Bushel

Examples

• It is in England taxed at three shillings and fourpence a bushel; about three times the original price of the commodity. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• A barrel of herrings is supposed to require about one bushel and one-fourth of a bushel foreign salt. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Nice unslaked lime, 1/2 bushel; slake it with boiling water; cover it during the process to keep in the steam. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• It is said that the self-binding reaper has reduced the cost of harvesting grain to less than half a cent a bushel. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Tenpence was then reckoned what is called the moderate and reasonable price of a bushel of wheat. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Outer doors of chambers are shut up by the score, messages and parcels are to be left at the Porter's Lodge by the bushel. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• That about the price of wheat per bushel, I modestly felt was too much for my strength, and quite settled the question. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I have never, to this hour, got the better of that bushel of wheat. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Sixteen shillings, therefore, was the price of two quarters and more than three bushels of wheat. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• At the rate of twenty-eight shillings the quarter, one-and-twenty shillings is in the present times the price of six bushels only. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Commixtion is the blending of two bodies, such as two bushels of corn, where the parts remain separate in an obvious and visible manner. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• They will change inches into feet, pounds into bushels, and do other stunts that would make the average schoolboy envious when it comes to arithmetic. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Two bushels are the supposed average of Scotch salt. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Of the 360,000,000 bushels of wheat raised last year I suppose more than 300,000,000 was winter wheat. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Vessels have been designed for this purpose with a capacity of gathering oysters from good ground at the rate of 5,000 bushels per hour. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I smell roses, till I think I see the rose-leaves lying in heaps, bushels, on the floor. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• No fewer than six hundred wagons came clattering in, and as many as twenty sail vessels were loaded with thirty-five thousand bushels of grain, during a single day. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The exports of wheat to foreign lands in 1898 were 148,231,261 bushels, worth $145,684,659, and the exports of wheat flour for the same year were 15,349,943 barrels, worth $69,263,718. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• One apple-raiser in this district gathered two hundred bushels of apples per acre from his six-year-old trees. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Two crops in the year, from thirty to sixty bushels each, are said to be the ordinary produce of an acre. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The total yield of wheat in the United States for 1898 was 675,148,705 bushels. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• At the rate of six shillings and eightpence the quarter, ten shillings was in those ancient times the price of twelve bushels of wheat. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Bounty as before ? 0 14 11? But if to this bounty, the duty on two bushels of Scotch salt, at 1s. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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