Among them was one who was thought to be a palmo taller than the tallest man of our fleet, although we had in the fleet men of more than average height.
China he describes as a country "full of rivers and towns, and without a palmo of ground left lying idle.
He who wishes to depict China without having seen the land, must draw a country full of rivers and towns, and without a palmo of ground left lying idle.
The whole island is full of dense forests, even to the highest ridges; and where it was not cleared for the Indians' fields, not a palmo of earth could be seen.
But, notwithstanding this, the Spaniards were so courageous in defending what they already possessed that they were prepared to give up their lives rather than one palmo of land.
Hence what we now hold was subdued in a short time, of which a thousand years ago not one palmo would have been gained, but rather lost.
They have blowpipes with thick wooden arrows more than one palmo long, with harpoon points, and others tipped with fishbones, and poisoned with an herb; while others are tipped with points of bamboo like harpoons and are poisoned.
They use swords one palmo in length, and eat only raw human hearts with the juice of oranges or lemons.
They have bows with wooden arrows more than one palmo long, some of which are pointed with long sharp fishbones, poisoned with poisonous herbs, while others are tipped with poisoned bamboo.
Jumping up and down, he danced, and when he danced, at every leap, his feet sank a palmo into the earth.
Cercada junto a la techumbre de una plancha de oro de palmo i medio de ancho i lo mismo tenian por de dentro en cada bohio o casa i aposento.
Signor Palmo had been a popular and successful restaurateur in Broadway between the hospital and Duane Street.
Here, where the venerable Palmo had introduced to delighted audiences the Italian opera, and regaled them with fragrant Mocha coffee handed around by obsequious waiters, he first came most prominently before the public.
Their legs are a palmo in length and as thin as a reed, [523] and they have no wings, but in their stead long feathers of various colors, like large plumes.
Ginger is not a tree, but a small plant which puts forth from the ground certain shoots a palmoin length, which resemble reeds, and whose leaves resemble those of the reed, except that they are narrower.
The sheathing and planking hewn from the above-named trees for the sheathing of the ships is one palmo thick and three or four wide, and the shortest is twelve brazas long.
The death of his employer threw Palmo out of work and reduced him to straitened circumstances.
A palmo is 8 inches, being a quarter of a vara, which is 32.
The corot (Dioscorea triphylla) is very common, with leaves one palmo long, and very small flowers.
VIII-27] Sahagun gives two different accounts of this instrument: 'Una tabla tan larga como dos varas, y ancha como un palmo o poco mas.
It was no secret--half the people around Palmoknew what Mr. Merkel had done, though they had not heard the sinister reports of Death Valley.
The tenor of the Palmo company was Antognini, who effected his entrance on the American stage five weeks after the opening of the season.
Palmo knew how to cook and how to cater, and his restaurant made him fairly rich.
Borghese raved and Palmocame upon the stage to learn the cause of the direful silence.
Palmo rushed to the box office to get the night's receipts.
It is not surprising that ill fortune became the companion of Palmo at the outset of his enterprise and dragged him down to the lowest depths before the end of his second season (according to the calendar).
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "palmo" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
