One of the latter six feet long, four feet and a half wide, and eighteen inches thick, was sketched by Castaneda, together with a circular stone three varas and a half in circumference.
On the edge of a wall eight hundred varas distant, grooves worn by the ropes formerly used in drawing water are still to be seen.
The Gaceta account represents the stairway as 10 or 12 varas wide.
On the summit plane is found an enormous cone, built of hewn blocks of slate, whose base is about two hundred varas in circumference.
The Cura Carillo and party found in 1845 one of these paved roads four and a half varas wide, running parallel with the modern road south-eastward from Uxmal, and said by the natives to connect the latter city with Nohpat.
Two streets, each 10 varas wide, opened out on the longer sides, and three on each of the shorter sides.
Upon three sides of the plaza were the house lots, 20 by 40 varas each, fronting on the square.
In 1793 the large adobe block, eighty varas long and one vara wide, was constructed for friars' houses, church and storehouse, and it was doubtless this church that was tiled four years later.
Here we stopped at half-past eleven o'clock at a little beach which is dry at low tide and where the boats have to retreat 200 varas in order not to be stranded.
Where the water runs, the stream is half a vara deep and 4 varas across, and in other places it widens and contains more water.
These poles were measured and found to be about 13 varas long (roughly 35 ft.
Solares, or house-lots, of twenty by forty varas were given to settlers in numbers equal to the available suertes, field-lots.
The city is completely surrounded with a stone wall, which is more than two and one-half varas wide, and in places more than three.
The Itzas, men and women, wore 'faxas' 4 varas long and 1/3 vara wide.
These balsas sustain the weight of four or five persons, and with light two-bladed paddles 2 varas in length cut the water easily.
A coalition of moderate liberals and conservatives threw Montt and Varas with their party of "nationalists" into opposition along with the radicals or "reds" under the leadership of Gallo.
On the other hand, Montt and Varas relentlessly pursued a policy of centralisation, subjecting even the affairs of the municipalities to the control of the Santiago bureaucracy.
North of the broad street paralleling the Mission Camino lots were sixteen and a halfvaras wide and fifty varas deep.
They're a hundred varas square--four times as big as the others.
They are one hundred varas square, same terms, same fees," replied Hyde.
Two others are of wrought iron, of sixty quintals' weight, three and two-thirds varasin length, and carry a ball of cast iron weighing fifteen libras.
Two are of about forty quintals' weight, three varas in length and carry a ball of cast iron weighing sixteen libras.
Other pieces of common silk, ten varas for one tae three maçes.
Each vara of velvet at four pesos, the thirty thousand varas amounting to one hundred and twenty thousand pesos.
The common price of the fine pieces of damask is five taes, and the very fine, six and seven; and the pieces are four varas long.
Thirty thousand varas of velvet in colors, at one-half peso, amount to fifteen thousand pesos.
The mark was equivalent to two varas and seven-eighths, that is, 8 marks contained 22 varas, and was used in land measure.
Fifty Mexican varas make a measure called Cordel, used in measuring lands.
A little steamer belonging to the South Andes Transportation Company leaves Puerto Varas at 8 A.
The whole region is a German settlement, and this is especially true at Puerto Varas where scarcely anybody of any other nationality is seen excepting some of the laborers.
Illustration: Lake Todos Santos from Petrohue] Puerto Varas at the southwestern end of the lake is the summer resort where the travellers leave the train.
After we had gone about a league and a half we reached the stream entrance which was mentioned yesterday and the water was doubled in quantity and the river now was about 7 varas deep and 400 wide.
At this place we stopped at eleven-thirty o'clock on a little beach, which at low tide remains dry and where the boats have to pull back about 200 varas so as not to run aground.
Between the points there are 4 varas of water, which drops to 2.
The village, as I have said already, is divided between the two banks of the river, which is perhaps 30 to 40 varas wide.
Here a cross was made with a chisel in an oak tree, about four inches wide and correspondingly long, about four varashigh and in the point between the openings.
Here we observed the junction of the rivers; it has about 5 varas depth in the center and a width of about 100.
In the first place, from where we stand to the top of La Nina is a good five thousand varas as the crow flies; and for you, at that distance, to distinguish Carlos the cibolero from any other horseman is a plain impossibility.
There was cord enough on them for the purpose, for they were bound by several varas of a raw-hide thong.
Unfortunately we had only fifty varas left; but, through the influence of the now good-natured alcalde, we induced the Indians to take the balance in coin.
You give two and a half varas of lienzo to each Indian, and the same for the canoe.
The price of a canoe for the Marañon is twenty-five varas of lienzo, and the same for each Indian.
He found the corner of the Los Animos survey for us, ran out the five thousand seven hundred and twenty varas west that our sketch called for, laid a stone on the spot, had coffee and bacon, and caught the mail-stage back to Chico.
Allowing for the variation, the point on the Alamito River where you should have searched for your treasure is exactly six miles and nine hundred and forty-five varas farther west than the place you hit upon.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "varas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
