But a lusty seaman which steered, bad those which rowed, if they were men, about with her, or ells they were all cast away; the which they did with speed.
But that they might either stand to ther former covenants, or ells come to some faire end, by dividente, or composition.
On the third night, you, Moles, must dig around the camp a subterranean passage fifteen ells broad and twenty deep.
The third night the Fox sent the Moles to surround the camp with a subterranean passage fifteen ells broad and twenty deep.
In the place from whence it was first moved, it left a gaping distance forty foot broad, and fourscore Ells long; the whole Field was about twenty Acres.
Then the king said, “Bring me here out of the rock a camel one hundred ells long, of every color under the sun, whose eyes are like lightning, and whose feet are swifter than the wind.
My palace rests on a thousand pillars of rubies and emeralds; the streets and walls are of gold, and pearl, and carbuncle, and topaz; and each pillar in the house is a hundredells long.
Solomon also made an ark of the covenant ten ells square, and he sought to bring it into the Holy of Holies that he had made; and when he sought to bring the ark through the door of the temple, the door was ten ells wide.
The wood was piled about the furnace to the height of five ells, for a circle of five ells diameter, and for three days and three nights the fire was kept up, and the flames licked the heavens, so that the oven was at a white heat.
Now, that was the width of the ark, and ten ells will not go through ten ells.
And the angel of death stooped, and took from forty ells below the earth clay of every sort, as we have said, and therefrom God made Adam.
They also say that, for the marriage-feast of Adam and Eve, God made a table of precious stone, and each gem was a hundred ells long and sixty ells wide, and the table was covered with costly dishes.
English yards of silver wire; but Wallerius asserts, that a grain may be stretched out in such a manner, as to cover 500 ells of wire.
I drove a six-ells stake, of good charred oak, through his rotten carcase in the bog of Gottorp; but what availed that?
They had now entered the duke's narrow prison-cell, which looked upon the castle-yard by a grated window, eighteen ells from the ground.
The light must have been that of Satan himself, and we were certainly a hundredells under ground before the steps ended.
Sometimes, as the young folk sprang over the flames, they cried, "Grow, that the hemp may be three ells high!
Similarly in Swabia, lads and lasses, hand in hand, leap over the midsummer bonfire, praying that the hemp may grow three ells high, and they set fire to wheels of straw and send them rolling down the hill.
It gushes forth with impetuosity, and never freezes in its course to the river, which is about eighteen ells distant.
No high hill is near, but it springs from a swelling bank about two ellsin perpendicular height above the level of the river.
In a small bay of the river a large stone stood two or three ells in height above the water, which supported a fir tree six ells high, and, as appeared from counting its annual shoots, twelve years old.
The clay was often two ells in thickness, under which gravel again occurred.
Opposite to Yfre is a little river, the water of which would at this time have hardly covered the tops of my shoes, though the banks are at least five ells in height.
The water, in the nearest of these channels, falls from a height of twelve or fifteen ells, so that its white foam and spray are thrown as high as two ells into the air, and the whole at a distance appears like a continual smoke.
Eight ells make a jacket, so that the whole comes to as much as a small garment of reindeer skin.
I observed it likewise in a hill near the water which was nine ells in height.
He gave orders that four of the tame eagles in the gardens of the palace should be brought to him with cords five hundred ells long attached to their claws.
With a mighty effort he jumped ten ells into the air, and raising the sword, he managed to strike the giant on the ankle and wound him mortally.
Lead him to the execution," cried the king, "and let his head be severed from his body and cast one hundred ells away.
The birds remained in the air two hundred ells apart, as they had been trained, and the lads held cords in the form of a square.
He was only ten ells high, and he carried with him a sword of the same length.
I do fear Sir Agramore no longer, Yolande, since I have found me one may cope with him perchance--even as did a Fool with my Lord Gui of Ells upon a tune.
Thus Sir Gui, Lord of Ellsand Seneschal of Raddemore, wounded and utterly discomfited, was borne raging to his pavilion while the air rang with the blare of trumpet and clarion in honour of the victor.
The half of it is deftly covered in with flat stones, the longest of which are 2 ells 9 inches long, and about half an ell in thickness, and a little more in breadth.
His height is half an ell, his moustache two ells, his beard three ells long.
Twice twenty-five ells for the breeches take, Fifteen for the points of the breeches; And them thou must strong and durable make If thou therein settest stitches.
Ramund walked on till the big Jutt he spied, And to see him he sorely wonder’d; For full fifty ells was his carcase wide, And his height was nearly a hundred.
THO’ the just Number of Ells of Cloth for the Sovereigns Mantle at the first Institution are not set down, yet in the Total for his Mantle, Hood, and Surcoat, there was allowed ten Ells of long Cloth.
Piece, five Ells and three Quarters of blue Velvet; and those sent to Frederick II.
Tomasin has given my wife fourteen ells of good thick arras for a mantle and three and a half ells of half satin to line it.
The Factor Brandon of Portugal has given me two large beautiful white sugar loaves, a dishful of sweetmeats, two green pots of preserves, and four ells of black satin, so I gave the servant 10 stivers for a tip.
Tomasin made me a gift of four ells of gray damask for a doublet.
To Jacob Muffel I have sent a scarlet breast cloth of one ell; to Hans Imhof's child an embroidered scarlet cap and pine kernels; to Kramer's wife four ells of taffeta, worth 4 florins.
I made a charcoal portrait of Master Jacob, Lord Rogendorf's painter, and I have drawn for Lord Rogendorf his arms on wood, for which he gave me sevenells of velvet.
Gerhard Bombelli has given me a printed Turkish cloth, and Herr Wolff of Rogendorf gave me seven Brabant ells of velvet, so I gave his man 1 Philip's florin for a tip.
Tomasin's brother Gerhardt has given me four Brabant ells of the best black satin, and has given me three big boxes of candied citron, so I gave the maid 3 stivers for a tip.
Rodrigo has presented me with six ells of coarse black cloth for a cape; it cost a crown an ell.
But the base of the Great Pyramid is 365 ells broad.
The labyrinth was a thicket threaded by secret passages, bordered by hornbeam-hedges, four ells high, and so dense that one did not notice the thin iron balustrade which ran along them.
There was no hope of the fifteen ells of water which the earth needed for the harvest of the year.
But you have forgotten the third Pyramid, that of Menkheres, the base of which is 107 great ells broad.
Wives of quality, on the other hand, have train-gowns four or five ells in length; which trains there are boys to carry.
They had heads as large as barrels, their moustaches were like horses' tails, they covered two ells at each stride, and swords two ells in length hung heavily on their shoulders.
They strode over the fields, he said, four ells at one stride, and one of them had sat down quite easily on the roof of a house, with his legs dangling down.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ells" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
