The larger one is about forty-five miles long and fourteen wide at the widest point.
We marched in a south-east direction in the inlet five days, during which we travelled upon it about forty-five miles, and when we left it could still see it running in a southerly direction for about ten or fifteen miles farther.
Toolooah, another Netchillik, about forty-five years old, had also been at the boat place, but after nearly everything had been removed.
About forty of his old adherents detached themselves from the ranks, and followed Cavalier in the direction of Nismes.
The largest lot consisted of about forty lambs, of various sizes and breeds, which had been driven down from the cool air of the mountains, and, gasping with heat, were cooling their heads against the shady side of a stone wall.
While passing along the road between Alais and Lussan one day, he met a detachment of about forty men of the royal army, whom he at once attacked, killing a number of them, and putting the rest to flight.
Dormilhouse consists of about forty cottages, inhabited by some two hundred persons.
He was a man of about forty, with colourless fair hair, bald at the temples, an excessively pale face, a pair of piercing light eyes and a prominent forehead, on which a network of veins stood out.
Bake until potatoes are tender (about forty minutes) basting two or three times with remaining syrup.
Turn milk into double boiler, add leeks and celery; cover and cook until vegetables are tender (about forty-five minutes).
His wife was a notable, well-informed, good-looking woman, about forty years of age.
The elder of the party, a stout fellow of about forty-five years old, of very sullen look, had a distinct brand on his forehead of the initials S.
The shells, referable to about forty species, have been described by MM.
About forty species of fossil plants of the Coal have been referred to this genus, more than half of which are found in the British coal-measures.
In a small hill or ridge called the Bolderberg, which I visited in 1851, situated near Hasselt, about forty miles E.
He was, as well as I could guess, about forty-five years of age; but hardship and suffering had worn deep lines about his face, which was sallow and emaciated.
After a war of about forty years, undertaken by the most stupid, maintained by the most dissolute, and terminated by the most timid of all the emperors, the far greater part of the island submitted to the Roman yoke.
Across the narrow interval of about forty miles, he had drawn a line of military stations, which was afterwards fortified, in the reign of Antoninus Pius, by a turf rampart, erected on foundations of stone.
By the periodical assistance of the monsoons, they traversed the ocean in about forty days.
Seleucia, on the western bank of the Tigris, about forty-five miles to the north of ancient Babylon, was the capital of the Macedonian conquests in Upper Asia.
Biron was a man of about forty, with a high-coloured face and an active, vigorous frame.
Henri Verbier, a man of about forty years of age, who had left the branch hotel at Cairo belonging to the same Company to join the staff at the Royal Palace Hotel in Paris.
Ross at the same time landed, and with his command took possession of their establishment on shore, consisting of about forty houses of different sizes, badly constructed, and thatched with palmetto leaves.
By this time the crew were increased to about forty, nearly one half Spaniards, the others Frenchmen and Portuguese.
While still in view of Madanina at a distance of about forty miles, the Spaniards passed another island, which, according to the accounts of the natives, was very populous and rich in foodstuffs of all kinds.
An island called Antigua, thirty miles distant from Guadaloupe, has a circumference of about forty miles.
We entered a celebrated jeweller's, and he selected for me to the amount of about forty pounds.
In spite of all my tears and entreaties that he would surrender himself to the government, he joined with Mr. Falconer and some other gentlemen, and they have all gone northwards, with a body of about forty horsemen.
About forty or fifty years ago, however, a far more dangerous mode of fighting, in parties or factions, was permitted in the streets of Edinburgh, to the great disgrace of the police and danger of the parties concerned.
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