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Example sentences for "weighed"

Lexicographically close words:
weibliche; weiblichen; weicht; weie; weigh; weigher; weighers; weigheth; weighing; weighings
  1. Days passed on; life weighed weary on me; the famine came.

  2. The air was laden with a burdensome heat; and all things on earth, animate and inanimate, felt the oppression that weighed on them from the higher elements.

  3. The Mayflower weighed anchor in the morning to carry her brave freight to their new home.

  4. She weighed anchor and slowly moved on her first tack, bright in the golden sunshine of a perfect Indian summer morning.

  5. Perhaps the circumstance weighed with him; at all events, he stopped short.

  6. But it annoyed him to think how very little in argument a thermometer weighed against a rifle.

  7. I weighed it all over again after I got in from the Gold Nugget the night we went on the stampede.

  8. Went one hundred and seventy-eight last week when I weighed myself on the grain scales--and I'm five feet ten and a half.

  9. On the next day the animal weighed the same, and the dose was repeated.

  10. Two days later the animal weighed 1,360 grams and died the same day.

  11. The precipitate was dissolved in concentrated sulphuric acid and reprecipitated by water and weighed as BaSO{4}.

  12. The total result is, that whilst they weighed respectively 2 lbs.

  13. I weighed them this year, on May 29th, soon after their waking up for the summer, and again on September 8th.

  14. In my former paper, I mentioned that during the summer months of 1886, when I first weighed them, i.

  15. The fact that it involved a very considerable pecuniary sacrifice does not seem to have weighed with him at all.

  16. It may be doubted whether a healthy human adult brain ever weighed less than thirty-one or two ounces, or that the heaviest Gorilla brain has exceeded twenty ounces.

  17. The lightest brain of an adult male, with sound mental faculties, recorded by Wagner, weighed 1020 grammes.

  18. Weighed in the fair scale of usefulness to the King's business in Parliament, they can have no competitors that deserve to stand in their way.

  19. I seem to see the portly German sergeant-major in his grey-green uniform pressing the lever on the great gun to cause the mighty explosion which hurled that shell, which is as tall as me and weighed a ton, nearly thirty miles.

  20. The whole was extremely heavy, and weighed many tons.

  21. Clare kept her for the rest of the evening, and took her home at last, weighed down by her parcel of books, sleepy from the effects of excitement and happiness.

  22. She did not believe that it weighed with Miss Marsham against her own solid qualities.

  23. Also it dawned upon her that Roger was weighed down by preposterous parcels; that the parcels were her own.

  24. Corcoran, the only person who shared the car with us, seemed to have some psychical consciousness of the peril which weighed down upon us, and moved quietly about the car, or sat in the cupola, as mute as we.

  25. Finally, Jim, in thanking him for his proffered assistance, inquired diplomatically after the thing which weighed upon the Captain's mind.

  26. Sire," they answered, "your royal person and your queen and children cannot be valued in money nor weighed in the balance against our lives.

  27. Kirkwood had weighed the matter carefully and decided that she would not profit greatly by a college course--a decision which Phil had stoutly supported.

  28. And I can't have my daughter weighed down with such cares as these you threaten to assume.

  29. Her intuitions grasped the situation and weighed its nice points.

  30. A single master hand had in an instant turned England's night to day, and had brought us out of that nightmare of miscalculation and disaster which had weighed so long upon our spirits.

  31. It had weighed upon us, until the subject, though ever present in our thoughts, was too painful for general talk.

  32. Dora, I love that man; I never knew how well, until I weighed it by my tears.

  33. Then your mother died; events were drawing to a close; you returned, no thought of love in your heart; I repressed my mad affection for you, but I was weighed to earth by the effort.

  34. He weighed the attraction of the proposal against the life which he had otherwise before him.

  35. Let any one compare the German student, whose acquirements are weighed by a competent judge, with the student of any foreign university.

  36. All these circumstances were well weighed by his judges, as ground of excuse so far as they might contribute to the mitigation of his punishment.

  37. But now, on the point of departure, the thought of leaving Eric Cobbley, with a wife and two children, adrift in the cold waters of an unappreciative world weighed on her so that she was still in danger of backing out.

  38. On this day the Archbishop died, sorely grieved at the situation, and weighed down with cares.

  39. A weighed quantity of the glycerine is shaken up with some neutral ether in a separating funnel, the glycerine allowed to settle, drawn off, and the ether washed with three separate lots of water.

  40. The water may be very easily estimated by drying a weighed quantity in a platinum crucible at 100° C.

  41. The bore-hole is then emptied and dried, and a weighed quantity (say 10 grms.

  42. A weighed quantity of mercury fulminate is added to excess, but measured quantity of fuming hydrochloric acid contained in a retort connected with a receiver holding water.

  43. The paper is moistened with a solution of acetone and ammonia, the cap composition is weighed off directly on to the filter paper and is then covered with the solution of acetone and ammonia and allowed to stand thirty-four hours.

  44. The weighed residue must afterwards be treated in a flask with ether-alcohol to dissolve out the nitro-cotton.

  45. Some ether is then added, and the mixture shaken, and the ether separated and evaporated, and the residue weighed as vaseline.

  46. The residue may, if wished, be dried and weighed in the aluminium cup, but then it cannot be ignited.

  47. The nitrates are next weighed out and dissolved in hot water, and to this solution is added the mixture of nitro-celluloses and calcium carbonate with constant stirring until the entire mass becomes a homogeneous paste.

  48. The shell and foil are put to one side and subsequently weighed when dry.

  49. Having weighed the argument on both sides, I am clearly of the opinion that we must, as we value the liberties of America, or even her existence, without a moment's delay declare for independence.

  50. Edward Forster had maturely weighed the difficulties of the charge imposed upon him, that of educating a female.

  51. With some hearty execrations upon the heads of the offending parties, and swearing that by G--d there was no such thing as gratitude in a sailor, the commander of the cutter weighed his anchor, and proceeded to sea.


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    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    weighed anchor; weighed down; weighed quantity