1 With a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication table always in his pocket, sir, ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to.
2 But he is of your own faith, and his lightest affirmance would weigh down the most solemn protestations of the distressed Jewess.
3 "I weigh not these evils," said Rebecca, afraid to provoke the wild knight, yet equally determined neither to endure his passion, nor even feign to endure it.
4 Happily, however, she was not left to weigh and decide between opposite inclinations and doubtful notions of right; there was no occasion to determine whether she ought to keep Edmund and Mary asunder or not.
5 The audience cleared their throats and tossed a few stalks into the fire, not because these deeds were urgent, but to give themselves time to weigh the moral of the story.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country 6 Bees hummed around his ears with an intimate air, and tugged at the heath and furze-flowers at his side in such numbers as to weigh them down to the sod.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 2 He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song 7 Let us weigh the one against the other.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL 8 Carol helped him weigh babies and examine their throats, and she wrote out the diets for mute German and Scandinavian mothers.
9 But then, the idea was, that his presence was by no means necessary in getting the ship under weigh, and steering her well out to sea.
10 Now in getting under weigh, the station generally occupied by the pilot is the forward part of the ship.
11 But look at this matter in other lights; weigh it in all sorts of scales; see what we whalemen are, and have been.
12 She works in a canning factory, and all day long she handles cans of beef that weigh fourteen pounds.
13 Then Jokubas pointed out the place where the cattle were driven to be weighed, upon a great scale that would weigh a hundred thousand pounds at once and record it automatically.
14 I would not disturb you at this period, when so many misfortunes weigh upon you, but a conversation that I had with my uncle previous to his departure renders some explanation necessary before we meet.
15 She never battled with the public, but submitted uncomplainingly to its worst usage; she made no claim upon it in requital for what she suffered; she did not weigh upon its sympathies.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER