The side ceilings have one-fourth elliptical arches which start from the side walls of the main building, sixteen feet high, and terminate at the capitals of the columns or foot of center arch, at the height of twenty-four feet.
This room is joined to the outer courts, these courts being the width between towers, sixteen feet by nine in the clear.
We depress into the earth, at the east end, to the depth of sixteen feet, and enlarge all around beyond the lines of wall three feet for a footing.
The north and south walls are eight feet thick, clear of pedestal; they stand upon a footing of sixteen feet wall, on its bearing, which slopes three feet on each side to the height of seven and a half feet.
I plant two-year-old trees in rows running north and south, trees twelve to sixteen feet apart in the row; have grown very few seedlings.
I have lived in Kansas seventeen years; have an apple orchard of 200 trees from one to sixteen years old, four to sixteen feet high.
The aqueduct of the Aqua Martia, had an arch of sixteen feet in diameter.
At the upper end of the adytum is the altar, a large slab of blue coarse marble, twenty inches thick, sixteen feet long, and four broad; pressed down by the weight of the vast stones that have fallen upon it.
The Falls of St. Anthony, with a perpendicular descent of sixteen feet, afford a water power which has been a chief source of the city’s prosperity.
The tree attains a height of thirteen to sixteen feet, and shows its blossoms in the months of March and April.
Its height reaches ten feet, its length from thirteen to sixteen feet.
The adult animal is from ten to sixteen feet long.
It was the roofless ruin of a once most substantially built log-hut, measuring some twenty-five feet long by sixteen feet broad.
But now let us extend our view above the earth's surface, and enquire how far this law of sixteen feet in a second may find obedience elsewhere.
A child easily tosses a ball up fifteen or sixteen feet high, yet to carry it up this height it must be projected with a velocity of thirty feet per second.
The tide rises and falls from thirteen to sixteen feet at Panama, whilst at Porto Bello, the flux and reflux amounts to only as many inches.
Six columns of porphyry, sixteen feet in height, of a single piece each, support the roof of a large room, and the whole is in good preservation; many curious paintings having been found amongst the rubbish.
In the island of Huahine the pyramid of the chief god Tani or Tane was a hundred and twenty-four feet long by sixteen feet broad, and it had only two steps or stories.
Sometimes, though far less commonly, Marquesan houses were raised above the ground on posts from eight or ten to sixteen feet high.
It was a compact building, twenty-four feet long by sixteen feet wide, built of the most durable timber, and thatched with leaves.
It is sixteen feet square, with plain exterior walls formerly plastered and painted.
In another locality there is an isolated elliptical enclosure of stone and mortar, eight by sixteen feet, and divided into two compartments.
But when, as in the case before us, the body is thrown upwards, it moves in opposition to gravity, which incessantly retards its motion, and finally brings it to rest at an elevation of sixteen feet.
To reach a height of sixteen feet, the brick must quit the man's hand with a velocity of thirty-two feet a second.
Marks of flood were observed to the height of sixteen feet, but the river appeared now to be in its lowest state, and the sides of the barren mountains showed that there had been no rain of any consequence for a considerable time.
The boats during their progress this day did not experience any obstruction, the river winding in fine though narrow reaches, over a bottom of sand and occasionally rock; the depth from eight to sixteen feet.
During the height of the river, when it is swollen by the periodical rains, sixteen feet of water may be found on the bar.
Its rise is generally from twelve to sixteen feet, but two years since it rose to the height of twenty-one feet.
He goes fourteen or sixteen feet at a jump, and he can jump at a very lively rate.
What its diameter is at the base I am unable to say, but probably it is not less than fifteen or sixteen feet.
It has been dredged and deepened, so that craft drawing not more than sixteen feet of water can ascend it to Prince's Bridge, the spot where our friends reached the stream.
If the distance across the flat sides of the octagon is sixteen feet, leaving out the item of waste, how many square feet will be required?
The house should be sixteen feet deep, should face south, and no glass should be used in its construction.
This large size is due to the long span of sixteen feet, with no middle support from underneath.
First, it asserts conditionally that if, and only if, bodies are free to move, they will tend to move towards each other at the rate of sixteen feet in the first second, and so on.
The gravitation formula does not state that bodies do as a matter of fact actually fall at the rate of sixteen feetin the first second, and so on.
This consisted of a cottonwood house fourteen by sixteen feet, unplastered, and with a floor of rough boards.
There was a schoolhouse fourteen by sixteen feet, but there were no churches.
A dance in a room twelve by sixteen feet in a log cabin, to the music of the Arkansas Traveler played on one violin, was "just delightful.
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