Thereupon smith Ilmarinen, He the great primeval craftsman, 30 Forged for him a rake of iron, Furnished with a copper handle, Teeth in length a hundred fathoms, And the handle full five hundred.
I'm not going to navigate this ship by searchlight among mountains twenty-eight thousand feet tall, when the best beam that ever shot from a mirror won't show an object a hundred fathoms away.
Almost at the same time, and while the captain was making desperate efforts to sheer off, the sky lightened a little, and they saw an immense heap of rock within a hundred fathoms of the vessel.
I caught a momentary glimpse of the strange ship as we swept athwart her stern at a distance of less than a hundred fathoms.
On this very day O forge me, 200 Forge a rake with copper handle, Let the teeth of steel be fashioned, Teeth in length a hundred fathoms, And of fathoms five the handle.
At three o'clock next morning she telegraphed through the cable that her work was done, and she had buoyed the end in water a hundred fathoms deep.
That chap up to the nor'ard there, draws something like a hundred fathoms, if he draws an inch.
It was handsomely doubled, at the safe distance of a hundred fathoms, Roswell believed he might now beat his schooner off the land far enough to double the cape altogether, could he but keep her in that current.
For a while the climbing was easy, but at length they came to a great wall of rock, a hundred fathoms high, on which no fox might find a foothold, nor anything that had not wings.
This is a collection of large sea-shells attached to cords, which is kept in a small basket together with a Chinese plate and a hundred fathoms of thread (Plate XIX).
This consists of two bundles of rice, a dish of broken rice, a hundred fathoms of thread, one leg of the pig, and a small coin.
For this second day this medium receives, as pay, the head and two legs of the pig, a hundred fathoms of thread, a dish of broken rice, and five bundles of unthreshed rice.
The other boats, having no line, could do nothing to help, so away we went alone, with barely a hundred fathoms of line, in case he should take it into his head to sound again.
Suffice it to say, that we actually killed six whales, none of whom were less than fifty barrels, no boat ran out more than one hundred fathoms of line, neither was a bomb-lance used.
We hauled steadily away, the line not coming in very easily, until I judged there was only about another hundred fathoms out.
As he put the interrogatory, he pointed upward to the two birds, now within a hundred fathoms of the surface.
It is no light task hauling in a thick, heavy line, hanging straight up and down for a length of from seventy-five to a hundred fathoms or more!
Upon a straight line inland a hundred fathoms, as if the iron beak were pointing at it, stood a long, low, irregular building of wood with high ridged roofs, in which were wide holes at the ridges.
The Roman is but a hundred fathoms behind us," replied Ulric.
As the magic net is finished, And in length a hundred fathoms, On the rim three hundred fathoms.
At the next moment the ship was in sight, distant less than a hundred fathoms.
I could see heads and arms tossing in our track for a hundred fathoms, those who could not swim struggling to the last to preserve their existence.
There is capital holding-ground inside the reef, and the ship can be safely carried within a hundred fathoms of her cargo!
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