Do we say wait or weight

wait 11657 occurrences

He had not long to wait, for as soon as she thought the servants were asleep, she came softly into the kitchen, and, after peering about in various places, she at last lifted up the lid of the jar.

Wait a minute!

She looked about her wildly, and added, "I'll write him thatjust wait a minute."

Or, think you not, rather, that it would fully and frightfully realize the prophet's declaration: "They all lie in wait for blood: they hunt every man his neighbor with a net.

Even the individual soldier, as the fight fluctuates, must now push on, now wait patiently until the reinforcements have come up; he will often have to choose for himself the objects at which to fire, while never losing touch with the main body.

"I wait your opinion," resumed his attentive Commander, when he thought sufficient time had been allowed to mature the opinion even of Richard Fid.

And, Selim, tell that messenger to wait.

She waved her hand gaily and paused to wait for him.

I can't stay here and wait for it to come.

But they are impatient; they are not the kind who can wait and be content.

Are you with us, Deppingham?" He did not wait for an answer, but dashed out of the garden and down the steps, calling to his wife to follow.

"Wait, please!"

"Wait here," she whispered to Chase, ever so softly.

Lead me back to" "Most glorious excellency," said Neenah, shaking her pretty head, "we are to wait here.

"Wait," he said gently.

"Shall we wait for the explosion?" he asked without a sign of the emotion that had gone before.

"Well, you just wait, as the boy says.

"Can you wait up a little longer, sister?" said Father Jervis.

Let's wait till we receive intelligence!

Wait, wait for what?

Wait, wait for what?

She was so excited that she did not wait for Cheditafa to get down, but opened the door herself, and stepped in quickly, even before the porter of the establishment could attend to her.

But she had no time to consider this, and merely told him that she was going to walk in the Gardens, and the carriage must wait.

Accordingly, as Edna stepped out of the carriage, he began to speak to her, but, contrary to her usual custom, she paid no attention to him, simply telling him to wait until she came back.

It would not do to wait here and meet them.

weight 7138 occurrences

A traitor, see ye, Pardoner, whose yellow head is worth its weight in gold!

But, most blessed and right potent saint, while I am at the ears of thee, fain would I crave thy aid on matter of vasty weight and import.

Her visage is usually grim and stern, not always positively forbidding, yet calmly terrible, not merely by its breadth and weight of feature, but because it seems to express so much well-founded self-reliance, such acquaintance with the world, its toils, troubles, and dangers, and such sturdy capacity for trampling down a foe.

By the assistance of these, men even attempted to hurt their enemies; and indeed the knowledge of poisonous or useful simples, might on particular occasions give sufficient weight to their empty curses and innovations.

Turning round to relieve myself of the weight, as he had one paw on the back of my head, I saw his eyes directed to Mabalwe, who was trying to shoot him at a distance of ten or fifteen yards.

These ingots were not made legal tender, and the only object of the government mark was to guarantee quality and weight.

and if you had all the weight o' this undertaking upon your mind, perhaps you'd say the wrong thing, too!Prisoner at the bar, surrender, in the name of the Fatherthe Crown, I mane!"

The characteristics of the Berkshire hog are that it has a tawny colour, spotted with black, large ears hanging over the eyes, a thick, close, and well-made body, legs short and small in the bone; feeds up to a great weight, fattens quickly, and is good either for pork or bacon.

COMPARATIVELY SPEAKING, very little difference exists between the weight of the live and dead pig, and this, simply because there is neither the head nor the hide to be removed.

It has been proved that pork loses in cooking 13-1/2, per cent. of its weight.

The weight of the several joints of a good pork pig of four stone may be as follows; viz.:

But if the decisions of those judges were to carry weight, they must be men of unblemished integrity.

The weight of the excommunication oppressed him with a thousand griefs.

The shock, like a weight, held him down, but he was not dazed.

A supple twistthe French trickand Dorn's powerful lunge, with all his ponderous weight, drove his bayonet through the enemy's lungs.

"The only difference is that in the regular deadfall the log comes down and smashes the poor bear by its sheer weight.

To lift a dead weight of a hundred and fifty pounds is no light task, and so he started to break away one side of the pit, thus raising the bottom of the interior until they were able to simply carry Robert out of the hole.

Its weight will be but a trifleit is nothingmere nothing.

Then, he has got a new brand of silk hat, with a wide, curling brim, and he has had a vest made of black and blue check goods, the checks as big as the checks on a checker board, and a pair of pants that look like a diamond-back rattlesnake, and he has got an imitation diamond stud in his white shirt that looks like a paper weight.

Though the two worlds ne'er bowed my head when elate, Favors as his have bent my neck with their weight.

Khosráus, the kiblahs of our prayer have weight to solace our despair,[30]

CI Angels I saw at night knock at the wine-house gate: They shaped the clay of Adam, flung into moulds its weight.

All at once a deep cry came from her: "Ah! here they are!" Leisurely, and with a sour, harassed air, La Couteau came in and placed the sleeping child in Madame Menoux's arms, saying as she did so: "Well, your George is a tidy weight, I can tell you.

She then explained that she now felt no pain, but that it had suddenly seemed to her as if a heavy paving-stone were lying on her chest; then this weight had melted away, leaving her better able to breathe.

I proceeded to answer myself thus: 'Perhaps it has been of advantage, as it has given weight to what you said: you could not, perhaps, have talked with such authority without it.'

Do we say   wait   or  weight