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Example sentences for "fourteen inches"

  • The length of this species is fourteen inches and a half.

  • Although it is not larger than the turtle-dove, its length is fourteen inches, but seven of these are included in the tail, three quarters of which are covered by the folded wings.

  • The length of this very beautiful parrot is fourteen inches, of which the tail measures more than half; its size is that of the turtle-dove, but very slender.

  • The size of the jack-daw is that of the pigeon, thirteen or fourteen inches in length.

  • Their length is from about eighteen to nineteen inches, the breadth thirty-seven to thirty-nine inches, the wing measures thirteen to fourteen inches, and the tail ten and a half inches.

  • The length of this species is eight and three-quarter inches, and its breadth across the wings fourteen inches.

  • Should the Moro be separated from its species it will seek the society of other birds, and we have known a case in which a Desert Trumpeter mated with a small pigeon (Columba passerina) of twice its own size.

  • Its compound leaves are from eight to fourteen inches long, with seven to nine leaflets.

  • The cones are from ten to fourteen inches long.

  • The leaves are from five to fourteen inches long, and have five or seven firm, light-green leaflets, finely toothed and bluntly pointed.

  • We afterwards found some ice-chisels in possession of the latter people twelve or fourteen inches long, and half-an-inch in diameter, formed of pure copper.

  • This is lashed into the end of a piece of wood about twelve or fourteen inches long, in such a manner as to act like an adze: in general they are applied to the wood like a chissel, and driven in with a heavy club, instead of a mallet.

  • A person accustomed to electric shocks can with difficulty hold in his hands a torpedo of twelve or fourteen inches, and in possession of all its vigour.

  • The handsomest of these, perhaps, is the red gurnard, which grows to a length of twelve or fourteen inches, and is bright red above and silvery white below.

  • The antlers, usually three-pointed, measure no more than from twelve to fourteen inches in fine specimens.

  • It is not by any means a large snake, for it is seldom more than twelve or fourteen inches long.

  • Sometimes the upper pairs are thirteen or fourteen inches long, without counting the part that is buried in the jaw.

  • The wings are blunt and comparatively short, measuring, when spread, fourteen inches.

  • The total length of the adult male is fourteen inches, the tail being ten inches long; this species is therefore one of the longest-tailed we know of.

  • Frond cylindrical, robust, six to fourteen inches high; branches of unequal length standing out horizontally all around the main stem; clusters of branchlets growing spirally around stem and branches.

  • Out of the middle of it cut a circular piece twelve or fourteen inches in diameter, and cover the hole formed with Persian silk, on which is to be painted a moon's face.

  • The piece, required in forming a twelve sided figure, is prepared in the following manner: A ball must be turned out of solid wood, fourteen inches in diameter, and its surface is to be divided into fourteen equal parts.

  • Their naves are made of one piece, which, from the barrel of the fourth, to the commencement of the sixth, is fourteen inches.

  • Root fusiform, three inches in diameter at the crown, and from, twelve to fourteen inches in depth.

  • Root fusiform, and very slender, fourteen inches in length, by two inches and a half in diameter at the top or broadest part.

  • About twelve or fourteen inches depth of water spread over the land.

  • I found the outlet of Itasca Lake to be about twelve feet wide, and some twelve to fourteen inches deep.

  • The snow, which has continued falling all night, is twelve to fourteen inches deep in the morning; being the heaviest fall of snow, at one time, all winter.

  • The forest growth at Waskaiowaka lake is chiefly black spruce and white birch of from four to fourteen inches in diameter.

  • The Indians have been able, in building their houses, to obtain timber of suitable size for the walls and rafters, and spruce of a diameter of fourteen inches is fairly plentiful.

  • They run from four to fourteen inches in diameter.

  • The third piece is made of seven-eighths-inch wood, fourteen inches long, and corresponds in shape to the second board from the dotted line b c, Fig.

  • The focal distance of an ordinary spectacle-glass averages about twelve or fourteen inches, and the box should be, of course, somewhat longer than the focal length of the glass used.

  • He had a sheet of calf-skin, nine by fourteen inches, which he soaked in warm alum water till it was very soft and pliable.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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