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Example sentences for "fifteen feet"

  • She occupies a small room on the third floor of the Harem, about twelve by fifteen feet in size.

  • It was constructed by raising a large pile of rock, in the centre of which was erected a beam, some twelve or fifteen feet in height.

  • These rooms are about twelve by fifteen feet, and are occupied principally by those of "the women" who have no children.

  • More than one hundred towers have been found in that country, all built of large stones, and varying in height from seventy to one hundred and thirty feet, with a diameter of from eight to fifteen feet.

  • Some of these marks are so clear and regular that Troyon, noticing the way they curve, was able to assert that the buts were circular, and that they varied in diameter from ten to fifteen feet.

  • Paint Creek; the walls vary in height from eight to fifteen feet, and exceed thirty feet in thickness.

  • The missionary had justly observed, that the insects abounded more particularly in the lowest strata of the atmosphere, that which reaches from the ground to the height of twelve or fifteen feet.

  • The road leading to the river makes a bend here, and between the bend and river bank an abutment of logs, filled in with stone to the height of fifteen feet, was built to prevent the water from encroaching upon the land.

  • At the other long side was built a plank fence twelve or fifteen feet high.

  • Some of them are on rocks at a height of twelve or fifteen feet, which must have required a ladder to ascend to them.

  • It abounds also in short oak trees [Arabic], of which I saw none higher than twelve or fifteen feet.

  • Chihuahua is surrounded by piles of cinders, from ten to fifteen feet in height.

  • They are planted in rows from six feet apart to twelve or fifteen feet.

  • Some of them are ten or fifteen feet long; almost as long as the trees are tall.

  • These leaves may be ten or fifteen feet long.

  • When absent she neither moped nor scolded, but discreetly set about scratching for food, always within a range of ten or fifteen feet of the nest.

  • The nest is usually well concealed in a fir tree, and may be placed at any height from ten or fifteen feet upward, altho usually at sixty or eighty feet.

  • Here we allowed the notes, oozi, woozi leooli to pass for some time, unchallenged, as those of the Hermit Warbler, but finally caught a townsendi in the act at fifteen feet.

  • It is a flimsy affair of twigs, grass-stems, or weed-stalks carelessly interlaced, and caught in the crotch of a sapling at a height of from five to fifteen feet.

  • By the time the ditch has become twelve or fifteen feet wide, the calamity is as good as accomplished, for no power on earth can stop it now.

  • They would be logs fourteen or fifteen feet long.

  • In summer at Churchill the Hudson’s Bay Company capture many white whales, from ten to fifteen feet in length and weighing from one thousand to two thousand pounds, by the use of extra strong nets.

  • In the valleys the ground has been raised not less than fourteen or fifteen feet.

  • These walls are not more than from ten to fifteen feet high.

  • This last is fifteen feet long, four wide, and six feet seven inches thick in the middle, but diminishes towards each end.

  • A statue, fifteen feet high, was found buried in the sand, representing an old man with a beard.

  • One had baggy trousers of chocolate colour, and the usual square lambskin jacket, wool inside, which is worn in winter; in his hand was a spear, fifteen feet long.

  • The huge Pristis antiquorum[1] infests the eastern coast of the island, where it attains a length of from twelve to fifteen feet, including the serrated rostrum from which its name is derived.

  • In an age when popular fallacies in relation to him were as yet uncorrected in Europe by the actual inspection of the living animal, he was supposed to grow to the height of twelve or fifteen feet.

  • The fossil remains of the Indian elephant have been discovered at Jabalpur, showing a height of fifteen feet.

  • He traced these granaries to a depth of four feet below the surface of the ground, and believes, from the statements of a native peasant, that they, or at least the formicaries, extend to a depth of fifteen feet.

  • The shadow thrown upon the pavement was very slight; nevertheless, fifteen feet distant a new formicary was being established.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    fifteen cubits; fifteen days; fifteen dollars; fifteen fathoms; fifteen feet; fifteen hundred; fifteen inches; fifteen millions; fifteen minutes; fifteen months; fifteen pounds; fifteen thousand; fifteen yards; fifteen years; fifteenth century; government would; long before; many cities; one volume; only they; open field; other seasons; reason for; small point; winter night; young officers