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One drop of blood, one single drop, came out of the white feathers of the angel's wings and fell upon the ship in which the prince sat, burnt into it, and weighed upon it like thousands of hundredweights, dragging it rapidly down to the earth again; the strong wings of the eagles gave way, the wind roared round the prince's head, and the clouds around were they formed by the smoke rising up from the burnt cities? took strange shapes, like crabs many, many miles long, which stretched their claws out after him, and rose up like enormous rocks, from which rolling masses dashed down, and became fire-spitting dragons.
Reverting to the father and mother, his idea of a positive injury, that was not without its congratulations, sank him down among his disordered deeper sentiments; which were a diver's wreck, where an armoured livid subtermarine, a monstrous puff-ball of man, wandered seriously light in heaviness; trembling his hundredweights to keep him from dancing like a bladder-block of elastic lumber; thinking occasionally, amid the mournful spectacle, of the atmospheric pipe of communication with the world above, whereby he was deafened yet sustained.
Her figure was supple, and she had the clear pink and white complexion which belongs to cold climates. She seemed accustomed to being waited on, and watched without emotion the guard and the solitary railway official porter, station-master, telegraph-operator and lantern-man, all rolled into one haul her hundredweights of luggage out of the train.
Indeed the public lost nothing by their fabrication, though the state treasury suffered considerably. The whole region, in fact, from Zalathna to Verespatak abounded in that precious metal which some fool or other has called "a mere chimera," and the gold mining was farmed out to private individuals, the yearly output from the shafts being twelve hundredweights.
"And it weighs I don't know what whole hundredweights!" cried Dot, making a great demonstration of trying to lift it. "Whose is it, John? Where is it going?" "Read the writing on the other side," said John. "Why, John! My Goodness, John!" "Ah! who'd have thought it?" John returned.
"However," resumed Gideon Spilett, "you do not deny that some day the coal will be entirely consumed?" "Oh! the veins of coal are still considerable, and the hundred thousand miners who annually extract from them a hundred millions of hundredweights have not nearly exhausted them."
'And it weighs I don't know what whole hundredweights! cried Dot, making a great demonstration of trying to lift it. 'Whose is it, John? Where is it going? 'Read the writing on the other side, said John. 'Why, John! My Goodness, John! 'Ah! who'd have thought it! John returned.
My interest in piece-sorting an occupation I had never even heard of before had grown abnormally, and I had gone into the figures and quantities so many hundredweights, purchased at fifteen shillings, sorted into lots, and sold at various prices with as thorough-going an eagerness as if my own livelihood were to depend upon it.
The wheat was invariably spring-sown, and the yield averaged from eight to twelve hundredweights per arpent, or from ten to fourteen bushels per acre. Most of the wheat was made into flour at the seigneurial mills and was consumed in the colony, but shipments were also made with fair regularity to France, to the West Indies, and for a time to Louisbourg.
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. In the "grig-wheels" they are taken as small as 3 oz. or 4 oz.; but in the bucks they rarely weigh less than 1 lb. The darkest nights are the most favourable. Moonlight stops them, and they do not like still weather.
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