Aesop, I would accuse him to his face, For libelling the four-foot race.

Age hardly counts in such a matter; and then it is not every boy of even his growth that could have brought muscles like those of Dab Kinzer to the swing he gave that four-foot length of seasoned ironwood.

"And that log is a good strong four-foot log, and she's been shaved off with the broadaxe for layin' the flooring

A careful examination showed a four-foot vein of soft coal.

Leaving out the question of being overlooked from passing trains, observe the open four-foot fences which separate one garden or yard from the other.

If it hadn't been for the snow, I might have put the thing through in two days, but the snow was up to the creatures' knees in the shady places all along; off from the road, in among the gullies, you could stick a four-foot measure down anywhere.

Had I not already gathered some notion of the powers for destruction of those one-ton, four-foot-long shells, I should have said that the spot where we halted had been battered and crashed at for hours; that scores and perhaps hundreds of bombs had been plumped into it.

Generations of Langdons had taken deepest pride in developing the hundreds of acres of cotton land, whose thousands of four-foot rows planted each April spread open the silvery lined bolls in July and August, and the ripened cotton fiber, pure white beneath the sun, gave from a distance the picture of an expanse of driven snow.

"Oh, what wouldn't I give to have Master Beppo in a twenty-four-foot ring," breathed Roy.

A flash from the leading gun, and a 2-inch shell passed so close to my head that I fell into the four-foot way, and felt the top of my skull to find out if it was still there.

As they watched, two fat workmen shoved a four-foot length of log into the pond with a big splash, and one of them began piloting it toward the scene of building operations, while his companion returned to other work.

It does not lie in the successful negotiation of Leicestershire "oxers," Aylesbury "doubles," or Warwickshire "stake-and-bound" fences, for there need be no obstacle greater than an occasional four-foot stone wall.

I doubt if any child in modern palaces enjoys happier hours than were mine on winter evenings, when I rested on the broad stone hearth in front of the big fireplace, with its blazing four-foot log, the dog on one side and the cat on the other, while my father told stories that had to be repeated as the stock ran out, and I was gradually lulled to sleep by the soft thunder of my mother's spinning wheel.

Before Aldous could follow his advantage the other had dropped his knife and had snatched up a four-foot length of a tepee pole.

What? shall two hundredweight of hypocrisy bow down to his four-inch wooden saint, and the same weight of honesty not worship his four-foot live one?

Why, if we had to defend a field with only a four-foot ditch round it, we would fight a whole day before we should be beaten.

Mind you that when you see them coming, or else you'll find a four-foot sword stuck through your liver to teach you better.

In Jonesboro the log court-house, with its clapboard roof, was abandoned, and in its place a twenty-four-foot-square building of hewn logs was put up; it had a shingled roof and plank floors, and contained a justice's bench, a lawyers' and clerk's bar, and a sheriff's box to sit in.

The trees are 'blazed' in the autumn just before the fall of the leaf, felled later, cut into four-foot lengths, and, as soon as the friendly snow makes sledging possible, drawn down to the woodhouse.

Along the four-foot space between the end of the bed and the opposite wall the girl walked, crooning to the sick child she carried.

Then the boys sawed off half a dozen four-foot sections, which served as fine, solid, flat tables for comfort around camp.

In the sawing through a four-foot section of log I had to rest eight times.

Copple said three minutes was good time to saw a four-foot log in two pieces.

The furnace was propelled by water and they had a small buzz saw for cutting four-foot wood into blocks about a foot long.

In Mr. Henry's letter to me he had said that he had taken a timber claim in "Kentuck Grove," and had all the four-foot wood engaged to cut at thirty-seven cents a cord.