| 单词 | hundredweight |
| 例句 | The rigid frame held a skin of oiled silk in place to contain the hydrogen, and although this was tough enough to withstand minor scratches, a hundredweight of blazing rock was too much for it. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z They don’t know I spent the day delivering hundredweights of coal and turf. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I don’t care what they call me anymore as long as my eyes are clearing up and I have a regular job lifting hundredweights of coal on a float. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He appeared dramatically upon the edge of the clearing, just as a disturbed branch, whose burden was too heavy, emptied a couple of hundredweight of snow on his head. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Hannon says the man who delivered sixteen hundredweights of coal and turf deserves a pint and the boy who helped him deserves a lemonade. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z There are two men filling bags with coal and turf and weighing them on the great iron scale, a hundredweight in each bag. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Tonight, Bridwell's echoing plaintive voice and spindly guitar bleed into a hundredweight of instruments. Band of Horses 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z His most sentimental tracks – "All My Friends", chiefly – gain a hundredweight of pathos here because this is, supposedly, the last we will hear of this extraordinary dance band. LCD Soundsystem: London Sessions ? review 2011-01-16T00:05:30Z Otto lowered the bundle into the floor and sealed the hole with fresh concrete, in a spot where it was hidden under a rack of hundredweight iron bars. A Secret Diary Chronicled the ‘Satanic World’ That Was Dachau 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z If nothing else, you don’t want relatives buried under a hundredweight of undifferentiated data with no sense of what is important to you. Elaine Kasket: ‘There is no digital rule book for grief’ 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z Small dairies would receive more money per hundredweight of milk produced, while the largest dairies wouldn’t receive any federal funds. Minnesota farmers pitch ways to offer small dairies relief 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z “I was getting $17 per hundredweight. Am I the only one that sees a problem with the color of this picture?” Farmer seeks community help to feed his cows 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Redknapp said he had been sent "half a hundredweight" of the dessert since returning home and would give it to the homeless in Bournemouth. Redknapp giving jam roly polys to homeless 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z North Dakota’s potato production is forecast to be down 3 percent to 23.7 million hundredweight and the sugar beet crop down 6 percent to just under 6.1 million tons. North Dakota soybean, corn crops similar in size to 2017 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z While flooding makes work hard for farmers in Northeast Arkansas, the rice market as a whole is up, Morgan said, with the latest numbers in the $12 per hundredweight range. Arkansas farmers optimistic despite floods 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z Producers are paid for every hundred pounds of milk or hundredweight. Once the region’s engine, dairy farmers are a rare breed 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z The price farmers are paid for their milk remains low, at just over $17 per hundredweight, hardly enough even with subsidies to ease the burden of rising operating costs and debt. Milk glut thins herd of Connecticut’s family dairy farmers 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z The Agriculture Department says in its latest report that growers, dealers and processors in the state held 7.2 million hundredweight of potatoes in storage on April 1, down from 9.2 million a year ago. Correction: Potato Stocks story 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Dan Stevens, dimly discernible under a hundredweight of pelt, has more luck. “Beauty and the Beast” and “T2 Trainspotting” Reviews 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z The dry pea crop of 12.3 million hundredweight was up 52 percent. 4 North Dakota crops set production records in 2015 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z The program, administered through the USDA, provides payments to participating farmers when the milk price is less than $4 per hundredweight more than average feed costs. Wisconsin dairy farmers feeling the pinch of low milk prices 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z The Agriculture Department says in its latest report that growers, dealers and processors in the state held 7.4 million hundredweight of potatoes in storage on April 1. USDA says potato stocks up 14 percent in North Dakota 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z The price is expected to drop to the high $15 range per hundredweight through May and June, then rebound a little bit into the fall to the mid- to low-$18 range, Bothfeld said. Vermont farmers grapple with significant drop in milk prices 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z Congressional officials said that under current law, the federal government is obligated to maintain prices so that fluid milk sells for about $20 per hundredweight. Out of Time: White House Meeting May Be Last Stab at Fiscal Cliff Deal 2012-12-28T22:05:24Z A pound weight is easily lifted, but when applied to the shorter end of the steel-yard it will balance a hundredweight. Principles of Decorative Design Fourth Edition 2012-05-22T15:16:52.423Z Some of them are baby cromlechs, the top stones of which are not much more than a hundredweight. Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland 2012-04-23T02:00:32.180Z These latter, situated on the boat deck, were each capable of lifting a load of 15 hundredweight at a speed of 100 feet per minute. Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic' 2012-04-17T02:00:14.973Z He can never have travelled far by night, for he took with him a hundredweight of gold. Treasure of Kings Being the Story of the Discovery of the \\"Big Fish,\\" or the Quest of the Greater Treasure of the Incas of Peru. 2012-04-09T02:00:30.007Z The pendulum measures 14 feet in length, while the mass at its extremity is one hundredweight. Collins' Illustrated Guide to London and Neighbourhood 2012-04-06T02:00:29.250Z Thus “Weel may the keel row,” says the song, and on the “coaly Tyne,” a small barge carrying twenty-one tons four hundredweight is said to carry a “keel” of coals. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z One of the most remarkable cases of the power of the wind ashore was the removal of a stone of four hundredweight, which lay sheltered under a bank, to a distance of seven yards. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z The "E. L. Miller" had cylinders ten inches in diameter; stroke of piston, sixteen inches; and weighed, with water in the boiler, seven tons eight hundredweight. Illustrated Catalogue of Locomotives Baldwin Locomotive Works 2012-04-03T02:00:35.800Z After I unloaded his van, he went for some coal, which he sells at one and sixpence a hundredweight, but he got two tons of coal in. Boy Labour and Apprenticeship 2012-03-30T02:00:18.807Z On this the deputation rashly changed their ground and alleged that the toll of one hundredweight per tub was excessive. A Safety Match 2012-03-19T02:00:23.817Z At a short distance off, they encountered another, who, with an Indian, was driving eight llamas, each carrying a hundredweight of silver. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z In the hold, tallow-casks, weighing many hundredweight, and a chain cable of many tons, got loose in one of the compartments, and threatened to burst out the ship’s side at every roll. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z It is made out of a solid block of sandstone, and weighs about sixteen hundredweight. The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) 2012-02-22T03:00:24.020Z The American quotations are frequently given in the unit of dollars per hundredweight. The Business of Mining A brief non-technical exposition of the principles involved in the profitable operation of mines 2012-02-18T03:00:17.387Z Then the Turkish engine flung a stone of half a hundredweight right amongst the knights and carried two away with it off the tower on to the plain. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z The latter were the victors, and their spoils were enormous, consisting in part of forty-three hundredweights of gold, one hundred and forty hundredweights of silver, with armour, arms, and horses in abundance. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z A hundredweight of lead rolled off his heart, the wrinkle of dejection vanished from his brow, and his eyes were enlightened, as if he had dipt his staff in honey and tasted thereof. Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter 2012-02-08T03:00:20.643Z At that time the sacred vessels were heaped like market produce into great ox-carts, until the cathedral had been plundered of ten hundredweight of treasure. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z The projectiles vary enormously, ranging from aerial torpedoes, the smallest of which weighs two hundredweight, down to small shrapnel bombs. Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 2012-02-04T03:00:16.443Z It weighs over a hundredweight, requires two men to lift it, and has occupied four men from noon till five o’clock in the afternoon to make it.” Old Church Lore 2012-01-31T03:00:14.880Z The company paid the Cascarilleros or other persons who collected the bark, 25 dollars to 30 dollars for every hundredweight of Calisaya delivered in La Paz, the capital of Bolivia. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-04T03:00:31.713Z Like many farmers, he gets bonuses linked to milk quality and seasonal factors, which bring his total payment to about $27 a hundredweight. Rising Production Costs Cause Organic Milk Shortage 2011-12-30T02:56:31Z They are like the great railway weigh-bridges, which weigh a whole truck-load at a time and are good enough if they are true to a quarter of a hundredweight. Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science 2011-11-19T03:00:24.517Z There are small turtles, not larger than a saucer, and large ones, seven feet in length and weighing seven hundredweights. Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales 2011-11-17T03:00:35.327Z The iron bar supporting the balls weighed about ten hundredweights, and the whole was cast by a Sicilian Arab named Abu Leyth at a cost of about fifty thousand pounds of our money. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z Even for a pair of good-hearted horses, such as I possess, this is rather much, so that I should advise that a single horse caravan be not much over fifteen hundredweight. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z Mr. Azevedo, who sells his milk to the Organic Valley co-op, said that he receives a base payment of about $24.50 for each 100 pounds of milk, known as a hundredweight. Rising Production Costs Cause Organic Milk Shortage 2011-12-30T02:56:31Z Centner, sent′ner, n. a common name on the Continent for a hundredweight. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z "Ours on the Tophet weighed twelve hundredweight; this one is about the same size." The Nameless Island A Story of some Modern Robinson Crusoes 2011-10-08T02:00:20.880Z It is a clever piece of workmanship, for though it weighs twenty-five hundredweights and measures fourteen feet in height, it sways and turns with every wind. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z Although solid mahogany all round outside and lined with softer wood, she scaled at Bristol but 30 hundredweight, and loaded-up she will be under two tons. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z Thus it is meaningless to say that a piece of string capable of withstanding a strain of half a hundredweight ought to have withstood a strain of half a ton. Determinism or Free-Will? 2011-09-10T02:00:27.557Z Lady Caroline Sellwood was honestly dishonest to the last ounce of her two hundredweight of avoirdupois. My Lord Duke 2011-09-09T02:01:11.940Z Nero always brought into the sick-room about a hundredweight at least of jollity, sprightliness, life, and love. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z Then he hauled the troll ashore; but he had his sword of five hundredweights at his side, and with it he chopped off all five of the troll's heads, and the princess was free. The Swedish Fairy Book 2011-08-26T02:00:23.380Z When they finish it you can put a hundredweight of goods in the New York end of it, and it will possibly land in Boston in one minute and fifty-eight seconds. The Key to Success 2011-08-13T02:00:28.033Z They carry their regular cargoes, and probably never bring more than a few hundredweight of tobacco and a dozen or so kegs of spirits. The Lost Heir 2011-08-07T02:00:09.367Z Why, it cost the King, my father, over a hundredweight in gold. The Village of Youth and Other Fairy Tales 2011-08-06T02:00:04.530Z The animals were small, but the weight behind them was not very great—an old-fashioned howitzer weighing, with its cannon and limber, about two hundredweight. George Alfred Henty The Story of an Active Life 2011-07-31T02:00:08.463Z But the fifteen hundredweights were half-an-ounce short, and the heads grew on again, and the troll took the princess, and carried her off with him. The Swedish Fairy Book 2011-08-26T02:00:23.380Z His wage was known by the name of “muther,” and consisted of so many pounds of fresh oats taken from every hundredweight brought to him to be kiln-dried. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 5, October 1893 2011-07-30T02:00:16.467Z I have got twenty kegs here, and five or six hundredweight of tobacco. The Lost Heir 2011-08-07T02:00:09.367Z ‘Oh, a pair of blankets and a hundredweight of coal at the least.’ Crying for the Light, Vol. 1 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:10.740Z The warp," he says, "was laid perpendicularly, the reed fell with the force of at least half a hundredweight, and the springs which threw the shuttle were strong enough to have thrown a Congreve rocket. Triumphs of Invention and Discovery in Art and Science 2011-07-19T02:00:21.280Z And this time Knös had his sword of ten hundredweights at his side, and he cut off all ten of the troll's heads. The Swedish Fairy Book 2011-08-26T02:00:23.380Z He took one look at the novice and unloaded on him something less than a hundredweight of dead stock. Fore! 2011-07-11T02:00:06.097Z It is estimated that an ordinary hand will raise a hundredweight per day, on an average of a year together. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z He'll give you one apiece, if you've got the cash, and then you can dig gold by the hundredweight, if so be as you can find it.' Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z The whole cable was an inch and one eighth thick, weighed thirty-five and three-quarter hundredweights per mile, and was strong enough to endure a breaking strain of seven tons and three-quarters. Triumphs of Invention and Discovery in Art and Science 2011-07-19T02:00:21.280Z Knös had his sword of fifteen hundredweights at his side, and with it he cut off all the troll's heads. The Swedish Fairy Book 2011-08-26T02:00:23.380Z And, O my God! he'd hardly spoken the words when more than half a hundredweight of blazing soot comes slathering down the chimney and falls right on the top of him just where he stood. All Men are Ghosts 2011-06-28T02:00:12.497Z Tom pressed the lever, and the airship, relieved of near two hundredweight of German subject and the lesser bulk of the Moor, soared into the air. King of the Air Or, To Morocco on an Aeroplane 2011-06-17T02:00:22.043Z Nearly eighty tons of paper and twenty-three hundredweight of printing-ink were used in the production of that number. The Pictorial Press Its Origin and Progress 2011-06-15T02:00:20.920Z One night, at about eleven o'clock, a tremendous blow was heard to strike the roof-tree, as if two or three hundredweights of Alps had come down upon it. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z Mr. Bessemer took several hundredweight of the new steel to some Manchester friends, that their workmen might try it, without knowing from whence it came. Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous 2011-04-26T02:00:23.677Z The cylinder weighed 61∕2 tons, and was paid for at the rate of 28 shillings per hundredweight. A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine 2011-04-21T02:00:53.240Z A bunch of red and yellow fruit will often have a thousand oil-yielding plums, and weigh in some cases half a hundredweight. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z The Spitzbergen animal, full grown, is about the bulk of an ox; its weight, as I have estimated it, being from fifteen to twenty-four hundredweight. Memorials of the Sea My Father: Being Records of the Adventurous Life of the Late William Scoresby, Esq. of Whitby 2011-02-07T03:00:26.033Z A sixteen hundredweight monkey is about heavy enough to work nicely by hand, but it is not sufficiently heavy for a 12-inch pile, except in soft ground. Scamping Tricks and Odd Knowledge Occasionally Practised upon Public Works 2011-01-14T03:00:46.103Z Obviously, a bag of gold weighing a hundredweight does not take up as much room, by a long way, as a sack of coal of the same weight. The Golden Triangle The Return of Ars?ne Lupin 2011-01-01T03:00:23.890Z This hammer weighed 71∕2 hundredweight, and had a drop of 2 feet. A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine 2011-04-21T02:00:53.240Z They saw him stoop down by the edge of the water, and the next moment rise erect again, holding in his hands a large stone that could not have weighed much less than a hundredweight. The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:11:52.020Z More than a century ago, Max Weber foresaw the end of oil-based capitalism when he spoke of a time when "the last hundredweight of fossil fuel is burnt up". No more BPs: we must turn our deserts into solar power 2010-07-06T07:30:00Z One piece of over one hundredweight came down right through the tent and on to the forecastle; other pieces flew over the vessel, and fell on the starboard side. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 A hundredweight contains 112 pounds avoirdupois; a cental of 100 pounds is common in America, and is a legal British weight. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis The steam-cylinder had a diameter of 42 inches and 6 feet stroke of piston, and was calculated to have sufficient power to drive four hammers weighing 7 hundredweight each. A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine 2011-04-21T02:00:53.240Z They devoured the last blade of grass and the last bundle of straw; the villagers had to pay sixteen thalers for a shock of chopped straw, and two thalers for a hundredweight of hay. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. They are not permitted to carry a greater weight than ten hundredweight, but with that load it is quite customary for them to perform journeys of twenty and twenty-five miles a day. The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar However, we soon got the island hooked to shore, and the coals were all saved, with the exception of a sack of one hundredweight, which went to the bottom. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Yon fellow in the pulpit fires shells of a hundredweight, I should say. The Progressionists, and Angela. It only weighs four and a half hundredweight.' Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) The silver coin was so bulky that �200 of our money would be a hundredweight to carry, and �1,000 would be a cartload. The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day An Italian woman, clad in violent colors, passed with a hundredweight or so of broken laths poised on her head. A Top-Floor Idyl As for myself, being the biggest man of the party, I found that I could make shift to start off with a hundredweight. A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois We test them by dropping three hundredweight and three hundred quarters of iron on top of them from a height of seven feet, or eleven sometimes. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel The Indian now returned to Khartum with profuse promises that he would supply several hundredweight of the new powder in the course of a month. Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892 Each yarn should be nearly a hundredweight, so that the breaking strain of such a rope ought to be about a ton. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" A bishop, who died not long since, left behind him a hundredweight of the most heavenly stuff, two ounces of which fetched a ducat. Black Diamonds "We'll wager you a ton of coined gold, a hundred pounds to the hundredweight." Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales Second Series Nicholson stated that Orinoco was bringing 20 shillings the hundredweight and Sweetscented 25 shillings and up, which he considered an unusually good return. The Planters of Colonial Virginia That committee will appoint and control cooks and all servants; it will buy all provisions, and it will buy them cheaply, for it will purchase by the hundredweight. The Intelligence of Woman The stock of gas is pretty well exhausted, or tantamount to it; wood, similar to that I have described already, has risen to seven francs fifty centimes the hundredweight. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections Our worthy host had already disposed of three ribs, or in other words, he had followed to the grave three wives, each of whom had weighed above two hundredweight. Hungarian Sketches in Peace and War Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature, vol. 1 So they paid a hundredweight of gold to the peasant who, whatever he did, was not scolded but kissed. Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales Second Series By what right or rule of logic can we demand an inexhaustible supply of hope, especially packed in hundredweight crates for export to the British Colonies? Command The sweetmeats were a portion of some score hundredweight which the Kotwal had recently bought for the delectation of the soldiers, and which the king himself had inspected and deigned to taste. Barclay of the Guides As yet, wood only cost six francs the hundredweight, but it was such wood! An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections "I do not wish that, master; but indeed you must try and get down a little, at least half a hundredweight, unless you intend to spend your life here in eternal concealment." Hungarian Sketches in Peace and War Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature, vol. 1 All his talk of drills and guns and station-keeping considered, he seemed to have quite forgotten that groundnuts are thirteen hundredweights to the space ton and ought not to be stowed near fine goods! Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war It is a wonder they did not bring her into the town in triumph on their shoulders, which would have been no joke, for she weighed at least two hundredweight. St. Peter's Umbrella The Colonial Blue Book shows that in 1840 there were only about one thousand hundredweight packages of plumbago or graphite exported from Ceylon. The Pearl of India "Now, may the devil seize you with a hundred red-hot pincers, and hang three hundredweight on to the necklace, that it may throttle your bride!" The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II "Until they gave him, as a ransom, a man weighing five hundredweight"— "And what do they want with him?" gasped Vendel. Hungarian Sketches in Peace and War Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature, vol. 1 To this sturdy peasant the wondrous Forno merely represented a day’s hard work, at an agreed sum of ten francs for carrying nearly half a hundredweight, and a liberal pour-boire if the voyageurs were satisfied. The Silent Barrier By singularity of pairing, his fast friend is the muscular sub, who walks against time, and can write his initials with a hundredweight hanging from his index-finger. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) He has hired the Platten-See now, and fishes under the ice: a little while ago his people caught three hundredweight of fish in one haul. Timar's Two Worlds The process of drying takes eleven hours, and afterwards the dried hops are packed in pockets which, when full, weigh about a hundredweight and a half each, the packing being effected by hydraulic pressure. A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land Sometimes the quantity of stuff put through as the result of one horse-power working for an hour is not more than about a hundredweight. Twentieth Century Inventions A Forecast What pessimistic madness could have led Mr. Williams to “black-list” such a splendidly-thriving and notoriously profitable industry as this, just because he finds a few thousand hundredweight of foreign soap creeping into the country? Are we Ruined by the Germans? Mac, who had no part nor lot in the bills, the forty pounds of gold, or the two hundredweight of silver, heard 381 this with impatience, and fell into a bitter, choking laughter. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) He was to furnish us riding animals at ten dollars each per 48 day; and agreed to transport our baggage at six dollars a hundredweight. Gold Many millions of hundredweights of food are yearly squandered because the provisions for gathering in the crops are inadequate, or there is a scarcity of hands at the right time. Woman under socialism Isom could guess to a hundredweight the contents of a stack of hay, and there never was a banker in this world that could outfigure him on interest. The Bondboy He says that I have “skilfully conveyed a false impression” by giving certain German figures in hundredweights and English figures in tons. Are we Ruined by the Germans? For what could a sensible man want with looking-glasses made round, and weighing about a hundredweight each? The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam The nearest mines were about sixty miles away; we could get our freight transported that far by the native Californian cargadores at fifty dollars the hundredweight. Gold In the summer of 1888, there were 5 marks paid at first hand for 5 hundredweights of shellfish; the retailer paid the wholesale dealer 15 marks; and the public paid 125 marks. Woman under socialism The animal nobly resisted several hundredweight of them, and then tottered and fell and was lost to view under spring onions. A Great Man A Frolic The track is ballasted with nine hundredweight of limestone chips, and the gauge is six inches. The Harmsworth Magazine, v. 1, 1898-1899, No. 2 More than a hundredweight and a half of fish for twelve pence sterling! Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule An ostrich, in attacking, kicks forward with his legs, which give tremendous blows, and then, when he has kicked down his enemy, he will probably sit upon him, and his weight is about two hundredweight. Six Letters From the Colonies On Earth, Fuller might have tipped the scales at a scant one hundred and thirty pounds; now his sagging body was a load in excess of seven hundredweight. Vulcan's Workshop For an hour or two he toiled hard, grubbing out hundredweights of soil and gravel from round about the rock. Thurston of Orchard Valley The Esculent Funguses of England": "I have myself witnessed whole hundredweights of rich, wholesome diet rotting under trees, woods teeming with food, and not one hand to gather it. . . . The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare The reaping is done by men, and the flowers are packed into mats of about half a hundredweight each. Bournemouth, Poole & Christchurch One horse-power to the hundredweight was what they regarded as the standard of solid merit. The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force In Cobbett's day, Kentish hops averaged five pounds a hundredweight, and Hampshire hops were about the same price; Farnham hops fetched seven pounds. Highways and Byways in Surrey Even those sure-footed horses stumbled continually, and where the wind had swept the thin snow away, the iron on the sliding hoofs clanged on ice-streaked rock, or hundredweights of loose gravel rattled down the incline. Thurston of Orchard Valley The middle of the garden was an empty grass space, from which several hundredweight of hay was carried in the summer. The Brothers Karamazov Two hundredweight, with a Moor on top, is a fair load for a long journey, marching seven hours every day. In the Tail of the Peacock It would be a grand thing to have a hundredweight or two of honey, as he says we might, and never kill the bees. David Fleming's Forgiveness The team of four would carry three to four hundredweight of fish, besides the driver. Highways and Byways in Surrey The present quantity raised annually amounts to eighty-thousand hundredweight of pure mercury. The Mines and its Wonders Why, they must weigh on to a couple of hundredweight.” The Kopje Garrison A Story of the Boer War Surely balanced on his broad shoulders and the nape of his neck was an enormous sack of meal, accurately weighed to scale three hundredweight. Fantômas If you had come to-morrow, Miss Elizabeth, you would have seen us turning off a hundredweight and more.” David Fleming's Forgiveness The weight of the whole was only 3 tons and 1 hundredweight. Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson Their toil was rewarded by upwards of a thousand large crystals, varying from fifty pounds to more than three hundredweight. The Mines and its Wonders I put forth my strength, and a great slat several hundredweight fell into the sea with sullen splash. The Birthright Coal, for instance, which costs me about twenty-six shillings for a ton, costs the labourer half as much again as that, because he can only pay for a hundredweight or so at a time. Change in the Village This beast liveth hardly, and is contented with straw and stubble; but of strong force, being well able to carry five hundredweight. A History of Elizabethan Literature They have been brought together from all parts of the earth, and vary in size from bodies not much larger than a pin's head up to vast masses weighing many hundredweights. The Story of the Heavens By the aid of this contrivance—borrowed from China—the Javan natives carry burdens up to half a hundredweight without apparent exertion for long distances. A Visit to Java With an Account of the Founding of Singapore Oh, and don't say, 'Work round the gutter,' first, because it's bad English, and, secondly, because no man born of woman could 'work round' this razor-edged conduit with a hundredweight of drain-pipe round his neck. Jonah and Co. He was powerfully developed physically, and at eighteen could lift ten hundredweight. The Cornwall Coast From the bottom of the sea I saw them take up an anchor of six hundredweight, tying a cable to it with great dexterity, and pulling it from a rock. The Pirates of Panama or, The Buccaneers of America; a True Account of the Famous Adventures and Daring Deeds of Sir Henry Morgan and Other Notorious Freebooters of the Spanish Main These boats, made of a single tree hollowed in the middle, can hold as many as fourteen people and twenty-five hundredweight of merchandise. The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia The price of wool was more than quadrupled, and in 1833 there was sold for above 170 piastres the hundredweight what in 1816 cost but forty piastres. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 What if the little yellow men who had come so near making away with that two hundredweight of gold had succeeded in securing reindeer, and had made their way to Vladivostok? Panther Eye The second carried the Government surveyors, six strong, and forty hundredweight of implements and grub. The Huntress “They can take away every atom of coal you’ve got, if so, and fine you I don’t know what for every hundredweight of it.” Miss Mapp When his master drove him in a buggy through the forest, the shepherd pointed to where a hundredweight of gold was sticking out from a rock. History of Australia and New Zealand From 1606 to 1890 The men of Pozzuoli maintained that the Neapolitan dealers in fruit were to pay five carlins on a hundredweight; the others said it was not their business: thus the disturbance began. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 She carried, besides her crew and provisions, a hundredweight of gold taken in the last three days from Mine No. 2, and twice as much taken from the robber yellow men. Panther Eye You'll get twelve and a half cents a hundredweight, so it's up to you to do your own hustling. The Huntress The next chest contained gold instead of silver; the ingots being only nine in number, somewhat larger than the silver ingots, and weighing, as nearly as we could estimate, about one hundredweight each. The Cruise of the "Esmeralda" Whilst the officers and savants were engaged in this important observation, some of the crew, forcing an entrance into the storeroom, stole a hundredweight of nails. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century He kept his counts in chalk on the back of the mill-house door, a down line for every stone weight up to eight stones, and a line across for every hundredweight. The Manxman A Novel - 1895 By tapping upon them I ascertained that they were of great thickness, and I judged that each must weigh several hundredweight. The Great White Queen A Tale of Treasure and Treason But, vigorously though they toiled, it was slow progress they made; and in the meantime the little fellow, pressed upon by many hundredweight of hay, was fast losing breath and consciousness. Bert Lloyd's Boyhood A Story from Nova Scotia Each chest, therefore, if all contained the same precious metal, would represent the value of sixteen hundredweight of silver. The Cruise of the "Esmeralda" We took a hundredweight of books To Windermere between us, Our dons had blessed our studious looks, Had they by chance but seen us. Briefless Ballads and Legal Lyrics Second Series You couldn't load over twenty hundredweight, and sometimes you had to dump half of that, and go back for it. Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest One hundredweight of biscuits can be put into one oven. A Yacht Voyage Round England They all of ’em carries the same weight of shot, though not such heavy guns as these, being only forty-five hundredweight each.” Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant They were arranged in four tiers of sixteen bricks each, exactly fitting the chest, and each brick weighed about a quarter of a hundredweight. The Cruise of the "Esmeralda" Next day the hundredweight of books Was packed once more in cases, We left the lakes and hills and brooks And southward turned our faces. Briefless Ballads and Legal Lyrics Second Series The dates were now hanging in big masses of oval, greeny-yellow fruit, some in clusters of two hundredweight and more, and the palm leaves were turning brown at their points. In Mesopotamia The keel is of American elm, and the false keel is one piece of cast-iron, two and a half inches in width, by four and a half in depth, weighing nine hundredweight. A Yacht Voyage Round England For several days they had been at work in this new direction, and were getting bark in by the hundredweight. The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon Once he was permitted to forward some American flour, and the people had to pay forty crowns of duty on each hundredweight. The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 Da Nova had already taken on board 1000 hundredweights of pepper, 50 of ginger, and 450 of cinnamon, when he received warning that a considerable fleet, coming apparently from Calicut, was advancing with hostile intentions. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World Among other things, they presented the ships’ companies with three bags of tobacco, of a hundredweight each, and loaf-sugar for the officers, while Madame Behm sent several delicacies to poor Captain Clerke. Captain Cook His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries Upwards of three hundredweight of salt are used for each hogshead. A Yacht Voyage Round England The spices of various kinds, which seemed to have been bought, not by the pound, but by the hundredweight, were deposited in a great chest, and open to every hand. Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote Out of this one pool—which I think was not more than fifteen yards across—we obtained many hundredweights of fish and three turtle. "Five-Head" Creek; and Fish Drugging In The Pacific 1901 I could have got hundredweights if I had known that they were of value to make it worth while.” The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps You should have brought me a packet weighing about half a hundredweight as the rest of them send me.” In the Mist of the Mountains By it stands the machine for striking the fog-bell, which weighs three hundredweight, and sounds about every two seconds by means of a double clapper. A Yacht Voyage Round England A great boulder, weighing many hundredweight, lay across the track, and on top of it, wild with excitement, was Collie. Chatterbox, 1906 We first saw a storehouse filled with bags of nuts or nibs, two hundredweight in each, the only kinds used on the premises being those from Trinidad and Grenada. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 461 Volume 18, New Series, October 30, 1852 “But a good climber cannot get up and down dangerous places with half a hundredweight of stones on his back, man.” The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps It contained a hundredweight or a hundredweight and a half of sugar—if it contained sugar at all. Lady Bountiful The making of a thousand hundredweights of the wool leaves a mass of fuel equal in value to sixty cubic yards of pine-wood. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 458 Volume 18, New Series, October 9, 1852 One held heavily begrudged admiration as he paid off five hundredweight of crystal-cut in the legal tender of Xanabar to the other, whose expression was greedy self-confidence. History Repeats This party, by their combined operations, weigh and pack a hundredweight per hour. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 461 Volume 18, New Series, October 30, 1852 But he was too feverishly busy at Throttle-Ha'penny, selling his hundredweights of ash-pit fodder, as the natives called it, to realize anything else. The Lost Girl The other was hauled up in the same fashion, and pretty hard work it was, as each tusk was considerably above half a hundredweight. Adventures in Africa By an African Trader I don’t see any fun in buying it where there’s hundredweights down here.” In the King's Name The Cruise of the "Kestrel" "Not enough—" "For a task as easy as you claim it to be," said the mercenary, "Five hundredweight of crystal-cut seems honorable." History Repeats Mr Bremner’s aircases were empty casks in the bow and stern, and his ballast was three hundredweight of iron attached to the keel. Saved by the Lifeboat When the strike was over, two or three miners still remained working the soft, drossy coal, which they sold for eight-and-sixpence a ton—or sixpence a hundredweight. The Lost Girl The species runs to a hundredweight, I believe, in the Mississippi. Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler As this trip is to be such a long one, each sled must carry over two hundredweight of fish. Oowikapun How the Gospel Reached the Nelson River Indians From three to four hundredweight of salt was used for each hogshead. Michael Penguyne Fisher Life on the Cornish Coast But the big turkey, and the mountain of beef, and the pudding weighing a hundredweight, oppress one's spirits by their combined gravity. Orley Farm Onions, we are told, have reached the unprecedented price of thirty shillings a hundredweight, and several of the old established onion bars in the City may have to close their doors. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 22, 1916 With a few accidental dace and chub thrown in, there would therefore be over a solid hundredweight of fish. Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler The present price of waste-paper is half a crown a hundredweight, so that the bookseller is now practically shut out of this poor market. The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting Nicodemus brought a large quantity of myrrh and aloes, about a hundredweight. Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern A hundredweight of maize cost 300 francs in gold.... The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 There is a foundry at Waterford for pots, kettles, weights, and all common utensils; and a manufactory by Messrs. King and Tegent of anvils to anchors, twenty hundredweight, etc., which employs forty hands. A Tour in Ireland 1776-1779 Then come the carriages of the household, weighing about fifteen hundredweight each. The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly In a quarter of an hour the ten porters started, each with about half a hundredweight, and under the charge of a soldier. Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83) Our boat, which was the counterpart of the rest, was long, broad, and shallow, capable of carrying forty hundredweight, and nine men, besides three or four passengers, with provisions for themselves and the crew. Hudson Bay Enormous hammers or pounders they are, with shanks as well as heads of malleable-iron, each weighing, shank and head together, seven hundredweight. Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines One was killed in Mr. Penrose’s cellar that weighed five hundredweight and a quarter, and measured from the nose to the end of the tail nine feet four inches. A Tour in Ireland 1776-1779 It was corrugated iron, they told me, of, I forget, how many hundredweight. Six Months at the Cape The next wagon brought down one hundredweight of liquorice, and Tom recovered his health and the smiles of Anny Whistle. Poor Jack It was calculated to carry from twenty to twenty-five hundredweight, with eight or nine men, besides three passengers, and provisions for nearly a month. Hudson Bay The house was slated with massive slate of some hundredweight each, and it was not found possible to remove them so as to give air, although frequent attempts were made. Mr. Midshipman Easy In this way, in a short time, we killed four large hogs, each weighing at least five hundredweight. The Cruise of the Dainty Rovings in the Pacific Walking is very pleasant exercise, especially when one hasn’t half a hundredweight of traps and provisions to carry; but it’s very slow work you’ll allow. Manco, the Peruvian Chief An Englishman's Adventures in the Country of the Incas I am certain that I am right when I say that it could not have weighed much less than a hundredweight. In the Eastern Seas Fancy, you know—gold a hundredweight to the ton. To Win or to Die A Tale of the Klondike Gold Craze “According to the men there’s about three hundredweight to lower yet.” Old Gold The Cruise of the "Jason" Brig “No, sir, but the Chinese think a deal of ’em, and give no end of money for a hundredweight salted and dried. King o' the Beach A Tropic Tale “Why, there must be a quarter of a hundredweight,” said Poole. Fitz the Filibuster But, though stone was in plenty, it was in masses that might be calculated by hundredweights and tons. Cormorant Crag A Tale of the Smuggling Days And still they would manoeuvre a hundredweight of timber to a pin’s point. Clayhanger It weighs two hundredweight and some odd pounds. Boycotted And Other Stories "Ah, that will make about two hundredweight of beef to a man," returned the other, reckoning on her fingers. Manasseh A Romance of Transylvania Two pounds of lard are roasted with each hundredweight; and afterwards, when ground and exposed to the air, it becomes moist and clammy, increases in weight, and smells like licorice. The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island The extra length added a great deal of weight to the English mortars: the 13-inch weighed 25 hundredweight, while the French equivalent weighed only about half that much. Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America Avoirdupois Weight.--6 drams make 1 ounce, 16 ounces make 1 pound, 25 pounds make 1 quarter, 4 quarters make 1 hundredweight, 2,000 pounds make 1 ton. The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference He would give his type-founder an order like this:— Send me a hundredweight, made up in separate pounds, of heat, cold, wet, dry, murder, fire, dreadful robbery, atrocious outrage, fearful calamity, and alarming explosion. Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money But as he was very careful never to over-state a case, Lord George assumed, that it would require three hundred hundredweight of guano to an acre to produce an extra quarter of wheat. Lord George Bentinck A Political Biography Not a hundredweight of hay had we put into the barn, and the first hay we had mown had spoiled in the field. A Busy Year at the Old Squire's So he paid a hundredweight of gold to the peasant. Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs You know we have two or three hundredweight of precious stones on board now, which they would make me take just because they saw my rings. A Honeymoon in Space Three hundredweight of gold had been sent to Panama while they were struggling downstream. On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. In this case, two million hundredweight of guano would add six million six hundred and sixty-six thousand six hundred and sixty tons to the natural unmanured produce of the crop. Lord George Bentinck A Political Biography It takes five hundredweight of Rose petals to produce one drachm by weight of the finest Attar, which is preserved in small bottles made of rock crystal. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure "Shall we wager," said the stranger, "a barrel of gold coins—a hundred pounds to a hundredweight?" Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs The little Kerries are greatly prized as "milkers," and they yield good beef, but very little of it—not more than four hundredweight per beast. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Cochineal, selling at $370 a hundredweight in London, surpassed in value any spice from Celebes. The Age of the Reformation Nevertheless, during some fifty years, only about six hundredweights were delivered annually at these places; the rest disappeared, though at first nobody could suspect it. The Poor Plutocrats In a schedule afterwards published, he acknowledged to have found in the Cacafuego alone twenty-six tons of silver bullion, thirteen chests of coined silver, and almost a hundredweight of gold. The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book Eggs, fruit, biscuits, oatmeal, chocolate, etc., were ordered by the hundredweight, and an officer sent to make the purchases. The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and 14th (F. & F. Yeo.) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919 I applied guano to one-fourth, at the rate of two hundredweight to the statute acre, and the same weight of nitrate of soda over another fourth, leaving one-fourth entirely without manure. Essays in Natural History and Agriculture At the present time it ranges from £8 to £10 per hundredweight. The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 354, October 9, 1886 They don't know yet that it amounts to five or six hundredweight, which is coined into ready money underneath the ground. The Poor Plutocrats Hume once demolished one of these vulturine nurseries and found that it weighed over eight maunds, that is to say about six hundredweight. A Bird Calendar for Northern India As these stones weigh between two and three hundredweight, and the ascent is very steep, it was a test of strength. Round About the Carpathians I have taken from one to two hundredweight at a time from a box which the water flows through at the bottom of the sluice-board. Essays in Natural History and Agriculture I have at the college a large lens of pitch, weighing over three hundredweight, for concentrating them to a focus. Scientific American Supplement, No. 717, September 28, 1889 He could hear the other's breathing, long and slow; the breathing of a man with a hundredweight or so on the breastbone. The Nigger Of The "Narcissus" A Tale Of The Forecastle Four shillings a hundredweight is being paid for old omnibus tickets, but there are still a few people who use these vehicles for pleasure, without any motive of gain. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 20, 1917 Salt is a Government monopoly in Hungary, and is sold at the high price of five florins the hundredweight, forming, in fact, an important source of revenue. Round About the Carpathians I took my prize in tow, and found on landing that it was upwards of ten feet long, and must have weighed several hundredweight, for out of the water it was perfectly unmanageable. Jethou or Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles The balls of the Cavendish apparatus, weighing several hundredweight each, are replaced by balls weighing 1¾ pounds only. Scientific American Supplement, No. 717, September 28, 1889 We shall wait five minutes and no more," said I. "That gives you one minute forty seconds a ton, or five seconds a hundredweight. Berry And Co. In the United States, it is generally 26¼ hundredweight. History of the Plague in London To help pass the time the two worked a little in the drive, breaking down about a hundredweight of the quartz ridge that had cut in across the narrow face. The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy The boathouse received my canoe, fishing gear, carpenter's tools, and gunpowder, for I was afraid to keep the latter near the house, as I had a large quantity, nearly half a hundredweight. Jethou or Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles The price for many years paid to the cultivators for their produce was ten Spanish dollars or fifty shillings per bahar of five hundredweight or five hundred and sixty pounds. The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants In the evening two boats' crews were sent away fishing, and they caught in two hauls of the seine nearly three hundredweight of fish. Adventures in Southern Seas A Tale of the Sixteenth Century Why increase my burdens by a hundredweight or so of Easthaven beach? Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-29 Susi bought a hoe with a little gunpowder, then a cylinder of dura, three feet long by two feet in diameter, for the hoe: it is at least one hundredweight. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 Here is one weighing perhaps three or four hundredweight which I will try and push over. Jethou or Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles Three hundredweight, they say, and in pure gems! Poison Island The heavily guarded express continued to drag out yellow gold by the hundredweight. The Killer Madame V——, during her stage career, has probably consumed more than half a hundredweight of oxide of bismuth, prepared thus:— Rose or orange-flower water, 1 pint. The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants When the man went away he took with him more than a hundredweight of gold. The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned The ordinary burden of the Arabian camel is from seven to eight hundredweight; while the Bactrian variety is said to be capable of bearing a load nearly twice as heavy. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 3. (of 7): Media The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. Eleven pods will produce about a pound of cured beans, and the average yield of a large estate will be, in some cases, four hundredweight per acre, in others, twice as much. The Food of the Gods A Popular Account of Cocoa Beeswax can be obtained in abundance at Roma at the rate of 2 pounds 7 shillings per hundredweight. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1 He was a man of huge size and prodigious strength, and died in consequence of an injury he received in lifting one of the cathedral bells at Clogher, which is said to be ten hundredweight. The Ned M'Keown Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three Add two hundredweight of dandelions and plantains together with at least three pounds of garden-roller and five yards of wire-netting carefully grilled. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 16, 1917 In Germany feminine beauty is reckoned by hundredweights. Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians Speculators had their agents round taverns and stores ready to buy soldiers' tickets, and got transfers for a few dollars, sometimes for a keg of whiskey or a hundredweight of pork. The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825 The exports of coffee from this colony have, within a few thousands of hundredweights, been nearly quadrupled since 1843, when only 94,000 cwts. were sent away. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. The two sacks of pebbles together weighed, perhaps, from a half to three-quarters of a hundredweight. The Children of the King So the smith made one of three hundredweight. Folk Tales Every Child Should Know "I'll save 'em up for a rainy day, as the man said when he pawned his landlord's umbrella," was Mr. Ross's remark as he hurried off home, at least a quarter of a hundredweight lighter. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, August 20, 1892 "I should be sorry to say how many hundredweights of butter I've made wi' that very hand—or how many hundreds of persons have eaten it." Hocken and Hunken Lord Carrington, the ex-banker, once or twice, at Mr. Pitt's request, examined his household accounts, and found the quantity of butcher's meat charged in the bills was one hundredweight a week. Thrift If you had arms like the Children of the King," retorted the Cripple, "you would not trouble yourself about a couple of hundredweight more or less. The Children of the King They sent for the smith; he forged a club which weighed a hundredweight. Folk Tales Every Child Should Know Get ready the torpedoes, and serve out per man a hundredweight of smokeless powder cartridges. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 17, 1891 "I assure you, a stone of two hundredweight might be thrown a quarter of a mile." After London Or, Wild England In coffee, sometimes, a salary is given, and a bonus of one rupee a hundredweight on the coffee produced. Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore His kit for every voyage, besides the gallon of ink and the hundredweight of foolscap, always included a score of books, ranging from Livy or Chaucer to Gorky and histories of Italian art. Shandygaff Alyosha's intelligent, Alyosha's good," said Kostya, raising his head lazily; "but, my dear girl, to find out that he is intelligent, good, and interesting, you have to eat a hundredweight of salt with him. The Darling and Other Stories I buried it with every precaution, and threw over three hundredweight of lime over it. The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories Every time she rose the jib let out a hundredweight of sea-water; the sprit buckled and cracked, and I looked at the splice in the forestay to see if it yet held. Hills and the Sea Each narta, loaded with eight hundredweight of provisions and its driver, was drawn by six pair of dogs and a leader. International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850 That would be—let me see—five times three hundred and sixty-five is—um—twenty-five—thirty-two—eighteen—eighteen hundred and twenty-five ounces a year: just two ounces over the hundredweight. Back to Methuselah He inquired into everything; he wrote hundredweights of reports; he proved himself to have the true paralytic ink flux, precisely the kind of wordy discharge or brain hæmorrhage required of a high official in India. Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series In all, the carcass must have exceeded five hundredweight. Pioneers in Canada Into this trench tip about six hundredweight of a compost made up of equal parts of hyperphosphate of lime, ground bones, nitrate of soda and basic-slag. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 9, 1919 We had three hundredweight of gunpowder on board. A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy In the vicinity of Mount Sinai, where it is most plentiful, the quantity collected in the most favourable season does not exceed six hundredweight. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 554, June 30, 1832 The reef furnished many radiata and crustacea, and as usual the shell collectors--consisting of about one-half the ship's company, reaped a rich harvest of cowries, cones, and spider shells, amounting to several hundredweight. Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 1 Neutral correspondents are expected to use this sort of thing, which is turned out by the hundredweight, as the basis of their communications to their newspapers. The Land of Deepening Shadow Germany-at-War Climbing to these by ropes, men have taken thence lumps weighing as much as a hundredweight. The Long White Cloud We found, however, no difficulty in procuring more, some of which weighed four hundredweight. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 A hundredweight or so of anthracite would turn the body into undistinguishable ash; and yet—well, it seemed a wasteful thing to do. The Uttermost Farthing A Savant's Vendetta A valuable cow, in one case, was sold for eight bushels of potatoes; a three-year-old horse was exchanged for half a hundredweight of flour. The United Empire Loyalists : A Chronicle of the Great Migration Her feet were like hundredweights, her limbs almost devoid of power; Grimes' hut appeared to be a couple of miles away. Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 The agonies I suffered in contemplating the destruction which six barrels of powder, each of an hundredweight, would cause amongst a mob of several hundred naked savages, it is impossible to imagine! A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827 Each year at killing time he was allowed two or three hundredweight of pork as well as other privileges not accorded to the ordinary slave. George Washington: Farmer Tonnage table, hundredweight, quarters, and pounds expressed as decimal equivalent of a gross ton. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1962 January - June A safe weighing three hundredweight has been stolen from a branch post office in the Gray's Inn Road. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 25, 1917 As soon as the sledge arrived, we placed the turtle with some difficulty on it, as it weighed at least three hundredweight. The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures in a Desert Island During the removal of a safe weighing three hundredweight some burglars last week used cushions and mats to deaden the sound. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 18, 1919 "Helen, I suppose a hundredweight of currants will he sufficient ?" "Yes; I should think so." My Brilliant Career Tonnage table, hundredweight, quarters, and pounds expressed as decimal equivalent of a gross ton for use with the Monroe adding-calculator. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1962 January - June One ounce might be contained in about four hundredweight of canned food. Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 What? shall two hundredweight of hypocrisy bow down to his four-inch wooden saint, and the same weight of honesty not worship his four-foot live one? The Saint's Tragedy The common waggon used weighs eight hundredweight, and holds fifty bushels. Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada In 1733 Parliament laid a tax of 6_d_. a gallon on molasses and 5_s_. per hundredweight on sugar brought into this country from any other place than the British West Indies. A School History of the United States It was a fragment of rock which, from its size, might well have been two hundredweight. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Materials were: A bottle of Indian ink, a couple of brushes, about a hundredweight of useless charcoal, and a G.S. blue and red pencil. Bullets & Billets The hollow lane towards Alton was so torn and disordered as not to be passable till mended, rocks being removed that weighed two hundredweight. MacMillan's Reading Books Book V Sometimes they are ten hundredweight, and hold one hundred and five bushels. Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada To Mrs. Lauder's surprise, and finally to her great vexation, coal men came tramping up our stairs every few minutes all afternoon, each one staggering under the weight of a hundredweight sack of coal. A Minstrel in France Are there not tabloids that supply the body with oxygen, hydrogen, calorics, or whatever else is essential to life in the common hundredweights and gallons of bread, meat, and drink? Essays in Rebellion A horse or mule carries from two to three and a half hundredweight, according to the state of the road. A Woman's Journey Round the World Only one unit suggests convenience in reductions, viz., hundredweight. Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 Every pound lost, would have been a hundredweight of happiness gained. The Old Curiosity Shop May 10–14.—Went every day to the wreck; and got a great many pieces of timber, and boards, or plank, and two or three hundredweight of iron. Robinson Crusoe He was five hundredweight if 'a were a pound. A Pair of Blue Eyes These beautiful animals, peaceable and inoffensive, from eighteen to twenty-one feet in length, weigh at least sixteen hundredweight. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea It is easy to reduce from pounds to hundredweight and vice versa. Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 We have over 3 hundredweight still, which will be quite sufficient. Explorations in Australia, Illustrated, Thirty-five elephants were placed at stages between Eden Vale and Mombasa, and upon their backs from ten to twelve hundredweight of the most various kinds of goods were daily carried in both directions. Freeland A Social Anticipation I gave them two caddies of tobacco, 200 pounds of bacon, a hundredweight of flour, several papers of soda, several pounds of salt, and a large bucket of coffee. The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail I reckoned that the haul had brought in more than nine hundredweight of fish. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea I retraced my steps, wandered in the dark till I found a shop, and there purchased, of sardines, canned tongue, lobster, and salmon, not less than half a hundredweight. Traffics and Discoveries Cook, haul in that boat and put half a hundredweight of ship's bread and four buckets of water in it. The Mutineers In conclusion, I asked them to send at once several hundredweight of different kinds of goods, accompanied by a new troop of vigorous young members. Freeland A Social Anticipation "There would still be time to do so if necessary—at the sacrifice of some hundredweight of paper." The Slave of the Lamp To arrive at this number he must have taken a hundredweight as equal to, not 112, but 100, pounds. Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 The consequence is, that for every hundredweight of fiber about a ton of woody material has to be transported. Scientific American Supplement, No. 417, December 29, 1883 I have managed to leave about three hundredweight; many of the things I can ill spare, but I hope by doing this to be able in a short time to push on a little quicker. Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart Often hundredweights are taken in a night, all of good size, one of the largest of which there is any record being one of 15 lb., taken in the Kennet near Newbury. The Naturalist on the Thames Well, if you could bring that five hundredweight of stuff here and get it crushed up, and it turns out as good as you say, I could get you the money in twenty-four hours. In the Heart of the Rockies On the occasion of the trial in question, the dust obtained from two tons of coke measured only 3½ bushels, or just over a half hundredweight per ton. Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882 When lead is required for sheet making, instead of running out the market lead into the usual pigs of about one hundredweight each, it is run into large blocks of 3½ tons. Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 Virginsky was very glad of her decision, he felt as though a hundredweight had been lifted off him! The Possessed (The Devils) In 1845, when the Union, was but ten years old, the import of cotton and yarn had reached a million of hundredweights, and since that time there has been a large increase. The slave trade, domestic and foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished "If the mines are such as we think, Major, we may be sending down two or three hundredweight a month." In the Heart of the Rockies A scientist is of more account—he pits his brains against the dull unresponsiveness of inanimate matter and a hundredweight of black iron he makes do the work of a hundred housewives. Windy McPherson's Son A fisherman had brought fourteen hundredweight of these for sale in the market. Old Calabria There is so much in a name,—and then an ounce of ridicule is often more potent than a hundredweight of argument. The Eustace Diamonds We have got altogether two hundredweight; now two pounds to each ammunition waggon will take twelve pounds. With Buller in Natal, Or, a Born Leader At each journey the horses had brought up about fifteen hundredweight; and as the work had gone on for nine days, they had, they calculated, something like fourteen tons of firewood neatly stacked. In the Heart of the Rockies I went to the grammar school in the town, and in my time I must have bought and consumed some hundredweights of her 'marry-me-quick.' The Yeoman Adventurer Several hundredweight of wax must have been brought up on the heads of pious female pilgrims. Old Calabria Half a hundredweight of heads, forequarters and tails were stewed down for soup, and as much kangaroo steak was available for officers and men as they could consume "by day and night." The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders The story goes: A man of trade, In Persia, with his neighbour made Deposit, as he left the state, Of iron, say a hundredweight. Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes It was not until the fourth wedge had been driven in that a fragment of rock weighing four or five hundredweight suddenly broke out from the face. In the Heart of the Rockies You must give them half a hundredweight, and see how they manoeuvre that, if you want to form any estimate of the muscular strength of each. Science & Education "They are pretty heavy," the mate said, "I should say a hundredweight each." The Treasure of the Incas There were stones to pick up and pile in cairns; red stones, half buried in grass and tussocks, and weighing anything from a pound to half a hundredweight. Back to Billabong It is very convenient to make it appear that this is a quarrel of races; for, in such a case, a scruple of prejudice will go farther than a hundredweight of argument. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 13, November, 1858 "You were allocated one hundredweight of sugar, I believe, Ma'am," he said. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, September 26, 1917 You do not put a hundredweight down before them, and tell each to swing it round. Science & Education If one can do this with three-quarters of a pound, just fancy the effect of a couple of hundredweight. A Rogue by Compulsion Provisions comprised the dried meat of two bullocks and four sheep, weighing, as butcher's meat, 16 hundredweight; but when dried and the bones removed, reduced to 300 pounds. Journals of Australian Explorations By some process of evil enchantment every ounce grew to weigh a pound, every pound a hundredweight. The Magnetic North "Plums are stone fruit," he observed stonily, "and you were allocated one hundredweight of sugar for your soft fruit, I believe?" Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, September 26, 1917 Well, the Old 'Un dropped on him like a hundredweight of bricks. The Pothunters When Columbus's warning about the storm came, eighteen caravels lay in the harbor ready to start for Spain with eighteen hundredweight of gold. Christopher Columbus Men staggered along in couples with bamboos between them, supporting clusters of bananas weighing nearly a hundredweight. The Hawaiian Archipelago Four annas for going eight miles upwards and eight miles downwards not less than twice a day; altogether thirty-two miles up and down a mountain 1,500 feet high, carrying a burden of two hundredweight! From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan "You were allocated one hundredweight of sugar for jam-making in respect of your soft fruit, I believe?" Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, September 26, 1917 Here is an instance of the latter kind in which the minor term is at fault— Anything over a hundredweight is too heavy to lift. Deductive Logic He was dying, although he wrote to everyone that he had almost recovered, and that health was coming back to him not by ounces but by hundredweights. Letters of Anton Chekhov The price of sugar in 1803 was fifty-two shillings a hundredweight. Here, There and Everywhere At its altar burns an unquenchable fire, which daily consumes hundredweights of sandal wood and aromatic herbs. From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan The railway station at Randalstown was much injured; great numbers of slates, and two and a half hundredweight of lead were torn from the roof. The Naturalist in Nicaragua Then Sir Buzz chose about a hundredweight of them, and said, 'Quick, tie them up in something and give them into my hand; I'll carry them home.' Tales of the Punjab However, on July 8, Bauer came across and offered to let us have some wheatmeal biscuits as they had a couple of hundredweights, so I readily accepted twenty pounds of them. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Heavy feet, dragging like hundredweights, carried them over the last weary mile. The Rose in the Ring "I will give you tree hundredweight into the bargain." Nature and Human Nature Then suddenly the guards began to loose random volleys at the roof and brought down hundredweights of splintered stalactite. King of the Khyber Rifles Nevertheless, it was of course not pleasant to be popped alive every morning into a great frying-pan of boiling oil; and for my part I think King Karan earned his hundredweight of gold handsomely. Tales of the Punjab There were quite two hundredweights of snow on us; all of which came through a hole three inches wide. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 But the captain's orders were definite; so until near noon the shovels were plied smartly, and one hundredweight after another of admirable tobacco drifted away on the careless sea. Stories by English Authors: the Sea He had her hand in his, and was rushing ruthlessly through flower-beds toward the big gate, her travelling bag banging against his knee with the insistence of a hundredweight. The Flyers I found the first part of the fifth edition of the Text-book among the two or three hundredweight of letters and books which had accumulated during four months. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 I let myself be fried and eaten every day in order that I may be able to give away a hundredweight of gold in charity, yet no swan sings my song!' Tales of the Punjab A special arrangement was necessary for all loads exceeding one hundredweight, as the single wire carrier-cables were not sufficiently strong. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Nevertheless it was said of him that he could thrash any man in Bungay, and carry two hundredweight of flour upon his back. The Way We Live Now How they accomplish the feat of securing a turtle that may weigh a couple of hundredweight from a frail bark canoe, in which a white man can scarcely sit and preserve his balance, is astonishing. Confessions of a Beachcomber The standard of value was the pound, and men thought in hundredweights or in tons. The Winds of Chance And the next day also, by ransacking all the private treasuries, a hundredweight of gold was forthcoming; so King Karan ate his breakfast as usual, though his heart was gloomy. Tales of the Punjab It weighed more than three hundredweights, yet it was whisked into the air one morning and dropped fifty yards away in a north-easterly direction. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Dairy farmers were losing money on every hundredweight of milk they produced. State of the Union Address Two-thirds of a dozen, one hundredweight, one eighth of a gross, twelve per cent, off, and twenty-three per cent. on for freight charges; the "extenders" had to keep their wits about them. Saturday's Child George himself carried about a quarter of a hundredweight. It Is Never Too Late to Mend It is sometimes easier to lift a couple of hundredweights than to raise a few thoughts in one's mind which at other moments will come galloping in without a whistle. The Small House at Allington A nephew of mine was there last Friday, and tells me you carried off half a hundredweight of prizes. Born in Exile The meadows of Holland have, in the lapse of centuries, produced millions of hundredweights of cheese. Familiar Letters on Chemistry In converting cast into wrought-iron, a mass of metal, of about a hundredweight, is heated almost to white heat, and placed under a heavy hammer moved by water or steam power. On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures Yes, full a hundredweight; half the mass was quartz, but four-fifths of the weight they knew must be gold. It Is Never Too Late to Mend There stands a kettle full of wax, with about one hundredweight, wherein there is always the wick of a candle burning- -as it were, a lamp which goeth not out day nor night. Discovery of Muscovy This is the cheerful part of my news; otherwise this horrible Paris presses on me with a hundredweight. Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 1 Thousands of hundredweights are annually exported, and yet the productiveness of the meadows is in no way diminished, although they never receive more nitrogen than they originally contained. Familiar Letters on Chemistry You may have property in a couple of hundredweight, more or less, of old bones rather the worse for the wear and tear of a century, but I certainly have some ownership in the life. The Witch of Prague Yes, an hour ago; six kegs, by the carrier's van, of a hundredweight each. The Lady of Blossholme Yesterday that boy seems to have consumed anything from a couple of hundredweight to a ton of pie, and he has thriven on it! Indiscretions of Archie It is the penalty and the safeguard of genius that it computes itself by troy weight in a world that measures by vulgar hundredweights. The Chronicles of Clovis Then he stood on his fore-legs and threw about a hundredweight of mud that clung to his heels at Dad's head. On Our Selection Accordingly I collected a great number of large jars that were used by the natives for brewing merissa; in these I boiled several hundredweight of potatoes to a pulp. The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile His son dried a few hundredweight of fish for himself and gave them to Mr. Bruce, and on that account his father was warned. Second Shetland Truck System Report Then there was one and eight for a hundredweight of coal that had been bought on credit. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists My men collected several hundredweight, as I wished to try an experiment in distilling. Ismailia Carat of wine on hundredweight of woe * Transmuteth gloomiest grief to joy and glee. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 An antiquated grate that would hold about a hundredweight of coal, had been stuck on to the hearth by Mr. Thorne's father. Barchester Towers A full grown grisly will usually weigh from five to seven hundred pounds; but exceptional individuals undoubtedly reach more than twelve hundredweight. Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches The nests are sold to Chinese traders — the black nests for about a hundred dollars a hundredweight, and the white nests for as much as thirty or forty shillings per pound. The Pagan Tribes of Borneo Several large flakes, each weighing some hundredweight, lay beneath the table rock,-upon the under surface of which could be distinctly traced the mould of the detached slab. Ismailia The largest that I ever killed, weighed four hundredweight. The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon It required not less than three hundred and thirty pounds' weight of powder, and the ball weighed, as before mentioned, eleven hundredweight. The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen "I'm afraid not," returned the 'Woodman, shaking his head; "you see Khichri is an expensive dish to make-there is rice in it, and plenty of butter, and pulse, and-" "Would-would eight hundredweight do?" The Junior Classics — Volume 1 In the three autumn months of 1800, for instance, twenty-one boats ascended the Ohio by Fort Massac, with cargoes amounting to 36 hundredweight of lead and a few hides. The Paths of Inland Commerce; a chronicle of trail, road, and waterway Why, I laid in nearly a hundredweight, and I can always get what I want now. The Devil's Paw I here found my concealed money, pistols, and other necessaries, but till I had rid myself of some hundredweight of sand, it was impossible to proceed. The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 2 If it does not weigh a hundredweight and won't break my neck... War and Peace He glittered from head to foot with dirk, pistol, and skean-dhu; and at least a hundredweight of cairngorms cast a prismatic glory around his person. Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners) While sifting for five or six years the volunteered contributions to a popular periodical, he has received and considered some hundredweights of manuscript. How to Fail in Literature; a lecture I should have looked out beforehand some stone weighing a hundredweight or more which had been lying in the corner from the time the house was built. Crime and Punishment It seemed burdened with a hundredweight of lead. When God Laughs: and other stories The specimen I had obtained was a small one, about two feet high, weighing perhaps a hundredweight; and the next day we had it conveyed to Modjo-Kerto to await my return to Sourabaya. The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 One, the stone flew in two pieces; a fragment, weighing about four hundredweight I should say, struck him on the breast, and killed him on place; he never spoke. Put Yourself in His Place After the new grain was harvested they eagerly bought the flour as fast as five mills could grind it, at $25 per hundredweight. The Story of the Mormons, from the date of their origin to the year 1901 He didn’t weigh a hundredweight, an’ he drove us—he drove us, three drivin’ mates that learned from him what drivin’ was. The Mutiny of the Elsinore Send your Cape cart into Cape Town for iron lathes, for coffee and tea, and groceries by the hundredweight. A Simpleton The quantity of butcher's meat charged in the bills was nine hundredweight a week. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3 He bought meat, and a loaf of bread, candles, chips, and from a little retail yard he purchased a couple of hundredweights of coal. Mary Barton She was a beautiful beast, a thorough-bred "shorthorn," and she weighed about thirteen hundredweight. Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon One pair of dogs will drag three hundredweight on level ground; but when they encounter a hill, the driver must lend a helping hand. Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North “Then you’ve got to do your task, pick four pounds of oakum, or clean an’ scrub, or break ten to eleven hundredweight o’ stones. The People of the Abyss While still at school he could hold a hundredweight at arm's-length, and crumple up a horseshoe like a wisp of hay. A Book of Scoundrels In this position it was impossible to slip the straps, and the hundredweight on his back would not let him rise. Smoke Bellew He was a middling-sized boar, as near as I could guess, about two and a half hundredweight. Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon The effigies are made of hard and heavy wood, and I remember once in Concepcion de Paraguay assisting on a sweltering day to carry a Madonna weighing about five hundredweight. A Vanished Arcadia: being some account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 My catch that lovely morning scaled over a hundredweight in less than an hour, none of the fish being less than ten pounds in weight. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales How absurd for a man, if he cannot carry half a hundredweight, to attempt to carry a whole! The Memorabilia No more in her spiritual life than in carrying the hundredweights of grain was there a possibility of a misstep or an overbalancing. The Strength of the Strong I have never killed them with the hounds above four hundredweight; but I have seen solitary boars in the low country, that must have weighed nearly double. Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon I forget how many bags I got; but the few who had grown potatoes in the district sent theirs to Sydney, and spuds went up to twelve and fifteen shillings a hundredweight in that district. Joe Wilson and His Mates Of other succulent fish there was a great variety, from the majestic "grouper," running up to over a hundredweight, down to the familiar flounder. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales Mac, who had no part nor lot in the bills, the forty pounds of gold, or the two hundredweight of silver, heard this with impatience, and fell into a bitter, choking laughter. The Wrecker |
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