Weighing

Examples

• There is no reason, therefore, to think that money troubles have been weighing upon his mind. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The steam-shovel did not discriminate, but picked up handily single pieces weighing five or six tons and loaded them on the skips with quantities of smaller lumps. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This heavy oil engine, weighing about five hundred pounds per horse-power, was not adapted to the submarine, and efforts have been made to decrease the weight. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• When this high speed is attained, masses of rock weighing several tons in one or more pieces are dumped into a hopper which guides them into the gap between the rapidly revolving rolls. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Kerchak was a huge king ape, weighing perhaps three hundred and fifty pounds. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• 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.
• To this standard the inventions of the century in weighing scales have come. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Payne had a shop in Newark, and in one small room was the motor, weighing perhaps six hundred pounds. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Built as described each room would have a capacity of over 3,000 cubic feet which would contain about 50 tons of settled ensilage weighing 35 pounds to the cubic foot. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• The average length of the common cod is about two and one-half or three feet, and the weight between thirty and fifty pounds, though sometimes cod are caught weighing three times as much. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Mrs. Bry, to Mrs. Fisher's despair, had not progressed beyond the point of weighing her social alternatives in public. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Hundreds of instruments have been invented for measuring, analysing, weighing, separating, volatilising and otherwise applying chemical processes to practical purposes. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• They were expert builders, and possessed the engineering skill to erect obelisks weighing hundreds of tons. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• And therefore strict accuracy must always be the measure of merit of a weighing machine. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Some of the South African diamonds are also very large, one being found in 1893 weighing 971 carats, or nearly half a pound. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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