scales

Once the bird was fully cleaned out, it was time to put it on the scales.

I'm still primarily looking into certain sounds, certain scales.

And Lady L, tipping the scales at 225 tons, is no Mary-Kate Olsen.

After he had showered be stepped on the scales, and he had lost six and a half pounds.

The aftershocks tipped the scales decidedly in the favor of the government, the holiday, and the rum.

After an hour, the cone is so closely shut, that the flowers are held as fast in its scales as if they had always grown there.

You see, up to that time he had thought himself rather a knowing fellow; but Mr Dean managed to remove the scales from his eyes.

Fish scales cover the walls, and everywhere there is a smell as if one were in the belly of a whale.

The woman reminds one of a red lizard—a salamander—her “svelte” body seemingly boneless in its gown of clinging scales.

A good many things, just then, swung in the scales of chance, and what the dog might do was only one of them.