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Example sentences for "twelve ounces"

  • One pound of flour, twelve ounces of butter, eight ounces of sugar, twelve ounces of fruit (either dried cherries or two kinds of preserves).

  • The fruit is from four to six inches in length and will weigh from six to twelve ounces.

  • The fruit is from three to five inches in length, and will weigh from five to twelve ounces.

  • It is fibreless, of good commercial value, the weight of the fruit varying from ten to twelve ounces.

  • If a moderately expert Surgeon is at Hand, he must open the jugular Vein, or any large Vein in the Neck, and let out ten or twelve Ounces of Blood.

  • As soon as ever the preceding cold Assault is over, twelve Ounces of Blood must be taken away at once; and, if the Patient be young and strong, fourteen or even sixteen.

  • Take a Quarter of an Ounce of Cream of Tartar, a Pugil of common Camomile; boil them in twelve Ounces of Water for half an Hour, and strain it off.

  • Dissolve one ounce of salt in twelve ounces of gruel.

  • The entire diameter of a well-grown plant is about twelve inches, and the weight from ten to twelve ounces.

  • In cool weather, the plants attain a diameter of twelve inches, and weigh from ten to twelve ounces; seeds white.

  • Boil one drachm of bruised galls in twelve ounces of water until only half a pint remains, then strain, and add one ounce of laudanum.

  • Make into a paste a pound of flour, twelve ounces of fine sugar sifted, the yolks of two eggs, a little nutmeg, and orange-flower water.

  • Milk two parts, oatmeal or barley gruel one part, and from ten to twelve ounces in all may be given in a cup.

  • Weight in the male ten to twelve ounces; in the female eight to ten.

  • But you cannot use food containing more than four per cent fat, that is, eight ounces of ten per cent milk or twelve ounces of seven per cent milk in twenty ounces of food.

  • If required, ten to twelve ounces of plain milk.

  • Milk, two parts; oatmeal or barley gruel, one part; from ten to twelve ounces in all may be allowed; it should be given from a cup.


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