Myself, I prefer and always play with a 14-oz., and hold that unless there is a weakness of the wrist, or some personal reason why the player should knock off the extra half-ounce, this weight is the best for ladies to use.

The joint between the atlas and the skull is the fulcrum, the weight of the head is the resistance.

Its total weight is nearly 100 tons.

A bag is suspended by a strap over the shoulder, the end of the bag reaching the ground, so that its weight may not be an inconvenience.

Between the doors I placed 8 double lions whose weight is 1 ner 6 soss, 50 talents of first-rate copper, made in honor of Mylitta ... and their four kubur in materials from Mount Amanus; I placed them on nirgalli.

The place is the same, Runswick Bay and our village green, but the weight to be drawn is not a boat, not a handkerchief; the weight is a human soul.

In the case of a bridge the weight of the structure itself is the dead load.

The feather-weight from Kingston, however, is a good enough sport to express a willingness to box, for points, with the heavy-weight from Troy.

The weight of pure gold that was offered every year to Solomon was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold, except that that the merchants offered, and all they that sold, and all the kings of Arabia and dukes of that land.

this giant I will slay alone, Although his weight is many gur-ri stone; This giant's form the gods have surely made An enemy well worthy of my blade.

On June 10, 1915, his weight was thirty-four pounds, his height thirty-two inches, and his chest girt twenty-three inches.

Weight, of course, was the great bugbear of every air-ship inventor, and the chief problem was to provide a motor light enough to furnish sufficient power for driving a balloon that had sufficient lifting capacity to support it and the aeronaut in the air.

But the objection is stated, and it is a serious one: the weight of fuel is not the only thing to be considered.

Weight is not a certain criterion of a terrier's fitness for his workgeneral shape, size and contour are the main points; and if a dog can gallop and stay, and follow his fox up a drain, it matters little what his weight is to a pound or so, though, roughly speaking, it may be said he should not scale over twenty pounds in show condition.

Suppose that Van Torp wished to do something with the Nickel Trust in Paris, and that I had private information to the effect that he was not a man to be trusted, and that I believed this information, don't you see that I should naturally warn my friends against him, and that our joint weight would be an effective obstacle in his way?' 'Yes, I see that.

The largest grizzly weighs but a thousand pounds, but that weight is simple fiber and iron muscle, of a might incredible to any one but the woodsmen who know this mountain king in his native haunts.

A heavy drag-weight upon the powers of some men is the uncertainty of their powers.

The weight in full working order is, engine, leading wheel, 10 tons; ditto driving wheels, 14 tons; ditto trailing wheels, 9 tons 10 cwt.; tender, with 40 cwt. coal and 2,600 gals.

The weight of a full-grown dog should be anything over 160 lb.

This acid forms readily into regular crystals, of which one half the weight is water, the other half being pure acid.

Her normal weight was not a trifle, and this morning she was heavy with champagne and sleep.

The roof is 64.520 meters wide and 14.628 meters high; and its total weight is 103.300 kilos.

The trusty bark, ore laden with thy sinnes, Baudryes, grosse lyes, thy theft and perjuryes Beesydes the burdene of thy ill gott gooddes, Not able to indure so greate a weight Was forct to sinke beneathe them.

A cubical pile of 150 hectoliters contains 105 rows of No. 16 flat and corrugated zinc plates, whose total weight is 6,200 kilogrammes.

The weight of taxation to support the government is an almost intolerable burden.