The pan is taken in both hands, and enough water to cover the prospect by a few inches is admitted.
I have also found that covering the top of the mercury with a few inches of broken charcoal when retorting has an excellent purifying effect.
The present writer has seen in certain cases as many as a dozen in the great procession, the lowest and innermost only a few inches high, the outer of all with a height of perhaps twenty feet.
It is occasionally very difficult to detect the existence of rabies in its nascent state.
Enteritis', or inflammation of the intestine, is a disease to which dogs are very liable.
This lameness continued for several months, when we parted with him, sending him to a relative in the country, who informed us that he never recovered the use of his limb, but that it became shrivelled and deformed for want of use.
The best method of cultivating the plant is in rows two feet and a half apart; and, on the poppies attaining a few inches in height, they are hoed out to a distance from one another of six or eight inches.
The same distance will also do for the pieces of spawn, which are best put in by one hand, raising the manure up a few inches, whilst with the other the spawn can be laid in and covered at the same time.
The seed should be sown in April, in drills a foot asunder; thinning the plants, when a few inches high, to nine inches apart.
A few inches of the head and neck are free, and with this free portion the snake struggles, squirming in the air; but the attention of the snake is constantly occupied by the attendant who carries the wand.
In all three pots the legitimately crossed seedlings, when a few inches in height, were taller than the self-fertilised; and in all three pots they flowered before them by one or two days.
Harman, starting from his seat, and placing his face within a few inches of Poll Doolin's.
The entrance at each end was by means of a very steep and slippery sort of ladder made out of one piece of wood with notches cut in it, the steps being only a few inches in width.
Whilst practising the latter I narrowly missed, by a few inches, shooting a woman who stepped out suddenly from behind a hut.
Fortunately he missed him, but only by a few inches.
Although the open water was several feet deep, it was so full of aquatic plants that a craft of any width, or drawing more than a few inches, would make but slow progress through it.
As he spoke, another crash was heard, not quite so loud as the last and at the same moment the whole mass on which the party stood slid forward a few inches.
She had a washing-tub, of course, but instead of putting the linen into this she put herself in it, after having made an island of it by placing it a few inches deep in the stream.
The channel in a short distance became so shallow that our navigation was at an end, being merely a sheet of soft mud, with a few inches of water, and sometimes none at all, forming the low-water shore of the lake.
Where we crossed it, a short distance from the Platte, it has a sandy bed about four hundred yards broad; the water in various small streams, a few inches deep.
It turned easily without any creak, and the door opened a few inches.
Campbell leaped for the door and jerked it open a few inches.
It was so dark that we could only see a few inches in front of our noses.
The holes were dug at intervals of three or four feet along each line, the upper ones to be caught on by one's hands, the lower ones to support one's feet, and none of the cavities are deeper than a few inches.
Kindling this was no easy matter, box after box of matches was quickly used, and our collective lung power severely drawn upon in fanning the unwilling sparks into a flame only a few inches high.
We were marching very fast, as all our heavy loads were now on the two yaks, but night was well advanced, and the darkness was such that we could only see a few inches in front of us.
The point was settled for me when, while working in my garden, one came through the surface within a few inches of my fingers, working with the tip of the abdomen.
Below a few inches of rotting leaves and black mould I found a lively pupa of the Yellow Emperor.
I am becoming convinced that caterpillars recognize sex in each other, basing the theory on the facts that in half a dozen instances I have found cocoons, spun only a few inches apart.
Others kept trying their prowess in lofty leaping; but, although the most active of them could get their noses within a few inches of the meat, it only tantalised them the more.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "few inches" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
