2880 examples of area in sentences

They have not only a very large area of absorbing surface, but also structures especially adapted to do this work.

And when the Government shall be ordered by its Slave-holding Directory to add another portion of Mexico to the Area of Freedom, these "outrages" will be sure to be found in the catalogue of grievances to be redressed.

The route or mother-maps, some covering a wide extent of country, others devoted to a small area, or a short line of travel, were going to Europe for the improvement of atlas sheets by nearly every steamer.

The greatest geographical work there in recent years is the extension of a line of stations across tropical Africa by Commander Lemaire, each position astronomically fixed by the most careful methods, constituting a base-line east and west through Africa to which the scientific mapping of a very large area will be referred.

A narrow strip of fine farm lands across the south end of Africa, another along the southern border of the former Boer republics, and a large area among the highlands of Mashonaland, far towards the equator, produce nearly all the crops of the temperate zones.

East of the grape region is an area peculiarly adapted for the cultivation of tobacco; and east of the tobacco district, north of the coastal belt of wheat in a region of sandy scrub, the bush country, are the ostrich farms, in the hands mainly of men of considerable capital, who supply nearly all the feathers derived from the domesticated ostrich.

The world never saw such a development of gold mining in a small area as has occurred on the Witwatersrand, where Johannesburg stands.

They choke up after a while, and fresh ones appear in another part of the area, thus keeping the whole clear of plants.

The area which Mr. Booth places under microscopic observation covers Shoreditch, Bethnal Green, Whitechapel, St. George's in the East, Stepney, Mile End, Old Town, Poplar, Hackney, and comprises a population 891,539.

It has an area of 96,000 square miles, and is 350 miles long by 275 miles wide.

10. "Millia frumenti tua triverit area centum, Non tuus hinc capiet venter plus quam meus" "an evil sickness," Solomon calls it, "and reserved to them for an evil," 12 verse.

Qui duxit sulcos, illi teret area messem, Et serae texent vites umbracula proli.

Me miserum sors omnis habet; florentibus annis, Pauper eram, nummis diffluit area senis; Queis uti poteram quondam, fortuna negavit, Queis uti nequeo, nunc mihi praebet, opes.

The Commercial Exchange is a fine large building, supported by pillars, and containing an area on the ground floor that would accommodate about 1,500 people.

Uncle John, who was a queer one, had filled the area with green plants and creepers in boxes and tins hanging from the grating, so that the room itself obtained very little light indeed, but there was always a nice bright green place for the people sitting in it to look at.

On the stone floor of the area and swinging from the grating were a few sickly, grimy plants in pots.

" From twelve sites at once, scattered about evenly throughout the area, small points began to glow.

They had converged during the journey so that many were in place throughout the area of the search, ready to respond to any orders that might come.

And a town or pueblo in the Philippines is more than an area covered by more or less contiguous buildings and grounds.

of the population of the entire islands and an infinitely smaller proportion of their area.

I resolved to take Christianity as it had been taught in the Churches, and carefully and thoroughly examine its dogmas one by one, so that I should never again say "I believe" where I had not proved, and that, however diminished my area of belief, what was left of it might at least be firm under my feet.

Its greatest length is 3370 m. from Cape St. Vincent to the Urals, and its greatest breadth 2400 m. from Cape Matapan to Nordkyn, while its area is about 3,800,000 sq. m.; it is singularly free from wild animals, has a fruitful soil richly cultivated, and possesses in supreme abundance the more useful metals.

EXMOOR, an elevated stretch of vale and moorland in the SW. of Somerset, NE. of Devonshire; has an area of over 100 sq. m., 25 of which are covered with forest.

It is the largest and grandest church in Christendom, covers an area of over 26,000 square yards, the interior of it in length being 206 yards, the transept 150 yards, the nave 150, and the dome 465.

Yet I think, in spite of this resolvethis prayerthat, had a friendly door been opened on the way, an area even emitting light and warmth, I should have instinctively turned aside and, at any risk, pleaded for shelter, both from storm and foeman.

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