...The wall mouldings gradually disappeared under an overlay of pictures, placed close together like the scales of a cuirass... 
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
..."If perchance the scales of justice be not correctly balanced,let the error be imputable to pity, not to gold...
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 「The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha」
...I do not strike without first having weighed the crime; my justice does not wield the sword without employing first a pair of scales...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
...The game was not won; there lacked a touch to tip the scales in his favor, and Yasmini supplied it with ready genius...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
...There were two thrones made of silverdragons, with many scales, and studded with jewels...
Richard Harding Davis 「The Congo and Coasts of Africa」
...Their stores were crowded, their scales groaned, their gins sang...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Quest of the Silver Fleece」
...The word "tic" means literally the "spotted"polonga, from the superior clearness of the markings on its scales...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...Their skin is covered with minute scales, coated by a slimyexudation, and the upper jaw is produced into a soft tripartitetentacle, with which they are enabled to feel for their prey in themud...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...It grows to aboutsix inches in length, the head round and covered with scales, andthe edges of the gill-covers strongly denticulated...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...The number of eggs contained in one of the scales isenormous, amounting in a single one to 691...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...The witch makes a proposalto Ivan, that they be weighed together in the scales...
Angelo de Gubernatis 「Zoological Mythology, Volume I (of 2)」
...These scales or hairs are called androconia...
Clarence M. Weed 「Butterflies Worth Knowing」
...Our beautiful species of the genus Vanessa may be knownby the long scales that make up the fringe on the wing margins,in alternate groups of black and white...
Clarence M. Weed 「Butterflies Worth Knowing」
...The general colorof the upper surface is a dark brown, which in the male ismarked near the front edge of the fore wings with a distinctgray patch of scent scales...
Clarence M. Weed 「Butterflies Worth Knowing」
...Remove a small patch of scales along thelateral line to find how they are attached, where the fish'scolor is situated, and how access to the sensory organs ofthe line is permitted...
Worrallo Whitney 「A Guide for the Study of Animals」
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