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Example sentences for "hundred feet"

  • At the precise moment when Hurry committed this act of unthinking cruelty, the canoe of Judith was within a hundred feet of the spot from which the Ark had so lately moved.

  • The high banks might have been a hundred feet asunder; but, on the western side, a small bit of low land extended so far forward as to diminish the breadth of the stream to half that width.

  • The greater number consisted merely of a ring of red scoriae or slags, cemented together: and their height above the plain of lava was not more than from fifty to a hundred feet; none had been very lately active.

  • The Master caught it from his hand and flung it a hundred feet away, into the center of a clump of lilacs.

  • The Mistress, deposited at the front veranda, chirped to Lad; and started across the lawn toward the chrysanthemum bed, a hundred feet away.

  • But he did not go within a hundred feet of the fire.

  • The sun illuminated it, and threw a rainbow from it a hundred feet long, upon the white and green dome of chestnut-trees near.

  • It stands upon a peninsula, round which the Aar, a hundred feet below, rapidly flows; and one has on nearly every side very pretty views of the green basin of hills which rise beyond the river.

  • Beyond rises a precipice; and, at its foot, men and boys were quarrying stone, which workmen raised a couple of hundred feet to the platform above with a windlass.

  • I ran forward and had the downhaul of the flying jib all in and fast as we slipped by the boat a hundred feet to leeward.

  • And before the wind we were, and leaping, when Johnson, easing his sheet at imminent peril, cut across our wake a hundred feet away.

  • From the deck to the truck of the maintopmast is something over a hundred feet, while the foremast with its topmast is eight or ten feet shorter.

  • Sometimes it swam down as deep as fifty or a hundred feet, and then, still struggling to escape the surface, struggled involuntarily to the surface.

  • Slingerland led by perhaps a hundred feet, far over to the left, and he was wholly out of range.

  • His later surveys make over one hundred feet grade to the mile.

  • Foot by foot the soldiers let the rope slip, until probably two hundred had been let out, and there were scarcely a hundred feet left.

  • To the south-west, not very far from the house, and to the left of the road leading to San Pablo, lies the Llanura de Imuc, a valley of dolerite more than a hundred feet deep.

  • When I revisited the same lake in February, I found its waters so greatly fallen that they had left a circular belt of shore extending all around the lake, in most places nearly a hundred feet broad.

  • When, now and again, the gusts of wind made rifts in the vapor, we perceived on the northern corner of the plateau several rocky columns at least a hundred feet high, which had hitherto withstood both storm and eruption.

  • These trees reach a hundred feet in height, and present, by the beauty of their corolla, and the multitude of their stamens, a magnificent appearance.

  • These trees are more than one hundred feet high; the wood is yellow, resinous, almost incorruptible in water, and has a very agreeable smell.

  • On a rock more distant from the shore, and called Tecoma, the symbolic figures are found, it is said, at the height of a hundred feet.

  • In the morning we rode a mile and a half through the woods and followed up a small stream to see the celebrated pools, one of which the Judge said was two hundred feet deep, and another bottomless.

  • Their great stems, some of them fully a hundred feet in diameter, attested their prodigious height, which I could only guess at, since at no point could I penetrate their dense foliage above me to more than sixty or eighty feet.

  • After we had crawled in this disgusting fashion for a matter of a couple of hundred feet we were halted by our escort.

  • The way wound through enchanted parks to a mighty wall that towered a hundred feet in air.

  • They looked around and saw him in the water not a hundred feet away, puffing and blowing like a porpoise.

  • Regardless of the danger, Tom flew across the deck to where there was a life-preserver, attached to a hundred feet of small, but strong, rope.

  • Slowly, but surely, the craft drew closer to the Rover boys, until it was less than a hundred feet off.

  • Sam, when the rowboat was within a hundred feet of the schooner.

  • Fine groves of mature trees, ninety to a hundred feet in height, are growing near the base of Mount Conness.

  • It is from sixty to over a hundred feet high in front, with a slope of about thirty-eight degrees.

  • It was growing on the edge of Lake Hollow, north of Mount Hoffman, at an elevation of 9250 feet above the level of the sea, and was probably about a hundred feet in height.

  • Near the bottom the width of the fall has increased from about twenty-five feet to a hundred feet.

  • According to Marvin Miles, this White Sands saucer had been over a hundred feet long.

  • After improving their remote-control system, which used both radio and radar, they had built disks up to a hundred feet in diameter.

  • Even before release, the partially inflated gas bags are almost a hundred feet tall.

  • The mass that fell measured between two and a half and three miles in length by one thousand feet in width, and its average thickness is thought to have been about a hundred feet.

  • Tetens declares," says Kohl, "that in some places the dikes have gradually sunk to the depth of sixty or even a hundred feet.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    healed them; hundred and twenty thousand; hundred and twenty years; hundred crowns; hundred dollars; hundred eyes; hundred fathoms; hundred florins; hundred heads; hundred horse; hundred lines; hundred marks; hundred men; hundred other; hundred pounds; hundred sequins; hundred sons; hundred thousand; hundred times; hundred twenty; hundred weight; hundred yards; hundredth part; often went; protectively coloured; shall reign