There is a gain in weight during pregnancy amounting finally to about thirty pounds; exceptionally, it is as little as ten or fifteen pounds, and, at the other extreme, as much as forty or fifty.
In addition to the loss of ten to fifteen pounds at the time of birth, a further loss occurs in the course of a few weeks.
Let it then be farther supposed in the case already stated, that the party should annually borrow the sum of ten pounds at six per cent, to pay part of the tax of fifteen pounds.
Air presses on all bodies at the rate of fifteen pounds to every square inch; so now you can make the calculation for yourself.
And this is just what you will find happens; you will see the column of mercury stop short exactly at the moment when it has attained the orthodox weight of fifteen pounds; that is to say, at a height of twenty-eight inches.
We settled before that the quantity of them brought to bear upon a square inch had the power to push at the rate of fifteen pounds.
Ordinary black-bass rods and tackle are very suitable for pike fishing, though where they run large, eight to fifteen pounds, an eight or nine-ounce rod is to be preferred to a lighter one.
One of fifteen pounds is worthy of the angler's most serious attention on an eight-ounce rod.
It feeds on small fishes, mussels, and crustaceans and grows to a length of two or three feet, weighing from ten to fifteen pounds, though its usual size is not more than one-half of this length and weight.
During that war, bank notes of fifteen pounds and of ten pounds were coined; and now, since the commencement of the present war, they are coined as low as five pounds.
The whole number of these will not receive the proposed fifteen pounds, for the reasons already mentioned, though, as in the former case, they would be entitled to it.
Bind close with packthread, fifteen pounds of brisket of beef, and put it into a pot with water sufficient to cover it.
This preparation is made by boiling together for one hour or until they unite, twenty pounds of quick lime, fifteen pounds of flower of sulphur, and fifty gallons of water.
In weight they commonly run from five to fifteen pounds.
The red snapper not infrequently attains a weight of twelve to fifteen pounds, and the larger individuals fight well.
They commonly run from five to fifteen pounds in weight, but occasionally reach eighteen or twenty pounds.
I know exactly how much was in it, fifteen pounds in gold, and forty pounds in ten-pound Bank of England notes.
Fifteen pounds seemed to such an inexperienced head as Cecile's a very large sum of money --indeed, quite an inexhaustible sum.
Now in this process, the air above the piston, which presses on it with a force equal to fifteen pounds, has been raised one hundred and forty-two feet.
Hence, it follows, that when the downward pressure or weight of the atmosphere is fifteen pounds on the square inch, the lateral, upward, and oblique pressures are of the same amount.
The air also, with a constant pressure of fifteen pounds to the square inch, enters to a considerable depth into the soil, and the deeper it is stirred, and the more thoroughly it is pulverized, the more it will enter.
Is one of the best of fish, weighs from three to fifteen pounds.
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