An adult Bengal Tiger measures ten feet from tip to tip, stands over three and a half feet in height and weighs five hundred pounds.
An adult male Walrus measures about twelve feet from the end of his nose to that of his very short tail, or fourteen feet to the end of his hind flippers, and weighs something over a ton.
The sky, a plate of darkened steel, Weighs on the far rim of the sea, Save where the lifted glooms reveal The last edge of the sun burned free.
What utter madness that my thought Weighs him--I who am less than naught!
A wooden shell whose hull weighs twenty-two pounds, honest weight, is a very fragile, short-lived affair.
The earth may still weigh many millions of tons as regards the sun, but as regards a pound weight it only weighs sixteen ounces.
A pound weight on the surface of the earth weighs sixteen ounces, and all the mighty volume of our planet, with all its mountains, continents and seas, weighs only sixteen ounces on the surface of a pound weight.
It often weighs over thirty pounds and has two or three hundred seeds, each of which is four times as large as an almond and is surrounded by a pulp which is greatly relished by the natives of India.
A canoe calculated for four persons, with their baggage, weighs from forty to fifty pounds; some of them are made to carry fifteen passengers.
He soothes his sorrow by making it audible to himself, by making it objective; he lightens the burden which weighs upon his heart by communicating it to the air, by making his sorrow a general existence.
Before I go down to the moles, I should like to tell her what weighs on my heart.
The sparrow weighs about ten times less than the pigeon, and has twice as much surface in proportion.
Why, I'll back that fiddle against all the bagpipes in Scotland, and Piramus against all the bagpipers; for though Piramus weighs but ten stone, he shall flog a Scotchman of twenty.
The consciousness of this great truth weighs like a nightmare, I believe, upon many of the best minds of these days.
He wishes the bow and compliment of some leader in the state, or in society; weighs what he says; perhaps he never comes nearer to him for that, but dies at last better contented for this amusement of his eyes and his fancy.
They are the moments when her subconscious intelligence is trying to express itself in the spirit of truth and honesty, when she weighs and measures and analyses the exigencies of the new environment.
They are the introspective moments, when she weighs and measures out for herself sympathy, if she is not made of the right stuff, or she makes strong resolutions, and prepares herself mentally to win out in the new life.
Thoughtful, knowing people realize that a child that weighs eight pounds or more at birth is an indication of maternal law breaking.
The average loaf of bread weighs about fourteen ounces.
A sense of oppression weighs on the chest--in the midst of the wind, on the verge of the hill, you sigh for a breath of air.
The captain, when bound on a voyage, generally slips his cable or weighs anchor with the rising sun.
Thus in the Christian belief, St. Michael weighs human souls; those who weigh much sink down into hell, and those who are light arise to the heavenly paradise.
Nikita obtains the mace he wants, which weighs fifty poods, or nearly a ton, and leaves the forge.
The strength of a badger's legs is most remarkable, and for his size (the animal only weighs from 19 lbs.
The male is somewhat larger than the female, and weighs more.
Hoist our grey-coated friend into the air, and lower him into the sack; he weighs at least thirty pounds.
It takes from ten to twelve days to dispatch the whole edition, (which weighs between four and five tons,) by mail and express.
Triumphant Washington, with brow serene, Regards unmoved the exhilarating scene, Weighs in his balanced thought the silent grief That sinks the bosom of the fallen chief.
A circular plate or table of about 5 feet diameter weighs on an average 9 pounds.
The second g, named the stock of the anvil, weighs 4 tons.
That of the emperor of Russia, bought by the late empress Catherine, which weighs 193 carats.
That of the emperor of Austria, which weighs 139 carats, and has a slightly yellowish hue.
Each cluster of crystals weighs from five to six pounds; and, in general, their total weight is equal to about one-third of the verdigris employed.
The commencing hammer, which weighs 6 or 7 pounds, has a head 4 inches in diameter, and is more convex than the former.
The French silver coin contains one-tenth of copper, and a franc weighs 5 grammes = 77.
At nine months, the foetus generally weighs from twelve to fourteen pounds.
In three months the foetus is nearly three inches long, andweighs about three ounces.
Killed and scaled he weighs three and a half pounds.
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