Two of the diamonds weighed, | | together, 1, 1/2, and 1/3, and 1-16 carats, and the other, a | | flat stone, showing nearly a surface of one carat, weighed | | 3/4 and 1-32.

" Like others of his stamp, the Colonel amounts to something just where he is, but take him anywhere else, he'd be a first-class, eighteen carat fraud.

White-nosed, low-chested girls in short-vamp shoes and no-carat gold vanity-cases

You 'ain't got that fourteen-carat look in your eye for nothing.

You can get plenty of boys my carat, and a lot of other things thrown in I haven't got to offer you.

Eventuality, 18 carat fine; absorption, 99 per cent.

Gold also, I was told, is to be found in the streams about Chitral; this statement proved correct, as I was able to work up some with the aid of mercury, and on having the ore tested by a goldsmith's firm in India, it was pronounced by them to be 21 carat; but this washing is seldom permitted, the reason assigned by the chief being that if once it were known that Chitral produced gold, his country would be lost to him.

There would be no hesitation when the eventful moment came, since none was present save those who had been tried in the furnace of battle and found to be fine gold, eighteen carat pure.

A few yards broad of sand, and then impenetrable jungle, among which we could see, below, the curved yellow stems of the coconuts; and higher up the straight gray stems and broad fan-leaves of Carat palms; which I regret to say we did not reach.

And through them a Carat {140a} palm has thrust its thin bending stem, and spread out its flat head of fan-shaped leaves twenty feet long each: while over it, I verily believe, hangs eighty feet aloft the head of the very tree upon whose roots we are sitting.

A few Carat-palms {184} spread their huge fan-leaves among the curious flowering trees; other foreign palms, some of them very rare, beside them; and on the lawn opposite my bedroom window stood a young Palmiste, which had been planted barely eight years, and was now thirty-eight feet in height, and more than six feet in girth at the butt.

But the curiosity of the tree was a Carat-palm which had started between its very roots; had run its straight and slender stem up parallel with the bole of its companion, and had then pierced through the head of the tree, and all its wilderness of lianes, till it spread its huge flat crown of fans among the highest branches, more than a hundred feet aloft.

Poster's note: The dagger symbol has been replaced by the carat "^" for this plain-text file.

You may interpret the carat as a dagger in the original except in one place, where the carat itself is defined in the Special Characters List in section 550.

You may interpret the carat as a dagger in the original except in one place, where the carat itself is defined in the Special Characters List in section 550.

weighing, ponderation^, trutination^; weights; avoirdupois weight, troy weight, apothecaries' weight; grain, scruple, drachma^, ounce, pound, lb, arroba^, load, stone, hundredweight, cwt, ton, long ton, metric ton, quintal, carat, pennyweight, tod^. [metric weights] gram, centigram, milligram, microgram, kilogram; nanogram, picogram, femtogram, attogram.

The best investment in the world Is goodwill, twenty carat; It costs you nothing, brings returns; So get yours out and air it.

And what is a carat, pray?

Four grains are equal to one carat, and six carats make one pennyweight.

An ill-fortune took us to the Hotel Slav, which is very inferior to our dining carat least as regards its bill of fare.

Just fancy, these brilliant brooches adorned with gems of purest ray serenethat is, to the naked, unexpert eyewell-fashioned in the matter of workmanship, and looking of, at least, eighteen carat gold, and yet they could be purchased at the rate of from fifteen to eighteen pence each.

When he saw Miss Harris at supper-time and undertook to explain his black eyes she assured him coldly that he and his ebony gig-lamps mattered nothing in her young life, as evidence of which she flashed a magnificent three-quarter carat diamond solitaire on her third finger.

Last thing he done was to give his eighteen-carat squaw-catcher the once-over with his buckskin buffer, then he shined it at the chief's girl and trotted down to the startin'-line.

Mr. G.F. Breed, manager of the Valencia Mica Company, has cut nearly one hundred aquamarines, ranging from ½ carat to 4 carats in weight, and of a light blue color, from white beryls found in the company's mica mine at North Grafton, N.H.

R653067. 14 carat dream.

They are recorded in the well-known lines: "Quem Papa dispenset multus labor opprimit aeger Qui timet aut occulus, officioque caret.

Ista, cum modicum declinet à circulo terræ sub Æquatore, patitur in anno duas æstates, et duas hyemes, si tamen hyems aliqua dici debeat, et non magis æstas, quia nullus hic dies anni caret fructu, flore, germine.

[part wanting] defect, deficit, defalcation, omission; caret; shortage; interval &c 198; break &c (discontinuity) 70; noncompletion &c 730; missing link.

Phr. caetera desunt [Lat.]; caret. 54.

V. be insufficient &c adj.; not suffice &c 639; come short of &c 304; run dry. want, lack, need, require; caret; be in want &c (poor) 804, live from hand to mouth.

With justice sings the poet of life's wisdom: Auream quisquis mediocritatem Diligit, tutus caret obsoleti Sordibus tecti, caret invidenda Sobrius aula.

With justice sings the poet of life's wisdom: Auream quisquis mediocritatem Diligit, tutus caret obsoleti Sordibus tecti, caret invidenda Sobrius aula.

Ulricus Huttenus nemo, nam, nemo omnibus horis sapit, Nemo nascitur sine vitiis, Crimine Nemo caret, Nemo sorte sua vivit contentus, Nemo in amore sapit, Nemo bonus, Nemo sapiens, Nemo, est ex omni parti beatus, &c. and therefore Nicholas Nemo, or Monsieur Nobody shall go free, Quid valeat nemo, Nemo referre potest?

Besides, misera est fortuna quae caret inimico, he is in a miserable estate that wants enemies:

Omne peccatum aut excusationem secum habet, aut voluptatem, sola invidia utraque caret, reliqua vitia finem habent, ira defervescit, gula satiatur, odium finem habet, invidia nunquam quiescit. 1702.

Qui caret argento, frustra utitur argumento. 5048.

Proles aucta gravat, rapta orbat; caeca juventae est Virtus; canities cauta vigore caret.

"A Caret, marked thus ^ is placed where some word happens to be left out in writing, and which is inserted over the line.

[^] The CARET, used only in writing, shows where to insert words or letters that have been accidentally omitted.

What is the use of the Caret?

"The Caret (marked thus ^) is placed where something that happened to be left out, is to be put into the line.

Caret, in what used, and for what purpose.

"Is flying" is of this class; and "is wanting," corresponding to the Latin caret, appears to be neuter; hut the rest seem rather to be passives.

'Auream quisquis mediocritatem Diligit, tutus caret obsoleti Sordibus tecti, caret invidendâ Sobrius aulâ.' Hor.

'Auream quisquis mediocritatem Diligit, tutus caret obsoleti Sordibus tecti, caret invidendâ Sobrius aulâ.' Hor.

Omitted words may be written between the lines and the place where they belong indicated by a caret.

Want you totake caret' I get up.