Weights

Examples

• These are feather-weights; they want ballast. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Its pioneer form may be traced back to the Middle Ages, when heavy weights were lifted by aid of an apparatus worked by hand power. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• If a soft iron nail (Fig. 212) or its equivalent is slipped within the coil, the lifting and attractive power of the coil is increased, and comparatively heavy weights can be lifted. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The weights were raised, and Mr. Wright took his place. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Lifting heavy weights through great distances is not the only way in which work is done. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Dairy weights of ensilage fed to the stock were not taken. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• This prince has several machines fixed on wheels, for the carriage of trees and other great weights. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• And to this purpose, several packthreads were let down, with small weights at the bottom. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• A relatively simple complex machine called the crane (Fig. 116) maybe seen almost any day on the street, or wherever heavy weights are being lifted. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The pieces of cork are flattened out by heat or by weights, and are slightly charred on the surface to close the pores. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Then as to the rail: first the wooden, then the iron and now the steel, and all of many shapes and weights. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• A horseshoe electromagnet is powerful enough to support heavy weights. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Leaden weights are attached to the diver, and his shoes are weighted, that he may be able to descend a ladder, walk about below, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The Arabs also made fair approximations to the correct specific weights of gold, copper, mercur y, and lead. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• This is a very common method for raising heavy weights by small force. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Meantime Dalton's mind had been turning to the consideration of the relative sizes and weights of the various elements entering int o combination with one another. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Van Elvean, also of England, in 1858 invented counterbalance weights for such lifts. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Moreover, for p recision in the use of medicaments weights of very small denominations were employed. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• He went away as if weights were tied to every limb that bore him from her. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• A simple derrick for raising weights. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Is it a fact that at the weights Bayard could give the other a hundred yards in five furlongs, and that the stable have put their money on him? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The two were pressed together by means of weights. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I sat up straight and as I did so something inside my head moved like the weights on a doll's eyes and it hit me inside in back of my eyeballs. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Aristotle had held that two moving bodies of the same sort and in the same medium have velocities in pr oportion to their weights. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• When Dalton had investigated the relative weights with which elements combine, he had found no simple arithmetical relationship betw een atomic weight and atomic weight. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Yet in spite of having those weights on his conscience, Eugene was somewhat enlivened by the late slight change in the circumstances of affairs. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Separate the residuum in as many definite parts as possible, bottle and label, and keep accurate records as to process, weights, etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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