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1 II, V | CHAPTER V~WANTED: A STEELYARD~Under the still diminishing
2 II, V | professor resumed. “Upon a steelyard, or spring-balance, dependent
3 II, V | provide me at once with a steelyard and a tested kilogramme?”~
4 II, V | believe old Hakkabut has a steelyard on board his tartan,” said
5 II, VI | whether you can lend us a steelyard.”~So far from showing any
6 II, VI | some thousand francs: “A steelyard?”~“Yes!” echoed the professor,
7 II, VI | professor, impatiently; “a steelyard.”~“Have you not one?” asked
8 II, VI | and assured him that the steelyard was required for no other
9 II, VI | not like to lend us your steelyard, do you object to sell it
10 II, VI | he ejaculated, “sell my steelyard? Would you deprive me of
11 II, VI | my merchandise without my steelyard—my solitary steelyard, so
12 II, VI | my steelyard—my solitary steelyard, so delicate and so correct?”~
13 II, VI | to lend or to sell your steelyard. What do you say to letting
14 II, VI | Consider, it is the only steelyard in all this new world of
15 II, VI | again, carrying his precious steelyard with ostentatious care.
16 II, VI | unmistakable eagerness. The steelyard was committed to the keeping
17 II, VI | to the professor that the steelyard would be absolutely useless
18 II, VII| the bag on the hook of the steelyard, the indicator on the dial
19 II, VII| attaching it to the hook of the steelyard, found that its apparent
20 II, IX | following day, had returned the steelyard and the borrowed cash, receiving
21 II, IX | diverted. The Jew fetched his steelyard, and a packet of the tobacco
22 II, IX | as registered by his own steelyard. He had to repeat the process
23 II, XIV| they will weigh it with my steelyard, of course. There is no
24 II, XIV| weigh me the coffee with my steelyard?” he asked, in a quavering
25 II, XIV| Shechem,” said Ben Zoof. The steelyard was then produced; a tray
26 II, XIV| not quite sure—perhaps the steelyard is not quite correct.”~The
27 II, XIV| rascal has cheated us! His steelyard is wrong! He is a thief!”~
28 II, XIV| Tell me, Hakkabut—”~“The steelyard lies! It cheats! it lies!”
29 II, XIV| weights! That confounded steelyard! It gave a false result!
30 II, XV | false weight. That deceitful steelyard had been the mainspring
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