Thereupon, the said weigher went scot free from prison.
Among the others whom he appointed was the weigher of coins, notwithstanding that we opposed that.
The period covered is a brief portion of Hawthorne's service as weigher and ganger in the Boston Custom House, a position to which he was appointed by George Bancroft, at that time collector of the port.
The other person who is said to have acted as messenger is still in office, a weigherand gauger, at a salary of $1500 per annum.
The assayer and weigher of the royal treasury of this city shall serve for two hundred and fifty pesos per annum, without any ration.
Saved for his Majesty annually Money Cleaned rice Rice in the husk (gantas) (fanegas) The assayer and weigher of the royal treasury received four hundred pesos and one hundred fanegas of rice in the husk per year.
Bancroft, George, appoints Hawthorne weigher and ganger in Boston Custom House; offers Hawthorne a clerkship in Charlestown Navy Yard.
Early in January, 1839, Hawthorne took up his new duties as weigher and gauger in the Boston Custom House.
He told the weigherthat District Attorney Stimson wanted to see him that night at the Federal building, that the district attorney was under great obligations to him for the tip to examine weigher's records and wanted to thank him.
Just one tip I will give you," said the weigher after hearing the special agent's argument in favor of lending his aid to showing up the frauds.
The weigher thought this could be done and knew a number of men who might be so used.
On two occasions the special agent bowed to the weigherin leaving the bleachers.
The scales were allowed to record the proper weight, but the weigher and the checker, in collusion, divided the figure by two in setting it down.
That an individual weigher may report short weights it is necessary that his associate at the scales, a checker, should share in his deceptions, for the checker is a witness of the record of the scales.
Yet an intelligent man serving as weigher for eleven years would know secrets that would be of interest to the Government, and O'Toole was embittered.
O'Toole was a man of fifty, and had been a weigher for eleven years.
When the Government needed the confession of a given man he would be called upon and talked to in some such manner as this: "You, as checker, worked with Weigher Smith on a given cargo.
You and the weigher split on the basis of forty, sixty.
This man acted as general weigher for the trade, and his operations were carried on in the face of the public.
He's a weigher in a saloon, a gambling-house employee.
The factors wanted to weigh with our English weights, which he would by no means agree to, the weigher of Surat being there with the weights of the town, which he insisted should be used.
Ten incus, or twenty rotulas, make 23 pounds English haberepoize, sometimes 24, as the weigher chuses to befriend you.
He scribbled the amount on a pad, and the weigher at the bar balanced fifty dollars' worth of dust in the gold-scales and poured it into Burning Daylight's sack.
The carton travels to a Scott weigher on the right and thence to the top-sealer on the left] Paper bags are filled much the same way as the tin and the fiber cans.
The weigher stood, notebook in hand, waiting for me to act.
At first it seemed I had discovered a way to defeat that limitation--but there was the weigher to be considered.
Thence it is elevated to an upper storey and passed through an automatic weigher capable of taking a charge of 1 ton.
Ludlow, checkweigher in Number Two entry, and the head of the local union, took it on himself to reply.
While we are talking some one puts a letter-weigher on the table.
A very curious experiment made with a letter-weigher took place at l'Agnelas.
It was after having shown me these radiations, the other day, that the experiment of the letter-weigher took place.
Avery's grain weigher takes up to 5-1/2 tons at a time.
Intermittent weighers record the weight of trucks or tubs passing over a railway or the cables of aerial track, the weigher forming part of the track and coming into play as soon as a load is fully on it.
His weigher is used to feed mechanical furnace stokers.
Get thee hence ere I break every bone in thy body; thou weigher of scruples, thou splitter of straws.
As in receiving, so in paying money, a public weigher of money must be employed.
Jacques: After that, with a table of distances and letter-weigher in hand, he verifies or rectifies the postage of each letter.
With a geographical table before him, and a letter-weigher in his hand, he assigns each letter to its proper category, according to weight and distance.
Mehmet Ali Pasha, in opening the case, called in the Public Weigher and had them weighed again.
Before dismissing the case, however, Mehmet Ali Pasha called in the Public Weigher and ordered that both the Armenian and Jewish merchants be weighed.
In practice the second weigher is placed just before the first break.
The demons know what happens outwardly among men; but the inward disposition of man God alone knows, Who is the "weigher of spirits" (Prov.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "weigher" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
