For every inch he fought to the bank the current carried him a foot down stream, yet those inches gained in the lateral direction were every one priceless.

He was five feet seven inches high, forty-five inches round the chest, fifty inches round the waist, and every inch of him was a soldier.

The problem of parapet mending has been reduced to arithmetical form à la Colenso, as follows: "If two inches of rain per diem brings down one quarter of a company's parapet, and one company, working about twenty-six hours per diem, can revet one-eighth of a company's parapet, how long will your trenches lastgiven the additional premisses that no revetments to speak of are to be had, and that two inches of rain is only a minimum ration?"

Sheet-iron pans, about eight inches in length, four in width, and five in depth, are the most satisfactory.

If she is darting about like lightning, why is it that she scarcely seems to move more than an inch in ten minutes?" "I suppose," said Frank, after a thoughtful silence, "that what to us seems an inch in the sky is really many miles.

In these regions 210 inches of rain is an average downpour for the monsoon between May and October, the heaviest fall being generally in July.

As the big ship with a bound, Clears the entry like a hound, Keeps the passage as its inch of way were the wide sea's profound!

"Every inch a soldier, and every inch a Christian,"that was an exact description of this man.

Bad every inch of him, hopelessly, irredeemably bad was this mountain of humanity.

Ten or twelve inches square is a good size.

You see two very old women talking eagerly in the street, each in a cloak whose every square inch is a patch, and every patch a different shade,and each alternate word you hear seems to be Senhora.

a few inches from my own: "Are you Jacob Sitz?" "Ay; an' you?"

Just ahead and a few inches from the pump barrel is a horizontal check valve.

It is well shown in position in figure 29, plate V. Two poles each eight feet long and approximately one and a half inches in their other dimensions were the only additional materials in the experiment.

We lodged in a stifling court, Church Court, where every room was filled as if cubic inches were gold, as indeed they are to London house-owners, if human life is but dross.

Little she may be, Sir, compared to old Rome; but every inch of her is a gem,every inch!"

If you want to hunt your Harriers on foot, 16 inches is quite big enoughalmost too big to run with; but if you are riding to them, 20 inches is a useful height, or even 19 inches.

If you want to hunt your Harriers on foot, 16 inches is quite big enoughalmost too big to run with; but if you are riding to them, 20 inches is a useful height, or even 19 inches.

Yet strangely no rain fell, though sixty inches were the usual quantity in the course of the year.

But 4768 square inches multiplied by 12 inches in height is 57224.4 cubic inches, or 33.1 cubic feet, and this is the quantity of steam which must be expended per minute to produce an actual horse power.