He flattered himself that he had not an ounce of romance in his entire composition; and it did not take him a moment to make up his mind that the yarn, from end to end, was the veriest nonsense imaginable.
With sinking heart Percy watched Spurling's shoulders rack and twist as he threw his last ounce into his sculling.
I know where every cent in my pocket and every ounce of muscle on my body has come from.
The next fortnight we washed for gold from morning to night, and each made about an ounce per week.
What if I were to tell you that we have not an ounce of contraband of war on board?
Near half a pint did yield upon evaporation a quarter of an ounce wanting two graines.
We pay for going back; and all we get Is one more needlessounce of weary wisdom To bring away with us.
An ounce of whale-oil soap dissolved in a quart of water may be used to destroy plant-lice.
Place half anounce of dry humus on an iron plate or fire-shovel and heat strongly in a stove.
Dry and pulverize and note extreme fineness of the particles by rubbing between the fingers (an ounce of clay contains about four and one half million particles).
Instead, use pyrethrum or insect powder, which may be diluted by mixing with cheap flour--one ounce of insect powder to five of flour.
The elfin shriek of the reel answered; he gave the fish every ounce the quivering rod could spare, the great trout surged deeply, swerved, circled and bored slowly upstream.
Not much; two in the falls pool that come an ounce short of the pound.
I have it on the authority of the farmer previously referred to, that ΒΌ of an ounce of No.
The men threw every ounce of power into each stroke, the voice of the boatswain blending with their efforts like an intoned benediction, and the treacly sea foamed under the prow into drifted snow which ran merrily in their wake.
Aurora enlivened it with quaint, melodious Irish cries, the men roared encouragement, and presently Mary Kyley was dancing with heart and soul and every ounce of energy.
Tubby knew that Merritt was piling in every ounce of gasoline the carburetor could take care of.
Try as he would, Rob could not get an ounce more speed out of the Flying Fish, and as the speedy hydroplane roared by them they heard a mocking shout from her crew.
There was not more than half an ounce of blood lost.
Kohler mentions the death of a man suffering from scabies who had applied externally a solution containing about a half ounce of phenol.
Gourges mentions the spontaneous excretion of a five-ounce calculus; and Thompson speaks of the discharge of two calculi of enormous size.
There was visible a triangular depression, from which, possibly, an ounce of brain-substance issued.
One of them, thinking she had a fibroid, made her take in all about an ounce of savin powder, which did not, however, produce any ill effect.
Taussig mentions a curious mistake, in which an ounce of quinin sulphate was administered to a patient at one dose; the only symptoms noticed were a stuporous condition and complete deafness.
Taylor speaks of a man who fell unconscious ten seconds after an ounce of phenol had been ingested, and in three minutes was dead.
There is mentioned a boot-maker who constantly took 1/2 ounce of the strong acid in a tumbler of water, saying that it relieved his dyspepsia and kept his bowels open.
Frere Come performed a high operation on a patient who died the next day after the removal of a 24-ounce calculus.
Quoting Taafe, in 1862 Taylor speaks of the case of a man who swallowed the greater part of a solution containing an ounce of potassium cyanid.
Recovery has followed the ingestion of an ounce of officinal hydrochloric acid.
Doyle successfully removed an ounce Minie ball from the brain after a fifteen years' lodgment.
McCreery mentions a case of accidental poisoning with half an ounce of tartar emetic successfully treated with green tea and tannin.
And I'm not worth in her esteem an ounce to the pound.
She had noted every blow, how it was calculated to a hair's-breadth, and fell without waste of one single ounce of power.
There was not an ounce of superfluous flesh under the curiously clerical garments he lived in.
His youthful, resilient muscles were extended to the last ounce of their power, and an active, steely-tempered brain lay behind his every effort.
It was a mood that suggested determination to fight to a finish, to fight with the last ounce of strength, the last gasp of breath.
Leaning on you I've built up around me the reality of that original dream, with the other things I've now lost, and with every ounce in me I've worked for its fulfilment.
But I'll not throw away good knowledge on people who think they can get it by the sixpenn'orth, and carry it away with 'em as they would an ounce of snuff.
The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and a coarse one.
Make a two-ounce mixture and give to children over four years of age one teaspoonful after each meal; to younger children, one-half teaspoonful after each meal.
Use the following treatment on the erupted parts: Menthol, ten grains in oneounce of cold cream.
This can be done by giving the child anounce of plain boiled water or barley water before each feeding.
For an infant, one teaspoonful to an ounce of water is sufficient; for older children, one tablespoonful to two ounces of water, given with the bulb syringe, will give prompt results.
A suitable solution for this purpose is one containing one ounce of carbolic acid to the quart of water.
If the child gets an ounce of liquid before each feeding he will not want as much of the breast milk; so we shall have the same total quantity, but a reduced quality, which may cure the colic at once.
The best syringe to use for washing out the ear is a one-ounce hard-rubber ear syringe with a soft rubber tip.
Boil two ounces of Brazil-wood, half an ounce of alum, half an ounce of crystals of tartar, in sixteen ounces of pure water till the water is reduced one-half.
Dissolve in the strained liquor half anounce of gum-arabic, and add one and a half drams of cochineal powder digested in one and a half ounces of alcohol.
But if you prefer, you may take this somewhat easier way: Dissolve an ounce of cochineal powder in half a pint of hot water.
An ounce of soil from California, for the same from any other State.
But for every ounce of help he gave, he would stipulate for a handsome return.
Once I was famous as Bauquel is to-day--with this difference: that I was an artist and he is a pretender, with not an ounce of artistry in him.
You have relieved me of the last ounce of hesitation.
Even Smith has not lost an ounce of flesh since our last meeting.
I will wager an ounce of gold that my men have become alarmed at my prolonged absence, and are just starting in search of me," said the inspector.
Do you see, there's not an ounce of quartz stuck to the whole piece, and gold is awful heavy when it comes in the lump style.
We have already been two weeks in the country, and have not dug the first ounce of gold.
He never worked in a shaft, or dug an ounce of gold in his life.
More than that, sirs," answered the policeman, with a dogmatical air that was charming to us, because every additional ounce made us richer.
You know I've never et an ounce of Anita's puddin's since.
He resented with every ounce of the repressed spirit there was in him the girl's poor standing at the Stronghold.
Make now a solution of nitrate of silver, twenty-six grains to the ounce: if three ounces are to be made, dissolve the nitrate in half an ounce of distilled water, and add liq.
The addition of about five drops of saturated solution of bromide of potassium to every ounce of previously-iodized albumen causes great depth and brilliancy in the negative.
Indeed I think it is more plentiful in these latter places, for I myself, with nothing more than a small knife, picked out from a dry gorge, a little way up the mountain, a solid lump of gold which weighed nearly an ounce and a half.
I have heard, though, of as much as sixteen dollars an ounce having been given in some instances, which I should have thought was over rather than under the full value of gold in the United States.
On our arrival, just before sundown, we poked the sand about in various places, and before long succeeded in collecting between us more than an ounce of gold, mixed up with a good deal of sand.
I'll send an ounce of lead through the first red-skin I meet outside them clearings.
In addition, an ounce of salt and nearly one hundred ounces of water are used in a day.
For he knew he had need of everyounce of power he possessed or could call to his aid, since he knew well that all, all, might hang upon a second less or more, and now four miles lay behind him and four in front.
