely to do so? The coarse metals, indeed, though harder, are put to much harder uses, and, as they are of less value, less care is employed in their preservation
46. The precious metals, however, are not necessarily immortal any more than they, but are liable, too, to be lost, wasted, and consumed, in a great variety of ways
47. The price of all metals, though liable to slow and gradual variations, varies less from year to year than that of almost any other part of the rude produce of land: and the price of the precious metals is even less liable to sudden variations than that of the coarse ones
48. The durableness of metals is the foundation of this extraordinary steadiness of price
49. Both metals sunk in their real value, or in the quantity of labour which they could purchase; but silver sunk more than gold
50. The great quantity of silver sent annually to the East Indies reduces, he supposes, the quantities of those metals which remain in Europe to the proportion of one to fourteen or fifteen, the proportion of their values
51. When we compare the precious metals with one another, silver is a cheap, and gold a dear commodity
52. In the coin of some countries, the value of the two metals is nearly equal
53. It must be observed, however, that whatever may be the supposed annual importation of gold and silver, there must be a certain period at which the annual consumption of those metals will be equal to that annual importation
54. After a certain period, therefore, the annual consumption of those metals must, in this manner, become equal to their annual importation, provided that importation is not continually increasing; which, in the present times, is not supposed to be the case
55. The mass of those metals may gradually and insensibly diminish, and their value gradually and insensibly rise, till the annual importation becoming again stationary, the annual consumption will gradually and insensibly accommodate itself to what that annual importation can maintain
56. That that increase in the quantity of the precious metals, which arises in any country from the increase of wealth, has no tendency to diminish their value, I have endeavoured to shew already
57. The quantity of the precious metals which is to be found in any country, is not limited by any thing in its local situation, such as the fertility or barrenness of its own mines
58. Those metals frequently abound in countries which possess no mines
59. Their quantity, in every particular country, seems to depend upon two different circumstances ; first, upon its power of purchasing, upon the state of its industry, upon the annual produce of its land and labour, in consequence of which it can afford to employ a greater or a smaller quantity of labour and subsistence, in bringing or purchasing such superfluities as gold and silver, either from its own mines, or from those of other countries; and, secondly, upon the fertility or barrenness of the mines which may happen at any particular time to supply the commercial world with those metals
60. The quantity of those metals in the countries most remote from the mines, must be more or less affected by this fertility or barrenness, on account of the easy and cheap transportation of those metals, of their small bulk and great value
61. Countries which have a great quantity of labour and subsistence to spare, can afford to purchase any particular quantity of those metals at the expense of a greater quantity of labour and subsistence, than countries which have less to spare
62. The greater part of the writers who have collected the money price of things in ancient times, seem to have considered the low money price of corn, and of goods in general, or, in other words, the high value of gold and silver, as a proof, not only of the scarcity of those metals, but of the poverty and barbarism of the country at the time when it took place
63. I shall only observe at present, that the high value of the precious metals can be no proof of the poverty or barbarism of any particular country at the time when it took place
64. A poor country, as it cannot afford to buy more, so it can as little afford to pay dearer for gold and silver than a rich one ; and the value of those metals, therefore, is not likely to be higher in the former than in the latter
65. In China, a country much richer than any part of Europe, the value of the precious metals is much higher than in any part of Europe
66. The money price of corn, however, has risen ; the real value of the precious metals has fallen in Poland, in the same manner as in other parts of Europe
67. This increase of the quantity of those metals, however, has not, it seems, increased that annual produce, has neither improved the manufactures and agriculture of the country, nor mended the circumstances of its inhabitants
68. The value of the precious metals, however, must be lower in Spain and Portugal than in any other part of Europe, as they come from those countries to all other parts of Europe, loaded, not only with a freight and an insurance, but with the expense of smuggling, their exportation being either prohibited or subjected to a duty
69. This diminution of price has, in the course of the present and preceding century, been most remarkable in those manufactures of which the materials are the coarser metals
70. In the work of cutlers and locksmiths, in all the toys which are made of the coarser metals, and in all those goods which are commonly known by the name of Birmingham and Sheffield ware, there
71. Since they are flesh themselves, they care about biology and not just metals
72. Gold and silver, therefore, to the amount of eight hundred thousand pounds, will be sent abroad, and the channel of home circulation will remain filled with a million of paper instead of a million of those metals which filled it before
73. Those metals are said to have become more abundant in America, since the suppression of some of their paper currencies
74. The pretence for raising the denomination of the coin was to prevent the exportation of gold and silver, by making equal quantities of those metals pass for greater sums in the colony than they did in the mother country
75. A paper currency which falls below the value of gold and silver coin, does not thereby sink the value of those metals, or occasion equal quantities of them to exchange for a smaller quantity of goods of any other kind
76. The proportion between the value of gold and silver and that of goods of any other kind, depends in all cases, not upon the nature and quantity of any particular paper money, which may be current in any particular country, but upon the richness or poverty of the mines, which happen at any particular time to supply the great market of the commercial world with those metals
77. The increase of those metals will, in this case, be the effect, not the cause, of the public prosperity
78. The country which has this price to pay, will never belong without the quantity of those metals which it has occasion for; and no country will ever long retain a quantity which it has no occasion for
79. Those metals, they say, having become of less value themselves, the use of any particular portion of them necessarily became of less value too, and, consequently, the price which could be paid for it
80. The transportation of those metals from one place to another, on account of their small bulk and great value, is less expensive than that of almost any other foreign goods of equal value
81. Whether, by the continual exportation of those metals, a trade of this kind is likely to impoverish the country from which it is carried on in any other way, I shall have occasion to examine at great length hereafter
82. Gold and silver, therefore, are, according to him, the must solid and substantial part of the moveable wealth of a nation ; and to multiply those metals ought, he thinks, upon that account, to be the great object of its political economy
83. Spain and Portugal, the proprietors of the principal mines which supply Europe with those metals, have either prohibited their exportation under the severest penalties, or subjected it to a considerable duty
84. They represented, first, that the exportation of gold and silver, in order to purchase foreign goods, did not always diminish the quantity of those metals in the kingdom ; that, on the contrary, it might frequently increase the quantity ; because, if the consumption of foreign goods was not thereby increased in the country, those goods might be re-exported to foreign countries, and being there sold for a large profit, might bring back much more treasure than was originally sent out to purchase them
85. That when the country exported to a greater value than it imported, a balance became due to it from foreign nations, which was necessarily paid to it in gold and silver, and thereby increased the quantity of those metals in the kingdom
86. But that when it imported to a greater value than it exported, a contrary balance became due to foreign nations, which was necessarily paid to them in the same manner, and thereby diminished that quantity : that in this case, to prohibit the exportation of those metals, could not prevent it, but only, by making it more dangerous, render it more expensive: that the exchange was thereby turned more against the country which owed the balance, than it otherwise might have been; the merchant who purchased a bill upon the foreign country being obliged to pay the banker who sold it, not only for the natural risk, trouble, and expense of sending the money thither, but for the extraordinary risk arising from the prohibition; but that the more the exchange was against any country, the more the balance of trade became necessarily against it; the money of that country becoming necessarily of so much less value, in comparison with that of the country to which the balance was due
87. But they were sophistical, in supposing, that either to preserve or to augment the quantity of those metals required more the attention of government, than to preserve or to augment the quantity of any other useful
88. The attention of government was turned away from guarding against the exportation of gold and silver, to watch over the balance of trade, as the only cause which could occasion any augmentation or diminution of those metals
89. A country that has wherewithal to buy wine, will always get the wine which it has occasion for ; and a country that has wherewithal to buy gold and silver, will never be in want of those metals
90. They are to be bought for a certain price, like all other commodities; and as they are the price of all other commodities, so all other commodities are the price of those metals
91. But no commodities regulate themselves more easily or more exactly, according to this effectual demand, than gold and silver ; because, on account of the small bulk and great value of those metals, no commodities can be more easily transported from one place to another ; from the places where they are cheap, to those where they are dear ; from the places where they exceed, to those where they fall short of this effectual demand
92. The continual importations from Peru and Brazil exceed the effectual demand of those countries, and sink the price of those metals there below that in the neighbouring countries
93. Those metals, when the Spartans had got wherewithal to purchase them, broke through all the barriers which the laws of Lycurgus opposed to their entrance into Lacedaemon
94. It is partly owing to the easy transportation of gold and silver, from the places where they abound to those where they are wanted, that the price of those metals does not fluctuate continually, like that of the greater part of other commodities, which are hindered by their bulk from shifting their situation, when the market happens to be either over or under-stocked with them
95. The price of those metals, indeed, is not altogether exempted from variation ; but the changes to which it is liable are generally slow, gradual, and uniform
96. It should as readily occur, that the quantity of gold and silver is, in every country, limited by the use which there is for those metals ; that their use consists in circulating commodities, as coin, and in affording a species of household furniture, as plate; that the quantity of coin in every country is regulated by the value of the commodities which are to be circulated by it; increase that value, and immediately a part of it will be sent abroad to purchase, wherever it is to be had, the additional quantity of coin requisite for circulating them : that the quantity of plate is regulated by the number and wealth of those private families who choose to indulge themselves in that sort of magnificence; increase the number and wealth of such families, and a part of this increased wealth will most probably be employed in purchasing, wherever it is to be found, an additional quantity of plate ; that to attempt to increase the wealth of any country, either by introducing or by detaining in it an
97. Increase the use of them, increase the consumable commodities which are to be circulated, managed, and prepared by means of them, and you will infallibly increase the quantity ; but if you attempt by extraordinary means to increase the quantity, you will as infallibly diminish the use, and even the quantity too, which in those metals can never be greater than what the use requires
98. When those metals are sent abroad in order to purchase foreign commodities, the merchant's profit arises, not from the purchase, but from the sale of the returns
99. By the abundance of the American mines, those metals have become cheaper
100. The cheapness of gold and silver renders those metals rather less fit for the purposes of money than they were before
