Southeast of them are seven or eight parallel streets, gradually growing shorter as they come nearer the Mission Bay, ending in South street, less than a block and a half long, lying along the water front.
Each of them held in his hand a weapon two feet and a half long.
A row of some twenty large pins of iron, about two feet and a half long, projected over one side of the quarterdeck, rising obliquely from the top of the bulwark.
They have great leaves, a foot and a half long, and proportionately broad.
They were chests of stone, each two yards and a half long.
In the female the bracts fall early, but their place is taken by three-lobed bracteoles, which enlarge after flowering, and become an inch or an inch and a half long.
The seed is about an inch and a half long, enclosed in a hard, thin shell.
The samaras are scimitar-shaped and red-brown, about an inch and a half long.
A rattlesnake eight feet and a half long, and about eight inches in diameter, sculptured in high relief on the flat surface of a hard brown stone.
It is ten feet and a half long, five feet wide, lies exactly east and west, and is found in the centre of a group of small mounds.
But this little affair had a blade only an inch and a half long by three quarters of an inch wide.
The caps were about an inch broad and the stems were an inch and a half long.
The stem is two inches to two and a half long, tapering from the base up, smooth, cylindrical, hollow and firm.
The pileus is one to two inches broad and the stem is one to two and a half long.
Next to the dresser are two large sinks, three feet and a half long, two and a half wide, and one foot and a half deep, with two taps for hot and cold water.
In this place, on the first of July, we found the night to be eleven hours and a half long, and the day twelve hours and a half.
I brought one of the legs and a part of the trunk on board our caravel, together with some of the hair from its body, which was a span and a half long, of a black colour, and very thick.
The blade of the scythe is, like that used in our country, about a foot and a half long, and an inch and half broad, very slightly curved.
The transverse bar, c, is one foot and a half long, three inches and a half broad, and is elevated four inches above the longitudinal pieces.
The magnet was eight inches and a half long, and three quarters of an inch in diameter.
One end of this ribbon, which is about two feet and a half long, is now tied firmly around your wrist.
These wicks are circular, and about three inches and a half long.
Four pieces of either sheet iron or brass are wanted in each support an inch and a half long by a quarter wide.
The flowers are about an inch and a half long and as wide.
The flowers are straw-colored, about an inch and a half long, and have light pink tips.
The flowers are about an inch and a half long and as wide, shaped like a bell, with very lovely cream-white and pale pink petals shading into deep pink at the tips.
A slit an inch and a half long, cut in the middle, separates the legs of the trousers, which must, of course, be sewed up.
The Apple and Candle Game= is another favorite sport for Halloween, and is played as follows: From the ceiling is suspended a stout cord, the lower end of which is securely tied to the centre of a stick about a foot and a half long.
This section, Shuwák proper, is nearly a mile and a half long, and could hardly have lodged less than twenty thousand souls.
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