Measure

I will correct thee in measure, and will not leaue thee altogether vnpunished.

Mom's rage has no measure.

Full to the utmost measure of what bliss Human desires can seek or apprehend.

but there is never found a foolish man who knows the measure of his stomach

They have gloried to this day, the tedious interminable big-screen replays of that golden summer irritating beyond measure.

It ended up being a bittersweet night for England, full of goals to send the crowd home happy, buoyed by the news that Montenegro and Poland had drawn elsewhere in Group H but also with a measure of regret about what happened to Danny Welbeck and what it means for Roy Hodgson's team going into a much more difficult assignment against Ukraine.

a measure of salt

Honesty is the true measure of a man.

City were also the victors on that occasion 56 years ago, winning 5-0, but this visit was portrayed as a measure of their progress against the 19-time champions.

The villagers paid a tithe of a thousand measures of corn.

The fragments shrank by increments of about three kilodaltons (a measure of molecular weight).

The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

coal measures; lead measures

For many years the coal measures on the shores of Lough Allen were worked only in the most primitive fashion, and the coal was transported laboriously in the inevitable ass carts of the Irish peasant.

the greatest common measure of two or more numbers

He took her soft hand, ere her mother could bar,— / "Now tread we a measure!" said young Lochinvar.

They danced on silently, softly. Their feet played tricks to the beat of the tireless measure, that exquisitely asinine blare which is England's punishment for having lost America.

a poem in iambic measure

The president said the measures involve a ban on all visitors to the country via all ports of entry who aren't residents or diplomats. El Salvadorans or residents who return to El Salvador will be quarantined for 30 days..

The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.

We measured the temperature with a thermometer.

You should measure the angle with a spirit level.

This park is the first large-scale public park in Taiwan. It is located on the border of Nantzu District in Kaohsiung City and Chiaotou village, Kaohsiung County and this park measures 95 hectares.

But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.

The window measured two square feet.

I measure that at 10 centimetres.

ſince they meaſure our deſerts so meane, That in conceit beare Empires on our ſpeares, Affecting thoughts coequall with the cloudes, They ſhalbe kept our forced followers, Til with their eies they view vs Emperours.

Great are thy works, Jehovah, infinite / Thy power! what thought can measure thee?

A true devoted pilgrim is not weary / To measure kingdoms with his feeble steps.

"And for a very sensible reason; there never was but one like her; or, that is, I have always thought so until to-day," replied the tar, glancing toward Natalie; "for my old eyes have seen pretty much everything they have got in this little world. Ha! I should like to see the inch of land or water that my foot hasn't measured."

To secure a contented spirit, you must measure your desires by your fortune and condition, not your fortunes by your desires

With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

That portion of eternity which is called time, measured out by the sun.

To measure one’s own activity, to make it conform to these standards of clearness, brevity and truth, is practically a very difficult matter.

In its opening portrait of Madame Caillaux, the rightist and anti-Caillaux Illustration asked its readers to imagine not a wronged victim or a female ruled by emotion but a careful player who measured her every word.

He measured his actions with a critical eye and was an exemplary citizen and householder. He was, the author explained, a simple, good man, and like all simple, good men he had an ideal […]