Just then the tiger roared and came at him from about eighteen feet off: he waited till the tiger was within five feet of him and fired.
The east part of the building appeared to be the living-room, about twenty by twenty-five feet.
In the Tartar City there are two others, the Lama Temple and the Confucian Temple, in the former of which there is a statue of Buddha seventy-five feet high, and from thirteen to fifteen hundred priests who worship daily at his shrine.
The Salives have a great taste for music: in the most remote times they had trumpets of baked earth, four or five feet long, with several large globular cavities communicating with one another by narrow pipes.
The creole cane and the cane of Otaheite* are planted in the month of April, the first at four, the second at five feet distance.
We passed through channels that were not five feet broad.
If poor, dig out the rows, which should be four or five feet apart, to a depth of two feet or more and work in a foot of good manure, refilling with the best of the soil excavated.
To secure extra early pods on the poles pinch back the vines at five feet high.
The trunks measured from three to five feet each in circumference.
At length we reached that which from a distance appeared like a carpet of fine green turf, but which, to our vexation, turned out to be a compact mass of little beech-trees about four or five feet high.
The height of the monument was thus increased by perhaps one-half, and did not fall much short of sixty-five feet.
These pillars, with their capitals, were between thirty-four and thirty-five feet high, and had a diameter of six feet.
The present height above the soil is a little short of twenty-five feet.
The foundation consists of piles driven into the sand, and placed very close together; but the superstructure is a stone wall thirty-five feet thick, and still rising to a height of ten feet above the surface of the water.
These substructions, laid bare at their base by the excavations of the Palestine Exploration Fund, are found to consist of blocks measuring from fifteen to twenty-five feet in length, and from ten to twelve feet in height.
From six to twelve bearing stems, from three to five feet high, with their shortened branches and fruit spurs, may be allowed to grow from the roots, according to the vigor of the plant and the space allotted to it.
In field culture, I recommend that the rows befive feet apart, and the plants four feet from each other in the row.
The houses of the Latookas are generally bell-shaped, while others are precisely like huge candle-extinguishers, about twenty-five feet high.
The columns are about thirty-five feet high, and three feet and a half in diameter.
The stones are cut horizontally out of the rocks, leaving holes of four or five feet in depth, and as many in circumference; fifty or sixty of these excavations are often met with in the circumference of a mile.
Its depth has been estimated at thirty- five feet.
In the Owens valley, California, the throw amounted to twenty-five feet in places, with a horizontal movement along the fault line of as much as eighteen feet.
Some of these armored fishes reached twenty- five feet in length and six feet across the head.
Triceratops was fully twenty-five feet long, and of twice the bulk of an elephant.
To be aroused in the dark by five feet of cold green snake gliding over one's face is rather unpleasant, however rapid the movement may be.
Plenty of magnetic iron ore is found near Tette, and coal also to any amount; a single cliff-seam measuring twenty-five feet in thickness.
The natives are fully aware of its value, but seldom search for it, and never dig deeper than four or five feet.
The seams are from four to seven feet in thickness; one measured was found to be twenty-five feet thick.
The specimens twenty-five feet in diameter are not very rare and a few are nearly three hundred feet high.
Near the bottom the width of the fall has increased from about twenty-five feet to a hundred feet.
One that I measured in the Kings River forest was twenty-five feet in diameter at the ground and ten feet in diameter 220 feet above the ground showing the fineness of the taper of the trunk as a whole.
The bark is mostly arranged in massive plates, some of them measuring four or five feet in length by eighteen inches in width, with a thickness of three or four inches, forming a quite marked and distinguishing feature.
There, was no channel whatever among those reeds, and the depth varied from three to five feet.
A finer or more fertile country than that we passed through for about four miles and a half cannot be imagined: the soil, a light brown, sandy loam, covered with broom-grass from four to five feet high.
The horses had stopped at a cataract about three quarters of a mile lower down, and it appeared that the rocky shoal extended to that distance, when a fall of five feet over a bed of rocks would have stopped the boats altogether.
The Duke of Argyll, in his "Reign of Law," has pointed out the admirable adaptation of the colours of the woodcock to its protection.
Use of gay colours in caterpillars, with an account of Mr. Jenner Weir's and Mr. Butler's observations.
We have here an illustration of the simple and effectual means by which animals are brought into harmony with the rest of nature.
Now let us assume that a running leap of twenty-five feet on level ground would not be beyond the ability of a trained athlete.
If Peters could have covered thirty-five feet on level ground, could he have covered fifty feet with the advantage of a drop of nearly seventeen feet?
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "five feet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
