Therefore it was, according to the belief of the soldier, that General Herkimer would have little or no weight with Brant so far as rescuing Peter Sitz was concerned, if there chanced at the moment to be Tories near at hand to whisper in his ear.

"Well, I own I am a light weight in the race.

These arguments will receive additional weight from the proofs I shall hereafter give of the great affinity there is between the language as it is now spoken, and the Romance that was used in France nine centuries ago.

Mr. Mowbray once kept an account of the number of eggs produced by this prolific bird, with the following result:From the 25th of October to the 25th of the following September five hens laid 503 eggs; the average weight of each egg was one ounce five drachms, and the total weight of the whole, exclusive of the shells, 50-1/4 pounds.

Average weight of carcase from 90 to 100 lbs.

We soon succeeded in driving the enemy before us, and were so close upon them at one time, that they abandoned and threw away nearly all their lodges and camp equipages, and everything that had any considerable weight.

I leave you to calculate the enormous weight of lime which must be so carried down to the sea every year by a single limestone or chalk brook.

The German commanders were ruthless in the sacrifice of life, in the hope of overwhelming the defense by the sheer weight of numbers.

A great deal of extra and cumbrous weight was gotten rid of, but an hour of most precious time was lost.

By the assistance of these, men even attempted to hurt their enemies; and indeed the knowledge of poisonous or useful simples, might on particular occasions give sufficient weight to their empty curses and innovations.

A leaden weight seemed to be settling down upon her heart and she felt as if she were choking, but she threw it off.

The episode also gave rise to the saying of the conqueror, Brennus, who, when reproached by his antagonists with using false weights, cast his sword into the scale, crying, "Woe to the conquered!")

Two particular examples of the influence I am speaking of, I shall mention here, not only as honourable to the prime object of our regard, but as they may suggest to contemplative minds some useful ideas, by shewing how far the mere weight of an upright and benevolent character alone may give to the most callous nerves a trembling sensibility, and awaken the most ferocious spirit to self-correction.

The heart is often overstrained, and at times has been ruptured during violent exertion, as in lifting an immense weight.

He had been trained originally at the University by the man who had been middle-weight champion in his day.

What would have been the ultimate result of the contest had it been resumed I am sure I cannot say, but I fear that, taking Grundy's superior weight and height into consideration, the story of the fight would have been recorded among the trials and not the triumphs of the Triple Alliance.

There came a certain summer day at Burnham Breaker when the labor and confinement fell with double weight upon the slate-pickers in the screen-room.

What a low estimate he placed on what was so universally valued, measuring money by the standard of eternal weights!

" It requires a man three quarters of an hour every day to wind the clock, the striking weight alone weighing 1,200 pounds.

The berry in its full maturity is very solid, weighing from 65 to 69 pounds per bushel, this being from five to nine pounds over standard weight.

Probably the European states, in order to preserve their relative weight in the general polity of the world, will find it necessary to do so.

The weight of all the earth I bear, The weary weight of all the world!" "Christopher!" ... low above the noise, The rush, the darkness, Nial heard The far-off music of a Voice That said all things in saying one word "Christopher ... this thy name shall be!

"Gold is a mighty weight in an argument.

Before she had gone a dozen feet she discovered this and its importance to her; where King's weight on the snow-shoes, along a twice-travelled trail, had packed the snow and where now the sun and cold had done their work, there was a crust which upbore her slight weight; she could walk swiftly; there was to be no more floundering.

When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.