120 " Weight of the outside balloon...... 650 " Weight of the second balloon....... 510 " Car and network.................... 280 " Anchors, instruments, awnings, and sundry utensils, guns, coverings, etc................... 190 " Meat, pemmican, biscuits, tea, coffee, brandy................... 386 " Water.............................. 400 " Apparatus.......................... 700 " Weight of the hydrogen.............英文原著 · 《Five Weeks in a Balloon》
An anvil is put on her body, on which two men strike with large hammers. 4thly. A stone of a hundred pounds weight is put on her body, and beat to pieces with a hammer. 5thly. She lies down on the ground, and suffers a stone of 1500 pounds weight to be laid on her breasts, in which position she speaks to the audience, and drinks a glass of wine, then throws the stone off her body by mere strength, without any assistance. Lastly, she lifts an anvil of 200 pound weight from the ground with her own hair. To begin exactly at six o'clock.英文原著 · 《The Miracle Mongers》
Frauds in weaving are prevented by delivering the yarn to the weavers by weight, and receiving the cloth by weight from the loom. In the other operations of the manufactures, such as fulling, shearing, pressing, etc. no frauds are to be apprehended.英文原著 · 《ESSAYS-1》
These 1102 loaves, when baked, weighed at a medium 2 lbs. 5 1/2 loths each; consequently, taken together, they weighed 2393 lbs. 13 loths: and as they weighed 2755 lbs. when they were put into the oven, they must have lost 361 lbs. 19 loths in being baked, which gives 10 1/2 loths, equal to 21/160 or nearly 1/8 of its original weight before it was baked, for the diminution of the weight of each loaf.英文原著 · 《ESSAYS-1》
Weight of raw potatoes Cwt. for Calecannon,-- -- 19 0 0 -- 3 6 6 An allowance for waste, 1 0 0 ------------- Weight used, 18 0 0 -- Raw greens for ditto,-- 8 0 0 -- 1 6 0 Butter for ditto,-- -- 1 0 0 -- 3 12 0 Pepper for ditto,-- -- 0 0 0 1/2 -- 0 1 1 Ginger for ditto,-- -- 0 0 1 -- 0 1 3 Onions for ditto,-- -- 0 0 14 -- 0 2 0 Salt for ditto, -- -- 0 0 24 -- 0 0 8 Fuel, 4 bushels 2 pecks, -- 0 3 4 Time of boiling about four hours.英文原著 · 《ESSAYS-1》
But M. Lavoisier has shown us by his experiments, that the quantity of heat generated in the combustion of any given weight of coal, is greater than that generated in the combustion of the same weight of dry wood, in the proportion of 1089 to 600; consequently, 1 lb. of coal ought to make 40 3/4 lbs. of water, at the temperature 55 degrees, boil.英文原著 · 《ESSAYS-1》
That night, Miranda had gone from faclng her weight at Weight Watchers美剧 · 《Sex and the city》
In fact, since 95 percent of the weight you're moving is the car not the driver, In fact, since 95 percent of the weight you're moving is the car not the driver,演讲 · 《Winning the oil endgame ~ Amory Lovins》