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But when one considers the pains and labour expended upon the arts of damascening and niello, one regrets that the workers had not been inspired to attempt dentistry, and save so much unnecessary individual suffering!

From Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance by Addison, Julia de Wolf Gibbs

Some traces of checkering on stock and damascening on barrel, otherwise plain.

From A Catalogue of Early Pennsylvania and Other Firearms and Edged Weapons at "Restless Oaks" by Shoemaker, Henry W.

Is it fanciful to suggest that the reference to damascening is a tradition coming down from the time of the earlier sword as found in the Nydam moss?

From Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by Chambers, R. W.

There was nothing now but a vast airiness of mist damascening the blades of light with which the street-lamps pierced the darkness.

From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by MacKenzie, Compton