27 collocations for weights

"Must weight a 'undred pound or more!"

"And, after evening prayer and prostration we took Ibrahim, and forcing his head between the stakes so that he could not turn it, we tied his hands and feet to the pegs and weighted his body with the stones, being careful to do him no injury and to cause no such pain as might detract from the real torture, and lessen his punishment.

The Utilitarian writers of last generation, if they admitted the conflict of egoism and altruism, weighted every consideration on the side of altruism.

" FATTENING GIRLS FOR THE MARRIAGE MARKET The population of Africa comprises hundreds of different peoples and tribes, the vast majority of whom make bulk and weight the chief criterion of a woman's charms.

It was patent that the man did not weight the strange doctor against any serious thoughts.

Let each lever compress the tube a little by weighting one end of it with a blackboard eraser or book of convenient size.

He began to wish that he had taken off his boots before entering, for they weighted his feet so that it made him leg-weary to kick.

" Here are a couple of stately compliments to his Shah, from the kindred genius of Enweri: "Not in their houses stand the stars, But o'er the pinnacles of thine!" "From thy worth and weight the stars gravitate, And the equipoise of heaven is thy house's equipoise!

They replied with threats and imprecations; and sought to force their way onward, pressing back by their mere numbers and weight the small group of loyal champions who by this time had gathered in front of him.

Oh, if you knew what it was to have even one weight lifted off, among all my heavy burdens, and that weight the hardest to bear.

Push off with your stick from the slope above you and weight your heels or your toes according to whether the Skis are sinking in front or behind.

The widow weighed one hundred and sixty pounds, netwhich is weighting a horse in a race rather more than the law allows.

I will follow it no farther; I ask you to recognise the fact that M. Flaubert has not weighted his images and has done only one thing: he has touched with a firm hand the scene of degradation.

His skimmed-milk eyes popped out over a waste of freckles which blurred his features and literally weighted down a weak, loosely-wired jaw and kept an astonished mouth opened for hours at a time.

A good brick is uniform in size; standard, 9 by by in.; weight about 7 lb.

LUCIUS, 2 feet; weight 17 lbs.

" The regulation of the Eclipse mill is accomplished by the use of a small adjustable side vane, flexible or hinged rudder vane, and weighted lever, as shown in Plate 1 (on the larger sizes of mills iron balls attached to a chain are used in place of the weighted lever).

sotile Venice, which is 26 rotiloes 8 ounces Aleppine, and of London weight 132 li.

" Here are a couple of stately compliments to his Shah, from the kindred genius of Enweri: "Not in their houses stand the stars, But o'er the pinnacles of thine!" "From thy worth and weight the stars gravitate, And the equipoise of heaven is thy house's equipoise!

At dinner:five ribs of beef, weight three stone; one sheep, fifty-six pounds; three quarters of lamb, a shoulder and loin of veal boiled, eight pullets, eight rabbits, two dozen and a half of sack, one dozen of claret.

Even to do this he was forced to stand erect in the stern-sheets: if he sat, the awkward pole would over-weight his strength completely.

One feather's weight more stress of temptation, and I should have fallen.

They weighted trees down till they actually broke limbs and swayed plenty of them.

" The Master speaking Arabic, weighted every word with its full meaning.

Some weight your argument, my Lælius, bears, But not so much as at first sight appears.

27 collocations for  weights