32 Metaphors for areas

The area supplied by the posterior digital is mainly the posterior portion of the digit.

The total area occupied by this apparatus is 140 square yards, of which two-thirds are built on.

"Its area is 212,321 sq. ft., while that of the cathedral of Milan is 117,678, St. Paul's at London 108,982, St. Sophia at Constantinople 96,497, and the Cathedral of Cologne 73,903 sq. ft."

The area of the flue, which is rectangular is 990 square inches, therefore the area is equal to that of a tube 35-1/2 inches in diameter; and such a tube, to have a heating surface of 497 square feet, must be 53.4 feet or 640.8 inches in length.

One such area is the Land of Lost Shadows.

The two areas will become parties in a vast economic nexus, and, as in all business transactions, each will try to get the best of the continually intensified bargaining.

The greater portion of this immense region, including Owen's Valley, Death Valley, and the Sink of the Mohave, the area of which is nearly one fifth that of the entire State, is usually regarded as a desert, not because of any lack in the soil, but for want of rain, and rivers available for irrigation.

A vast area of many square miles which had held tens of thousands of troops and animals almost became a wilderness again, and the few natives hereabouts who had made large profits from the sale of eggs, fruit, and vegetables looked disconsolate and bewildered at the change, hoping and believing that the empty tents merely denoted a temporary absence.

Here and there long windrows were piled up, and vast areas were a litter of broken boughs.

This vast area is an agglomeration of many parishes, manors, etc., and has no municipal government in common.]

[Note 3: The superficial area of Haiti is 77,255 square kilometres.

Round the whole area was a wall, with parapets and loopholes.

The area of cultivable land is about ten millions of square miles, and half a square mile in these equatorial continents, which alone are at all generally inhabited, will, if well cultivated and cared for, furnish the largest household with every luxury that man's heart can desire.

Suddenly the thunder ceased, the rainfall ended, and this particular slight area of Arizona was Arizona again.

Mr. Dodgson sent the infatuated person, whom we will call Mr. B, a proof that the area of a circle is less than 3.15 the square of the radius.

The area of Turkey in Europe in 1912 was 169,300 square kilometers; of Bulgaria 96,300; of Greece 64,600; of Servia 48,300; and of Montenegro 9,000.

The newly settled areas of Kwangtung and Kwangsi were ideal places for them: here they could sell Chinese products to the native tribes or to the new settlers at high prices.

The area of the cross section measured is 22,268 feet, the sectional area of the Teslintoo, as determined by Dr. Dawson and already referred to, is 3,809 feet; that of the Lewes at the Teslintoo, from the same authority, is 3,015 feet.

The area on which we stand has been first sea and then land, for at least four alternations; and has remained in each of these conditions for a period of great length.

But leaving the question of their utility, in the abstract, wholly untouched, and taking it for granted, for the present, that they areas is undoubtedly the factsometimes employed, and will continue to be so for a great while to come, I proceed to speak of their more flagrant abuses.

The widest area which might he constituted an autonomous Armenia with good prospect of self-sufficiency would be the present Russian province, where the head-quarters of the national religion lie, with the addition of the provinces of Erzerum, Van, and Kharput.

The area of the reservoir is about fifteen square miles, the dam about 102 ft. high, with a breadth at the crest of 76 ft., and of the section shown in the diagram.

The inhabited area was then the narrow strip between the Atlantic Ocean and the Allegheny Mountains, with a population of scarcely 3,000,000.

The area of the lake of impounded water will be 164 square miles, and it has been doubted whether the damming of so large a mass of water, to a height of 85 feet, could safely be undertaken.

Cuba's area was limited, its available harbors few in number, its population small.

32 Metaphors for  areas