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There will always be in society certain persons who are mercuries of its approbation, and whose glance will at any time determine for the curious their standing in the world.

From Essays — Second Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Others again discuss the news, and are deep in the store of "mercuries" here to be found.

From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)

In the bottom, is a large old manor house belonging to Colonel Williams, beautified “above, below, around,” with leaded mercuries, shepherdesses, and sportsmen. 

From A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire by Barber, J. T.

Then there are no longer two mercuries but only one; and the sulphur, our completed subject, has become more or less a unity.

From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Jelliffe, Smith Ely