Weighed

Examples

• A few days before she had done a dreadful thing, and it weighed upon her conscience. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The Rocket weighed 41 tons; the tender, with water and coke, 3 tons 4 cwt. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The shields used weighed approximately sixty-seven tons each. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The anxious terror in which Mr. Hale lived lest his son should be detected and captured, far out-weighed the pleasure he derived from his presence. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Rigaud chinked the money, weighed it in his hand, threw it up a little way and caught it, chinked it again. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The man himself, for such I may call him, was fully fifteen feet in height and, on Earth, would have weighed some four hundred pounds. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• I continued walking in this manner for some time, endeavouring, by bodily exercise, to ease the load that weighed upon my mind. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Here, replied Front-de-Boeuf, here it must be delivered--weighed it must be--weighed and told down on this very dungeon floor. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• As each of these projectiles weighed 1,400 pounds any battleship receiving such a broadside would probably have gone promptly to the bottom. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The locomotive weighed three tons, was twelve feet long, five feet wide, and made a speed of nine miles an hour with a trailer car for passengers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The next morning we weighed anchor and went to sea. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I considered, paused, watched, weighed, wondered. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• This argument deserves to be weighed, as being, in my opinion, entirely decisive. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• It was to this effect: The black porker's killed--weighed x stone--salted the sides--pig's pudding and leg of pork for dinner. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• What were a few long hours added to the hardships of some over-taxed brutes when weighed against the peril of those human souls? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It has weighed on my spirits ever since. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Never to fold the robe o'er secret pain, Never, weighed down by memory's clouds again, To bow thy head! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I do not think he weighed over one hundred and twenty five pounds. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Certainly it weighed no more than that girl and if the old woman had been over them they would have gotten it away. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• It was a happy morning for them both when the little vessel weighed anchor and made for the open sea. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The whole mass of iron employed weighed 10,540 tons. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Should your boasted beauty, said the Templar, be weighed in the balance and found wanting, you know our wager? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• It weighed fifty-eight pounds, had an engine of between two and a half and three horse-p ower, and a sustaining surface of sixty-six square feet. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• He had tested and weighed his convictions again and again, and saw no reason to alter them, though he had considerably lessened his plan. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• After inspection they are weighed on very accurate scales. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• They were three and a half feet in diameter and weighed together one and a half tons. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It weighed, with the aviator, about 745 pounds, and was propelled by a gas-engine weighing 240 pounds, and having twelve or thirteen horse-power. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• When at a distance, I alighted, and threw myself on the grass, weighed down by horror and despair. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• To begin with, metals were handed about in ingots and weighed at each transaction. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It weighed originally nearly 800 carats, but by subsequent recuttings has been reduced to 103-3/4 carats. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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