In proceeding to elucidate my process, I will divide it into six parts, the first three of which will be confined to plate cleaning; the fourth to coating with chemicals; the fifth to mercurying and chemicals, and the sixth to finishing with general remarks. – J. H. Fitzgibbon, Article V. Daguerreotypeing Simplified, M. Tarver, The Western Journal, of Agriculture, Manufactures, Mechanic Arts, Internal Improvement, Commerce, and General Literature, St. Louis, Mo., Moritz Neidner, VI, VI, 1165603888, 1851, September
An image is but an appearance on glass that has been mercuried. It cannot be a friend.
[T]he room mercuried / in dusk, pigeon loose / and flying frantic against walls, mirror, chilly xylophone of hangers set ringing by its wings. – Lynda Hull, The Only World: Poems, At the Westland, David Wojahn, New York, N.Y., Harper Perennial, 1995, part III, 978-0-06-055363-0, a. 1995 (date written)
I knovv, you ha' not a finger, but is as long as my quiuer (couſin ) vvhen you pleaſe to extend it. Alas, your palmes ( knovves) they are as tender as the foot of a foundred nagge, or a ladies face nevv mercuried, the'ile touch nothing. – I, i, A pun on the fact that Cupid is speaking to Mercury.
As for bloodletting, their prime cooler, it is inflammatory; and they know it (parrot-wise), for the thumping heart, and bounding pulse, of pashints blid by butchers in black, and bullocks blid by butchers in blue, prove it; and they have recorded this in all their books; yet stabbed, and bit, and starved, and mercuried, and murdered, on. – copyright, I, III, An intransitive use., on
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