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"Sizing" Quotes from Famous Books

... it?" asked the astonished Phelan, sizing up the thief as the highest example of aristocratic elegance he had ever seen ...

— Officer 666 • Barton W. Currie

... whenever the great political parties have lined-up for their regular once-in-four-years' tussle, there would be found Henry H. Rogers, calm as a race-track gambler, "sizing-up" the entries, their weights and handicaps. Every twist and turn in the pedigrees and records of Republicans and Democrats are as familiar to him as the "dope-sheets" are to the gambler, for is he not at the receiving ...

— Frenzied Finance - Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated • Thomas W. Lawson

... at all I was just sizing it up as pretty soft for a fellow like me to get this sort of stand-in with—with my boss. Gawd! me and Roth used to love each ...

— Every Soul Hath Its Song • Fannie Hurst

... across the table, nonchalantly "plastering the board." A little old lady, with an enormous bag, was thanking an elegant Spaniard for disposing her stake as she desired. Finger to lip, a tall Spanish girl in a large black hat was sizing her remaining counters with a faint frown. A very young couple, patently upon their honeymoon, were ...

— Jonah and Co. • Dornford Yates

... actual horse power will drive 305 hand mule spindles, with proportion of preparing machinery for the same; or 230 self-acting mule spindles with preparation; or 104 throstle spindles with preparation; or 10-1/2 power looms with common sizing. The throstles referred to are the common throstles spinning 34's twist for power loom weaving, and the spindles make 4000 turns per minute. The self-acting mules are Robert's, about one half spinning ...

— A Catechism of the Steam Engine • John Bourne

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