Would these weigh with any woman in the balance against George Dalton's splendid trappings?
There seemed something insensate in a civilization which would permit a man who wore medals of honor to sell ribbon over a counter, or weigh out beef at a butcher's.
It was a momentous event which had just suddenly fallen in her life so monotonous and so calm--an inconceivable, startling event, the consequences of which were to weigh heavily upon her entire future.
You will only succeed in making an enemy whose hostility will weighupon your whole life.
Weigh thou well My counsel; let not my advice be lost.
The Chinese are adepts in manipulating the steelyard, so as to make it weigh heavier or lighter according as they desire.
It is noticeable that the most of those who are bargaining for the fish have brought their own steelyards to weigh their purchases, as they evidently have no faith in the honesty of the one belonging to the shop.
In endeavoring to balance the scales between the contending belligerents, the United States had to weigh judicially the fact that their offenses differed greatly in degree.
Those animals, adapted to aerial life, have to weigh as little as possible.
To be thwarted in this reasonable desire was always very injurious to the old gentleman; and resistance became doubly exasperating when gout, age, loneliness, and the force of many disappointments combined to weigh him down.
You don't mean that these words, uttered in a hurried moment, are to weigh against a whole life's devotion?
They did not weigh with Emmy more than with other women.
The ring I judged to weigh near an ounce, and was a massive hoop of gold, and made by some artist of rare talent.
It willweigh forty pounds," cried Fred, after a moment's handling.
It is no unusual thing, we are informed, for the last-mentioned mail to weigh as much as 40 tons.
I know that a pound will weigh a pound, and that more should not be put upon an iron rail than it will bear.
Scarcely a block of stone used in the piers is less than seven tons in weight, while many of those opposed to the force of the breaking-up ice weigh fully ten tons.
The engine, with water, must not weigh more than six tons; but an engine of less weight would be preferred on its drawing a proportionate load behind it; if of only four and a half tons, then it might be put on only four wheels.
God has bestowed the gift of mind upon man in order that he may weigh every fact or truth presented to him and adjudge whether it be reasonable.
Man should weigh his opinions with the utmost serenity, calmness and composure.
There were many occasions and many reasons which prompted the Europeans to weigh the gain or loss which resulted to them from the employment of Indian allies, who were always an incalculable element in any enterprise.
The work is not without value if the user of it has more systematic knowledge than its compiler, to select, discard, and arrange, and if he can weigh the importance of the separate papers.
Respecting some questions, even of the first importance, we are still able only to make guesses and weigh probabilities.
It is of value only when wielded by men of judicial temperament, who can weigh difference against likeness, and allow for the narrow range of nature’s moulds.
The required mixture will, therefore, alwaysweigh the same amount.
Take them carefully out, andweigh them to two pounds of quinces.
Weigh four pounds of raw potatoes pared; boil them in five pints of water.
Stone your gooseberries, and as you stone them put them into water: then weigh them, and to eight ounces of gooseberries take twelve ounces of double-refined sugar.
Pare and cut them into quarters, taking out the core and the hard part, and then weigh them.
Weigh an equal quantity of sugar and fruit, and strew part of the sugar over the greengages, having first laid them on dishes, with the hollow part uppermost.
Weigh the oranges, and take an equal weight of sugar; wipe the fruit with a wet cloth; grate them, cut them across, and squeeze them through a hair sieve.
Strip the currants from the stalks; weigh one pound of sugar to one pound of fruit, and to every eight pounds of currants put one pound of raspberries, for which you are not to allow any sugar.
To a pound of apricots, before they are stoned and pared, weigh a pound and a quarter of the best pounded sugar.
Weigh equal quantities of sugar and of fruit; put the fruit into a preserving-pan: boil it very quickly; break it; and stir it constantly.
The workman came; but his mode of proportioning the ingredients, in which lay the secret of the effects he produced, was by taking them up in handfuls, while the common method was to weigh them.
Chemical Laboratory reported that the tablets weigh an average of 0.
Is the boy more than mortal, and does your grace think life, liberty, riches, honors, will not weigh against perpetual imprisonment and daily thoughts of death?
An' such deeds weigh heavy on thy mind, a friar's cowl were better suited to thy brow than Scotland's diadem.
You will then close and weigh the target moorings, having the target ready for hoisting when the ship comes back to you.
We weigh and stand out into that delightful current called Sumburgh-rost, or rust.
When we return on board, the wind being unfavorable for the mouth of Clyde, we resolve to weigh anchor and go into Lamlash Bay.
We are to weigh at two in the morning, and hope to reach Kirkwall, the capital of Orkney, by breakfast to-morrow.
The queen properly answered, that as this matter, relating to the course of judicial proceedings, was of the highest consequence, she thought it necessary to weigh very carefully what she should do.
Weigh the vessel up, once dreaded by our foes, And mingle with our cup the tear that England owes!
How weigh the gift that Lyon gave, Or count the cost of Winthrop's grave?
