When he lays down his wallet among a lot of other calf skins, like a great sponge in a puddle of water, it sucks every square inch of legal tender, which is in suckin' distance.

A cubic inch of some specimens of chalk may contain hundreds of thousands of these bodies, compacted together with incalculable millions of the granules.

Cut the fruit in slices about one fifth of an inch thick, strew powdered loaf sugar an eighth of an inch thick on the bottom of a jar, and put the slices on it.

From one-half inch on each side of toothpick cut through the skin around the grapefruit one-fourth inch from the top of each half, leaving skin whole where toothpicks are inserted.

A.The thickness proper for cylindrical boilers of wrought iron, exposed to an internal pressure, may be found by the following rule:multiply 2.54 times the internal diameter of the cylinder in inches by the greatest pressure within the cylinder per circular inch, and divide by 17,800; the result is the thickness in inches.

in weight, and ten feet long and twenty-one inches broad".

A little less than ten inches when Milton was born; seventeen when he died.

In this change, a solid inch of water enlarges its size about 1,700 times, and forms 1,700 solid inches of steam.

Weights should be to the nearest pound, lengths to the nearest 0.1 inch, and cross-sectional dimensions to the nearest 0.01 inch.

Perhaps an inch or two taller than her mother, she was of a marked slenderness; a completed slenderness, I might saya slenderness so palpably finished as to details that I can only describe it as felicitous in the extreme.

There won't be much water on the shoals and although we'll have an extra few inches tomorrow, I don't want Mayne to wait.

" Involuntarily the old man's hand went to that vertebra whose eighth-inch displacement had been so lately reduced.

As Joel got safely by it is more than likely that he found added satisfaction in the feat as he recalled that remark of Dutton's the week before: "What were you doing, you idiot?" Joel got safely by Dutton, and fooled the sprightly Prince, but very nearly ran into the arms of Kingdon, who missed his tackle by a bare six inches.

They are only studios by name, and are merely a set of rooms in a corner house, with the windows slightly enlarged, and the rents charged accordingly in consideration of that additional five inches of smoky daylight, filtering through dusty windows.

The air that the lungs of an adult man are capable of containing is thus composed: Complemental air 100 cubic inches.

If we apply this rule to the example of the locomotive boiler just given, we have 39 x 2.54 x 62.832 (the pressure per circular inch corresponding to 80 lbs.

'Waist three inches too large, shoulders six inches too narrow,' she said decisively, and she dictated some figures to one of the damsels, who wrote them down in an order-book.

For while the tired waves, vainly breaking. Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making.

The ideal and life never cease to evolve, and this continual advance forms the genuine interest of the world to the liberal mind; but if the mind can constantly rise without rest or interruption, in the world of fact progress is made step by step, and a scant few inches are gained in the whole of a lifetime.

Almost at the same instant an arm shot toward her, missing its aim by scarce an inch.

The rambling garden is full of old-time, hardy plants and roses, and oh, what good times we shall have together there next spring, for of course she will stop with me when she is getting things in order, and I can spare her enough roots and cuttings to fill every spare inch of ground,so, with Sylvia at Pine Ridge, what more can I ask?

So he kept to his course, stretched straight from the tip of his nose to the end of his flying tail and marking from the corner of his eye that the lobo still gained vital inches at every leap.

" "You estimated the height of the deceased as half an inch greater than that of the missing person.

The old man crossed the lobby to the writing-shelf under the Western Union clock, hooked black-rimmed glasses on a big nose and tore a generous inch from the end of the envelope.

The man struggling weakly against the pitiless wilderness, wallowing in the snow, seemed to make his way along the gorge inch by inch.