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Then, before I could use my rifle, or do anything, there came a sharp crackcr-ac-k; and the window-frame gave way under the weight of the Thing.

in Occurrences 350%

"Well, I own I am a light weight in the race.

with Occurrences 225%

" But as the present patriotic preference for home-bred manufactures, may extend to anecdotes as well as to other productions, a story of domestic origin may have more weight with most of my readers, than one introduced from abroad.

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The pain seemed to begin at his throat, pressing down gradually on the chest It was that feeling of oppression, he supposed, that makes one sigh; as though there were a weight on the heart.

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" "That would lend weight to the volcanic theory," said Carter.

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Then, as I took my weight from off the parapet, a huge piece of the stone coping slid from under me, and fell with a crash among the disorganized throng beneath.

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There were times when you could lean your whole weight against the blast.

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Put all into a press under a heavy weight for one hour; then cut into perpendicular slices and serve. 15.Spanish Dessert.

than Occurrences 34%

They are shorter too, in proportion to their weight than the speckled trout.

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In the 15th century, the top, like the beam of a pair of scales, was made to move up and down; at one end hung a halter, at the other a large weight, the halter was drawn down, and being put round the criminal's neck, the weight at the other end lifted him from the ground.

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" I said that I knew too little of the sport to be of much weight as a witness.

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Then I put certain articles of corresponding weight into the box, did it up again precisely as I had found it, smeared over the seals with more black wax, went back to Van Koon's room with it, and placed it again where I had found itin a small suit-case.

off Occurrences 21%

Kelson had returned from the Tredworths in high spirits, the news he carried there having lifted a weight off his fiancée's mind and indeed restored the happiness of the whole family.

by Occurrences 15%

Having found that the pork had been so much reduced in weight during the late journey, I made some experiments in the preparation of meat biscuits by mixing the preserved fresh beef with flour in equal proportions, with satisfactory results, as the reduction in weight by baking was 33 per cent.

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"As probably half the guns are of middle and heavy caliber, the average weight per shell is certain to be more than twenty-five pounds.

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My twelve stone had dwindled to the weight of a small fowl, and hooking my little finger into the loop of a string hung from a peg fixed near the top of the stern wall, I found myself able thus to support my weight without any sense of fatigue for a quarter of an hour or more; in fact, I felt during that time absolutely no sense of muscular weariness.

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My knees became numb, and doubled under my weight like a pair of knife blades without a spring.

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Pythagoras was the first person who introduced measures and weights among the Greeks.

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But beholding these merciless hands, a sudden mighty rage came upon Beltane, and struggling up, he stood upon his feet and drew sword; but the fierce hands had crept up to his naked throat, cutting off his breath, the sword was dashed from his loosening grasp, the weight about him grew too much for his strength, it bore him down and down into a pitchy gloom where all was very still.

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He swung them around a sharp bend with a skillful hand and poised his weight above the brake as they plunged at terrific speed down a steep grade.

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Though De Caylus greatly purified painting in his time, yet his precepts and examples had little or no weight after his death, for the art again retrograded into its original statea state from which the French professors, as before observed, seem incapable of rising.

behind Occurrences 4%

In the prize ring speed does not mean the ability to strike one lightning blow, but rather that, having finished one drive, the fighter is in position to hit again, and then again, so that no matter where the impetus of his last lunge has placed him he is ready and poised to shoot all his weight behind his fist again and drive it accurately at a vulnerable spot.

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After losing weight during the first three days, like all new-born children, he was now growing and filling out like a strong, healthy human plant.

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Over with her!" Straining and gasping, with tense muscles and heaving chests, they brought the cumbersome weight over the side, rolled it on top of the rail, and lowered it into the cockpit on the run.

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A cylinder of a given cubical capacity will exert the same power by each stroke, whether the cylinder be made tall and narrow, or short and wide; but in the one case it will raise a small weight through a great height, and in the other case, a great weight through a small height.

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