The haunches of the males are now covered to the depth of two inches or more with fat which is beginning to get red and high flavoured and is considered a sure indication of the commencement of the rutting season.
This blow displaced the rudder and raised it several inches but it fortunately had been previously confined by tackles.
The snow in the interior of the circle was next divided with a broad knife having a long handle into slabs three feet long, six inches thick, and two feet deep, being the thickness of the layer of snow.
Here was another tale, and before their faces was dangled a large plaque, full ten inches across, which had come from the Indies.
Fresh-complexioned, and with dark-brown hair, this youthful crossbow man was a handsome fellow, and carried his many inches well.
It moved a fewinches across the paved floor, and encouraged by this, Roger bent to the work with all his might.
He quickly unslung it from round his shoulders, and presently had it lashed firmly in position against the curve of the Manco Capac's counter, the lower edge of the bomb being just about a couple of inches clear of the water.
Then his hand suddenly encountered something that felt metallic and heavy, and upon bringing it to the light, he found that he held in his hand a small golden image, some three inches high, evidently representing the god Rimac.
Esdaile's is not a modern house; its keys are not of the Yale kind, of which you can carry a dozen in one pocket; each of them is anything from three to five inches long, and they weigh very few to the pound.
It was, indeed, merely by inches that the two men had missed the roof-glass.
Three sledge-sails were made of very light calico, and were about 7 feet 2 inches broad by 4 feet 4 inches long; they were made so that two of them might be laced together and used as one sail for a double sledge.
He was buried 15 inchesdeep on the summit of a hill near the camp.
The Fram was built on the principles suggested by Nansen: its sides were from 24 to 28 inches in thickness, of solid water-tight wood.
During the forty-two hours prior to their rescue a few square inches of soaked seal-skin was all the nutriment they received.
There was a space of about a foot in height between the two tents, and a space of 3 or 4 inches between the vertical walls.
They experienced a great amount of rain, and had sometimes to wade through water from 2 to 5 inches deep upon the ice.
Each boat was provided with two large iron cylinders, 14 inches in diameter and 18 inches high.
Grasses or sedges 10 or 12 inches in height were frequently noticed on the banks of a river.
It is 18 feet long and as many inches wide at its middle, and tapers, with an upward curving line, to a point at either end.
He was six feet three inches in height, and a man of great muscular power.
A good eighteen inchesmust have fallen already and it's drifting fast.
He proceeded more slowly now, moving forward by cautious twists and wrigglings, a few inches at a time, carefully calculating each motion so as to make no noise.
Sounds of breathing told him that Slim was standing a few inches from his feet, perhaps looking directly at him through the darkness.
Here behind the windbreak the snow was no more than two or three inches deep, and he crawled along the side of the house toward the faintly glowing window that was his goal, at walking speed.
He dropped on one knee between two bushes, took a quick sight at the mule's barrel six inches behind the girl's leg and pulled trigger.
The snow-cock being 28 inches in length, the lukha bird must be of this size.
Perhaps Coturnix coromandelica, the black-breasted or rain quail, 7 inches long.
This is how to make it: Cut a club two feet long and three inches thick at the broadest end; peel or shave off the bark smoothly and sharpen the smaller end neatly.
Soups, stews, and beans are to be cooked in closely covered kettles hung from the cross-pole, the bottoms of the kettles reaching within some two inches of the logs.
These should be about 5 inches in diameter and of a length to just reach from outside to outside of posts.
For "night-wood," we cut a dozen birch and ash poles from four to six inches across, trimmed them to the tips and dragged them to camp.
To roast them, parboil for fifteen minutes, and in the meantime cut a thin hardwood stick, eighteen inches long for each bird.
Three strands of fine wire will make a snell strong enough and the hooks should be strong, sharp and rather small, the lower hooks placed only half an inch apart and a small lip hook two and a quarter inches above the middle one.
At the third or fourth cast we plainly saw a huge pickerel rise, shut his immense mouth over bait, hooks and a few inches of chain, turn lazily and head for the bottom, where Mr. D.
Then take two straight poles a little over 7 feet long and some 3 inches in diameter.
I get a skillful tinsmith to make one dish as follows: Six inches on bottom, 6 3/4 inches on top, side 2 inches high.
The poker is a beech stick four feet long by two inches thick, flattened at one end, with a notch cut in it for lifting kettles, etc.
The Nessmuk was by no means the ultimatum of lightness and I ordered another six inches longer, two inches wider, and to weigh about 15 pounds.
It is painted on a panel, and is 13½ inches high by 10 inches wide.
He worked standing, and used brushes with handles eighteen inches long, moving them with great rapidity.
The pictures to which the existing fragments belong could not have been large: the figures in our picture are but nine inches high.
It is cut out of stone, is seven and one-half by five and one-half inches in size, and is a marvellous piece of work.
Sir Robert Peel bought a landscape, twelve by twenty inches in size, for which he paid three hundred and fifty guineas: it was originally sold in Holland for about one English shilling!
The designer may have a square of twenty-one inches in which to make his design.
The wooden skirting, of about nine inches or a foot in depth, which is placed along the foot of the wall in our modern rooms, is the armour-plating to protect the plaster, which otherwise might be chipped and litter the floor.
Newspapers in the mountain states gave it a few inches on the front page; anything is news in late August.
The edge of the tunic is ornamented with gold galloon, the lower galloon is one and a quarter inches wide, the second three-fourths of an inch, the third three-eighths.
On the fourth exuviation, the limbs expanded twoinches and a half.
The skirt is of white taffeta, with a lace flounce, of twelve inches in depth.
The extended limbs would have occupied a circle of four inches diameter.
Infinitesimal grubs, newly hatched from butterfly eggs and barely six inches long, furnished them with tidbits.
He went on, rather awkwardly holding a weapon which might have been called a dagger, eighteen inches long, except that no dagger would have a hand-guard nearly its own length in diameter.
It seems to me, Henry, that you have grown at least six inches since we were last at Wareville.
It seems to be only a few inches either way, but it doesn't look natural.
But a few inches across the horizon before, it stretched to feet and then to yards.
Its walls, recently enlarged, were of oak pickets, rising twenty-five feet above the ground and six inches in diameter at the smaller end.
They commonly made ridges with the hoe about five feet asunder, upon the top of which they planted the seed three inches deep.
After clearing the lands they commonly plant it in furrows made with a hoe, about eighteen inches asunder.
He is somewhat below middle height, being about five feet four; but he makes up for the inches which he wants by the dignity with which he carries those which he has.
Daniels, of Hays, guided me to a denuded tract, covered with the remains of huge oysters, some of which measured twenty-seven inches in diameter.
The head was some inches longer than that of a fully grown grizzly bear, and the jaws were deeper in proportion to their length.
The single bones of the paddle were eight inches long, giving the spread of the expanded flippers as considerably over twenty feet.
Many long slender pieces, of two inches in width, lay upon the ledge.
At certain distances in each jaw they projected three inches above the gum, and were sunk one inch into the bony support, being thus as long as the fangs of a tiger, but more slender.
We shall observe that the greater part of them have the forehead broken in for a space of three or four inches in diameter.
Records have not been long enough continued at these three posts to give a long average, but the mean appears to be between seventeen and nineteen inches at Hays and Wallace, and possibly rather more at Harker.
It is so handy to reach it, while trotting along, and with one's hunting-knife cut off a few inches for immediate consumption.
The boyish news-gatherer indicated a space of about three inchesbetween his thumb and first finger.
For 'Quick Time' thirty inches step-- Lift up your feet and show some pep.
Mr. Nippers had not exaggerated when he said that they were all of twelve inches in length.
At last it sights a small insect which has alighted on the fence a few inches away; we see it turn its head in that direction and remain motionless.
The burrow is about eight inches in depth and about three quarters of an inch in diameter.
The largest known spider, Theraphosa leblondi, is found in South America, and its body measures more than three and a half inches in length.
If he happened not to be hidden, she would seem to see him, even when ten or twelve inches away, and would quickly draw back.
This chamber was about four inches long and was constructed precisely in the same manner as the sheet, to which it was braced by lines from various points of its under surface.
There is now generally a response, the spider raising its front legs and extending them in the direction of the fork, or, if the sound is loud, dropping suddenly by a thread and remaining suspended some inches below the snare.
I have even seen an enthusiastic collector remove inches of snow and disinter rare species from among the roots of the grass beneath!
The Thucydides has a grand page, over twelve inches by eight; the Sophocles is about seven by four.
That she, with her eyes closed and her back to the window, had seen through three walls, and through three inches of snow, at a distance of fifty feet, was an inference.
As each of these candles was one foot long, and burned three inches in an hour, it follows that it would last four hours; when this time was expired, the attendant who had the apparatus in charge lighted another.
He ordered some experiments to be made, and finally, by means of them, he determined on the size of a candle which should burn three inches in an hour.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inches" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
