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I tell you what," said I: "I'll come just to show you the ropes, and I won't take a pennyweight of the swag." Such was the teasing fashion in which he invariably prevailed upon me; it was delightful to note how it caused him to yield in his turn. But Raffles had the grace to give in with a laugh, whereas I too often lost my temper with my point. "You little rabbit!" he chuckled.
Harrison said this, Grant was conscious that a betrayal of the truth was on his countenance. "And, of course, Martin said the ring was not solid." "No, he did not exactly say that. I went with the gentleman, at his request. Martin weighed the ring, and, after doing so, simply stated that gold of the quality of which the ring was made was worth a certain price per pennyweight.
Put your bow in the tiller. It draws at sixty pounds not a pennyweight too much for a man of your inches. Lay more body to it, lad, and it will come to you. If your bow be not stiff, how can you hope for a twenty-score flight. Feathers? Aye, plenty and of the best. Here, peacock at a groat each.
But even as it stands, the Report was not very favourable to him. "We found also that thirty and two old half-pence coined for Ireland in the reigns of King Charles 2d., King James 2d., and King William 3d. and Queen Mary, and produced by Mr. Wood, weighed six ounces and eight pennyweight Troy, that is, one hundred and three grains and a half apiece one with another.
Nevertheless he dusted the sack thoroughly, to the last least grain, till the balance was overcome and one side of the scales sank to the table. Equilibrium, however, was restored by the addition of a pennyweight and five grains to the opposite side. He stood, head thrown back, transfixed. The sack was empty, but the potentiality of the scales had become immeasurable.
"A sack full of gold," answered the gnome, "just as heavy as myself not a pennyweight less!" "Not enough!" said the rat-catcher. "Guess again!" "As heavy as you are!" cried the gnome, beginning to plead in a thin, whining tone. "I'm a poor man," said the rat-catcher; "a poor man mayn't afford to be generous!" "What is it you want of me?" cried the gnome.
He saw all this, and yet it did not thrill him any more! It was all Dead Sea fruit, dust and ashes in his hand. He wanted but one thing now and his whole kingdom did not weigh one pennyweight against it. But in spite of his preoccupation the freedom and massiveness of the West broadened the Boy's mental vision.
For the slightest miscarriage they discharged their lawyer, and leaped into the office of a new one. Has any man moved in the affairs of men, with a grain of common-sense or half a pennyweight of experience, without being taught that an old tenter-hook sits easier to him than a new one? And not only that, but in shifting his quarters he may leave some truly fundamental thing behind. Old Mr.
But the more he had labored to introduce rash brevity into Yorkshire, and to cut away nine words out of ten, when all the ten meant one thing only, the more of contempt for his ignorance he won, and the less money he made out of it. And no sooner did he marry than he was forced to give up that, and, like a respectable butcher, put in every pennyweight of fat that could be charged for.
Then you can put those two into one scale, and a piece of lead as big as both of them into the other scale, and when you have made it exactly as heavy as both of the others, you must mark a figure 2 upon it, and then you will have a two-grain weight. In the same way you can make a five-grain weight, and a ten-grain weight, and a pennyweight." "What is a pennyweight?" said Rollo.
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