"Square inch" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... must be capable of withstanding a pressure of five hundred pounds per square inch before ...
— The Century Handbook of Writing • Garland Greever
... calling no one's attention to the fact that she wanted anything from anybody. As a bird born in captivity lives in its cage and perhaps believes it to be the world, Robin lived in her nursery and knew every square inch of it with a deadly if unconscious sense of distaste and fatigue. She was put to bed and taken up, she was fed and dressed in it, and once a day—twice perhaps if Andrews chose—she was taken out of it downstairs and into the ...
— The Head of the House of Coombe • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... His teeth won't be anything to the crown we'll put on him. But I mustn't lose a square inch of the rind. He must have ears too—a half-moon on each side—and you can let any amount of ...
— Harper's Young People, October 26, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... six tons weight must be able to draw after it, day by day, twenty tons weight at ten miles an hour with a pressure of steam on the boiler not exceeding fifty pounds to the square inch." ...
— Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century • James Richard Joy
... havoc with our precious stock of bannocks. He ate four and half of a fifth before he could be stopped. The remaining half, with the marks of the dog's teeth on it, I gave to Worsley, who divided it up amongst his seven tent-mates; they each received about half a square inch. ...
— South! • Sir Ernest Shackleton
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