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Example sentences for "seventy feet"

  • It is seventy feet in height, and two hundred in width, being modelled after the entrance in the gateway of the temple of the Parthenon at Athens.

  • Its front measures three hundred and seventy feet in length, the central portion being decorated with a grand line of lofty columns in the Ionic style.

  • This tree sometimes rises to the height of sixty or seventy feet, in a straight column-like trunk, of two or three feet in circumference, covered with an ash-coloured bark.

  • The trunk rises smooth and straight as a column, to the height of sixty or seventy feet, and of immense circumference.

  • It was a very large one, measuring from sixty to seventy feet in length, and of about thirty feet in circumference; many of its bones were preserved by the curious as commemorative of the event.

  • The establishment is sixty or seventy feet square, built with red cedar and picketted in with the same materials.

  • The cliffs, which are undermined here, are high; more than one hundred feet of chalk being covered by tertiary clay and sand, from sixty to seventy feet in thickness.

  • The tides in the Basin of Mines, at the head of the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia, rise to the height of seventy feet.

  • Below, the channels unite, and in one deep stream the waters flow on gently between the quarried cliffs of fine black marble, which rise in some places from thirty to seventy feet in height, and are beautifully stratified.

  • An obstruction here, seventy feet in height, would cause the waters to overflow the Rome summit, and mingle with those of Ontario by the way of Wood Creek, Oneida Lake, and the Oswego River.

  • On the top of the hill Mr. Hazzard has erected an observatory, seventy feet high, over a cellar which was dug by the Indians, and in which is a living spring of water.

  • Several natural caves are spoken of by Arias, and one of them, seventy feet deep, showed traces, according to the German traveler Mueller, of having been formerly inhabited.

  • A stairway one hundred and two feet on the slope, seventy feet wide at the base, but narrowing toward the summit, composed of ninety steps, each step being about a foot high and five or six inches wide, leads up this side.

  • The Megalosaurus found in the ferruginous sands of Cuckfield, in Sussex, in the upper beds of the Hastings Sands, must have been at least sixty or seventy feet long.

  • We have already said that the temperature of the globe increases about one degree for every sixty or seventy feet of depth beneath its surface.

  • The Woolwich and Reading beds are called after the localities of the same names; they are fifty feet thick at Woolwich, and from sixty to seventy feet at Reading.

  • It is found that the temperature of the earth rises one degree for every sixty or seventy feet of descent from its surface.

  • But given a chance to grow without mutilation, the slippery elm attains a height of seventy feet, forming a broad, open head, in comparatively few years.

  • The tree is occasionally sixty to seventy feet high, with trunk two to three feet in diameter.

  • From Nova Scotia to the Athabasca River, it covers barren ground, reaching its greatest height, seventy feet, in pure forests north of Lake Superior.

  • A mature gray pine is from fifty to seventy feet high, and eighteen to thirty inches in diameter.

  • The largest trees are from sixty to seventy feet tall, others are five or six in diameter; but the tallest trees and the largest trunks seldom go together.

  • In general appearance the tree is conical and compact, with short branches; it attains a height of from twenty-five to seventy feet, and a diameter of from one to three feet.

  • The river varies in width from fifty to seventy feet, and in depth from six to twelve feet.

  • Both the Calaveras and the Mariposa groves contain hollow trunks of fallen trees, through which, or into which, two and even three horsemen can ride abreast for sixty or seventy feet.

  • Seventy feet in, the diameter of the cavity was still as much as eight feet.

  • The line leading towards the mouth of the Scioto, however, at about midway of the distance, suddenly contracts to seventy feet.

  • The fourth side is protected by a natural bank or bluff, seventy feet high, and so steep as to admit of no ascent, except at one point where it has been gullied by the flow of water.

  • At the east end is an inclined platform, seventy feet long by sixty broad, eight feet high where it joins the mound, and sloping to five feet at its outer extremity.

  • The elephant and ostrich yield in bulk to the whale, the largest fish of the ocean, its length being often from sixty to seventy feet; and no land animal can vie with it in longevity, for it lives as long as the oak.

  • The trunk is not above twelve or fifteen feet high, but from sixty to seventy feet round.

  • This great and astonishing work of God is divided into various apartments, from fourteen to seventy feet in length, and eight to one hundred in breadth.

  • Fifty to seventy feet in height, one and one-half to two and one-half feet in diameter.

  • Thirty to seventy feet in height, two and one half to four feet in diameter.

  • Fifty to seventy feet in height, two to three feet in diameter.

  • Forty to seventy feet in height, one and one-half to three feet in diameter.

  • Four hundred yards from the lake shore is a large boiling basin of pink-colored mud, seventy feet in diameter, with a rim of conical mud craters, which project the hot mud in every direction.

  • This spring discharges a considerable stream into the other, which is seventy feet distant, and six feet lower.

  • A little farther along we came upon another boiling spring, seventy feet long by forty wide, the water of which is dark and muddy and in unceasing agitation.

  • Just within the entrance it expands to sixty or seventy feet, with a height of about fifty feet; and this part of the cave has been used by the citizens of the county as a place for holding camp-meeting.

  • A few days later it was convenient to return to the Onyx Cave ranch with the special object of entering the newest cave, which could be done with the assistance of seventy feet of rope.

  • In spite of this failure, there are to be seen in many parts of these islands fine young Deodars of forty or fifty years, and from fifty to seventy feet in height.

  • On dry, poor soils it does not attain its full proportions and may only be classed as a small tree; but when growing on low ground, in rich loam or good clay, it reaches a height of seventy feet, with a girth of ten feet.

  • It is a small tree ordinarily only thirty to forty feet in height, with a girth from three to six feet, though occasionally it aspires to seventy feet in height.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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