38 Metaphors for sizing

Albert or Queen's size is the best for these purposes.

Mr. Larke's Princess Thor had a litter of seventeen, but even eight is too great a number for a bitch to suckle in a breed where great size is a desideratum.

It is very true that size is not quality, and a seven-footer may be no better than a three-footer; but it is observed that a Short Man is rarely any thing else.

They will not understand that size is merely a relative, not an absolute term; that if we were a thousand times larger than we are, the universe would be a thousand times smaller than it is; that if we could think a thousand times faster than we do, time would be a thousand times longer than it is; that there is One in whom we live, and move, and have our being, to whom one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

The bulk of the wheat produced in India is consumed within the districts where it is raised, and the average size of the wheat farms is less than five acres.

The average size of the older trees is about thirty or forty feet in height, and twelve to fourteen inches in diameter.

The size of the table must always be a first consideration, for all enjoyment of the good things spread before them will be marred if people be crowded; and on the contrary, the table must not be too large for the party: nothing can be more gloomy than a scattered company or an empty chair.

Its size is much less than formerly and the lower portion, now divided into three tails, clings in a strange, weird-like manner to the cliffs, to which it seems scarcely possible that it can remain attached.

Thus the average size of a county in Massachusetts is 557 square miles, and in Connecticut 594 square miles; but in Virginia it is only 383 and in Kentucky 307 square miles.

If size were any real test of beauty, the interior or Notre Dame at Antwerp ought to be one of the finest in Belgium.

The size of the section under abrasion for each specimen is 2" X 2".

It will be seen that, with three or four exceptions, the sizes obtained by the two observers are practically the same: Mammals Wormley.

No doubt the small size of the vessels concerned and their comparatively shallow draught were a contributory cause to this immunity.

Size is no criterion of a dog's market value; Mrs. Ashton Cross is said to have refused two thousand pounds for her celebrated Pekinese Chu-Erh, and there are many lap-dogs now living that could not be purchased for that high price.

Architectural mouldings, wreaths of flowers, cupids, and an allegorical figure of Faith are harmoniously combined in the design, the size of the whole frame being 4 ft. 5 ins.

The most suitable size of pieces are 2-1/2 to 3 lbs.

Now the size, or diameter, of a telegraphic conductor is just as important an item, in determining the strength of current which can be maintained upon it with a given amount of battery-force, as the length of the conductor.

I weighed and measured two or three small ingots and afterwards calculated what they'd weigh, if their cubic size was the capacity of the cup.

The exceptional size of his head was a pituitary trait.

"I dare say not, but I've bin a-thinkin' 'tis a pity your pet bain't a size or two smallerhe be sixteen hands if he be a inchelse maybe ye'd like to have en in here a-layin' on the hearthrug.

" "It's only two months and five days, though, between us," put in Dudley, eagerly, knowing what a sore point his size was to Roy; "and you see, Mrs. Ford, Roy's brain is much bigger than mineMr.

The size of an occasion is so many standards, whether the standard be inches or feet, or miles.

[-29-] "And surely you must not think that the size of their vessels or the thickness of the timbers of their ships is a match for our valour.

I looked over his stock with a steel measuring-tape in my hand, for a skeleton of about the right sizesixty-three inchesbut I did not mention that size was a special object.

His size and weight, the length or shortness of his limbs, the carriage of his tail, the form of his skull and muzzle, the colour and texture of his coat were the subjects of controversy.

38 Metaphors for  sizing