2 examples of catties in sentences

But how is it that this heart has in it what is equal to the attainment of the Royal sway?" Mencius said, "Suppose a man were to make this statement to your Majesty, 'My strength is sufficient to lift three thousand catties, but is not sufficient to lift one feather; my eyesight is sharp enough to examine the point of an autumn hair, but I do not see a wagon-load of fagots,' would your Majesty allow what he said?"

So he contrived, rather cleverly, to steal about a hundred catties of Fuh-kien hemp.

2 examples of  catties  in sentences