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The ounce was approximately 450 grains, i.e. slightly heavier than the modern one.
How anyone dreamed up a system where 20 fluid ounces makes one pint, 437.5 grains makes one ounce and 1,760 yards makes one mile is beyond us.
You'd get two mugs-full of tea and sugar, one tin of treacle, one bar of soap, and half an ounce of nicki-nicki tobacco.
Make a working solution of the developer by mixing 1 dram of developer stock to one ounce of water, adding a grain of oxalic acid to each ounce.
The music swells to a spellbinding apex, wringing every last ounce of emotion out of the song in the process.
Gold bullion coins are usually sold as one troy ounce or in fractions of an ounce.
Raised on a diet of historical bungles, betrayals and defeats, we've hardly an ounce of self-belief left.
Her face contained not an ounce of anger, the expression on her face, if anything, was a visage of pity.
In no time, his last ounce of resolve left him and he fell face first into the bowl, splattering droplets of broth everywhere.
This tall, dark and lithe chap hoovers up food and never gains an ounce, whilst I weep for my waistline.
There was never a moment of practice that was half-hearted, and he poured every ounce of effort into every performance.
Inside a golf bag in a cupboard in the hallway they found hidden three nine ounce bars of the drug.
In static weight, the reduction of every ounce of the wheels weight is equal to four ounces on the sprung part.
It can be made in different sizes to contain a fraction of an ounce to a quarter pound or more of liquid, gel, or cream.
And if you're tempted by products with the fake fat Olestra, limit yourself to eating 1 ounce of any food containing it, she adds.
This woman is a bully and does not have an ounce of caringness in her for anyone.
Green Sea Turtles as hatchlings weigh about an ounce and have a carapace length of 2 inches.
This storax resin is sometimes called liquid storax, because it comes in a pourable semi-liquid state, and is sold by the fluid ounce.
During our visit, a heart-stopping 32 ounce steak appeared on the specials board, but I couldn't tell if this was a challenge or a threat.
Every ounce of weight and heft removed from a woman's duty rig means she is that much more comfortable.
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Examples from Classical Literature
An ounce of putrid water, in which some beef had been macerated, was injected into the crural artery of a middling-sized dog.
It was astonishing to see how tirelessly De Barsac held those opera-glasses, which must have weighed at least an ounce.
Take a pint of alcohol, half pint of bay rum, and half an ounce of spirits of ammonia, and one dram of salts tartar.
Bay rum six ounces, aromatic spirits of ammonia half an ounce, bergamot oil six drops.
They have no bottles, nor have I, and the better-off bring great copper jugs and basins for an ounce or two of lotion!
Dissolve in the mixture three quarters of an ounce of yellow wax, and one dram of camphor, stirring the whole well together.
So she won every ounce, dollar, real, and centavo they had in their pockets!
I could change your nature by forcibly injecting an ounce of lead into your cerebellum.
To prepare it, dissolve one-half ounce of dammar rosin and one-half ounce of gum mastic in three ounces of benzole, and filter.
A tincture for the gums may be made of three ounces of the tincture of bark, and half an ounce of sal ammoniac, mixed together.
Another Stain-Mixture is made, by mixing one ounce of sal ammoniac, one ounce of salt of tartar, and one pint of soft water.
Take four ounces of mutton suet, one ounce of bees-wax, one of sweet oil, and a dram each of powdered sugar-candy and gum-arabac.
He says we don't want an ounce of excess baggage, or we'll never get anywhere.
A filter of this kind that will hold one fluid ounce will filter many ounces of some liquids in an hour.
We present the following list of dangerous preparations, which gives the number of grains of lead, etc., in one fluid ounce.
On the 9th day, with one fluid ounce of alcohol, the heart beat 4,300 times more.
Take half a fluid ounce of the two in five gum mucilage, to which add the same quantity of water and thoroughly mix.
About a fluid ounce of a rather dirty-looking solution of saltpeter resulted, to which a little sugar was added.
Every ounce of resentment in his nature had been focused to the burning-point.
When an animal tries to forereach you, you should neither give up to him nor yet pull one ounce against him.
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