Instrument for weighing

Usage examples of scale.

And before she is halfway through the scale, she decides: the accompanist is worse.

The means of destruction accumulated on a scale that well-nigh kept pace with the increase in the potential wealth of mankind.

In spite of the public calamity Nero continued to give games for the amusement of the populace, other rich men followed his example, and the sports of the amphitheatre were carried on on an even more extensive scale than before.

River Iris, rises on either side in the form of an amphitheatre, and represents on a smaller scale the image of Bagdad.

While these operations threw a heavy strain on the crews, their necessarily small scale could not have any appreciable effect.

He had arrived in the last car from Earth, whose hundred other passengers were milling about in Gate Hall, listening to the advice of the guardsmen or gawking at the scale of it.

Even without the Basilisk damage, the sheer astrographic scale of her ops area would have created enough consternation on our side to make all her losses worthwhile.

Wormholes opened and closed, yes, but they were astrographic features like stars, involving time scales and energies beyond the present human capacity to control.

Sidereal light illuminated the diaphanous membranes, devoid of color, the delicate antennae, the feminine waist and long, improbably spindly legs and arms that shone as if covered with tiny scales, the face with its bulging, faceted eyes, and the attenuated tongue, still searching.

I have natural reflexes and I test off the scale on autonomic visualization.

As far as the scale of things was concerned, he might have been ballooning over an ordinary cloudscape in India.

As far as the scale of things was concerned, he might have been ballooning over an ordinary cboudscape on Earth.

The bardling tried to ignore his discomfort by taking out his lute and working his way through a series of practice scales.

The air smelled of musky damp fur and baked scales, of nic-i-tain smoke, of space suits that had not been decontaminated in months, and of intoxicants from dozens of different worlds, Reegesk stepped to the bar, ordered a cup of Rydan brew from Wuher the bartender, and scanned the room for a likely customer.

Repulsive beings, scaled, mailed, leathered, feathered, beastlike, or bizarre, mingled with the beauteous.