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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.
It had become perfectly dark in her rooms, and the solitude and silence there oppressed her like a hundredweight burden. Besides, terrible thoughts had assailed her, showing her herself in want and shame, despised, disdained, begging for a morsel of bread, and her father under his fallen horse, on his lonely, couch of pain, in his coffin. Then her stay in her lonely rooms seemed unendurable.
I had mentioned those hints in confidence to a few friends, and had promised to give away, as I now see reason to believe, a handsome covey of partridges potted, and about a hundredweight of guava jelly. It was now that Globson, Bully no more, sought me out in the playground.
I will go and ask the officer; while you are getting the fish up here, and divided." In a quarter of an hour the ten porters started, each with about half a hundredweight, and under the charge of a soldier.
Sometimes, as he staggered into barracks after a long day, carrying a rifle made of lead and wearing a pair of boots weighing a hundredweight apiece, he dropped dead asleep on his bedding before he could eat his dinner. But he always hotly denied the imputation that he was "sick." Time passed. The regiment was shaking down.
With gaff-hooks to haul back the pieces, and short-handled spades for cutting, they worked in pairs, taking off square slabs of blubber about a hundredweight each. As soon as a piece was cut off, the pair tackled on to it, dragging it up to the pots, where the cooks hastily sliced it for boiling, interspersing their labours with attention to the simmering cauldrons.
But indeed he had not such a high opinion of gunpowder but that he believed engines for projection, more powerful as well as less expensive, could be constructed, after the fashion of ballista or catapult, by the use of a mode he had discovered of immeasurably increasing the strength of springs, so that stones of a hundredweight might be thrown into a city from a quarter of a mile's distance without any noise audible to those within.
"He succeeds by outwitting the little minds with which he comes in contact. 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.
"Now what's the trouble?" "No trouble at all," the captain said, "except the trouble you choose to make. You have your year's taaro ready for shipping?" "Of course." The captain took out a small pencil on a chain and began to twirl it. "How much, to be exact?" "Twenty thousand, Earth weight." "Tons?" Pete shook his head. "Hundredweight." The captain raised his eyebrows. "I see.
This rock was rich in the spasmodic kind of oyster, large detached masses of which lay just beneath the water in lumps of some hundredweight each, which had been formed by the oysters clustering and adhering together.
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