The plinth carries two brass drinking fountain heads on opposite sides, and the inscription ; IN REMEMBRANCE OF SAMUEL GURNEY / WHO DIED THE 5TH OF JUNE 1856 / ERECTED BY HIS FELLOW PARISHIONERS AND FRIENDS / 1861 / " When the ear heard him then it blessed him " ( a paraphrase from the Book of Job, Chapter 29 verse 11 ).

" The inscription on a round brass plate beneath the tablet records that the cost was defrayed by the delegates of the Oxford University Press.

The capital letters and periods following each word were probably intended to resemble an ancient Roman lapidary inscription or monumental brass, thereby accentuating Shakespeare's declaration in Sonnet 55 that the work will confer immortality to the subjects of the work:

In 1887 Lick's body was buried under the future site of the telescope, with a brass tablet bearing the inscription, " Here lies the body of James Lick ".

A black iron knocker in the shape of a lion's head is between the two middle panels ; below the knocker is a brass letter box with the inscription " First Lord of the Treasury ".

The Chicago mansion boasted a brass plate on the door with the Latin inscription, Si Non Oscillas, Noli Tintinnare (" If you don't swing, don't ring ").

* In 1887 Lick's body was buried under the future site of the telescope, with a brass tablet bearing the inscription “ Here lies the body of James Lick .”

The inscription on the brass tablet runs as follows:

There is also an unusual brass plaque to local landowner William Button, with a complex inscription.

A brass Square of Freemasonry symbolism was found in the foundations with an inscription dating from 1507.

Sir John, an alabaster knight with an inscription in Norman French, is here from the beginning of the 14th century, and from the end of it, in brass, are Robert and Claricia, with a greyhound and two dogs at their feet as they clasp hands, their son Thomas holding his wife's hand near them in a brass of 1405.

In addition, a " brass plate placed on the ground at the north base " shown below, contains the following inscription.

In the church window Windham's widow installed a memorial brass with the inscription:

A black marble slab was laid over his grave ( no longer present ), and an inscription in brass recording his death and that of his first wife, Elizabeth Harris.

In north chapel there is on the north wall the inscription of a brass to Thomas Cowche, d. 20 Feb. 1641 – 2, and a tablet to Charles Trimnell, rector of the parish, d. 1702, and Mary his wife, d. 1684.

Some common examples are the high electrical conductivity of pure copper, the excellent deep drawing qualities of cartridge case brass, the low-friction properties of bearing bronze, the resonant qualities of bell bronze, and the resistance to corrosion by sea water of several bronze alloys.

Joan's is the smaller of the two tombs ; both were decorated with brass plates — full-length representations of them on the tops, and small shields bearing coats of arms around the sides — but those were damaged or destroyed in 1644 during the English Civil War.

Until research was conducted in 2006 on a small brass plate bearing Leichhardt's name " no artefacts with corroborated provenance have been able to shed light on Leichhardt's final expedition ".

On each occasion a papal master of ceremonies would fall to his knees before the pope, holding a silver or brass reed, bearing a tow of smoldering flax.

A memorial cross to Potton men killed in the First and Second World Wars stands in the cemetery, with a brass plaque bearing the same names in the parish church.

Typically, such information is deduced from metallic objects such as brass buttons and shoulder flashes bearing regimental / unit insignia found on the body.

The tree was cut-up and the stump removed to Selly Oak Park, where it remains to this day, bearing a brass plaque that reads " Butt of Old Oak Tree from which the name of Selly Oak was derived.

Sevier had also written in 1799 of the alleged discovery of six skeletons in brass armor bearing the Welsh coat-of-arms.

Steel shims were used as the brass shims used today tend to compress over time contributing to shorter bearing life.

* Stable Belt: Buff, from the Cheshire Regiment, with a bronze locket bearing the cap badge in brass.

A brass plaque bearing the name Rio Fe was fitted above the locomotive's smokebox door.

" Her assistant Standlin enters bearing a brass dish.

A banner can be added to a miniature bearing a pike or spear, or a flagstaff can be made from a brass rod, which is quite rigid.

The ground is now occupied by a high-rise office building bearing a brass plaque commemorating the existence of Almack's on that spot.

* 30 March-Simon van der Stel appointed a new chief of the Khoikhoi, naming him Hasdrubal and giving him a brass headed stick bearing the arms of the Dutch East India Company

In the most expensive tall clock units, the mahogany cases had a mid-18th century English style and, bearing exactly similar English brass mechanisms all, their case complexity determined their final price.

The journal was replaceable, but if neglected, it would heat to a temperature where the babbitt bearing alloy would melt away and leave the brass carrier riding on the steel axle.

Also preserved in the church is the wooden litter for bearing this reliquary in processions, as well as a brass censer with Limoges enamel and a wooden pax-board.

Red brass is also an alternative name for copper alloy C23000, which is composed of 14 – 16 % zinc, 0. 05 % iron and lead, and the remainder copper.

The terms for the instrument among classical performers are contrabass ( which comes from the instrument's Italian name, contrabbasso ), string bass ( to distinguish it from a brass bass instrument in a concert band ), or simply bass.

The name of this god is unknown, however, the use of " brazen serpent " is a subtle play on words that are based on the metal that the snake is made of: נחש ( nachash ) means " serpent ", while נחשת ( nachoshet ) means " brass " or " bronze ".

Early masters of French marquetry were the Fleming Pierre Golle and his son-in-law, André-Charles Boulle, who founded a dynasty of royal and Parisian cabinet-makers ( ébénistes ) and gave his name to a technique of marquetry employing tortoiseshell and brass with pewter in arabesque or intricately foliate designs.

Swing uses a strong rhythm section of double bass and drums as the anchor for a lead section of brass instruments such as trumpets and trombones, woodwinds including saxophones and clarinets, and sometimes stringed instruments such as violin and guitar, medium to fast tempos, and a " lilting " swing time rhythm. The name swing came from the phrase ‘ swing feel ’ where the emphasis is on the off – beat or weaker pulse in the music ( unlike classical music ).

He also hosted a radio show, Your Ballad Man, in 1949 that was broadcast nationwide on the Mutual Radio Network and featured a highly eclectic program, from gamelan music, to Django Reinhardt, to Klezmer music, to Sidney Bechet and Wild Bill Davison, to jazzy pop songs by Maxine Sullivan and Jo Stafford, to readings of the poetry of Carl Sandburg, to hillbilly music with electric guitars, to Finnish brass bands – to name a few.

It is instead found in brass bands, concert bands, and is a fixture of British brass bands ( under the name tenor horn ), in all of which it often plays a role similar to that of the orchestral horn in the symphony orchestra.

In his book Operation Keelhaul, Epstein states: " That our Armed Forces should have adopted this term as its code name for deporting by brutal force to concentration camp, firing squad, or hangman's noose millions who were already in the lands of freedom, shows how little the high brass thought of their longing to be free.

The bell itself is usually made of brass or bronze and often has the ship's name engraved or cast on it.

Each voter was to cast his vote by dropping a brass ball into the appropriate hole in the top of the machine by the candidate's name.

Their name for brass was orichalcum, a word sometimes also spelled aurichalcum ( echoing the word for a gold coin, aureus ), meaning ' gold-copper ', because of its shiny, gold-like appearance when the coins were newly struck ( see, for example Pliny the Elder in his Natural History Book 34. 4 ).

At a considerably smaller scale, to the back of the stall is affixed a piece of brass ( a " stall plate ") displaying its occupant's name, arms and date of admission into the Order.

The name " German silver " refers to its development by 19th-century German metalworkers in imitation of the Chinese alloy known as paktong ( Cupronickel ) All modern, commercially important nickel silvers ( such as those standardized under ASTM B122 ) contain significant amounts of zinc, and are sometimes considered a subset of brass.

However, when dealing with friendly tribes, he developed a strategy of nominating a ' chief ' to be responsible for each of the clans, identified by the wearing of a brass breast-plate engraved with his name and title.

At a considerably smaller scale, to the back of the stall was affixed a piece of brass ( a " stall plate ") displaying its occupant's name, arms and date of admission into the Order.

* Kamsale, danced to the tune of a rhythm instrument of the same name made of brass

At a considerably smaller scale, to the back of the stall is affixed a piece of brass ( a " stall plate ") displaying its occupant's name, arms and date of admission into the Order.

However, these are difficult to reconcile with the text of Critias, because he states that the metal was " only a name " by his time, while brass and chalcopyrite continued to be very important through the time of Plato until today.

The early tokens were usually made of brass or aluminum and would have the name or initials of the pub on them, so that they could not be used anywhere else.

Originally, a white T-board stood in front of each tree, with the name of the person whom it honors ; in 1925, these ere replaced with 35 brass nameplates atop concrete markers.

The main metal used in this statue is ' Pital ' ( brass ), hence the name ' Pittalhar '.