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Example sentences for "fourteen feet"

  • We observed that there were two irregular holes in the rock, within a yard of each other; and while from one a jet proceeded to the height of twelve or fourteen feet, the other was full of boiling water.

  • The largest laminae are from ten to fourteen feet, very rarely fifteen feet, in length.

  • Underneath the peat is a bed of gravel, a, from three to fourteen feet thick, resting on undisturbed chalk.

  • In this bed the flint implements are chiefly found--ten to fourteen feet thick.

  • In the gravel of the gold-bearing quartz of the Grinell leads (Kansas), was found an imperfect flint knife at a depth of fourteen feet.

  • This bridge is fourteen feet wide, and upheld by two hundred and twenty-two arches, and its foundation is, of course, built upon piles driven into the muddy bed of the lagoon.

  • A grand circular font, fourteen feet in diameter, stands in the centre.

  • Some idea of the strength of this tower, and its security as a prison, may be had from the walls, which are from twelve to fourteen feet in thickness.

  • I am not able to speak very accurately of the rise in the tide; but it may be reckoned at twelve or fourteen feet at the neaps, and from seventeen to eighteen at the springs.

  • Yet it is a very big animal, for a full-grown male will attain to a length of sixty or even seventy feet, while even a baby whale is from eleven to fourteen feet long, or as big as a big walrus.

  • The Australian dugong is said to attain a length of fourteen feet.

  • In Africa they make marvelous nests of clay, which are often twelve or fourteen feet high, and are so very large that a church, a parsonage, and a schoolroom have been built of clay slabs cut from the walls of a single termites' nest!

  • It is then hollowed, demijohn shape, out of the rock to a depth of fourteen feet, with an average breadth at the bottom of twelve feet.

  • Twelve or fourteen feet long, I suppose," said Mr. Kenyon.

  • This is a lonely arch, of the same form as all the rest, having a span of fourteen feet.

  • Overlying this are beds of marl, loam, and surface soil, comprising in all a depth of fourteen feet.

  • The implements are nearly always found in the lowest strata, which is a bed of gravel from ten to fourteen feet thick.

  • The height of the third wall is fourteen feet.

  • So they were run up fourteen feet, and by some mistake, half a foot higher, looking when finished so cold and cheerless and bare that the ambitious man ransacked New York and Boston and even sent to London for adornments for his walls.

  • It made her neck ache staring up fourteen feet and a half to the costly center ornament from which the heavy chandelier depended.

  • Its span is fourteen feet, and its top fallen.

  • These apartments are from five feet square to eight by fourteen feet.

  • The three central rooms are each about eight by fourteen feet, and the others ten by thirty-two feet, as nearly as may be estimated from Bartlett's plan and the statements of other writers.

  • The largest is fourteen feet high, four feet wide and a foot and a half thick.

  • The bed of the river is here threequarters of a mile across, of which the stream does not occupy one-third; its banks are sand-cliffs, fourteen feet in height.

  • In 1837 Alderman Lucas exhibited two wickerwork copies of Gog and Magog, fourteen feet high, their faces on a level with the first-floor windows of Cheapside, and these monstrosities delighted the crowd.

  • To this he immediately hastened, and found a cascade stretching across the whole river for a quarter of a mile, with a descent of fourteen feet, though the perpendicular pitch was only six feet.

  • It is collected chiefly by the women, who employ for the purpose canoes from ten to fourteen feet in length, about two feet wide and nine inches deep, and tapering from the middle, where they are about twenty inches wide.

  • So they were run up fourteen feet, and by some mistake, half a foot higher, looking when finished so cold and cheerless and bare that the ambitious man ransacked New York and Boston and even sent to London for ornaments for his walls.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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