In the Church of the Trinity is the shrine of Saint Sergius, an elaborate piece of work of solid silver, weighing nearly a thousand pounds; it is so constructed that the relics of the saint are exposed.
Horse and rider rest upon a single block of granite weighing fifteen hundred tons, which was brought here from Finland at great cost and infinite labor.
He was constantly called off during the day to attend to practical work, teaching in school, prescribing for and waiting on the sick, weighing out medicines, keeping the farm accounts, besides the night classes in several languages.
Everything around was as still as the previous evening, but there was not the forest, stifling and weighing down the spirit.
For example, when pig iron is being handled (each pig weighing 92 pounds), a first-class workman can only be under load 43 per cent of the day.
An inclined plank was placed against the side of a car, and each man picked up from his pile a pig of iron weighing about 92 pounds, walked up the inclined plank and dropped it on the end of the car.
The pig-iron handler stoops down, picks up a pig weighing about 92 pounds, walks for a few feet or yards and then drops it on to the ground or upon a pile.
Mr Hatton held forward his hand to receive the letter of which Lord de Mowbray had been speaking to him, and which he read with great attention, weighing as it were each word.
Before he reached his nineteenth year young Marr was the manager of a weighing pitch.
Even in the infrequent event of the detection of them there was no evidence to justify the suspicion that the proprietors of the weighingmachine were accessories to the pocket looting.
When the weighing and balancing of the balloon are finished and the aeronauts have taken their place in the basket the balloon is ready to quit the ground with a certain ascensional force.
Each grade falls into its hopper, beneath which are stationed weighing scales and men with coffee sacks.
Miss Miette must now understand that cork, weighing four times less than water, cannot sink in water, although that process is very easy to lead, which weighs eleven times more than water.
At that very moment Paul Solange opened his eyes; but he closed them again, as if a heavy sleep, stronger than his will, were weighing upon his eyelids.
He took in wood and water, and was on the point of weighing anchor when the missing men appeared on the shore and signalled for a boat.
One of the seamen for a latchet received a piece of gold weighing two dollars and a half, and others, for other things of much less value, obtained more.
Among this gold there was a nugget weighing 35 lbs.
Weighing anchor on October 5th he worked along the Costa Rica shore, which here turns to the eastward again, and soon found a tribe of natives who wore large ornaments of gold.
It was surmounted by a nice steeple, thirty feet high, in which we had put a bell, weighing 250 pounds, whose solemn sound was to tell our joys and sorrows over the boundless prairies.
Without weighing my words, I instantly answered: “I do not come to Beauport to buy wine glasses and bottles, but to break them.
The cross, of gilded iron, is eighteen feet in length, weighing sixteen hundred pounds, and was placed in position during August of the same year.
But this being his mood, there was a burden which weighed on him, and weighing on him more heavily every day, and that was the part which he was playing towards the Squire.
Bill walked down the long passage to his bedroom with no trace of the sleepiness which had been weighingon him five minutes before.
The complexities of life wereweighing him down a good deal.
A joint of beef from Scotland, weighing just under eleven pounds, invariably reaches Bristol at the week end, and a package of butter from Dublin is observed every Friday in the Bristol parcel depot on its way to Weston-super-Mare.
The Bristol mail carts running to the rural districts, by permission of the Post Office, carry for the newspaper proprietors bundles of papers, weighing on an average on ordinary days 40 lbs.
On the other hand, the reduction in the rates of charge for the conveyance of post parcels has had the effect of bringing about a decrease in the number of parcels weighing under 2 lb.
The French franc is a stamped piece of silver weighingexactly five grammes, and nine tenths fine.
The Government, therefore, as representative of the community, after refining and weighing gold, puts upon it a stamp which guaranties its weight and fineness.
Evil must in evil end; Zeus will on the impious band Woe for broken guest-rights send, Weighing with impartial hand.
The busy mart let justice still control, Weighing the guerdon to the toil!
Tactlessly handled, without due weighing of the case from both sides, they turn one blunder into two.
Weighing it out, the service officer has an unrivaled opportunity for fruitful experiment.
All the iniquity of olden pagan society, agonising beneath the rottenness born of debauchery and covetousness, was weighing on his shoulders, bearing him down.
He fancied that he had divested himself of it, and yet it was still weighing on his shoulders, and his wisest course would be to bury himself in it for ever.
It is not an easy matter to stop a projectile weighing nearly a ton speeding at thirty-five or forty miles an hour.
The door, which opened downward, was quite heavy, weighing something over four hundred pounds, and was raised by block and tackle.
It is no exaggeration to say that the natives were much astounded to see a little iron boat weighing four tons pulled by two men from the bottom of the Passaic and left standing high and dry on the bank.
In weighing his faults against his genius and its better fruits, it should never be forgotten that when he terminated his existence he was only seventeen years and nine months old.
He was a huge creature, as were his fellows, standing fully seven feet upon his short legs and weighing considerably more than a quarter of a ton.
I lost no time inweighing anchors and setting out for the continent, which we reached after a short and easy voyage.
This deficiency was ascertained by weighing all the provisions which were landed; a proceeding which the master acquiesced in with much reluctance and some impertinence.
This person also killed a wether sheep (the produce of what had been given to him by Governor Phillip) at Christmas, and sold it at two shillings per pound, each quarter weighing about fifteen pounds.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "weighing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
