Scales
[skeilz]
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of weighing on scales, portends that justice will temper your conduct, and you will see your prosperity widening. For a young woman to weigh her lover, the indications are that she will find him of solid worth, and faithfulness will balance her love.
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Examples
- The ranges are read in scales of 10-yard steps, and the azimuths for each . Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The morbid scales had fallen from her eyes, and she saw her position and her work more truly. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The scales are set according to the chemist's weighing orders, and the material is fed into the scales from the hoppers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- They converted the steelyard into platform scales. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- To this standard the inventions of the century in weighing scales have come. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- For now he felt like a pair of scales, the half of which tips down and down into an indefinite void. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Mr Meagles was at hand the whole time, always ready to illuminate any dim place with the bright little safety-lamp belonging to the scales and scoop. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- After inspection they are weighed on very accurate scales. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The scales are balanced so nicely that a feather would turn them. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Then the scales fell from the eyes of the Seven, and one said, Alas, that we drank of the curious liquors. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Hairs, like feathers, are long and elaborately specialized scales. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And then again she became aware of her own excellencies, and began to balance with juster scales the shades of good and evil. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Great Britain holds the scales. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I got up a motor and put it on the scales and tried a large number of different things and contrivances connected to the motor, to see how it would lighten itself on the scales. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I speak of the north shore of Tahoe, where one can count the scales on a trout at a depth of a hundred and eighty feet. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Machines hermetically seal the tins, and men pack them in crates and carefully weigh them over two scales. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Platform scales were described in an English patent to one Salman in 1796, but their use is not recorded. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- An instrument for measuring the strength of a light is called a photometer, and there are many different varieties, just as there are varieties of scales which measure household articles. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- People talk about evidence as if it could really be weighed in scales by a blind Justice. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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