The 9th October, I sent up twenty-one chests of coral to Surat, which were landed two days before from the Ann; and at night I sent up eight tons and four hundredweight of elephants teeth, taken out of our Portuguese prize.
To pick four pounds of oakum, break twelve hundredweight of stones, or perform the most revolting tasks, in return for the miserable food and shelter they receive, is an unqualified extravagance on the part of the men who are guilty of it.
A pound of wax, half a hundredweight of tallow, a barrel of beer, were not uncommon fines for dereliction of duty.
Thus the Lord Mayor of London received from them yearly a cask of the finest sturgeon, or two barrels of herring, or a hundredweight of Polish wax.
Plums are stone fruit," he observed stonily, "and you were allocated one hundredweight of sugar for your soft fruit, I believe?
I think you've got just about the requisite amount of soft fruit for the one hundredweight of sugar which, I believe, you were allocated.
You were allocated onehundredweight of sugar, I believe, Ma'am," he said.
You were allocated one hundredweight of sugar for jam-making in respect of your soft fruit, I believe?
According to the men there's about three hundredweight to lower yet.
I forget how many bags I got; but the few who had grown potatoes in the district sent theirs to Sydney, and spuds went up to twelve and fifteen shillings a hundredweight in that district.
But would you mind telling me why you want to go driving about the country with two or three hundredweight of sugar in your ear?
It contained a hundredweight or a hundredweight and a half of sugar--if it contained sugar at all.
If the bass mean feeding they let you know it pretty quickly, and in this simple way a fisherman often, in a couple of hours, gets a quarter of a hundredweight or so of them, ranging from 2 lb.
With a few accidental dace and chub thrown in, there would therefore be over a solid hundredweight of fish.
One held heavily begrudged admiration as he paid off five hundredweight of crystal-cut in the legal tender of Xanabar to the other, whose expression was greedy self-confidence.
The half-hundredweight of Cherry Hill and Marbledown outbalanced Belton's plain facts and ocular demonstrations.
On this the deputation rashly changed their ground and alleged that the toll of one hundredweight per tub was excessive.
I said to the Thomas Cat, I threw in the gurgling creek, all weighted down with a smoothing iron, and a hundredweightof brick.
I've only got a bedroom besides this and a cupboard that holds two hundredweight of coal on the landing.
Accordingly I collected a great number of large jars that were used by the natives for brewing merissa; in these I boiled several hundredweight of potatoes to a pulp.
A sixteen hundredweight monkey is about heavy enough to work nicely by hand, but it is not sufficiently heavy for a 12-inch pile, except in soft ground.
I applied guano to one-fourth, at the rate of two hundredweight to the statute acre, and the same weight of nitrate of soda over another fourth, leaving one-fourth entirely without manure.
I have taken from one to two hundredweight at a time from a box which the water flows through at the bottom of the sluice-board.
It would be a grand thing to have a hundredweight or two of honey, as he says we might, and never kill the bees.
If you had come to-morrow, Miss Elizabeth, you would have seen us turning off a hundredweightand more.
This lord was preparing a great banquet, and ordered his fisherman to catch threehundredweight of fish in three days.
My lord ordered me to catch three hundredweight of fish in three days; to-day is the last day, and I have not obtained any.
If you pay one kreutzer less, I shall be two hundredweight lighter.
In ancient times the country was so rich in this metal that several hundredweight (seis, sete, e mais candiz, de que trez fazem hum moyo) were exported in one season.
The price for many years paid to the cultivators for their produce was ten Spanish dollars or fifty shillings per bahar of five hundredweight or five hundred and sixty pounds.
I had lessened her ton and a half of iron ballast by leaving two hundredweight on Dover quay; good advice agreeing with my own opinion that the Rob Roy was needlessly stiff.
Three hundredweight of ballast was thrown off at Cowes, besides what we took out at Dover, and still the yawl was stiff.
I don't believe there was five hundredweight of guano in it.
An antiquated grate that would hold about a hundredweight of coal, had been stuck on to the hearth by Mr. Thorne's father.
In this position it was impossible to slip the straps, and the hundredweighton his back would not let him rise.
He had learned that he could fall with a hundredweighton his back and survive; but he was confident, if he fell with that additional fifty pounds across the back of his neck, that it would break it clean.
At a short distance off, they encountered another, who, with an Indian, was driving eight llamas, each carrying a hundredweightof silver.
A good and well-managed estate should produce an average crop of ten hundredweight per acre, leaving a net profit of fifteen shillings per hundredweight under favorable circumstances.
This rock was rich in the spasmodic kind of oyster, large detached masses of which lay just beneath the water in lumps of some hundredweight each, which had been formed by the oysters clustering and adhering together.
