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Sentences ending with weight

His opinion had weight. [5]
When the service was over, Kutuzov stepped up to the icon, sank heavily to his knees, bowed to the ground, and for a long time tried vainly to rise, but could not do so on account of his weakness and weight. [2]
He can lift two or three hundred times his own weight. [5]
Thus capital came to the assistance of Mr. Jason, a fund was raised, and I was given carte blanche to defend the miserable city auditor and purchasing agent, both of whom elicited my sympathy; for they were stout men, and rapidly losing weight. [9]
His son happened to have weighed that stone, without his knowledge, before he started for Egypt, and Othman had here a note of its exact weight. [10]
After him the stout Nesvitski came galloping up on a Cossack horse that could scarcely carry his weight. [2]
It was all so easy, and yet so admirable--elegance without weight. [11]
And we were right about that, because it hadn't anything in it but a wax figure, and any other coffin-bearers would have found fault with the weight. [5]
The walls will press upon me, the ceiling will seem like a weight. [10]
Bones increase not only in thickness, but in length, from carrying a greater weight. [1]

Short sentences using weight

They guessed at my weight. [9]

Sentences containing weight two or more times

As to strength, the woman's righters believed that, weight for weight, their crew was as strong as the other, and of course due allowance would be made for the difference of weight and all other accidental hindrances. [6]
Specific gravity is the weight to be compared weight of an equal volume of or that is the weight of a body compared with the weight of an equal volume. [5]
There was something on her breast weighing it down, yet with a pressure which was not weight alone, and maybe was not weight at all as weight is understood. [11]
Gentlemen, I have listened attentively to the evidence, and have perceived that the weight of it, the overwhelming weight of it, is in favor of the plaintiff Hyde. [5]
The Dutch captain here put his foot into the conversation, as his ancestors used to put theirs into the scale, when they were buying furs of the Indians by weight,--so much for the weight of a hand, so much for the weight of a foot. [6]
I try the ground to find out whether it is firm or not before I rest my weight on it; but after it has borne my weight, that question at least is answered. [6]
He had government contracts also, custom houses and dry docks, from Portland to New Orleans, and managed to get out of congress, in appropriations, about weight for weight of gold for the stone furnished. [5]

More example sentences with the word weight in them

But for a young lady in long skirts to make her way down that balsam, squirming about and through the stubs and dead limbs, testing each one before she trusted her weight to it, was another affair. [4]
After all these years have you dropped from the weight of a blow? [9]
It is no wonder that when there came a vast deal to reprove, the bonne desisted altogether, overwhelmed by the weight of it. [11]
The old man with the spectacles was presently overtaken by a stout, elderly woman, who landed in the exhausted condition of a porpoise that has come ashore, and stood regardless of everything but her own weight, while member after member of the party straggled up. [4]
Second, he spoke with all the weight of the then accepted science and philosophy. [9]
This rider, beneath whose weight the powerful steed trembled and panted, wore a vesture of scarlet and white, thickly embroidered with eagles and falcons in silver. [10]
Many there were who deemed that the uncommon graveness of his manners came of the weight of care which had been laid on him so young, and verily not without reason; yet my sister's heart was aware of another cause. [10]
It was that which gave promise that in due time the weight would be lifted from the shoulders of all men. [7]
In mediaeval times, when a bishop spoke ex cathedra, his authority, so far as it carried weight, came from two sources. [9]
Hardly any passengers were taken, because they not only add weight but they never will 'trim boat. [5]
Those things sound well, but they are shadowy and indefinite, like troy weight and avoirdupois; nobody knows what they mean. [5]
The orange-trees cannot well be fuller: their branches bend with the weight of fruit. [4]
Ten solidi, full weight, shall be yours if you will take Agatha home with you, or safe across the lake again, and pretend to have saved her from mystics or magicians who have decoyed her to some evil end. [10]
Danger had no weight with her in such things. [5]
It released the weight upon her numbed eyelids. [13]
To attach much weight to the few but strong differences is the most obvious and perhaps the safest course, though it appears more correct to pay great attention to the many small resemblances, as giving a truly natural classification. [1]
I shall give weight to one as you fulfill the other'; and, smiling at him, I moved away towards my mother. [11]
It is the weight of this heaviest of minerals, and not its lovely crystals, that gives it value. [4]
To find the weight of the earth take the length of a degree on a meridian and multiply by 6 1/2 pounds. [5]
The gradually increasing weight of the brain and skull in man must have influenced the development of the supporting spinal column, more especially whilst he was becoming erect. [1]
He felt the weight of that resolute and affectionate scrutiny and glanced at her occasionally. [2]
He felt the weight of every word, and he had rather have told of the scalping of a hundred men than of his last meeting with Jessica. [11]
Besides, all the weight of care involved in the household preparations pressed on the bride in this case--not unpleasantly, only to the full occupation of her time. [14]
But a heavy weight has fallen on my spirits, my good friend, and the sadness that gathers over me, will yield to neither hope nor reason. [12]
It means, generally, weight and height, an advantage in a scrimmage. [11]
Colossal as it was, the real base on which its weight rested was actually very small: the view from the village had not been all deceitful. [11]
But our baggage was weighed, and extra weight charged for. [5]
A great weight was taken off, and the spirits of the whole household rose magically. [5]
The superincumbent weight was sufficient to mash the ends of those great upright beams fairly into the solid wood of the horizontal ones three inches, compressing and bending the upright beam till it curved like a bow. [5]
But when it was out, the weight gone, and my conscience rising to the surface, I glanced at her face to see the result. [5]
Already the air was dissipated of its choking weight, and the vast solitude was filling with that sense of freedom which night seems to shut in as with four walls, and day to widen gloriously. [11]
She felt a violent shock, the pitcher flew out of her hand and was shattered into a thousand fragments, and she sank to the ground under the weight of a warm, rough, heavy mass. [10]
You handle yourself very carefully, all the time, under the silly impression that if it is not falling, your trifling weight will start it unless you are particular not to "bear down" on it. [5]
Down, down, down Venters strode, more and more feeling the weight of his burden as he descended, and still the valley lay below him. [13]
Kutuzov was impatiently urging on his horse, which ambled smoothly under his weight, and he raised his hand to his white Horse Guard's cap with a red band and no peak, nodding his head continually. [2]
I spoke promptly up and said: "It's no trouble to guess this noble creature's figures height, three feet; length, four feet and three-quarters of an inch; weight, a hundred and forty-eight and a quarter. [5]
One is by trying to demonstrate it upon reason, and the other is, to show that great men in former times have thought so and so, and thus to pass it by the weight of pure authority. [7]
The soldier's knees trembled while he held the light burden of his daughter's weight in his strong hands, and he sighed when he laid her down on the mat. [10]
He regarded it, too, as a dispensation from Heaven that Agatha and Melissa should have happened to meet, and Alexander's happy escape had taken a weight from his mind. [10]
Nobody attaches weight to the freaks of the Charlton Library, but when a man like Phelps speaks, the world gives attention. [5]
You can't fail to see my arguments, and all I ask is that you throw the weight of your organization at the State capital for them when they come up. [9]
She had begun to rise immediately, with the kite-like adaptability of the American woman for high altitudes, and the leaden weight of the husband at the end of the tail was as nothing to her. [9]
She brought home to him, as never before, a sense of the anomalistic position of the Church in these modern days, of its appallingly lessened weight even with its own members. [9]
Nay, I intended to cast all the weight of my maternal influence between Heinz and the Nuremberg maiden. [10]
For the first time the real weight of the problem pressed upon her heavily. [11]
But I will throw the weight of this introduction upon one very peculiar feature of Mr. Stanley's character, and that is his indestructible Americanism --an Americanism which he is proud of. [5]
Caracalla started as though he himself had been the injured victim, and watched, but in vain, to see the supple Tarautas, who had escaped such perils before now, free himself from the weight of the German's body. [10]
She felt as though a heavy weight lay on her breast, and to relieve its intolerable pressure drew in her breath deeply. [9]
The reward of this wearisome winter campaign was two hundred weight of deer-suet and four hundred and seventy-nine bushels of corn for the general store. [4]
To speak truth, this last matter had no little weight in his decision to stay away. [9]
We could see them lift their feet and put them down; we saw them swing their alpenstocks forward in unison, like so many pendulums, and then bear their weight upon them; we saw the lady wave her handkerchief. [5]
You leave the theatre with the weight of a century upon you. [5]
Dragged down by the weight of the Apprentice, Mattingley's feet were now firmly on the ground. [11]
He believed that the weight of financial cares was causing the Emperor Charles's abdication. [10]
Because he feels the weight of a tremendous responsibility on his shoulders, because he knows if it weren't for him and men like him upon whom the prosperity of this nation depends, we'd have famine and anarchy on our hands in no time. [9]
I cannot bear the weight any longer. [5]
Having settled that,--though the thought of the blow she was to receive lay like a weight on his heart,--Mr. Bentley's reason for summoning Eldon Parr to Dalton Street came to him. [9]
Not a sound; the stillness grew oppressive; it was like a weight upon one. [5]
Now and then, the silence of the house, the solitude of the room, has pressed on me with a weight I found it difficult to bear, and recollection has not failed to be as alert, poignant, obtrusive, as other feelings were languid. [14]
He got on the scales at Cheyenne, on his trip to California, comparing his weight with that of a lady of the party. [6]
I fully appreciate the present peril the country is in, and the weight of responsibility on me. [7]
This is what the father of Minnette, looking out of the window upon the wide waste of snow, and the evergreens bent to the ground with the weight of it, says, "It looks like the depths of spring. [4]
The weight of the earth is found by comparing a mass of known lead with that of a mass of unknown lead. [5]
The events of the day no longer differentiated themselves in his mind but lay, a composite weight, upon his heart. [9]
They were over the capstones of the windows,--to take off the pressure from them, no doubt, for now and then a capstone will crack under the weight of the superincumbent mass. [6]
A sergeant of the battalion ran up and took the flag that was swaying from its weight in Prince Andrew's hands, but he was immediately killed. [2]
Without money, save that which the generous Creoles had advanced upon his personal credit; without apparent resources; without authority, save that which the weight of his character exerted,--how could he prevent desertion? [9]
I hope now that the weight is not quite so heavy. [5]
Was it possible that Jethro Bass lay crushed under the weight of the accusations which had been printed, and were still being printed, in the Newcastle Guardian? [9]
They finally decided that Alexander should try to discover the maiden who so strangely resembled the dead; and the artist was ready for the task, for he could only work when his heart was light, and had never felt such a weight on it before. [10]
But, having more than once felt the weight of his hand, they feared him. [9]
His arm and sword were good, and there were Spaniards enough at hand whom he could make feel the weight of both. [10]
They come with such insinuating humility,--they cannot bear to intrude upon my time, they know that I have a great many calls upon it,--and incontinently proceed to lay their additional weight on the load which is breaking my back. [6]
His horse was stripped of all unnecessary weight, too. [5]
He tested its strength by throwing all his weight upon it. [13]
Our stories have some weight, not like the stories of those fellows on the staff who get rewards without doing anything! [2]
The resolutions carried some weight with a public that did not know its right hand from its left. [9]
The ground was soft and wet; the weight of the horse prevented her from getting free. [11]
I had been snatched from the jaws of death, my life was before me, but the happiness which had thrilled me was gone, and in my weakness the weight of the sadness which had come upon me was almost unbearable. [9]
Even his bent shoulders seemed to suggest driving power rather than the weight of years. [11]
His legs were short, but sturdy in proportion to the weight they had to sustain; so that when erect he had not a little the appearance of a beer-barrel on skids. [4]
Then I shall shoot an arrow, with the cord fastened to it, up into his window, (I never miss), tell him to fasten a weight to it and let it down again to me. [10]
In the pause, she felt the Thing draw up towards her knees, dragging its body along with tiger-like closeness, and with that strange pressure which was not weight but power. [11]
What was that scrap compared to my lord's business, his great establishment, his equipages in the Park, his position in society, his weight in the House of Lords, his influence in Europe? [4]
Further on, we saw the spot where the fainting Saviour fell under the weight of his cross. [5]
You'd look fine," said a corporal, chaffing a thin little soldier who bent under the weight of his knapsack. [2]
Murmur not, and remember that the gods never lay a heavier weight on any man than he can bear. [10]
The practice of recklessly heaving immense solid bouquets, of the general size and weight of prize cabbages, from the dizzy altitude of the galleries, is dangerous and very reprehensible. [5]
He succeeded in raising her high out of the waves, but when he tried to pull her fairly out of her watery bed, the weight, all on one side of the boat, was too great; it turned over and Antinous was in the sea. [10]
I leave the quibbles by which such persons would try to creep out from under the crushing weight of these conclusions to the unfortunates who suppose that a reply is equivalent to an answer. [3]
The sun had positive weight to it, I think. [5]
This is as plain as adding up the weight of three small hogs. [7]
You must not place too much weight upon this idea of moving the capital from Washington. [5]
He was suffering physically at that moment, there was a weight on his chest and he could not breathe. [2]
At birth I only weighed 4 1/2 pounds with my clothes on--and the clothes were the chief feature of the weight, too, I am obliged to confess. [5]
As they approached one could see that each bore a burden of a bulk and weight to sorely tax his strength; and we said among ourselves, truly these folk are well off for poor common soldiers. [5]
But really no one could place any weight on what a man said in delirium, and I only mention the fact to let you see exactly on what ground I stand with you. [11]
Stanchly he struggled on, his weight upon Perrot, till presently he leaned a hand also on Jessica's shoulder- she had insisted. [11]
So he went on, endless years, driving through space, some terrible intangible weight dragging at his heart, and all his body panting as it spun. [11]
Fix the mind on an orange, the ordinary occupation of the metaphysician: take from it (without eating it) odor, color, weight, form, substance, and peel; then let the mind still dwell on it as an orange. [4]

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