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"Carry weight" Quotes from Famous Books

... One, the words of the humblest of thy servants carry weight with thee I would say, show not thyself in thy glorious garb until to-morrow. There are but a few warriors in the square to-day, so few that they are altogether unworthy of so great an honour as that which thou dost suggest; moreover, they would go away and babble to others of what they ...

— Through Veld and Forest - An African Story • Harry Collingwood

... know is not known to everyone, nor is what any housekeeper knows a matter of everyday use with other housekeepers. Everyone has some short cut or recipe, or personal way of doing things that would lighten the way for others. Your recommendation of butterine for instance, would carry weight with some housekeepers who had never before thought of trying it and they would be grateful always for being shown how to cut their butter bill. So with the other suggestions in your good letter from which I have taken extracts for the other pages. I want ...

— Armour's Monthly Cook Book, Volume 2, No. 12, October 1913 - A Monthly Magazine of Household Interest • Various

... differences, surely your good word would carry weight. My name is, I believe, already before the Premier, and if it ...

— Half a Hero - A Novel • Anthony Hope

... trouble some of the passengers will testify for us," said Captain Hadley, and mentioned half a dozen who had said they would stick to the captain, in case of trouble. The passengers were well-known citizens, whose testimony would be sure to carry weight in any ...

— Randy of the River - The Adventures of a Young Deckhand • Horatio Alger Jr.

... Dwight knows of your father. Your name will carry weight with him," added the clerk, for he knew that the colonel was well-known and ...

— The Rover Boys in Alaska - or Lost in the Fields of Ice • Arthur M. Winfield

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