They conducted a tin-shop on Commercial Street, in a building about twenty by forty feet.
Many of these images are from thirty to forty feet in height, and have a striking appearance as they stand arranged in the spacious lofty halls.
The temples or halls containing the idols are extremely spacious; many of the idols are thirty or forty feet high, generally made of wood or clay, and then richly gilt.
The highest stones are as much as seventeen feet high, and from thirty to forty feet in circumference.
Ten or twelve yards without the walls the ditch begins, which surrounded the castle, from thirty to forty feet broad.
Of this wonderful structure there is nothing at present remaining but some ruins, and a few broken pillars, forty feet long, and seven in diameter.
Young says, no such cause could do more than produce a slight rarefaction of the air, much less raise the water to the height of thirty or forty feet, or more.
The lodges of the Ricara Indians are of a circular or octagonal form, and generally thirty or forty feet in diameter.
The ridgepole of yellow cypress was two feet in diameter, forty feet long, and as round and true as if it had been turned in a lathe; and, though lying in the damp weeds, it was still perfectly sound.
The largest were thirty or forty feet high, carved from top to bottom into human and animal totem figures, one above another, with their limbs grotesquely doubled and folded.
The largest specimen that I saw and measured on the trip was five feet three inches in diameter and about one hundred and forty feet high.
His only care is to hold the parts to be sewn perfectly even, and the machine sews a seam of forty feet in from three to five minutes.
Then they are placed on a wide table, forty feet long, and are sewn together by a machine worked by steam.
The first step was to throw a massive dam across the Croton River, by means of which the Croton Lake was formed, the water being raised to a depth of forty feet by the obstruction.
At the latter, the river is two thousand eight hundred and forty yards wide, and plunges down an inclined plane about three miles long, making a fall equal to forty feet in vertical height.
His assailant then rose quickly some forty feet in the air, and, turning again, descended upon the man with such force as to compel him to relinquish his game.
One of the three small buildings at Niagara which escaped the flames of 1814 was a log-cabin, about thirty by forty feet in its dimensions, that stood in the center of the front of the International block.
Olaus Magnus also figures another serpent, which is said to inhabit the Baltic or Swedish Sea; it is from thirty to forty feet in length, and will not hurt anyone unless provoked.
It was throwing its head and about forty feetof its body in a horizontal position out of the water as it passed onwards by the stern of our vessel.
At the time seen it was lying perfectly still, with its head raised about three feet above the surface of the sea, and as it got thirty or forty feet astern, it dropped its head.
There are some, however, among the annexed stories, which I think demand belief, and apparently we may conclude that the python and boa exceptionally attain as much as forty feet in length, or even more.
Though generally found from twenty to thirty feet in length, it is said to attain a length of forty feet; and one of that size is fully capable of swallowing an ox or horse,--there being many instances of its having been done.
At a place called Labra, there is a tower richly ornamented, forty feet in height, which stands on the summit of an artificial elevation.
But both of these yielded to the colossal statue of Zeus in his great temple at Olympia, represented in a sitting posture, forty feet high, on a pedestal of twenty.
The white birches there were from a foot up to twenty-two inches in diameter, having long, straight trunks, clear of limbs from thirty to forty feet in length.
All he knew was that it consisted of an immense lever, forty feet long, laid on a log support and hauled laterally to and fro by horses.
Very rich soils are to be found in the provinces of Menoufieh and Charkieh, while those of Beherah are flat and generally low-lying; but the depth may range up to forty feet!
To obtain a good supply of water, wells are dug to a depth of forty feet or so, and the supply is fairly good.
It reaches a height of forty feet or more, and forms a distinctive feature of the scenery.
When the southwest monsoon is in full force, the water breaks over the present line to a height of forty feet, falling in harmless spray on the inner side.
The area sheltered from the southwest monsoons is over five hundred acres, half of which has depths varying from twenty-six to forty feet at low tide.
He discovered that he was seated astride the rim of a circular well, forty feet deep, whose bottom was the roof of the house.
It rose sheer above him for almost forty feet, unbroken by any window or excrescence, and thinly covered by ivy which, while it was too scattered to conceal any outlet, at the same time afforded no foothold for ascent.
And, indeed, he had need to think, for it seemed highly probable that within the next few minutes he might be dashed to pieces on the floor of the secret chamber, forty feet below.
It was well that he did so, for its fastenings proved to be rotten with age, and the bolt giving way, it tore out in his grasp, and flying from his hand fell with a loud clank on the roof, forty feet below.
Adjacent to the main structure and connecting therewith is the Annex building, one hundred feet in length, forty feet in width, and of but one story.
The room is of equal size with those below, forty-five by forty feet.
The east center tower then rises forty feet to the top of battlements; the west center tower rises thirty-four feet to the top of battlements.
The basement floor is divided into fourteen rooms of which the baptistry or font-room, thirty-five by forty feet, is one of the largest and most important.
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