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Wuthering Heights vocabulary
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stone
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tags: [britain] [unit]
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Definition:a unit of weight equal to 14 pounds
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“How much do ye weigh, Sassenach?”
Still a bit addled, I actually replied “Nine stone,” before thinking to ask “Why?”
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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He was twenty-eight years old and weighed thirty-seven stone.
Mark Haddon. The Pier Falls and Other Stories (2016)
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" a district councilor, a modern district councilman, a gymnast who lifts thirteen stone with one hand, a cattle-breeder and sportsman, and my friend, Konstantin Dmitrievitch Levin, the brother of Sergey Ivanovitch Koznishev."
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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There was the same man: his dark face rather sallower and more composed, his frame a stone or two heavier, perhaps, and no other difference.
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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