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Sentences starting with measured

Measured by this standard, it is thirteen hundred years since the world has produced any one who could reach up to Mrs. Eddy's waistbelt. [5]
Measured by its sovereign hotel, the Continental, it would stand at the head of our economic civilization. [6]

Sentences ending with measured

He knows the ridges and chasms of the moon as a surveyor knows a garden-plot he has measured. [6]
The difference in quality between the Quaker City letters and those written from the Sandwich Islands only a year before can scarcely be measured. [5]
It was a power implacable, vengeful, not to be measured. [4]
Nothing dwarfs an individual life like one of these massive, almost unchanging monuments of an antiquity which refuses to be measured. [6]
As it was his first work for them, it was necessary for the Cure to write down the Seigneur's measurements, as the tailor called them off, while the Seigneur did the same when the Cure was being measured. [11]
How well, too, her tall figure would suit him and the Siebenburgs, whose name was said to be derived from the seven feet of stature which some of them measured! [10]
The round, steady, hawk's eyes looked before him eagerly and rather disdainfully, not resting on anything although his movements were still slow and measured. [2]
No waste or anything--all scientifically measured. [11]
One of these, a wych-elm (Scotch elm of some books), was so large that I insisted on having it measured. [6]

Short sentences using measured

He measured his distance. [11]
He measured his chances. [11]
I measured the chain--98 feet. [5]

Sentences containing measured two or more times

If the summer visitors measured Old Phelps, he also measured them by his own standards. [4]
As a matter of fact, knights errant were _not_ persons to be believed--that is, measured by modern standards of veracity; yet, measured by the standards of their own time, and scaled accordingly, you got the truth. [5]

More example sentences with the word measured in them

I must tell you, mon cher," he continued in the sad and measured tones of a man who intends to tell a long story, "that our name is one of the most ancient in France. [2]
And after him, with measured steps, a third came with a smoking censer,--the sacred fire with which to kindle the pipe. [9]
Pierre measured him with his eye, and chuckled to himself. [11]
In a little while the measured tread of military men was heard approaching, and the culprits entered the presence in charge of an under-sheriff and escorted by a detail of the king's guard. [5]
The glance by which she measured him in turn momentarily veiled the divine in the ordinary. [13]
In the barn-yard were the hens, just as usual, walking with measured step, scratching and picking in the muck, darting suddenly to one side with an elevated wing, clucking, chattering, jabbering endlessly about nothing. [4]
Most of them were personally known to Cleopatra who, to their mutual pleasure and advantage, had measured her intellectual powers with the most brilliant minds of their body. [10]
The awfulest thing was the silence; there wasn't a sound but the screaking of the saddles, the measured tramplings, and the sneezing of the horses, afflicted by the smothering dust-clouds which they kicked up. [5]
Yet the impression was instantaneous, when I set forth in the streets of New York, that we had not fully measured the magnitude of our task--an impression that has been amply confirmed as the weeks have passed. [9]
Next the Indian turned, and spoke to his brethren in measured, sonorous tones. [9]
I remembered this tree well, as we measured the string which was to tell the size of its English rival. [6]
Accordingly, I applied to Mr. Cupples, well known for his success with this breed, who has weighed and measured many of his own dogs, and who has with great kindness collected for me the following facts from various sources. [1]
These arrangements perfected to his entire satisfaction, he thrust his hands into his pockets, and walked up and down the office with measured steps. [12]
Reducing my English to his comprehension as I measured it--he bowed when I asked him if he understood--I explained to him many things necessary for the good of his country. [11]
When I measured this in 1837, it was twenty-four feet eight inches in circumference at five feet from the ground; growing larger above and below. [6]
How are such things to be measured, put into words? [9]
The people compared them with what they had seen; and, thus measured, thus judged, the boats were magnificent--the term was the correct one, it was not at all too strong. [5]
Good behaviour measured their terms of office. [5]
And outside, all the while, was the measured tramp of marching battalions, belated odds and ends of the French power gathering for the morrow's tragedy on the grim stage of war. [5]
They betted away the week at billiards or whist or picquet or loo, and sometimes measured swords for diversion, tho' this pastime the bailiff was greatly set against; as calculated to deprive him of a lodger. [9]
The latter measured the tall, brave fellow with a hasty glance, and turning, half to him, half to Alexander Farnese, said: "An enviable trick, and admirable performance, by my love! [10]
He listened to the songs of the sailors, and the music of the flute-players, to the measured beat of the oars, which came up from the triremes in the private harbor of the Emperor as they went out to sea. [10]
But he measured the six feet and more of Austen Vane with his eye, and in spite of himself experienced the compelled admiration of one fighting man for another. [9]
But Miriam, unheeding the question, calmly continued with a defiant keenness of glance that contradicted her measured speech: "After the Lord's guidance had delivered us from the enemy, the Red Sea washed ashore the most beautiful woman we have seen for a long time. [10]
Once I crossed the plains and deserts and mountains of the West in a stagecoach, from the Missouri line to California, and since then all my pleasure trips must be measured to that rare holiday frolic. [5]
On an average, the length of the femur to that of the tibia is as 211 to 252; whilst in two Europeans, measured at the same time, the femora to the tibiae were as 244 to 230; and in three Negroes as 258 to 241. [1]
In it hangs the lamp whose measured swing suggested to Galileo the pendulum. [5]
All distances in the East are measured by hours, not miles. [5]
His eye measured the distance between him and Jerry Card. [13]
He measured up the Abbe in his mind, analysed him, found the vulnerable spot in his nature, the avenue to the one place lighted by a lamp of humanity. [11]
For she felt that she could turn to Starling; he alone, apparently, had measured the full depth of her trouble; nay, had silently predicted it from the beginning. [9]
Presently she knew that he was speaking again, in the same measured tone. [9]
He used to tell his son Edward that he measured six feet in his shoes, but his son thinks he could hardly have straightened himself to that height in his later years. [6]
No, it came still nearer; was it the measured tramp of a marching troop? [5]
In the United States, above 1,000,000 soldiers, who served in the late war, were measured, and the States in which they were born and reared were recorded. [1]
Her father was so incensed that he could not talk in measured terms about her wild project of going to the wars like a man. [5]
A measured, muffled snore issued from Aunt Polly's chamber. [5]
Lassiter climbed with slow, measured steps, and blood dripped from him to make splotches on the white stone. [13]
That moment a rustling of leaves attracted her attention; then the familiar clinking accompaniment of a slow, soft, measured step, and Lassiter walked into the court. [13]
The tide was running strong round the point, and the surf was heavy, so that once or twice the boat was almost overturned; but Jean had measured well the currents and the wind. [11]
There was a row of low stepping-stones across one end of the street, a measured yard apart. [5]
Rameses measured the proud and noble figure before him with a glance, and said severely: "I am prepared to treat for peace only with such of my enemies as are willing to bow to the double crown that I wear. [10]
With the drugs prescribed are numbers, according to which they are weighed with weights and measured with hollow measures, and accompanying the prescriptions are noted the pious axioms to be repeated by the physician, while compounding and giving them to the patient. [10]
Only the stately phraseology and the measured speech of the sons of the Prophet are suited to a venerable antiquity like this. [5]
One of the peaks was named for the senator (the one next in height to Mitchell is described as Clingman on the state map), and a dispute arose as to whether Mitchell had really visited and measured the highest peak. [4]
The house droned out the eight words in a massed and measured and musical deep volume of sound (with a daringly close resemblance to a well-known church chant)--"You are f-a-r from being a b-a-a-a-d man. [5]
The sub-factor measured out a very small portion to each. [11]
A clock of one of the Austen grandfathers stood obscurely at the back of the hall, and the measured swing of its pendulum was all that broke the silence. [9]
Then he measured off about thirty-five feet of fuse--the barrel's distance from the back of the cabin. [5]
There are plenty of torrents to be crossed in its journey; but their stepping-stones are measured by the stride of man, and not of woman. [6]
Nothing is lost of the sharp wrangle of the counsel on points of law, the measured decision's of the bench; the duels between the attorneys and the witnesses. [5]
With the eye of a rider and the judgment of a marksman he once more measured the distance between him and Jerry Card. [13]
If the excellence of a newspaper is not always measured by its profitableness, it is generally true that, if it does not pay its owner, it is valueless to the public. [4]
Petrus had heard nothing but good of Paulus, and yet he measured him now with no friendly eye, for all that wore the aspect of extravagance repelled his temperate and methodical nature. [10]
She herself had not measured or fathomed the power which his very person exhaled. [9]
We had a national philosophy that measured prosperity in dollars and cents, included in this measurement the profits of liquor dealers who were responsible for most of our idiots. [9]
The spectators supplied my friend with stones, and he pelted the horse with measured gentleness. [4]
Your body was measured with a straight yard stick, but there's trouble in other places. [10]
And it is measured not by the libraries of comments that his works have called forth, but by the prevalence of the language and thought of his poetry in all subsequent literature, and by its entrance into the current of common thought and speech. [4]
As time is measured in America, McClintock's epoch is antiquity. [5]
The young man measured his grandfather's mind, and he drove home his points mercilessly. [11]
It can be measured by the standards of all times without misgiving or apprehension as to the result. [5]
His movements were measured and haughty, the bows and gestures with which he saluted the assembled crowd, patronizing and affable. [10]
Whereas formerly a man was honored only according to the amount of money he possessed, his grandeur was measured now by the number of votes he wielded. [5]
But he had made for her so high a standard, that for one to be measured thereby was a severe challenge. [11]
Then the sheriff made a speech; sitting his horse at martial ease, and not warming his words with any touch of fire, but delivering them in a measured and deliberate way, and in a tone which harmonized with their character and made them impressively disrespectful. [5]
By triangulation Lord Longlegs determined its altitude; Herr Spider measured its circumference at the base and computed the circumference at its top by a mathematical demonstration based upon the warrant furnished by the uniform degree of its taper upward. [5]
There is no longer the measured quiet sound of throbbing activity, like the sound of boiling water, but diverse discordant sounds of disorder. [2]
And while she listened, the measured breathing was broken by a soft, startled cry, such as one utters in a troubled dream. [5]
So far she listened in silence; then she suddenly raised her head and measured the petitioner's tall figure with a lurid fire in her eye. [10]
The legs are likewise shorter; and they present this remarkable peculiarity, that in every Aymara measured, the femur is actually shorter than the tibia. [1]
It is our life, and more than our life; for that is measured by pulse-beats, but our religious consciousness partakes of the Infinite, towards which it is constantly yearning. [6]
He measured his length on the tin time and again; in fact, as fast as he could get up he went down again, and the applause was kept up in liberal fashion from all the neighborhood around. [5]
Longing and expectation lay in every look, in the low tone of her voice, in her measured walk. [10]
He opened the knife, felt the blade, measured it along his fingers, and then said, with a little bursting of the lips, "Poom! [11]
According to Merle Johnson, Mark Twain's bibliographer, it was issued in pamphlet form, without wrappers or covers; there were 8 pages of text and the pamphlet measured 7 by 8 1/2 inches. [5]
Or, to put it in still another way, in regard to character and culture generally, the growth of Miss McDonald could be measured by that of Evelyn. [4]
Presently he says in measured tones, "Is it your idea that the engineer of this ship propels her by a crank turned by his own hands? [5]
She showed it in her speech; it had a measured cadence. [11]
Its walls seemed impregnable; they measured more than seventy-five feet--[Fifty ells. [10]
He felt the implication; he knew that, without realizing his difficulties, and carried on by a feeling long pent up, she had measured him unjustly, and yet he felt no resentment, and no shock. [9]
But the angle if measured at the pier is seven degrees; that is, we would have to move the pier seven degrees to make it exactly straight with the current. [7]
Before we engaged, I looked intently into my opponent's face, and measured him carefully with my eye, that I might have his height and figure explicit and exact; for I know how moonlight and fire distort, how the eye may be deceived. [11]
The only one I ever saw that measured up to something like that was you, and now you've chucked it. [9]
Then for the hundredth time he measured the width of space separating him from Jerry Card. [13]
I never measured him against you. [11]
When he measured her it was to discover that she was not so little, and the shoulder-curve of her uplifted arms, as her fingers played over the keys, seemed to belie that apparent slimness. [9]
But then again he was near losing his composure, for the lady raised her veil, and measured him with a glance as though he had asked something strange and audacious indeed. [10]
Dreams and visions have little to do with measured time, and ten minutes, possibly fifteen or twenty, were all that had passed since the beginning of those nightmare terrors which were evidently suggested by the suffocating air he was breathing. [6]
But since Hodder had sat down at the table her presence had disturbed him, and he had never been wholly free from an uncomfortable sense that he was being measured and weighed. [9]
This figure moved gravely out upon the stage and, with sedate and measured step, down to the front, where it paused, and dreamily inspected the house, saying no word. [5]
The author has given my friend the Professor credit for some of his measurements, but measured this tree himself, carefully. [6]
And with these, generally near the Longfellow end of the table, sat Emerson, talking in low tones and carefully measured utterances to his neighbor, or listening, and recording on his mental phonograph any stray word worth remembering. [6]
In the meantime Gamaliel Ives was conducting Miss Lucretia toward, the town hall, and speaking in no measured tones of indignation of the cringing, truckling qualities of that very Mr. Dodd. [9]
Everything about him, from his weary, bored expression to his quiet, measured step, offered a most striking contrast to his quiet, little wife. [2]
I have fished for trout, in Tahoe, and at a measured depth of eighty-four feet I have seen them put their noses to the bait and I could see their gills open and shut. [5]
As the attendant filled the wine-cup, the high-priest himself joined them, greeted Melissa briefly and with measured courtesy, and begged his wife to follow him for a moment into the tablinum. [10]
The queen's guards fell into line, and she and they marched away, with their torch-bearers, and woke the echoes of the cavernous tunnels with the measured beat of their retreating footfalls. [5]
Many of the feelings expressed bear, in their utterance, the stamp of truth; yet, if Arthur Hallam had been som what nearer Alfred Tennyson, his brother instead of his friend,--I should have distrusted this rhymed, and measured, and printed monument of grief. [14]
He had no fear of what he could do with men: he had measured himself a few times with English gentlemen as he travelled, and he knew where his power lay--not in making himself agreeable, but in imposing his personality. [11]

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