It is the largest of all the South American species, measuring twenty-eight inches in expanse of wing.
In the broad alleys of the forest a magnificent butterfly of the genus Morpho, six to eight inches in expanse, the Morpho Hecuba, was seen daily gliding along at a height of twenty feet or more from the ground.
Its habits of feeding and spawning are similar to those of the blue sunfish, though it usually inhabits smaller streams; it grows to a length of from six to eight inches, and is regarded as a good pan-fish by many.
It grows to a length of ten inches, sometimes to twelve or fifteen inches in favorable localities, but in Florida is mostly from six to eight inches in length.
It grows to six or eight inches in length usually, but often to a foot, especially in large waters.
It is a good pan-fish, growing to about a foot in length, but usually to six or eight inches.
It grows to a size of eight inches, though usually from three to six inches.
It is eight inches and a half in height, by five inches and five eighths in width.
It measures twelve inches and six eighths, by eight inches and a half.
Some are like huge branching candelabra, forty or fifty feet high, and bearing at the end of each branch a tuft of immense sword-shaped leaves, six or eight inches wide, and as many feet long.
Sago-bread is made in large quantities, by baking it into cakes in a small clay oven containing six or eight slits side by side, each about three-quarters of an inch wide, and six or eight inches square.
Among its beetles are the extraordinary Euchirus longimanus, whose enormous legs spread over a space of eight inches, and an unusual number of large and handsome Longicorns, Anthribidae, and Buprestidae.
Cover it with a glass, or rather a board, in which are placed two lenses, O, of eight inches focus, and distant from each other about half an inch.
Provide a box that shuts with hinges, and is eight inches long, three wide, and half an inch deep, Fig.
Cylindrical, five by eight inches, they weigh one and a half to two pounds.
The square stamp has a perpendicular wooden shaft, six or eight feet long, and six or eight inches square, with an iron shoe, weighing from a hundred to a thousand pounds.
The stones used are cobbles, six or eight inches through at the greatest diameter, and usually flattish.
The plants spring from crevices of rocks and are from six to eight inches high.
Asplenium montanum Fronds ovate-lanceolate from a broad base, two to eight inches long, somewhat leathery, pinnate.
Fronds three toeight inches long, ovate-lanceolate, with thickish, distinctly articulated hairs, twice or thrice pinnate.
These fragments, from six to eight inches long, have an angular form.
The cylinders lie longitudinally, one against another, like the cells of a bee-hive, and form chaplets from six to eight inches in length.
At Barbados, where the ordinary tides rise only from twenty-four to twenty-eight inches, the water rose twenty feet in Carlisle Bay.
Plant the bulbs from six to eight inches deep, according to the size.
It is much scarcer than it should be, and requires careful culture, to be planted about six or eight inches deep, and watered in the summer time.
The old-looking roots were cut off and the top trimmed down to six or eight inches in height.
Make the opening in the second floor six by eight inches in the place indicated upon the plan.
Cut two boards fifteen inches long by twelve inches wide for the sides, and taper each from twelve inches at one end to eight inches at the other end.
Make the side-pieces twenty-seven by eight inches, and nail them to the end-pieces and to the edges of the bottom board.
Their height rarely exceeds five feet eight inches, and is more frequently five feet four or five inches, and although strongly they are seldom symmetrically built.
As they are not more than six or eight inches wide, but little of the body is in truth covered.
The feathered part, which is from five to eight inches long, is also sometimes a separate piece bound on with sinews.
The women had cylinder-shaped pieces of ivory, sometimes as much as eight inches, in length, attached to the ears by a shell ring.
He drills it at eight inches, and puts in from eight to ten gallons to the acre.
They have had some rains in the summer not far from this place; for we saw in the streets very fine turnips for sale as vegetables, and broccoli with heads six or eight inches over!
Some of the involucres of the flowering dogwood measure six to eight inches in diameter, and the whole tree when in flower looks as if covered with snow.
The cones are from four to eight inches long, smooth, slender, cylindrical and somewhat curved.
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