"Measure out" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... this law to construct an instrument which should measure out the electricity passing through it, and which, being interposed in the course of the current used in any particular experiment, should serve at pleasure, either as a comparative standard of effect, or as a positive measurer of this ...
— Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 • Michael Faraday
... me the fire; or canst thou find A way to measure out the wind; Distinguish all those floods that are Mix'd in that watery theatre; And taste thou them as saltless there As in their channel first they were. Tell me the people that do keep Within the kingdoms of the deep; Or fetch me back that cloud again Beshiver'd into seeds of rain; Tell me the motes, ...
— The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 • Robert Herrick
... of this dread to his mother or father, and so the foolish belief that there might be ghosts about stayed with him through boyhood. His other fear was of the doctor's visits. In helpless terror he would look on while the old physician pronounced his doom and began to measure out the bitter medicine. ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 • Charles H. Sylvester |
