613 collocations for measured

The bark is mostly arranged in massive plates, some of them measuring four or five feet in length by eighteen inches in width, with a thickness of three or four inches, forming a quite marked and distinguishing feature.

I measured the distance the next day, and found it to be twenty-seven feet five inches; and afterwards frequently saw the school-boys, when engaged in athletic exercises, make running leaps of between thirty and forty feet, backwards and forwards.

The fertile cones are bright grass-green, measuring about two inches in length by one and a half in thickness, and are made up of about forty firm rhomboidal scales densely packed, with from five to eight seeds at the base of each.

It would have knocked over almost anybody; and the tramp measured his length on the ground, while Dabney plied the rod on him with all the energy he was master of.

If only they would develop that particular kind of power instead of coming around in front of the throne to lay down the law!instead of measuring their man-strength against man.

It would be a lifetime to them, measuring time by the enjoyment it would afford them.

Let us measure the height from the floor."

We are placed in the midst of a vast, unpeopled circle, whose radii measure a thousand miles.

It takes neither brain nor reason to measure the depths of sorrow or of happiness.

When we were children we did not say at such a distance from the post- office, or so far from the butcher's or the grocer's, but measured things by the covered well in the wood, or by the burrow of the fox in the hill.

He realised that much of the play of boyhood is exercise of physical power, and that it must be of a competitive nature because the boy wants to measure his power.

" They took off the top log from the south wall of the cabin, measured a two-foot space in the middle, and the Colonel sawed out the superfluous spruce intervening.

They strike with the point and the edge; to the right, to the left, on the head, on the breast; they retreat; they advance; they measure swords; they close; they seize each other; they bend like serpents; they attack like lions; and the fire every moment flashes from their blows.

I had never taken the trouble to measure my words and the whole truth being impossible, I necessarily must make a slip now and then.

The reward is not always measurable by the number of copies sold; that simply measures the extent of his public.

Well, and if they look the other way, nobody's to blame if you should happen to measure one yard of cloth twice.

It is all but impossible for a foreigner to measure the spiritual effects upon a proudly and self-consciously civilised Frenchman of these unpardonable, brain-rending, heart-stabbing provocations.

These fellows will measure men differently after this experience with sacrifice, obedience, labor, and pain.

After this we may measure the almost fiendish force of a morbid imagination brooding over the incident, And he saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival: Gorging and growling o'er carcass and limb, They were too busy to bark at him.

"One hundred bow-shots," replied Cais, "and we have an archer here, Ayas, the son of Mansour, who will measure the ground."

The author did not visit that part of the world in the character of an antiquary, to amuse us with wonders taken from the dark and fabulous ages; nor, as a mathematician, to measure a degree, and settle the longitude and latitude of the several islands.

They accordingly measured back their wary steps along the African coast, and returned to Portugal, where they gave an account of their proceedings to Don Henry, in which, of course, the dangers of the newly discovered cape would not be diminished in their narrative.

"Cease," he says, "to bid us think it of no account to measure the guilt of a falsehood by the slightness or importance of the circumstances."

I registered the gravity as shown by the barycrite; and, extinguishing the electric lamp, measured repeatedly the semi-diameter of the Earth and of the halo around her upon the discometer, the inner edge of the latter affording the measurement of the black disc, which of itself, of course, cast no reflection.

" He listened with breathless attention, and at the close broke out with these words"It is very grand indeed!but how much finer it would have been, mamma, if he had said at the close, that God had measured out all those waters with the hollow of His hand!"

613 collocations for  measured