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.

This is quite as great an element of its destructiveness as its more deadly power and capacity for quick shooting, since it eliminates the necessity for accurately gauging distance, one of the hardest things for the amateur hunter to learn.

He did not know, and he had no means of gauging, exactly how deeply the iron had pierced.

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.

Mag. Scale for Gauging Cylindrical Measures of Capacity.

It may be added, that the change of figure is not instantaneous, but becomes greater after some continuance of the strain than it was at first, so that in gauging a cylinder to ascertain the difference of diameter when it is placed on its side, it should have lain some days upon its side to ensure the accuracy of the operation.

It is thus we are all prone to reason, gauging the tide of each other's feelings by the ebb and flow of our own.

Frequently the landlord made a long neck over the table, gauging the contents of our tardily emptied pint; and, as the watchman was calling 'Past eleven,' finally took it away, and bade us 'bundle off.'

Fifty men of the Chandos who had not yet had an opportunity of gauging Brown's incapacity, volunteered, for forty rupees a head, to join a landing party; but not a single seaman in the squadron would consent, 'upon any consideration whatsoever,' to go on board the Phram, till an increased bounty secured the services of the Chandos' sailors.

An old spelling-book used to tell us that "it is agreeable to watch the unparalleled embarrassment of a harassed pedlar when gauging the symmetry of a peeled pear."

Where's the mastery of mind, Trammelless and unconfined, Probing Nature's boundless scheme, Gauging the stupendous theme?

"Arithmetic is excellent for the gauging of liquors; geometry, for the measuring of estates; astronomy, for the making of almanacs; and grammar, perhaps, for the drawing of bonds and conveyances."See

"Arithmetic is excellent for the gauging of liquors.

Sometimes one fears that this very modesty pushed to an extreme prevented others who did not know his life and his work from accurately gauging his real work.

BASTIAN-BLESSING CO. Rego liquefied petroleum gas equipment gauging devices.

CANTRIL, ALBERT H. Gauging public opinion.

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CANTRIL, ALBERT H. Gauging public opinion.

Gauging public opinion, by Hadley Cantril & research associates of the <pb id='304.png' n='1971h2/A/3675' /> Office of Public Opinion Research, Princeton University.

Gauging public opinion.

But the blacking he was determined she should have; so, gauging her probable position, with one desperate effort he squeezed in a little farther and, raising the bottle, he poured the contents on her head.

Being so long unaccustomed to vegetable food, and helped on, no doubt, by our poor judgment in gauging the quantity of our food, we were attacked by severe pains in the stomach and bowels, from which we suffered intensely.

One blessing had I, than the rest So larger to my eyes That I stopped gauging, satisfied, For this enchanted size.

One blessing had I, than the rest So larger to my eyes That I stopped gauging, satisfied, For this enchanted size.

During these few months new plays were being constantly put on, for Madame was somehow not very fortunate in gauging the taste of the public.