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Sentences ending with tons

It was the very best green raw-hide, and capable of sustaining tons. [5]
But see the use England makes of this material: in 1877, she took out of the ground 134,179,968 tons. [4]
Yet some of the lava blocks quarried out, brought over rough, broken ground, and built into this wall, six or seven feet from the ground, are of prodigious size and would weigh tons. [5]
It is thirty-six feet in diameter, hollowed out to the depth of ten feet, four feet thick at the center, and two feet nine inches at the edges, and is estimated to weigh two hundred tons. [4]
Our government for displacement beats the new White Star ship; and her possible is 17,200 tons. [5]

More example sentences with the word tons in them

Somers and Gates were busy building two cedar ships, the Deliverer, of eighty tons, and a pinnace called the Patience. [4]
For a long time now about 8,000 tons of it have been brought into the town per year. [5]
There's a hundred thousand tons like that in sight! [5]
In three days they took up thirty-two tons of bullion. [11]
An article in the New Orleans 'Times-Democrat,' based upon reports of able engineers, states that the river annually empties four hundred and six million tons of mud into the Gulf of Mexico--which brings to mind Captain Marryat's rude name for the Mississippi--'the Great Sewer. [5]
I was at the Gould and Curry mine, the other day, and they had two or three tons of choice rock piled up, which was valued at $20,000 a ton. [5]
Next year, maybe, the Empire Tube Company goes into the business of making crude steel, and many more thousands of tons go from us. [9]
The tons of sentiment I have wasted on that unprincipled humbug in my ignorance! [5]
One Virginia firm received one hundred tons of freight a month, and paid $10,000 a month freightage. [5]
And they not only duplicated those works of art but did it in the brittlest and most treacherous of substances--glass: made them out of old brandy bottles flung out of the British camps; millions of tons of them. [5]
We, that were once the aristocrats of the river, can't go to bed now, as we used to do, and sleep while a hundred tons of freight are lugged aboard; no, we must sit in the pilot-house; and keep awake, too. [5]
After a wait of three hours we got good rooms in the Mahinapua, a wee little bridal-parlor of a boat--only 205 tons burthen; clean and comfortable; good service; good beds; good table, and no crowding. [5]
They spend tons of money to house you palatially while you wait fifteen minutes for a train, then degrade you to six hours' convict-transportation to get the foolish outlay back. [5]
A few tons of ice would have seemed to promise a better return; but in point of fact, he tells us, the warming-pans were found useful in the manufacture of sugar, and brought him in a handsome profit. [6]
Thousands of tons of freight on the shore--no cover. [5]
When, on many occasions, pros and tons were equal in weight, she brought out the cards, and this oracle generally turned the scale. [10]
They had Heaven knows how many tons getting stale in London warehouses, all by reason of our stubbornness, and so it was enacted that all tea paying the small American tax should have a rebate of the English duties. [9]
Heave on a hundred million billion tons of brimstone! [5]
For instance, a hotel chambermaid has nothing to do but make beds and fires in fifty or sixty rooms, bring towels and candles, and fetch several tons of water up several flights of stairs, a hundred pounds at a time, in prodigious metal pitchers. [5]
Well, you see, his influence was naturally running low when he left here, but now he has got a new six-years' start, and his suggestions will simply just weigh a couple of tons a-piece day after tomorrow. [5]
In January 1615, he sailed from Plymouth with a ship Of 20 tons, and another of 50. [4]
Tom allowed we had twenty tons of it, and wondered what we better do with it; it was good sand, and it didn't seem good sense to throw it away. [5]
Twelve tons early greenbacks, range size, suitable for cooking. [5]
These troublesome and expensive scientific methods achieve a yield of a ton and a half and from that to two tons, to the acre; which is three or four times what the yield of an acre was in my time. [5]
After a great deal of effort we managed to discern some little fine yellow specks, and judged that a couple of tons of them massed together might make a gold dollar, possibly. [5]
However, this year's crop will reach ten or twelve hundred tons of sugar, consequently last year's loss will not matter. [5]
In Kona, the average yield of an acre of ground is two tons of sugar, they say. [5]
Say the mills average twenty tons of rock a day and this rock worth $50 as a general thing, and you have the actual work of our one hundred mills figured down "to a spot"--$1,000 a day each, and $30,000,000 a year in the aggregate.--Enterprise. [5]
As they arrived at the vault-like place in the ground, which would hold many tons of roots, another Chinaman came to the doorway. [11]
Some moments passed, and then the curtain swung in, and tons of water drenched the Englishman, and for an instant hid him from sight. [4]
And like Vicksburg and New Orleans, she has her ice-factory: she makes thirty tons of ice a day. [5]
You heap up a million tons of hewn rocks on a square mile or two of earth which was green once. [6]
Thence on the 24th of June he made another start in a vessel of sixty tons with thirty men. [4]

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