Defn: A troy weight containing twenty-four grains, or the twentieth part of an ounce; as, a pennyweight of gold or of arsenic.
Forty thousand ounces of gold, mates, not a pennyweight less?
I don't think we should get a pennyweight of gold out of it if we worked for a month.
Five of these would make a Quint, or five hundred units, weighing five pennyweightand fifteen grains; and ten would make a Mark, or one thousand units, weighing eleven pennyweight and six grains.
It would contain twentyfive grains of fine silver, to which may be added two grains of copper, and the whole would weigh onepennyweight and three grains.
A block of rock from the centre shaft showed 57 pennyweight to the ton.
The Masterton Reef, forty miles from Bulawayo, had two specimens and certificate of assay of 18 pennyweight and 22 pennyweight respectively.
This reef is twenty miles from Bulawayo, and assays 2 ounces 10 pennyweight per ton.
I think the assay showed 1 ounce 11 pennyweight to the ton.
The Mary Reef specimens assayed 5 ounces 3 pennyweight 10 grains to the ton.
We learn that the sub-committee investigating this matter of the thirty-one pennyweight ball have consulted both the manufacturers and the professionals.
Only a few mornings ago we read in The Daily Chronicle the following momentous statement made by that newspaper's golf correspondent: "I'm told that the thirty-one pennyweight ball is doomed.
It was not for me to be certain yet, played with as I had been by visions that cry advantage of the brain, when even a pennyweight thereof is gone; neither was I clear enough to indulge in bright aerial doubt, as adolescent genius may.
Twenty-two pounds there, and not a pennyweight to spare.
The second week raised neither high hopes nor a laugh; the third began better, with an ounce on the Monday, but dropped at once to three or four pennyweight a day.
That day they got down four or five feet, and tried two or three tubs toward evening, walking over half a mile with each, first and last, and extracting altogether one pennyweight of gold precisely, or about four shillings sterling.
Yet there was no shifting Denis while there was a pennyweight to the tub, and once there was nearly an ounce, and one day in November yielded two ounces four pennyweight.
Has any man moved in the affairs of men, with a grain of common-sense or half a pennyweight of experience, without being taught that an old tenter-hook sits easier to him than a new one?
And no sooner did he marry than he was forced to give up that, and, like a respectable butcher, put in every pennyweight of fat that could be charged for.
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