At the end of nearly fifty yards of fair way, just when I was preparing to back into an unusually stiff tussock, I missed Mr. Wardle, who for his girth is an unusually frivolous dog and never keeps to heel.
The wider girthafforded more freedom in design and the stern was drawn out much finer, resulting in more speed; on later ships reaching 58.
I unhelmed him fairly enough, but my over-girth and breast-strap burst, and my saddle slipped.
Ne'theless, it is but just to say that both his breast-piece and over-girth were burst in the stitches before he ran his course, for so I saw with mine own eyes.
The pels themselves consisted of upright posts of ash or oak, about five feet six inches in height, and in girth somewhat thicker than a man's thigh.
For forty-eight hours during his absence rumor had spread and increased its girth to astounding dimensions.
But that was when Scattergood's hair was touched with gray and his girth had increased by twoscore pounds.
A boy of his age and girth could not carry much, I should say.
In girth and stature he seemed a young Goliath, a savage thing bred in savage times and savage places, and blessed with the instincts of mere barbarism.
And the time, during which Monty arrived and dismounted, I killed by unloosening girth and surcingle.
A fine young oak grew on the west side of Clipstone Palace in the days of John; it was noticed at that time for its girth and height, and was much admired by many who resided within the park.
It measures forty-six feet ten inches at the base, and at one yard from the ground the girth is thirty-nine feet ten inches.
Hildman, quoted by Picat, speaks of an infant three years and ten months old who had a girth of 30 inches.
Figure 265 shows the appearance of the woman two months after the operation, when the girth was reduced to normal.
Two water-skins are inflated, and attached to the camel by a band passed like a girth beneath the belly.
This fish measured three feet eight inches to the root of the tail, and two feet three inches in girth of shoulders; the head measured one foot ten inches in circumference--it was the same species as those I had already caught.
A more frequent place of execution was the Girth Cross, near the foot of the Canongate, which marked the limit of the right of sanctuary belonging to the abbey of Holyrood.
At the Girth Cross, Lady Warriston was executed for the murder of her husband, which has been made the subject of many ballads: My mother was an ill woman: In fifteen years she married me.
For the path was barely wide enough to admit one single man, and the great girth of the Dutchman often brought him into difficulties.
For this rotund and jolly-looking individual was dressed in immaculate white, with an enormously broad red cummerbund about his middle, making his vast girth even more noticeable.
Crataeva Tapia), which were fifty to sixty feet in girth at the point where they become cylindrical.
The animal was a large one, measuring nearly ten feet in length, and nine in girth at the broadest part.
Take up your Horse again, andgirth him to ye, And girth him handsomely, good neighbor Bomby.
My saddle girth broke, and as I saw it in time I jumped to the ground, while the animal stood perfectly still--that was the accident.
It was at this juncture that a slight accident occurred to Frau von Wallmoden; her saddle girth broke, and she would have had a disagreeable fall had she not had the presence of mind to slip at once from her saddle to the ground.
Trees of from six to ten feet in girth are found everywhere by the hundreds of thousands.
His great bulk had not yet hid his fair proportions, though in girth and weight he outstripped the rest.
For several minutes Bob was busily engaged with the saddle girth that had been giving him considerable trouble on this gallop.
As stated in a former note, the "mowana" in girth and spread of branches is perhaps the largest of all known trees, but far from being the tallest, in height rarely exceeding a hundred feet.
As all know, the mowana, or baobab, is one of the largest of trees; specimens being met with having a girth of nearly 100 feet.
They didn't seem to find anything broken, but I was sore all over, and I'd sooner be whacked with a horse-girth than go through that again.
Jumbo's equipment consisted of a cinch girth and a pair of bridle reins connected with a headstall.
I began his education by securing round him a broad girth of buffalo hide and fastening to it various articles, to accustom him to carrying a burden.
Without an axe, and without help, I was unable to measure the girth of this column, which had not been without companions on a smaller scale in the immediate neighbourhood.
It had a girth of 12 feet in the part where we were able to pass the tape round it.
