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hundredweight
1. and their hundredweight of provisions, we waved a fond
2. "I have read that the English hundredweight dates from about the middle of the 1300's and represents a weight of one hundred pounds
3. Now the British happily continued on with their divisions of the long hundredweight and obtained "stones" of 14 pounds each and "cloves" of 7 pounds each
4. I should have looked out beforehand some stone weighing a hundredweight or more which had been lying in the corner from the time the house was built
5. Then there was one and eight for a hundredweight of coal that had been bought on credit
6. It was just the same with the coal: if they had been able to afford it, they could have bought a ton of the same class of coal for twenty-six shillings, but buying it as they did, by the hundredweight, they had to pay at the rate of thirty-three shillings and fourpence a ton
7. containing two hundredweight, and he used to have to dig it out of these barrels with a trowel, and put it into a metal tank, where it was kept covered with water, and the empty barrels were returned to the makers
8. Three hundredweight more than half a ton he weighed; he had lived a long, strong life, full of fight and struggle, and at the end he faced death at the teeth of a creature whose head did not reach beyond his great knuckled knees
9. ‘If it does not weigh a hundredweight and won’t break my neck
10. The middle of the garden was an empty grass space, from which several hundredweight of hay was carried in the summer
11. Virginsky was very glad of her decision, he felt as though a hundredweight had been lifted off him! He even began to feel hopeful: Shatov's appearance seemed to him utterly incompatible with Verhovensky's supposition
12. And the roll of notes that was lying in my pocket, that, too, seemed screaming out: 'You ungrateful brigand, you accursed thief!' It seemed to weigh a hundredweight
13. (if only it had weighed a hundredweight!)
14. We were going to give her a knock on the head, but all at once I felt that sorry, that I took her up in my arms; but no, she wouldn't let me! Made herself so heavy, quite a hundredweight, and caught hold where she could with her hands, so that one couldn't get them off! Well, so I began stroking her head
15. He told of Cossack life in the old days: of his father, 'The Broad', who alone had carried on his back a boar's carcass weighing three hundredweight, and drank two pails of chikhir at one sitting
16. “If it does not weigh a hundredweight and won’t break my neck
