Citations:weigh

English citations of weigh

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• 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.

  I would not disturb you at this period, when so many misfortunes weigh upon you, but a conversation that I had with my uncle previous to his departure renders some explanation necessary before we meet.

• 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.

  But if you were free to-day, to-morrow, yesterday, can even I believe that you would choose a dowerless girl — you who, in your very confidence with her, weigh everything by Gain: or, choosing her, if for a moment you were false enough to your one guiding principle to do so, do I not know that your repentance and regret would surely follow? I do; and I release you.

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• 2016, Adelle Platon, "Wiz Khalifa, John Mayer & More React to Kanye West's 'Waves' Album Name Change", Billboard, 27 January 2016:

  Other blue checks on Twitter also weighed including Questlove and John Mayer.