89 collocations for gauge

Neither did Baldy, because of his new associations and ambitions, gauge his opinions of all dogs by racing tests alone.

But whether through sun-blindness or shaken by anger, the Colonel was handling his shovel uncertainly, fumbling at the gravel, content with half a shovelful, and sometimes gauging the distance to the box so badly that some of the pay fell down again in the creek.

Then and then only shall we be able to gauge the really horrible possibilities of the air war.

He was too deeply involved for any one to gauge the position accurately.

The schooner felt the impulse, the bow swinging sharply to port, and I turned and took a few steps aft, thinking to gauge our progress by the wake astern.

It all shows that he knows not how to gauge capacity.

The Congress does not expect you to wait but it expects you to act so that the Congress can gauge properly the national feeling.

It is not always a simple matter to gauge the effect of alcohol on a subject unaccustomed to such stimulant.

" My years of intercourse with him were full of "coincidences" of this description, and although he never sought to explain them by claiming any magical system of communication with my mind, I have never doubted that there actually existed some secret telepathic method by which he knew my circumstances and gauged the degree of my need.

That dream hath vanished, and my hope is flown; For he who fain a seraph would pursue Wingless, hath cast words to the winds, and dew On stones, and gauged God's reason with his own.

I am afraid thee has never gauged the depth of its wickedness.

Odd that we can never properly gauge our emotions.

Should she gauge the height of her supremacy?

Have you gauged the importance of your tremendous consumption of quack catholicons, of the fortunes derived from their sale, of the spread of modern nervous disorders, of toothless youth and thrice loathsome age among the helot-classes?

Dwight Herbert, recovering, gauged the moment to require of him humour, and observed that his wedded wife was as skittish as a colt.

Some years ago the civilized world was startled by the Bitter Cry of Outcast London, and much trouble has been taken of late to gauge the poverty of London.

He had gauged the powers of faith and conviction; he certainly would have expected to find his Polyeucte more obstinate.

As he drew near, Gloria promptly turned her back and studied her nails; she had had encounters with men before now and had not yet gauged the profundity of this man's emotion.

In so far as the purchaser lacks ability to accurately gauge quality, he has little security that by paying a higher price he is securing better wages for the workers.

Nor was there need of restraining hand, or warning voice to gauge the small quantity which safety prescribed to break the fast of the starving.

but I see that I have failed to gauge Miss Lind's peculiar taste.

Finally, great care should be exercised to prevent the Staff becoming larger than is necessary, and there is some danger that the ignorant may gauge the value of the Staff by its size.

he said, gauging his voice carefully so that it could not possibly travel to the ranch house, which all the while he carefully scanned.

A certain advantage may accrue to the reader in finding these masters side by side for comparison and for gauging Dr. Lord's unique life-work by recognized standards, keeping well in view the purpose no less than the perfection of these literary performances, all of which, like those of Dr. Lord, were aimed at setting forth the services of selected forces in the world's life.

and there's where it is; that's the way I gauges the worth o' young women, jist accordin' as they carry their chins up or down.

89 collocations for  gauge