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Example sentences for "inch long"

  • It belongs to the section Cassia, and has a long pinnate leaf, the leaflets an inch long, and half an inch broad.

  • Two neat's and two calf's feet cut into pieces an inch long, and put into two quarts of strong mutton gravy, with a pint of Madeira.

  • It is an animal measuring about 10-1/2 inches in total length to the end of the tail, which is only a quarter of an inch long.

  • The creature is one foot and half an inch long, exclusive of the tail, which is an inch longer than the body.

  • I have found them, but they are very small bones, not more than half an inch long.

  • The larding needle holding a lardoon is pressed through the surface of the meat, taking a stitch about a quarter inch deep and an inch long, then drawn through, leaving the lardoon projecting on both sides.

  • When cold cut it into pieces one quarter of an inch long, making rings.

  • From this sac there passes a channel, the nasal duct, about one-half of an inch long, leading into the lower portion of the nostril.

  • These are only about 1/30 of an inch long, and a dime will cover more than five hundred of them.

  • Again, many of the nerve fibers terminate in corpuscles, the largest about 1/20 of an inch long, called Pacinian corpuscles.

  • In every papilla are oval-shaped bodies about 1/300 of an inch long, around which the nerve fibers wind, and which they finally enter.

  • It is of a fine sea-green colour, with rings of a silver colour; on its rump it has a sting near a quarter of an inch long.

  • They are near an inch long, about half as much in breadth, end in a {277} point, and have two cutting sides.

  • Its arms are its very sharp teeth, about the tenth of an inch in diameter, and as much distant from each other, and near half an inch long.

  • The bearded-creeper is so called from having its whole stalk covered with a beard about an inch long, hooked at the end, and somewhat thicker than a horse's hair.

  • The longest feathers of the wings of this bird are not much more than half an inch long; its bill is about the same length, and pointed like an awl; and its tongue resembles a sowing-needle; its feet are like those of a large fly.

  • The flesh became yellow and the stem was 1¼ inch long, and it slightly tapered toward the base.

  • It was solitary, of a brownish-yellow color, the cap 1 inch broad, and the stem 1 inch long.

  • The right lower limb was merely a fleshy corpuscle 3/4 inch wide and 1/4 inch long; to the posterior edge was attached a body resembling the little toe of a newly-born infant.

  • On the left side the limb was represented by a fleshy corpuscle 1 inch long and 1/4 inch in circumference, resembling the great toe of an infant.

  • Both sides showed evidences of amputation, the cicatrix on the right side being 1 inch long and on the left 1/4 inch long.

  • Other characters: The fruit is a cone about ½ inch long.

  • Other characters: The fruit is a small cone about ¾ of an inch long, which generally hangs on the tree all winter.

  • At first you would say that they were formed by the action of the waves, like a pebble; yet the smallest are made of equally coarse materials, half an inch long, and they are produced only at one season of the year.

  • When the warbles first appear in the back they are about 3/5 inch long.

  • The former is about an inch long and is found in the small intestine.

  • Cut them into pieces about half an inch long, and stew them gently in a little butter till they are tender.

  • Have ready some of the green parts of asparagus, boiled tender, and cut up into little pieces an eighth of an inch long so that they look like peas.

  • Do not let them stay in the sand after the roots form; it is much better to pot them off at once, before the roots get more than half an inch long.

  • They are small, about a quarter of an inch long, and brown or black.

  • In the following 3 rows each circle is fastened on to the cotton, which joins 2 circles in the 1st row, instead of working the middle purl, the cotton between 2 circles in the last row must only be two-fifths of an inch long.


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