There was great talking among the groups round the fire that night, and Ned saw that some question was being debated, at great length.
Here they saw more of the llamas, which are described atgreat length by the historians of the expedition; who considered, and rightly, that they were extraordinary and most useful animals.
They were made out of one tree of great length, hollowed with fire and axe; and being so smooth, both without and within, that they shone like polished wood.
Upon the day after they came on board ship, Ned and Tom were called by the admiral into his cabin, and there recounted to him, at great length, all the adventures that they had gone through.
The feet and tarsi are of great length, larger than in first-rate English Carriers.
This is well seen in Jacobins, and still more plainly in Runts, some varieties of which have their wings and tail of great length, whilst others have both very short.
The limpkins are remarkable for the great length of the toes.
Detail or amplification; unfolding; continuance as, to pursue a subject to a great length.
Pendleton spoke at great length, but frequently his voice was so feeble that he could not be understood or reported.
He was against it for the reasons which he afterwards gave at great length in the Virginia Convention of 1788.
Not only each word but even the tone and gesture is given formally at great length.
The ceremonial of consecration required by the book is described at great length in the Mahabharata and the Ramayana.
Thus her story would run along at great length, Birdie in the meanwhile chuckling with the thought of her own escapades.
Amanda in several interviews went on at great length in a very rational way, but altogether the gist of her view of her case is to be found in the above.
A contagious disease, in which the hair is said to become alive and bleed, forming inextricable knots or plaits of great length, like the fabled head of Medusa, with intolerable pain, so as to confine the sufferer on his bed for years.
The absorbed fluids in their course to the veins in the scrophula are arrested in the lymphatic or conglobate glands; which swell, and after a great length of time, inflame and suppurate.
Yet great perseverance in the frequently presenting contrary ideas will sometimes slowly remove this hallucination, or in great length of time oblivion, or forgetfulness, performs a cure, by other means in vain attempted.
Footnote: Translated from the Relation, where these councils are reported at great length.
It is a blind and wholesale panegyric, but it is interlined with notes and comments at great length, by some other ecclesiastic, a bitter enemy of the Governor.
Other circumstances, which La Salle details at great length, convinced him that the white prisoner was no other than the pilot of the "Griffin.
The Oriental poems abound numerously in far-fetched figures of speech, and are written in metres following definite laws and are subject to difficult and uniform rhymes continued in every line in poems of great length.
If, as I believe, our emotions may be expressed in prose or free verse probably more poetically than even in metre, it is surely inadvisable to drive home a prosaic idea in verse, and especially at great length.
But the future poets will not spin out their ideas in metre at great length.
At the same time he took occasion to expatiate at great length, and from an agricultural point of view, the utility of extending the breeding of poultry.
She has written me a very profound philosophical epistle, in which she proves, at great length, that Coppelius and Coppola only exist in my own mind, and are phantoms of myself, which will be dissipated directly I recognise them as such.
It was governed for a great length of time by its own kings, the most considerable of whom was Tigranes, who espoused the daughter of the great Mithridates king of Pontus, and was also engaged in a long war with the Romans.
His speech was of a great length, and extremely pathetic.
Their arc light machines have weak fields, large armatures, with a great length of copper wire and few commutator segments to produce great variations in the current's strength and to bring self-induction into play.
In this case the are reaches a great length, until it finally breaks.
If it acts so, then in a vacuum tube even of great length, and no matter how strong the current, self-induction could not assert itself to any appreciable degree.
Troilus had written at great length, of course, "the papyr al y-pleynted.
The last, which he thought the only substantial and legally remediable complaint, he dwelt on at great length, and severely condemned the refusal of certain States to comply with this provision of the Constitution.
The histories of the earlier prophets, which had occasionally been briefly touched on in the first period, are now related, sometimes at great length.
Daisee is similar to Serajgunge in softness, is of good quality and of great length; its drawback is the low colour, and hence it is not so suitable for using in natural colour.
While in the other antique epics of the world bloodshed takes a predominant place, the Kalewala is characteristically gentle, lyrical and even domestic, dwelling at great length on situations of moral beauty and romantic pathos.
The femur is short, and the tibia and fibula of great length, as is the foot, the whole of which is applied to the ground when the animal is at rest in the upright position.
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