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Example sentences for "oblong square"

  • The building they surround is an oblong square, the front of which, turned towards the east, is out of the line of the left wing of the great court.

  • The floor of the house was laid with fine gravel; except in the middle, where there was an oblong square of blue pebbles, raised about six inches higher than the floor.

  • Its form, an oblong square, is symbolic of the supposed oblong form of the world as known to the ancients.

  • A square, a circle, a triangle, or any other form but that of an oblong square, would be eminently incorrect and unmasonic, because such a figure would not be an expression of the symbolic idea which is intended to be conveyed.

  • The form of a masonic lodge is said to be a parallelogram, or oblong square; its greatest length being from east to west, its breadth from north to south.

  • They are now ready for the borer, which is an oblong square bit of steel, pressed in its rotation against the barrel, by a slip of wood applied to one of its flat sides, and held in its place by a ring of metal.

  • The furnace is usually an oblong square chamber, built of large fire-bricks, and arched over with fire-stone, a siliceous grit of excellent quality extracted from the coal measures of Newcastle.

  • Its form is an oblong square, with gardens, and walks in the centre.

  • The sylvan ball room, is an oblong square, lined with beautiful treillages, surmounted with vases of flowers.

  • In the centre, is an oblong square railing, which encloses the exact spot where formerly stood that instrument of death, which was voted permanent by its remorseless employers.

  • At a short distance to the west of this edifice is an oblong square building, called by the natives Deir Boheiry [Arabic], or the Monastery of the priest Boheiry.

  • Its main body consists of an oblong square, the interior of which is about twenty-five paces in length, and eighteen in breadth.

  • The place called Andjar lies near the Anti-Libanus, and consists of a ruined town-wall, inclosing an oblong square of half an hour in circumference; the greater part of the wall is in ruins.

  • The Arboretum of trees and shrubs is confined to the two ends of the garden, it being an oblong square, but the south side is much the longest.

  • The garden forms an oblong square, with a range of hot-houses and gardener's house at the north end, close to the Heidelberg Gate.

  • There was no writing or ornament, only a higher heap of stones, and piled in the shape of an oblong square.

  • It runs into a basin made and banked up for it, an oblong square of some twenty yards by fifteen.

  • Two great blocks of rock stand out on the surface which we traverse, one an oblong square, the other sugar-loaf, but flattened at the top.

  • The entire building was no doubt an oblong square, of which the shorter sides seem to have measured 370 feet.

  • As usual the ground plan is an oblong square.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another day; arrived here; before putting; but especially; cathode rays; dear poet; gold round; human form; long past; many ships; mental processes; mountain scenery; never leave; oblong shape; oblong square; official organ; permanent settlement; reach the; richly dressed; sent orders; sprinkle over; whereby the; would have told you