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.

He knew every inch of the ground.

And now, in this month of September, this month of travelling, when men are hastening to the sea-side, or the mountains, or the lakes, this modest Maple, still without budging an inch, travels in its reputation,runs up its scarlet flag on that hill-side, which shows that it has finished its summer's work before all other trees, and withdraws from the contest.

The logs of wood lie across two horizontal bars of iron, by which they are raised four or six inches from the floor.

They were eels perfectly well formed in every respect, but not exceeding two inches in length.

They have been known to grow half an inch an hour, eight inches a day.

Austria did not yield a single inch, and so it is a matter of indifference as to the sincerity or otherwise of Germany's peace endeavours.

MARMADUKE I must have more of this;you shall not stir An inch, till I am answered.

You see I've no margin," said Julia; letting him take it from her flushed face as much as he would that her mother hadn't left her an inch.

The vessel was flat-bottomed, drawing about eighteen inches of water and rising about five feet from the surface, leaving an interior height which obliged me to be cautious in order not to strike my head against every projection or support of the cabin roof.

The spread of antlers has meantime gained several inches since the death of the animal that bore them.

The upper lip projected two inches beyond the lower for this purpose.

Slice and fry the onions of a pale brown, and cut up the other vegetables in small pieces, and prepare the beef for stewing in the following manner:Choose a fine piece of beef, cut the bacon into long slices, about an inch in thickness, dip them into vinegar, and then into a little of the above seasoning of spice, &c., mixed with the same quantity of minced herbs.

" "Oh, it's only a kid," said the voice of Fletcher senior; and the next instant the door was unlocked by Thurston, who opened it about six inches, and immediately thrust his body into the aperture, as though to prevent the possibility of the visitor getting any sight of the interior of the room.

Well, that Arab just kept filling up the hole, and lifting the stone inch by inch.

Procure a well-hung neck of mutton, saw off about 3 inches of the top of the bones, and cut the cutlets of a moderate thickness.

Some of our cousins (Americans) never got there at allsat for hours in their carriage in the rue du Rivoli, moving an inch at a time.

She carried two 8-inch, eight 6-inch, twenty-two 12-pounders, four 3-pounders, and two torpedo tubes.

Then the copper helmet broke the surface, rose a few inches, and stopped, and Brown ran to the gangway.

The largest bear of this kind which I shot measured 8 feet in a straight line from his nose to the end of the vertebrae, and stood 51-1/2 inches in a straight line at the shoulders, not including between 6 and 7 inches of hair.

The girl was tired, also, in spite of the fact that she had covered every inch of the distance in the saddle.

The last book that Dr. Wallace wrote set forth his deliberate conviction that the much vaunted advance of science had added not an inch to the moral stature of Europe.

Then dip the mould into hot water, turn the casserole carefully on to a dish, mark where the lid is to be formed on the top, by making an incision with the point of a knife about an inch from the edge all round, and put it into a very hot oven.

This would oblige him to show himself bare-headed, which took off several inches from his professional height.

The campaign opened with the revictualling of Medea and Miliana, with great losses to the French, as Abd-el-Kader disputed every inch of the ground.