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Example sentences for "thirty feet"

  • Very fine stone fruit got here of a purple colour, quite an ornamental tree about twenty-five to thirty feet high, fruit in clusters, about the size of a large plum and very good boiled or roasted.

  • It is from fifty to seventy yards wide and from fifteen to thirty feet deep.

  • Oarfish, thirty feet in length, with flaming red upstanding mane, and a knife-like body less than three inches in thickness.

  • These dwellings are of a conical form, thirty feet in height and fifteen in diameter.

  • The latter gave one more spring clear of the water, and myself and chief officer then observed what appeared to be a creature of the snake species rear itself about thirty feet out of the water.

  • Thirty feet of the monster was visible out of the water.

  • An excavation of thirty feet revealed no secret chambers.

  • The base is thirty feet square, and it has three stories.

  • These pits vary in size from twenty to sixty feet in diameter, and in some cases were as much as thirty feet deep.

  • On every side are immense ravines, and the only way of entering it was by a narrow passage cut in the side of the ravine, twenty or thirty feet deep, and not wide enough for two horsemen to ride abreast.

  • Hadrian and Sabina set up two obelisks, one of which, thirty feet high, now stands on Monte Pincio.

  • The head is thirty feet in length, and fourteen feet in width, and rears itself above the sandy waste.

  • Of the latter the tallest was nearly thirty feet high, six broad, and two feet eight inches in thickness, and must have been sunk at least five feet, and perhaps much more, in the ground.

  • These streams were crossed by means of sticks and ricketty bamboos, and the steep sides (sometimes twenty or thirty feet high), were ascended by notched poles.

  • These are sometimes erected on the level ground, but more frequently over an excavation three or four feet deep, and varying from ten to thirty feet in diameter.

  • A village with many of the interior tribes consists of one large building, often one hundred feet long by thirty feet wide.

  • At Jemez the estufa is of one story, twenty-five feet wide by thirty feet high.

  • The habitations of the Fox Islanders are called Ullaa, and consist of immense holes from one to three hundred feet in length, and from twenty to thirty feet wide.

  • Chapter 20 An isolated rock, thirty feet in length, twenty in breadth, scarcely ten from the water's edge, such was the only solid point which the waves of the Pacific had not engulfed.

  • Some of these rafts are said to be thirty feet square, and draw twenty feet water.

  • Near the sea the country was low, and abounding in trees, especially spreading palm-trees, some of which were twenty or thirty feet high in the stem, but of no great size.

  • In its socket, a stiff pole, from twenty to thirty feet long, is inserted for a handle.

  • At times, when closely pursued, he will disgorge what are supposed to be the detached arms of the squid; some of them thus exhibited exceeding twenty and thirty feet in length.

  • Now it needs a strong, nervous arm to strike the first iron into the fish; for often, in what is called a long dart, the heavy implement has to be flung to the distance of twenty or thirty feet.

  • Our guide showed us a cistern (aljibe) thirty feet deep, which, though much damaged, furnishes water to the inhabitants of the peninsula of Araya.

  • As we continued to advance into the cavern, we followed the banks of the small river which issues from it, and is from twenty-eight to thirty feet wide.

  • The river is bordered with Lata, a fine gramineous plant with distich leaves, which sometimes reaches the height of thirty feet.

  • They were his swirls, really,--for he had placed every individual fragment of the obstructions that caused them with his own hands, in thirty feet of water.

  • The mast might come out of her, but that was better than being gashed amidships and sunk in thirty feet of water.

  • It is of brown lacquer, gilded and is thirty feet high.

  • These are cut in lengths of thirty feet, soaked, scraped and ready for use.

  • The temple is of solid rock; the builders began half way up the mountain of stone and cut down perpendicularly, thus removing the mountain face to a depth of thirty feet by one hundred and fifty feet in width.

  • Shut your eyes now while we pass over a chasm of thirty feet in depth, and with walls almost perpendicular.

  • A circular, oblong excavation, twenty or thirty feet in length and twelve wide, is first made.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    able general; always felt; because their; experimental work; former period; fractional distillation; good soldier; govern them; half cupful; illicit cultivation; leave him; must marry; only possible; pickled pork; remind ourselves; sent over; sentry duty; sustain them; thirty inches; thirty leagues; thirty millions; thirty minutes; thirty pounds; thirty shillings; thirty thousand; thirty years