The last is printed in five colours, the ground is shown in contours of 10 metres interval and grey stippling.
In the museum of Naples there is a celestial globe, 2 metres in diameter, supported upon the shoulders of an Atlas, which E.
The hills are hachured and in some instances contours at intervals of 50 metres are introduced.
Nasos and I spoke to each other with very simple AM transmitters across the 60 metres or so separating our homes, again without knowing whether anybody else ever accidentally tuned in to our very low power transmissions.
In order to secure the reproduction of the higher audio frequencies, it was found necessary to run the tape at a rate of 90 metres per minute past the recording and reproducing heads.
I remember asking ZS6LN why we should not receive South African stations on 2 metres when we could hear them so well on 50 MHz.
He was active on 20 and 10 metres on AM phone and CW, using his famous McElroy 'bug' to good advantage.
Later, when they had connected random length wire antennas to the circuits the two schoolboys were able to talk to each other across the 400 metres which separated their homes.
The first two licensed amateurs to make contact on 2 metres in Greece were Dr Spyros Tsaltas SV1AT and George Delikaris SV1AM.
On 42 metresmost of our QSOs were with German stations.
We built a very simple AM transmitter tuned to about 500 metres and we broadcast the performance of a play acted by the final year students.
One can be in QSO on 20 metres via ground wave with a station a couple of hundred miles away with signals around s2 to s3.
Rising abruptly three hundred metres from the sea-level, the mountain offered a stronghold well-nigh unassailable.
George Sand had the idea of buying these twenty metres square of ground, surrounding them with a paling and making a path thereto which should lead from the highway.
When one has progressed a hundred metres along this serpentine roadway, the whole ensemble of beauties with which one has become familiar at the coast are magnified and enhanced beyond belief.
Five hundred metresfarther on, but upward, and one is on the plateau of Spélugues, a name now changed to Monte Carlo.
Near by the railway crosses the ravine on an imposing and really beautiful modern viaduct of seven arches, each twelve metres in height--nearly forty feet.
Barry made a renversement with the utmost nicety of judgment and came out of it about thirty metres behind and above the Albatross.
The clouds soon disappeared and so we climbed to forty-five hundred metres and lay in wait for combat patrols.
At first only 100 metres were paid out; the rest of the circuit, roughly twice that length, was wound round a drum.
Not until the third hundred metreswas on the point of being reached did he jam the brake hard on.
The petty officer operating the hand-brake of the winding-drum allowed another hundred metres to reel off before checking the revolving cylinder.
On the one hand is a sensation of displacement, of movement, of a dance executed by the molecules of some proteid substance; on the other hand is a flock of sheep passing over the plain at a distance of a hundred metres away.
About eighty metres across loomed the black line of another "row of bristles.
Far down, six to eight metres below the surface, they found an underground city.
Haeffle called my attention to a little trench we all had noticed during the daytime, about fortymetres in front of us.
The other seven hundred and fifty metres bearing to the left were assigned to Battalion D.
The front line, they told us, was twelve hundred metres farther east, and this trench formed the second line for their regiment.
Then we left the cover of the trench, formed in Indian file, fifty metres between sections, and, at the signal, moved forward swiftly and in order.
It seems that a ten-inch shell had entered the ground at the edge of my hole, exploded a depth of two metres, tearing the corporal and the sergeant to pieces, and kicking several cubic metres of dirt into and on top of me.
A swift Morane plane swept by at a height of two hundred metres over the pine forest where the German guns were hidden.
For hundreds of metres continuously my feet, as I trudged along, did not touch the ground.
From the road to the stake, the seven hundred and fifty metres marked the terrain for Battalion C.
From the other side of a slight ridge, east of us, and about six hundred metres away, came the sound of machine guns.
Anyway, the One Hundred and Seventy-second were fully forty metres nearer to them than we were, and we could see and hear the first-line troops picking and shoveling their way into the ground.
The Ferme Navarin was two hundred metres from where we lay.
The Grenz Glacier was reached somewhat west of the point marked 3344 metreson the Siegfried map.
A hole was made 180 metres wide, and no supports were left for the roof.
By August 1881 it was over four metres wide, and swallowed up all the surface drainage.
Stormy weather seemed to be brewing, and after rising to a height of 3000 metres they were caught in a current.
Others were carried through the air and deposited in safe positions; others, again, were hurled upward to destruction and dropped in a shattered state as much as a hundred metres away.
I am on the extreme right, and a moment ago two shrapnel shells came over and burst six or eight metres above my head, peppering the ground with bullets.
A first shell, ten metres in front of it, stopped it short; immediately a second fell on the left, wounding some men, and a horse reared and upset its rider.
We were within fifty metres of them when a voice spoke out and the word "carbine" reached us distinctly, carried by a light breeze.
Fifteen hundred metres from Baron, after a last gasp, my machine stopped for ever, and, as I was ignorant of its mechanics, I was compelled to leave it where it was and continue my journey on foot through the darkness.
Now let me take three more of these metres which do not exist, and construct another triangle which does not exist;--are these two triangles or one triangle?
Let me take three of these metres which do not exist, and place them so that the ends of one shall touch the ends of the others.
Langland did not accept any of the metres used by Chaucer; he preferred to remain in closer contact with the Germanic past of his kin.
The balloon was now descending with great rapidity, and was not more than three thousand metres from the ground.
All these millions, these thousands of millions, of suns hasten through boundless space with a speed which attains a velocity of two, three, and even four thousand metres a second.
It is set up in space, ten metres high, between two walls which support its ends.
We have been able to determine the time taken by the impression in transmitting itself from any part of the body to the brain, and it is known that the rapidity of this transmission is about twenty-eight metres per second.
The balloon was now descending, or rather falling, at a tremendous rate, and was but a few hundred metres above the lake.
In that direction the plateau of the Ile de France ascends until it is more than 260 metres above the stream.
The substratum of the plateau of the Orxois is the layer of rock called "hard limestone" 30 to 40 metres in thickness, so much of which is used for building material in the towns and villages.
The placid stream, about a hundred metres wide and broken here and there by islets, wanders from one bank to the other, lined by poplars and willows.
Below the little town of Dormans, the valley narrows temporarily: from Tréloup to Brasles it is frequently less than 500 metres in width.
At first the volcanic vent was only two metres high, but it continually increased.
A volcanic outburst took place on the above date at 344 metresfrom the town of Cabarman, and near the sea.
This distinction between "stanzaic law" and "emotional law" is highly suggestive and not merely in its application to the metres of the famous regular and irregular odes of English verse.
Sometimes verse rhythms and metres are used exclusively, although in new combinations which disguise or break up the metrical pattern.
In regular metres we enjoy the pleasure of feeling that the rhymes will inevitably fall under a recognized law of couplet or stanza.
Greek and Roman classicalmetres became in time inadequate to express the new Christian spirit "which knew neither clarity nor measure.
Salies thinks the motte of Bazonneau, about 500 metres from the ruins of the castle of Montbazon, is the original castle of Fulk Nerra.
About 500 metres from the later castle of Montbazon is a motte and outworks, which De Salies not unreasonably supposes to be the original castle of Fulk.
He was as eccentric and florid and Elizabethan as Browning; and often in moods and metres that even Browning was never wild enough to think of.
These metresand manners were not accidental; they really do suit the sort of spiritual experiment Browning was making in each case.
Swinburne tries to question the philosophy of Christianity in the metres of a Christmas carol: and Dante Rossetti tries to write as if he were Christina Rossetti.
Most of the graver pieces, which have been written out, are arranged in metres of sixes, sevens, and eights.
I now find my dislike was largely caused by the unsuitable and over-stiff metres which used to be imposed on me when I was under orders.
I think we ought to construct our metres by selection from the Greek, just as Catullus or Horace did, not imitate them slavishly.
I find that by choosing and adapting metres from the Greek fountain and not sticking to Horace, or even to Catullus, the language admits of translation from English closer than I at all conceived.
I began a picture which was nearly two metres in size, The Young Girl and Death.
A loud whistle answered our call, and 500 metres below us we saw a man who was shouting his hardest to make us hear.
We were 130 metres from the ground, and the sight was becoming interesting.
When we got to about 300 metres from earth Godard called out to them, "Where are we?
It was a strong rope of about 120 metres long, to which were attached at certain distances little iron hooks.
At twenty minutes to seven we were about 2500 metres above the earth, and cold and hunger commenced to make themselves felt.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "metres" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
