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Example sentences for "one foot"

  • If this final test shows that bolting the frame up has altered the alignment by springing the frame, the bolts in one foot, as say I, Fig.

  • See him hop on one foot; that is just to make me laugh.

  • A unit of energy, or work, being equal to the work done in raising one pound avoirdupois against the force of gravity the height of one foot.

  • To move by successive leaps, as toads do; to spring or jump on one foot; to skip, as birds do.

  • Each beam is also connected with its sill by a post, whose upper end is mortised into the beam and its lower end mortised into the sill; these posts are four feet long, one foot thick, and one foot wide.

  • At the upper part it is two palms and three digits wide, so that it also grows narrower; it is one foot high; in the middle of the back it is cut out at the bottom in the shape of a semicircle, of half a digit radius.

  • The transverse bar, c, is one foot and a half long, three inches and a half broad, and is elevated four inches above the longitudinal pieces.

  • The proportions of this Kimi scythe are as follows: From a to b one foot and a half; b to c two palms and a half; c to d two feet; the breadth at b two inches in a right line.

  • One foot is put into the strap at the top of the bow, h, and then, by the exertion of the body, the bow is drawn till the cord catches the angle of the pulley D.

  • Each one holds the spoon with the egg in its bowl at arm's length and hops on one foot, following wherever the leader leads them.

  • The leader may take them up stairs, over stools, and any place hard to reach on one foot.

  • Place all the eggs of one color on the floor in a line at intervals of one foot.

  • By tying up one foot we operate on the same principle to a much better effect.

  • There is something in this operation of taking up one foot, that conquers a horse quicker and better than anything else you can do to him.

  • Give him two lessons a day, and when you have given him four lessons, he will lie down by taking hold of one foot.

  • Reduce the size of the beaver to one foot in length, and add a long flattened tail, instead of the spatula-shaped appendage of this animal, and we will have a pretty good specimen of a muskrat.

  • Two of these should be one foot in length, and the remaining two eight inches.

  • Illustration] It consists of a box about eight inches square, one foot in length, and open at both ends.

  • On the summit of the Palace a copal-tree, one foot in diameter, was found.

  • It has a polished surface and is one foot in diameter.

  • Aetolians, the, shod only on one foot, iii.

  • Industry in China represented by a boy with one foot shod and one foot bare, viii.

  • Limping on one foot at carrying home the last sheaf, vii.

  • The elder of the two females, with her body slightly poised on one foot, stands in attitude of rapt attention, while mechanically cocking a revolver, her sole weapon of defence.

  • At such times it suspends itself by one foot only, bringing the other close to its side, and thus it is enabled to wrap itself in the ample folds of its wings, which envelop it like a mantle, leaving only its upturned head uncovered.

  • On these build a sliding platform, four feet square, with a small seat, one foot high.

  • Well, I saw one the other day, and he was standing on one foot, and I watched him and watched him, and he kept on standing there.

  • Bimeby Brer Fox git out, en off he put down de road, limpin' fus' on one foot en den on de yuther.

  • So Nix Naught Nothing and his sweetheart had time for a good start; but the Magician's daughter could not run fast because she had lost her toes on one foot!

  • Of course, after that there was great rejoicing, and Prince Nix Naught Nothing and the Magician's daughter were married and lived happy ever after, even though she only had four toes on one foot.

  • I shall go slower than you, for I have no toes on one foot!

  • So it came to pass that he grew tired and was limping with one foot when, just as the sun was setting, they came to a beautiful palace where Princes and Princesses were disporting themselves with ball on the green grass.

  • Various games are in vogue among boys, in which hopping on one foot is the principal object.

  • At the Zoological Gardens the falcons may be seen at feeding-time with the meat in their claws, never taking it in the beak when they move, but hobbling about with a lump of raw meat hanging to one foot, and presenting a very absurd spectacle.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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