We only want to weigh you, with a yardstickthrough an old shawl; that's all.
Then followed a chat between herself and a few little old ladies concerning catnip and "pep'mint" tea; after which the wonderful baby was held up by the yardstick to be weighed.
I've learned how to pick out the tasks that are vital to the business and make them my own special responsibilities," a successful newspaper publisher once said, "by setting up a sort of yardstick to judge every job that comes along.
So my yardstick is never to let anything get by me that might change our standing with our readers.
That is my yardstickfor measuring everything about my business.
Oh, it was getting to be a Yardstick world, and no mistake.
We'll have Yardstick government then, all the way, and Yardstick law.
Even though every night, after you sneak home and huddle up inside your room trying not to be noticed, ten guards patrol this place with subatomics, so the Yardstick gangs won't break in and take over.
I know that up until a few years ago, no Yardstick held any public office or government position.
We knew the Naturalists were gone, that six-footers had vanished from a Yardstick world.
Yardstick children, they tell us, were healthy at first.
So astronomers do not often use the mile as a yardstick of stellar distance, any more than we state the distance from London to San Francisco in feet or inches.
So closely do they know the sun's distance that it is employed as their yardstick of the sky, or unit of celestial measurement.
It is very evident that Mr. Yardstick takes all women for fools, or else he has had a narrow escape from being one himself.
Young Yardstick directs me to the counter, at the extreme end of the store.
In that case he simply takes the yardstick of the heavens out of its box, and uses that as a measure.
These are exactly one degree apart, and is the yardstick the heavens are measured with.
THE ATTIC In the Attic The Calendar in the Attic The Hoopskirt The Little Chair In the Dark Corner The Toy Cabinet The Yardstick PART III.
Then he said, slowly, "There are only three notches on the yardstick which I am going to give you, Lloyd.
But old Hildgardmar answered her, 'Does he measure up to the standard set by the sterling yardstick for a full-grown prince to be?
Keep always by thy side this sterling yardstick which I give thee, for it marks the inches and the ells to which the stature of a prince must measure.
The holes in the yardstick must be large enough to let the head of this nail through.
Now hang the pail on one of the notches about halfway between the fulcrum and the end of the stick and put your hand on the opposite side of the yardstick at about the same distance as the pail is from the fulcrum.
Hold a yardstick or meter stick beside the tube, remembering to keep the tube straight up and down.
The yardstickis a lever by which he lifts the pail.
Put the end hole of the yardstick on the nail, as shown in Figure 28.
Next, slide your hand all the way out to the end of the yardstick and raise and lower the pail from there.
Put the middle hole of the yardstick over the nail, as is shown in Figure 27.
Let the general good be our yardstick on every great issue of our time.
Neither the parties nor the Government have a definite yardstick for determining when and how Government assistance should be invoked.
If you were ten years younger and a minor and I your guardian--" "You might point out with your yardstick how many kinds of an idiot I am and stir me up.
It was a little later that he followed up the attack with two short essays, "The Wonder- Dreamers" and "The Yardstick of the Ego.
It is odd, almost amusing, to note how in this country people of one section apply their local standards to the judgment of people in other sections, very much as an Englishman uses his insular yardstick to measure all the rest of the world.
It was with a military yardstick the soldiers measured the deed, for they knew the fighting competency of a single machine gun and had seen the destructive power of the scythe-like sweep of a battalion of them.
This is not proposed as a formula giving the total amount of extension in depth, but as a sort of yardstick which has experience behind it.
If two things are each found to be equal to a third thing, then I see they must be equal to each other; if one is larger than my yardstick and the other smaller, then I see they must be unequal.
Each bang of the yardstick sounds as if it would be followed certainly by showers of broken glass.
The instant his hand stopped, a long yellow yardstick came flying through the window, with no one holding it, hit him such a thwack on the shins that he roared again with the pain, and instantly vanished.
Bartlemy; "or I'll break myyardstick over your shoulders!
Why, didn't you see that--that horrible yardstickcoming at me?
The yardstick for fortifying a gun was its caliber.
According to the Spaniard Collado in 1592, the proper yardstick was the amount of metal in the gun.
True; and consequently it makes no difference whether your half bushel is of wood or gold or silver or paper; and it makes no difference whether your yardstick is gold or paper.
The yardstick is not a measure of value; it is a measure of length, and it measures lace worth one hundred dollars a yard precisely as it does cent tape.
The yardstick assures the man who sells that he has not sold too much; it assures the man who buys that he has received enough; and in that way it facilitates exchanges.
It matters not whether the yardstick or half bushel are of gold, silver, or wood, for the reason that the yardstick and half bushel are not the things bought.
And another reason why it makes no difference to the purchaser whether the half bushel is gold or silver, or whether the yardstick is gold or paper, you do not buy the yardstick; you do not get the half bushel in the trade.
The yardstick is not a measure of value; it is simply a measure of quantity.
But old Hildgardmar answered her, 'Does he measure up to the standard set by the sterling yardstick for a prince to be?
These were the standards of the yardstick that Papa Jack had given her.
If I hold the yardstick a foot and a half up from the floor, my sister's kitty can jump over it tip-top.
The other Betsey, she can run, and keeps a yardstick to drive away boys with.
When the boy's growth can be still measured by his mother's yardstick his outlook is restricted correspondingly.
A yardstick no longer measured to the top of my head; the score is now marked upon the jambs of the cellar door, and sometimes I cheat with yarn balls in the heels of my boots.
Have you my silver yardstick with you to-night, dear?
That yardstick keeps all the other fellows at a distance, too.
