Every month for fifteen years have I written Jones and Meers to correct their adding; now I write them not at all.
From Silas Osgood I get no March account; from Jones and Meers I get none.
Judge Sewall often speaks, however, of Banbury cakes andMeers cakes; Meer was a celebrated Boston baker and confectioner.
Glazed almonds, Meers cakes, an orange, were good enough for so cheap a sweetheart.
Or in some cases, within the tunnels and drifts, are to be fixed the boundaries of the meers, just as the Bergmeister has determined the boundaries of the same meers above ground.
Now we call that part of the vein which is first discovered and mined, the head-meer, because all the other meers run from it, just as the nerves from the head.
So much for the shape of meers and their dimensions in the case of a vena profunda.
Mining meers are for the most part either square or elongated; in square meers all the sides are of equal length, therefore the numbers of fathoms on the two sides multiplied together produce the total in square fathoms.
In this way meers are marked out when a torrent or some other force of Nature has laid open a vena dilatata in a valley, so that it appears either on the slope of a mountain or hill or on a plain.
Since meers vary in shape according to the different varieties of veins it is necessary for me to go more into detail concerning them and their measurements.
Since meers often reach to a torrent, or river, or stream, if the last meer cannot be completed it is called a fraction[3].
Elsewhere the Bergmeister doubles the width of the head-meer and it is made fourteen fathoms wide, while the width of each of the other meers remains single, that is seven fathoms, but the length is not defined by boundaries.
As I have explained above, the head-meer consists of three double measures, and each other meer of two measures, and the Bergmeister grants one each of the meers to him who makes the first application.
Lastly, the surveyor sometimes, in order to make more certain, finds the boundary of the meers in those places where many old boundary marks are cut in the rock.
Of course, Mr. Meers was agreeable to this eminently respectable suggestion; but when Wallingford handed over his own check it was dated a week ahead.
Stock valuations were at once made for these three, at an exaggerated estimate of the value of their concerns, and when they came to Meers himself the same plan was followed.
In reply, Mr. Meers slowly drew down the under lid of his right eye to show that there was no green in it, and when they parted an hour or so later it was with mutual, even hilarious expressions of good will.
That afternoon he had decided not to invite Mr. Meers into the combination at all.
Mr. Meers had been quite jovial with him, had handed him a good cigar and told him the latest developments in the Retail Cigar Dealers' Consolidation.
By the time Mr. Meers was through talking Wallingford was delighted so far as surface went, though he was already doing some intense figuring.
It served him right, he admitted, and unless Meers relented, the penitentiary yawned its ugly mouth very close to him.
Mr. Meers tried earnestly to think of a better plan but was forced to concede that there was none.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "meers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
