Weighs

Examples

• Now it is known that one cubic inch of mercury weighs about half a pound. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• It weighs 272,000 pounds, with tender 70 feet long, and has a draw-bar pull of 30,700 pounds. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The Orloff diamond, belonging to the Emperor of Russia, weighs 195 carats; the Pitt diamond, among the French crown jewels, 136-1/2. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Abraham weighs to Ephron the four hundred shekels of silver which he had agreed to pay for the field of Machpelah. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• A gallon of water weighs approximately 8. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The upper head of the compressor weighs 125 tons, and the lower one, including the cylinder through which the hydraulic pressure is applied, 135 tons. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• With the roadway and suspension chains attached, each tube weighs 1,100 tons. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• It weighs less per horse power, takes up less room and requires less fuel per hour than any other reliable motor. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The object glass is 36 inches in diameter, and weighs, with its cell, 530 lbs. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• One mile of single wire used in the transcontinental line weighs 435 pounds, the weight of the wires in the entire line being 5,920,000 pounds, or 2,960 tons. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The New York Central type is 43 feet long, 14 feet 9-1/2 inches high, and weighs 230,000 pounds. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The general is a large man; weighs two hundred and twenty pounds, and is not tall. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Our greeps weighs six pounds every bunch of 'em, and upon me honour and conscience I think our magnolias is as big as taykettles. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Mrs. Weston, your argument weighs most with me. Jane Austen. Emma.
• It weighs only one fourth as much as the original wood. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The complete unit weighs 157 tons, is 64 feet 11 inches long, and the motors have combined horse-power of 4,000, giving a draw-bar pull of 79,200 pounds, and a speed of 60 miles per hour. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• One model, 5 x 10 feet in size, weighs 2,000 pounds. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• With its mechanism reduced to the fewest and simplest parts, the whole machine weighs only six pounds, and it differs in many respects from the ordinary typewriter. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Next comes boy Jack, Tom Moody's son, who weighs five stone, measures eight-and-forty inches, and will never be any bigger. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The entire weight of the siderostat and base is 99,000 pounds, the movable part weighs 33,000 pounds, and the mirror and its cell weigh 14,740. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The mirror itself is of glass, weighs 7,920 pounds, is 6. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Its hammer head, in the working-machine, weighs 125 tons, and many of the seventeen inch thick armor plates for our battleships have been forged by its tremendous blows. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The gun weighs one hundred pounds and firing may be kept up with a ten-barreled gun at one thousand shots a minute. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The car as constructed weighs 86,200 pounds. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• That is, when the roller weighs 12, a force of 3 suffices to raise it to the height _A_ along the incline; but the smaller force must be applied throughout the entire length of the incline. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The locomotive weighs ninety-six tons, or twenty-five tons above the average steam locomotive. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The locomotive is 108 feet 10 inches long, weighs 700,000 pounds, and has a draw-bar pull of 96,000 pounds. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The material used is an alloy of aluminum, and the diving case weighs complete about 500 pounds. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• When we measure water, we find that 1 cubic foot of it weighs about 62. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The bones are light and she weighs little. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.

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