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Sentences starting with scales

Scales seemed to fall from Kuni's eyes. [10]
Scales seemed to fall from her eyes. [10]

Sentences ending with scales

The delicate scales used by the assayers were inclosed in glass cases intended to be air-tight, and yet some of this dust was so impalpable and so invisibly fine that it would get in, somehow, and impair the accuracy of those scales. [5]
She was never seen without some necklace,--either the golden cord she wore at the great party, or a chain of mosaics, or simply a ring of golden scales. [6]
The quantity of refuse, broken, and rotten mica piled up about the factories is immense, and all the roads round about glisten with its scales. [4]
Only a few of them still move, rise, and feebly fly to settle on the enemy's hand, lacking the spirit to die stinging him; the rest are dead and fall as lightly as fish scales. [2]
These hairs are of the nature of scales. [1]
Sometimes I please myself with the idea that I have landed an actual living fish, small, perhaps, but with rosy gills and silvery scales. [6]
Barbara, she declared, had done right to choose the white one, which was intended for the next dance at the New Scales. [10]
Then, since he could only have heard the singing under conditions which seemed unendurable to his pride, he sullenly retired to drink his beer in the tap-room of the New Scales. [10]
The dispute was by no means ended when the little Maltese summoned her to the New Scales. [10]
I saw you a short time ago, and, if I had been a young gentleman, how gladly I would have changed places with the handsome recruiting officer Pyramus at the New Scales! [10]

Sentences containing scales two or more times

The deadly Echis carinata has on its sides some oblique rows of scales of a peculiar structure with serrated edges; and when this snake is excited these scales are rubbed against each other, which produces "a curious prolonged, almost hissing sound. [1]

More example sentences with the word scales in them

She had married with her fingers holding the scales of advantage; and Lord Haldwell dressed well, was immensely rich, and the title had a charm. [11]
Then I returned to my mine, fortifying myself against possible disappointment, but my fears were groundless--the shining scales were still there. [5]
The scales seemed to fall from my eyes, and I realised why the Ueberhells had borne such an evil and dreaded name among their fellow-citizens. [10]
To be sure, their scales differ, but have they not the same freezing and the same boiling point? [6]
She was not the serene, inexorable dame whom we have seen in pictures holding her scales above the jars of earth. [9]
He got on the scales at Cheyenne, on his trip to California, comparing his weight with that of a lady of the party. [6]
Philip ever maintained the right to pitch it on the side of his own convenience, and he chose in this instance to come to the rescue of his dear mamma, and turned the scales in her favour. [9]
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. [5]
It had called the man back to earth--he was no longer a great animal, and the rock a monster with skin and scales of stone. [11]
But suddenly a storm came on, chromatic scales and diminished sevenths were heard in the orchestra, everyone ran off, again dragging one of their number away, and the curtain dropped. [2]
It came with shining scales glistening in the light and settled on the land acre upon acre, morgen upon morgen; and when it rose again the fields, ready for the harvest, were like a desert--the fields which the locust had eaten. [11]
Justice held the scales and sword, Truth was gazing into her mirror. [10]
As he had sailed up and down the world, a hundred ports had offered him a hundred adventures, all light in the scales of purpose, but not all bad. [11]
Though from a remote and somewhat barbarous island, they believed themselves the most perfect men upon earth, and magnified their chieftain, the Lord Scales, beyond the greatest of their grandees. [4]
The generations have passed away, and the Angel of Equity hath a smiling pity as she scans the scales and the weighing of the Past. [11]
There are a pair of scales, and it goes into one. [12]
Mebbe them scales on your eyes has dropped now. [13]
The mahogany scales off now and then in spots, and then you see the cheap light stuff--I found--very fine in conversational information, the other day when we were in company. [6]
Here the rule of the thinking mind, in whose scales reason and counter-argument decide the matter; among the Cologne people it is the Grand Inquisitor's jailers, chains, dungeons, and the stake. [10]
Although a man of presence, measurable by scales with weights enough, our general has no more ponderosity now than a leaf in a mountain storm at Hale--and no more control over the hurricane. [9]
It is made of leather, on which bronze scales are fastened. [10]
A close-fitting mail of flattened cells coats our surface with a panoply of imbricated scales (more than twelve thousand millions), as Harting has computed, as true a defence against our enemies as the buckler of the armadillo or the carapace of the tortoise against theirs. [3]
In the course of a year half a ton of diamonds pass under the scales there and sleep on that counter; the resulting money is $18,000,000 or $20,000,000. [5]
He had sinned much against her, but all that lay like feathers on his side of the scales, while that which she had done weighed down hers like a load of lead. [10]
It is fascinating material, this mica, to handle, and we amused ourselves by experimenting on the thinness to which its scales could be reduced by splitting. [4]
He was as long as a railway-train, and had the customary impenetrable green scales all over him. [5]
The mind has little to do with it except to furnish the platform on which the scales are set up. [4]
If, before the judgment seat above, intention and faith are weighed with the same scales as works, few who close their eyes behind silken curtains will be so sure of a favourable sentence as this poorest of the poor. [10]
The sea smooths its silver scales until you cannot see their joints,--but their shining is that of a snake's belly, after all.--In deeper suggestiveness I find as great a difference. [6]
This had sorely irritated her easily wounded sensitiveness, but she had appeared at the rehearsal in the New Scales on the following morning. [10]
By and by, in the bed of a shallow rivulet, I found a deposit of shining yellow scales, and my breath almost forsook me! [5]
She knew also how heavily this man's favour would weigh in the scales with the Emperor, yet to appear at the banquet without her lover's knowledge was utterly impossible, and just now she felt reluctant to ask his permission. [10]
He holds up his judicial scales before the world, that all may see; and it all tries to look so fair that a blind person would sometimes fail to see him slip the false weights in. [5]
His eye beheld her now as the goddess with the scales in her hand, weighing and accepting with outward calm the verdict of the balance . [9]
On many occasions he would ride his horse into stores, break up bars, toss the scales out of doors and use most insulting language to parties present. [5]
When daylight came he had disappeared; and with him Lord Scales and the garrison of Meung. [5]
Very commonly they have undergone a change of figure, most frequently a flattening which reduces them to scales, as in the epidermis and the epithelium. [3]
Haste was necessary for, at the first glance at the velvet, she had determined to wear it at the next dance in the New Scales, and she also saw distinctly in imagination the person whose attention she desired to attract. [10]
Ah the poor Fishwife, it is stuck fast in the Mire; it has dropped its Basket of Fishes; and its Hands have been cut by the Scales as it seized some of the falling Creatures; and one Scale has even got into its Eye. [5]
Then the scales fell from the eyes of the Seven, and one said, Alas, that we drank of the curious liquors. [5]
In these tranquil days, and long, honest nights of sleep, the fatigues of what we had been through were forgotten, the scales showed that we were becoming less ethereal every day, and we were ready for another move. [6]
And then he could fancy Mavick weighing this sort of reputation in his office scales against money, and Mrs. Mavick weighing it in her boudoir against social position. [4]
In the happy consciousness of meriting the gratitude of the woman whom he loved, he gazed toward the New Scales, the large building beneath whose roof she whose image filled his heart and mind must already have found shelter. [10]
It covers the body with dry, white scales, inflames the eyes, and causes premature decripitude. [5]
Some of those blinding scales have fallen from my eyes. [13]
The feeling that attracted him to Barbara was something entirely new, which since the last dance at the New Scales had robbed him of sleep by night and rest by day. [10]

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