Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: come not near unto it that ye may know the way by which ye must go; for ye have not passed this way heretofore.
The saplings and the gourds are reckoned alike in the fifty cubits square.
From the hangings on the west to the tent were twenty cubits, and the tent was thirty cubits long; and from the tent to the hangings on the east, there were fifty cubits.
And from the table to the boards on the north (were) two cubits and a half.
On their account men may plough the whole fifty cubits square around them till new year’s day.
The doorway of the porch was forty cubits high, and twenty broad.
As the tabernacle was ten cubits broad, so the altar of burnt-offerings was ten cubits broad.
Take from them thirty cubits for the length of the tabernacle, and ten cubits behind the tabernacle—these are forty.
Not only so, but they gave immunity from customs to Rhodian merchants coming to their ports; and presented them besides with fifty catapults of three cubits length.
The wooden haft of them all is about three cubits long; and the iron head fixed to each half is barbed, and of the same length as the haft.
FUM, a grotesque animal figure, six cubits high, one of four presumed to preside over the destinies of China.
Over the lamp he brandished a rod some two cubits long, apparently of polished ebony; and immediately a cloud of aromatic vapour filled the cell, hiding him for a space from the prisoner's sight.
It rolled several cubits down the incline, till caught by a projecting corner of rock, where it hung bright and glittering, like a morning dew-drop on a dead autumn leaf.
If, for every horseman who leaps to the saddle when I shake my spear, I could muster a score, then should you enter Babylon through a breach of fifty cubits in the wall.
But the brazen temple of Janus was left standing in the forum; of a size sufficient only to contain the statue of the god, five cubits in height, of a human form, but with two faces directed to the east and west.
Now this palace was girt round by the waters and was approached by a causeway twenty cubits wide.
These are the measures of the monolith house outside; but the length inside is eighteen cubits and five-sixths of a cubit, the breadth twelve cubits, and the height five cubits.
Thus the pyramids are a hundred fathoms high; and these hundred fathoms are equal to a furlong of six hundred feet, the fathom being measured as six feet or four cubits, the feet being four palms each, and the cubits six.
Fifteen cubits upwards did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
He made this large tower twenty stories high, each story having a gallery round it, three cubits wide.
They produced a chain of 50 cubits in length, and in my presence threw one end of it towards the sky, where it remained as if fastened to something in the air.
The sole of the foot is nine paces long, and the instep is 21 cubits in girth.
The latter say: "In this city of Kanchú there is an Idol-Temple 500 cubits square.
Because of the height of Zariaspa's walls, the lord of Assyria knoweth naught of what the Bactrians do within; therefore my master urgeth that a mighty mound of earth be raised to the reach of forty cubits above the plains.
When the wall had risen twenty cubits above its base, the King contrived from his inner trench a myriad of intersecting channels converging toward his central mound.
Great carts they had, with platforms twenty cubits above their wheels, propelled by slaves who were hidden underneath, while above the platforms ladders rose and slanted toward the wall.
Day after day went by, till the war-cars stood at rest in a circle six hundred cubits distant from the walls; then came the footmen.
He caused two trenches to be sunk, the one within the other; the outer trench being twenty cubitswide and ten in depth, while the inner trench was shallower, but of greater width.
This timber, we see, was designed for the rebuilding those twenty additional cubits of the holy house above the hundred, which had fallen down some years before.
Thus we collect that the whole height, including the sixty cubits from the floor, amounted to a hundred cubits.
The wall was, however, ten cubits wide, and it would probably have had a height greater than that, had not his zeal who began it been hindered from exerting itself.
Now for the works that were above these foundations, these were not unworthy of such foundations; for all the cloisters were double, and the pillars to them belonging were twenty-five cubits in height, and supported the cloisters.
And these he set before the workmen, and under them these workmen went on with their works in safety, and raised the wall higher, and that both by day and by night, fill it was twenty cubits high.
There entered in Hector dear to Zeus, and his hand bare his spear, eleven cubits long: before his face glittered the bronze spear-point, and a ring of gold ran round about it.
He in his hand held his spear eleven cubits long; before his face gleamed the spearhead of bronze, and a ring of gold ran round about it.
Colossal statues, twelve cubits high, were employed as supports, instead of columns.
Even before our era, Diodorus[211] found the Great Pyramid crowned by a plateau six cubits square.
Suetonius speaks of a serpent exhibited at Rome in front of the Comitium, fifty cubits in length.
Diodorus Siculus relates the account of the capture of a serpent, not without loss of life, in Egypt, which measured thirty cubits long; it was taken to Alexandria.
Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cubits" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
