"Measured" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... there, and they may get back; they may get there, and they may never get back; and they may never get there, and never get back; but whichever of the three it happens to be, it'll be of no more good than if they measured a mile to see how many ...
— The Great Stone of Sardis • Frank R. Stockton
... Janice knew very well that the butcher took advantage of her ignorance. She was always in a hurry in the morning, running to school; and she could not stop to see meat weighed, or vegetables properly picked out and measured. ...
— Janice Day, The Young Homemaker • Helen Beecher Long
... instant they measured glances; then Quin began to laugh—a confident, boyish laugh full ...
— Quin • Alice Hegan Rice
... now on the lowest stage of that sublime gradation of climates and scenery displayed by the Andes. You cross it in two or three days' journey (for, as in the East, so, in the mountainous regions of South America, travelling is measured less by miles than by days' journeys). You then arrive at the foot of one of the mountains. Stop and look up! A ridge covered with forests to its very top stands steep before you. The wind makes tremulous the masses of evergreen foliage, which ...
— Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, Issue 2, February, 1864 • Various
... cannot depart out of this country till I have taken leave of my Lord Archon, a prince of immense felicity who having built as high with his counsels as he digged deep with his sword, had now seen fifty years measured ...
— The Commonwealth of Oceana • James Harrington
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