68 Verbs to Use for the Word widths

At the bottom, at the end opposite the door, was a long table furnished with benches, which occupied the whole width of the wall, behind which sat the "bureau."

In the upper thirteen it varies from three to four miles in width; it then narrows to about two miles for a distance of seven miles, when it begins to widen again, and gradually expands to about, two and a-half or three miles, the lower six miles of it maintaining the latter width.

"After leaving Lake Labarge the river, for a distance of about five miles, preserves a generally uniform width and an easy current of about four miles per hour.

Let us cross this avenue from one side to the other, and estimate the width of its different parts.

Like a summer wind That threads the grove, yet never turns a leaf, I stole from shadow unto shadow forth; Crossed all the marble court-yard, swung the door, Like a soft gust, a little way ajar, My body's narrow width, no more,and stood Beneath the cresset in the painted hall.

If feathered, the tufts should never increase the width of the foot, but only its length a trifle.

The ground floor was occupied by a laundry which the sign on the front window declared to be French; and the room which the window lighted extended the whole width of the building except for a door which opened presumably on the stairway leading to the upper stories.

Assuming this to be so, and taking his widths as our data, it would reduce his cross section of the Lewes to 2,595 feet.

Her hand goes up as against a wall; looks at her other hand, sees it is out too far, brings it in, giving herself the width of the cell.

It was an isolated rock that rose some fifteen or twenty feet above the surface of the ground, having a width and depth about double its heightone of those common excrescences of the forest that usually possess interest for no one but the geologist.

At the farther end a great fireplace filled the width of the room.

And Baldy, who now saw the world through different and more friendly eyes, learned that even the Woman was not wholly lacking in a certain sense of discrimination as she had proved when she had felt the muscles of his sturdy body and spanned the width of his broad chest with unqualified approval.

We passed up the St. Louis River by its numerous portages and falls to the Sandy Lake summit, and reached the banks of the Mississippi on the third of July, and ascertained its width above the junction of the Sandy Lake outlet to be 331 feet.

" It was all wood and made in two parts that slid into each other, reducing the daytime width of the bed by one-half.

The valley as far as can be seen from the mouth, runs about due west for a distance of eight miles; it then appears to bear to the south-west; it is about two miles wide where it joins the Pelly valley and apparently keeps the same width as far as it can be seen.

I tried to determine the width of it as I went along with my survey, by taking azimuths of points on the eastern shore from different stations of the survey; but in only one case did I succeed, as there were no prominent marks on that shore which could be identified from more than one place.

When the log was placed in its new position, the machinery was set in motion again, and the log was sawed through in another place, from end to end, parallel to the first sawing, leaving the width of a board between.

Then begin folding from opposite end, folding the first width in half, then making a second fold to come within about 4 or 5 inches of that already folded; turn this fold entirely over that already folded.

Then it is that the extremes of society first meet under circumstances well calculated to indicate the moral width between their several conditions.

Probably he felt the width and the depth of that gulf which divided himself in 1505 from the same self in 1545, less than we do.

[Transcriber's note: These tables have been transposed to fit the page width.

I have tried without much success to produce a note that should be both shrill and powerful, and correspond to a battery of small whistles, by flattening a piece of brass tube, and passing another sheet of brass up it, and thus forming a whistle the whole width of the sheet, but of very small diameter from front to back.

Your face now, Fastidiosus, wears a frown like that of Rhadamanthus; but I remember our Hasty-Pudding days, when you played the part of a queen, and behaved in your disguise like Thor, in the old saga, when he went to Riesenheim in the garb of Freya, and honest giants, like Thrym, were frightened back the whole width of the hall.

The moon, as we saw, stealthily glides among the fixed stars, gaining her own width every hour.

"It includes the width of the hall.

68 Verbs to Use for the Word  widths