Ounce

Examples

• About 1/4 to 3/4 of an ounce per 50 gallons will be found sufficient for most wines. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• His head was down and his shoulders rounded, as he put every ounce of energy that he possessed on to the pedals. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• But in 1695, the common price of silver bullion was six shillings and fivepence an ounce, {Lowndes's Essay on the Silver Coin, 68. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Mix, and dissolve 1 ounce of the mixture in 1 pint of water when wanted for use. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Dissolve 3/4 of an ounce of salicylic acid in a gallon of cider, and then add this amount to each barrel of cider. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Or, take negrosine, 1 ounce; dextrine, 3 ounces; mix. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• He was a hard man, and would never bate an ounce of plate or a bottle of wine. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Dewar produced the first ounce of liquid air at a cost of $3,000, but that now Mr. Tripler claims that he can produce it by his apparatus for five cents a gallon. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• In the mint of Calcutta, an ounce of fine gold is supposed to be worth fifteen ounces of fine silver, in the same manner as in Europe. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• They are said to be worth five shillings, some say ten shillings, an ounce for the fashion. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• T'other chap hasn't an ounce of measter's flesh about him. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Sixteen leaden bullets, of an ounce each, weigh as much in water as one of a pound, whose superfices is less. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• He knew that the vast change he contemplated needed every ounce of intellectual power that the world possessed. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The corks should always be boiled in water containing 1 ounce to the gallon, which is also efficient in disinfecting tubes, taps, etc. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• He is vulnerable to reason there--always a few grains of common-sense in an ounce of miserliness. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• In the English coin, it exchanges for about fifteen ounces, that is, for more silver than it is worth, according to the common estimation of Europe. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Sparkling Must requires an addition of 6 to 7 ounces of salicylic acid per 100 gallons. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Then add gradually about nine ounces of the orange-flower water, stirring constantly, continuing this operation until a fine, creamy emulsion is the result. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• To every gallon of juice to be filtered there is placed in the filter 2 ounces of charcoal, 2 scruples of crushed mustard seed, and 6 drachms of ground sassafras root. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Silver, 53,860,000 ounces; worth $32,316,000. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Dissolve the corrosive sublimate in three ounces of the orange-flower water, add the hydrochloric acid, and set aside. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• It is certainly-easier for the consumer to pay five shillings a-year for every hundred ounces of plate, near one per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• To keep oysters stir into them 3 ounces of the solution (cold) to each gallon of oysters. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Or, take negrosine, 1 ounce; dextrine, 3 ounces; mix. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• In the mint of Calcutta, an ounce of fine gold is supposed to be worth fifteen ounces of fine silver, in the same manner as in Europe. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Thoroughly bruise the granate bark and pumpkin-seed, and with the ergot boil in eight ounces of water for fifteen minutes, and strain through a coarse cloth. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• The production of metals, other than iron, in the United States for the year 1897, was as follows: Gold, 2,774,935 ounces; worth $57,363,000. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The composition is made as follows: Good glue 4 ounces av. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• A man who moves 8 pounds through 6 feet does 48 foot pounds of work, while a man who moves 8 ounces (1/2 pound) through 6 inches (1/2 foot) does only one fourth of a foot pound of work. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• It was divided, in the same manner as our Troyes pound, into twelve ounces, each of which contained a real ounce of good copper. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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