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"The fire was of extreme rapidity; prepared beforehand:" Bridge all of dry wood coated with pitch; "fire reinforced too, in view of such event, by all the suet, lard and oleaginous matter the Garrison could find in Weissenfels; some hundredweights of tallow-dips, for one item, going up on this occasion."
Even weighted by the saucepan, in which Mrs Nixon had boiled hundredweights of jam, he still managed to keep his arms slanted outwards and motionless, retaining his appearance of a rigid body that swam smoothly along on mechanical legs.
"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." Captain Cai dived his own hands into the hip-pockets of his new coat, aimlessly searching for pipe and tobacco-pouch; not that he would have ventured to smoke in her presence! but it gave his hands something to do.
Why, you probably never heard of manilla hemp before, until this very minute, and yet you have been familiarly using it all your lifetime, while 400,000 hundredweights of that useful article are annually imported into this country alone. It is an interesting study to take any day a list of market quotations, and ask oneself about every material quoted, what it is and what they do with it.
The same road leads to the temple of the Parsee fire-worshippers. At its altar burns an unquenchable fire, which daily consumes hundredweights of sandal wood and aromatic herbs. Lit three hundred years ago, the sacred fire has never been extinguished, notwithstanding many disorders, sectarian discords, and even wars. The Parsees are very proud of this temple of Zaratushta, as they call Zoroaster.
The entire camp was also buried; the tin kettle being capped with a knob peculiarly its own, and the snow-shoes and other implements having each their appropriate outline, while some hundredweights, if not tons, of the white drapery gathered on the branches overhead.
The nitrogen of the fluid and solid excrements of cows, is derived from the meadow-plants, which receive it from the atmosphere; the nitrogen of the cheese also must be drawn from the same source. The meadows of Holland have, in the lapse of centuries, produced millions of hundredweights of cheese.
13,000,000 men, 25,000,000 tons of war material, 1,000,000 sick and wounded, 51,000,000 tons of coal and oil fuel, 2,000,000 horses and mules, 100,000,000 hundredweights of wheat, 7,000,000 tons of iron ore, and, beyond this, has exported goods to the value of £500,000,000.
Whether it is fair to question it is another matter. In Germany feminine beauty is reckoned by hundredweights.
Thus shall ye do, that ye may find grace before me. This is the writing of the letter which I send to you, Ahasuerus king of Media and Persia." The price Haman offered the king for the Jews was ten thousand hundredweights of silver.
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