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This is built of brick and stone, ninety feet high, and is also Mongol in origin; the bell weighs twenty thousand pounds and is still used to tell the watches of the night; the drum in the tower is struck at the same time.
I think the aerolites are as interesting as anything in this department, and one piece of pure iron, laid against the wall of the room, weighs about fourteen hundred pounds. Whence could it have come? If these aerolites are bits of other planets, how happen they to be always iron? But I know no more of this than if I were a philosopher.
For a few moments the new match ball than which, in a cricketer's estimation, A carbuncle entire, as big as thou art, Were not a richer jewel is passed round among the fielders, just to get their hands in; which ball, we may mention, is nine inches in circumference, weighs five and a half ounces, is in color not unlike a carbuncle, and nearly as hard.
I confess the letter weighs on my mind, although I have translated it into Latin. However, I have never heard that Henriot, as Charles IX. called him, knew Latin; so I will give him a free French translation." Chicot inquired, and was told that the king was at Nerac. He turned to the left to reach this place, and found the road full of people returning from the market at Condom.
It will give a fine pink tinge to melted butter. This catchup, warmed in melted butter, is an excellent substitute for fresh lobster sauce at seasons when the fish cannot he procured, as, if properly made, it will keep a year. Take a fine lobster that weighs about three pounds. Put it into boiling water, and cook it thoroughly. When it is cold break it up, and extract all the flesh from the shell.
Politics is a very uncertain res gestoe. And human nature, more uncertain still, would vacillate from wing to wing, now being a Sharp's retainer, and anon a hanger-on of Rush. Such changelings would not count, but that their vote weighs heavily. Mrs. Lisle had already made one visit to her son, which lasted several months.
"No, not now, Catherine, it might discover us." "Oh, but, Frederick, I must. It weighs me down far too much." "Oh, no, Catherine, do hold it fast." "Ah, Frederick, I am letting it fall!" "Let it go, then, in the devil's name." Then it fell down with a violent clatter, and the rascals below cried, "The devil is coming down the tree!" and they ran away and left everything behind them.
He knew besides that the North Pole is suspended over the earth, and how it weighs on the men who dwell in that climate. And the North that is born in the bright air rolling on a great wave on the Southwest wind. Where the Southwest wind drives a great wave against the left headland."
It measures full seventeen hands at the shoulder being thus equal in height to a very large horse. A large eland weighs one thousand pounds. It is a heavily formed animal, and an indifferent runner, as a mounted hunter can gallop up to one without effort.
Joe and the two sailors descended the ladder and, with some difficulty, one of the boxes was hoisted up. "That weighs over two hundredweight, I'm sure," Joe said. The box was broken open, and it was found to be filled with small bars of silver. "Are they all the same size, Joe?" the captain asked. "Yes, as far as I can see." The captain took out his pocketbook, and made a rapid calculation.
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