"Weighing" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and Austrian ships caught on the high seas at the outbreak of war; a destroyer was going half-speed towards the Atlantic; a cruiser lay in dock, her funnels smoking placidly. Out towards Algeciras an American battleship, with her peculiar steel trellis turrets, was weighing anchor; and in the distance, across the Straits, Africa, rugged and inhospitable, shimmered in the heat haze ...
— No Man's Land • H. C. McNeile
... without weighing the consequences, without a full estimate of the public significance of the act. Father Hecker's adversaries fixed upon him every stigma of radicalism and rebellion possible in a good but deluded priest. For seven long ...
— Life of Father Hecker • Walter Elliott
... dragged out, the lagging hours weighing like chains on the heart of the honest yeoman, who was not ...
— Fifty-Two Stories For Girls • Various
... out and elbowed her way among the people who were hurrying to and fro; she dodged between the trucks that were sliding luggage on to the weighing machine and off to the van. The engines were puffing volumes of smoke and steam up to the great glass roof, where the whistle of the engine-man echoed sharp and shrill. Presently ...
— A Son of Hagar - A Romance of Our Time • Sir Hall Caine
... railways? ships? electricity? automobiles? aeroplanes? Are the poisons not dangerous which we, doctors and chemists, use daily in minute doses, and which might easily destroy the patient if, in a moment's carelessness, we unfortunately made a mistake in weighing ...
— Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion • Emile Coue
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