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Example sentences for "forty rods"

  • In this way the Greek and Roman furrow of 10 or 12 rods may naturally have been extended north of the Alps into the 'furlong' of forty rods.

  • And, do you know, I begin to think it is very possible that within a couple of years we shall have a market for more oats and hay than we can grow, even including the 'forty rods.

  • The Esquimaux soon began to pant; seeing which, we had them set it down and rest every thirty or forty rods.

  • As soon as he saw us, he turned and led off again; and, following him for thirty or forty rods, we came to a fissure between two large rocky fragments, partially overlaid by a third.

  • It was a rather narrow opening, not more than thirty-five or forty rods in width, with considerable ice floating about.

  • I knew where I should find him, and set out for 'Forty Rods.

  • I had ordered fifty-six rolls of Page's woven wire fence, forty rods in each roll.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    attend upon; bade adieu; engine room; floating island; forty days; forty days and forty; forty dollars; forty guns; forty hours; forty miles; forty millions; forty minutes; forty pounds; forty rods; forty shillings; forty thousand; forty weeks; forty years; hard time; large concourse; scientific explanation; secure them; single member; single person; speak unto the house; too much