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Sentences ending with inches

P. S.--I wish you would measure one of the largest of those swords we took to Alton and write me the length of it, from tip of the point to tip of the hilt, in feet and inches. [7]
I am famishing --perishing--starving by inches! [5]
According to Merle Johnson, Mark Twain's bibliographer, it was issued in pamphlet form, without wrappers or covers; there were 8 pages of text and the pamphlet measured 7 by 8 1/2 inches. [5]
Length, about eighteen inches. [6]
Tape round the head,--22 inches. [6]
In three strides he had reached them, flung them open, and the folding doors behind them, already parted by four inches. [9]
The lead has given us 3 1/2 fathoms several times and we are drawing that, lacking 6 inches. [5]
I wanted to do it, and was minded to do it, but a better thought came to me: to put him to shame; to break his heart; to kill him by inches. [5]
This he could do easily, for he was the tallest man in the Vier Marchi by at least three inches. [11]
His body measured about an inch in length, and from the extremity of one of the longest limbs to the other was between two and three inches. [6]

Short sentences using inches

By inches the water shallowed. [9]

Sentences containing inches two or more times

I took occasion to measure one of the lemons, called a citron-lemon, and found its circumference to be twenty-one inches one way by fifteen inches the other,--about as big as a railway conductor's lantern. [4]
The tree was seven inches in diameter when he was born; ten inches when he died. [6]
He carried in his coat pocket a shallow box with grooves in it, and in the grooves strips of glass five inches long and three inches wide. [5]
He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and six feet five inches in circumference. [4]
It is a bowl about nine inches high and eight inches across, made of red clay, baked but not glazed. [4]

More example sentences with the word inches in them

If you pull your trunk out six inches from the wall, so that the lid will stay up when you open it, they always shove that trunk back again. [5]
Then the key was turned and the bolt cautiously withdrawn, and a crack of six inches disclosed her aunt. [9]
The superincumbent weight was sufficient to mash the ends of those great upright beams fairly into the solid wood of the horizontal ones three inches, compressing and bending the upright beam till it curved like a bow. [5]
Tom's "real Barlow" was out at once, and he had not dug four inches before he struck wood. [5]
Dr. Hockiu gave us a ghastly curiosity--a lignified caterpillar with a plant growing out of the back of its neck--a plant with a slender stem 4 inches high. [5]
The cart stood untended in the street; and selecting a large orange, which would measure twelve inches in circumference, I turned to look for the owner. [4]
Sawing off stumps under the water, knocking poisonous snakes by scores from the branches, while the river rose and rose and rose, and the rain crept by inches under their tent flies, and the enemy walked the parapet of Vicksburg and laughed. [9]
The cellar had two feet of stagnant water in it, and was bottomed with six inches of soft mud. [5]
He found it took three hours to burn four inches of it. [5]
A few inches to the right, however, and his day would have been done. [11]
When I went to bed, I put my mustard plaster --which was a very gorgeous one, eighteen inches square--where I could reach it when I was ready for it. [5]
When I measured this in 1837, it was twenty-four feet eight inches in circumference at five feet from the ground; growing larger above and below. [6]
In the orang this appendage is long and convoluted: in man it arises from the end of the short caecum, and is commonly from four to five inches in length, being only about the third of an inch in diameter. [1]
And generous ballots they were (twenty inches long and five wide! [9]
In low water these neat narrow-edged dikes project four or five inches above the surface, like the comb of a submerged roof, but in high water they are overflowed. [5]
This now and then lifted the pole, and as the chariot crunched backwards a few inches, the charioteer growled out a sleepy "Brrr. [10]
If we threw the water on our heads and gave them a rub or so, the white lather would pile up three inches high. [5]
By this time the sea was running inches high, and threatening every moment to engulf the frail bark. [5]
I cannot describe the emotions which surged like tidal waves through my breast when I saw the moon glide behind that lofty needle and pass it by without exposing more than two feet four inches of her upper rim above it; I was secure, then. [5]
Then one of the doors was pushed open a scant four inches, a scarlet madras handkerchief appeared in the crack above a yellow face. [9]
The brown face, the clear, strong brown eyes and the brown hatless head rose up eighteen inches above his own, making a gallant summit to a robust stalk. [11]
One end of the board was four, inches higher than the other, and so the slant answered for a pillow. [5]
In other cases the barbs disappear, leaving the shafts bare from end to end; and these in the tail of the Paradisea apoda attain a length of thirty-four inches (71. [1]
A little less than ten inches when Milton was born; seventeen when he died. [6]
Position: A plank ten feet long, and from nine to twelve inches broad, to be firmly fixed on edge, on the ground, as the line between us, which neither is to pass his foot over upon forfeit of his life. [7]
There was a temple built to her "of hewed or sawed logs nine inches thick"--so said the specifications. [9]
Jack, an unlucky Tanna recruit, who had been engaged to act as boatman, received an arrow through his forearm, the head of which--apiece of bone seven or eight inches long--was still in the limb, protruding from both sides, when the boats returned. [5]
When we had stood there in the middle of the road five minutes, like a couple of idiots, with our hands aloft, freezing to death by inches, Mike's interest in the joke began to wane. [5]
Think of the stone shingles of the roof eight inches thick! [5]
The rise which still continues, and was two inches last night, compels them to get them out to the hills; hence it is that the work of General York is of such a great value. [5]
These beams are solid--eighteen inches square; first, a great beam is laid on the floor, then upright ones, five feet high, stand on it, supporting another horizontal beam, and so on, square above square, like the framework of a window. [5]
While he was sleeping in his boat his powder-bag was accidentally fired; the explosion tore the flesh from his body and thighs, nine or ten inches square, in the most frightful manner. [4]
In the next room the family lived, the water coming within two inches of the bed-rail. [5]
But on the road, the highroad along which the troops marched, there was no such freshness even at night or when the road passed through the forest; the dew was imperceptible on the sandy dust churned up more than six inches deep. [2]
She was bound out to pick willow leaves for the stock, and she pointed to a house near by with water three inches deep on the floors. [5]
There was only one cruet left, and that was a stopperless, fly-specked, broken-necked thing, with two inches of vinegar in it, and a dozen preserved flies with their heels up and looking sorry they had invested there. [5]
It is not of the slightest interest to the patient to know whether three or three and a quarter cubic inches of his lung are hepatized. [6]
The fourteen columns of the nave are each six feet and three inches in diameter and thirty feet in height. [6]
What was left of him was unearthed in 1789 in the demolition of the Beauchamp chapel, and his thigh-bone was found to be four inches longer than that of a man of common stature. [6]
In the course of an hour or two the drill would reach a depth of two or three feet, making a hole a couple of inches in diameter. [5]
Take your pen now, and twenty-one pieces of white paper, each two inches square, and we will do the twenty-one years of the Conqueror's reign. [5]
The water was now eighteen inches higher than in 1874, and there was no land between Vidalia and the hills of Catahoula. [5]
Again it did not seem possible that anybody could miss that row--a row which would have been 14 inches long if the disks had been clamped together; whereas, with the spaces separating them they made a longer row than that. [5]
He said, "Oh no, I've got another one here," and he produced another couple of inches of tallow candle. [5]
Now, there is my corn, two or three inches high this 18th of May, and apparently having no fear of a frost. [4]
Bermuda roads are made by cutting down a few inches into the solid white coral--or a good many feet, where a hill intrudes itself--and smoothing off the surface of the road-bed. [5]
Then comes a long interval, and this thread marks out Johnson's life, during which the tree increased from twenty-two to twenty-nine inches in diameter. [6]
I examined the limb, which had been severed just below the knee, and found that it had been charred by fire, while about two inches of the partially calcined bone protruded through the flesh. [5]
This enormous block lies there, squared and ready for the builders' hands--a solid mass fourteen feet by seventeen, and but a few inches less than seventy feet long! [5]
Now, if you knew anything of the value of water, here; you would perceive, at a glance that if the water should amount to 50 or 100 inches, we wouldn't care whether school kept or not. [5]
They will find it; and will also get at it even through a cement wall six inches thick. [5]
The flood here is rising about three and a half inches every twenty-four hours, and rains have set in which will increase this. [5]
The Syrian saddle-blanket is a quilted mattress two or three inches thick. [5]
I also walked into about six inches of water, in the dim, irreligious light; and so made a cold-water Baptist devotee of myself. [4]
The bower, for instance, of the Fawn-breasted species, is nearly four feet in length, eighteen inches in height, and is raised on a thick platform of sticks. [1]
She adds six inches to her skirt, she unplaits her dangling braids and balls her hair on top of her head, she stops sleeping with her little sister and has a room to herself, and becomes in many ways a thundering expense. [5]
He was thirteen inches high, and rather sluggish, when he was two years old--as nearly all of us are at that age. [5]
Upon this bridge I caused a bed of boughs to be spread, and on top of the boughs a bed of earth six inches deep. [5]
A crack a hundred feet long gaped open six inches wide in the middle of one street and then shut together again with such force, as to ridge up the meeting earth like a slender grave. [5]
I should call him of medium height, about five feet eight and a half to nine inches, and inclined to be a trifle stout. [4]
The ground was heaped with the still fast-falling snow--ten inches deep he heard it said when he descended. [4]
The horses' hoofs have bored holes in these rocks to the depth of six inches during the hundreds and hundreds of years that the castle was garrisoned. [5]
Very few people have a grip like Gabriel--the prints of his monstrous fingers, two inches deep, are to be seen in that rock to-day. [5]
He wore a hat measuring six and seven eighths on the _cephalometer_ used by hatters, which is equivalent to twenty-one inches and a quarter of circumference. [6]
If I had half a dozen square inches of paper, and one penful of ink, and five minutes to use them in for the instruction of those who come after me, what should I put down in writing? [6]
When the dog had dug down only a few inches he grabbed something and pulled it up, and it was an arm and a sleeve. [5]
There was about four inches of snow on the roof of this ell, and our windows looked out on it; and it was frozen hard. [5]
Returning along the fifth gallery, we struck the safe part of the Ophir incline, and went down it to the sixth; but we found ten inches of water there, and had to come back. [5]
It is thirty-six feet in diameter, hollowed out to the depth of ten feet, four feet thick at the center, and two feet nine inches at the edges, and is estimated to weigh two hundred tons. [4]
He is six feet and two inches tall, very spare and muscular, with sandy hair, long gray beard, and honest blue eyes. [4]
The flakes fell fast and thick, soon covering the ground some inches deep, and spreading abroad a solemn stillness. [12]
It gave his enormous weight--150 1/2 pounds, and his length 4 feet 2 inches, from stem to stern-post; and his height--3 feet 1 inch, to the top of his back. [5]
He put the end of his stick within six or eight inches of a stone wall, and made the geese march in single file between it and the wall. [5]
The skeleton measures eight feet, and the living man's height is stated as having been eight feet two, or four inches, by different authorities. [6]
I was so eager to get hold of every pretty thing that I giddily grabbed for it, sometimes when it was too far off, and sometimes when it was but six inches away but seemed a foot--alas, with thorns between! [5]
A trench was dug three and a half feet wide, four feet eight inches deep, and eight feet long. [2]
It was not dignified, but it would have been less dignified still performed by any other living man of forty-five with a bald head and a waist-band ten inches too large. [11]
I made a deep incision, and with a pair of forceps extracted the barb, which was made, as usual, of hard wood about four inches long and from half an inch to an inch thick. [5]
On the nineteenth day we crossed the Great American Desert--forty memorable miles of bottomless sand, into which the coach wheels sunk from six inches to a foot. [5]
He turned to confront, within the distance of eight inches, the face of Mr. Bijah Bixby of Clovelly screwed up into a greeting. [9]
Then with a common handsaw they saw the great blocks into handsome, huge bricks that are two feet long, a foot wide, and about six inches thick. [5]
Before the Spanish caved in, some of their twelve-inch horizontal timbers were compressed in this way until they were only five inches thick! [5]
Tell him to call all hands and get a lot of that sugar forrard--put her ten inches by the head. [5]
This is supported by the septum of the nose, which is produced far backwards and rises into an internal crest seven inches in height. [1]
In an Indian bustard (Sypheotides auritus) the feathers forming the ear- tufts, which are about four inches in length, also terminate in discs. [1]
The blade was broad, trowel-like, but the point drawn out several inches, so as to look like a skewer. [6]
Even at his best, however, Jean Jacques could not reach within three inches of her height. [11]
I seemed to be a globe, impalpable, transparent, about six inches in diameter. [4]
Breaking Rock was at the door now, his beady eyes fixed on Mitiahwe's, his figure jerked to its full height, which made him, even then, two inches less than Long Hand. [11]
He could lam any galoot of his inches in America. [5]
One rolled in, and three other shells remained within a few inches of the mouth. [1]
He is swarth and thickset, and some five feet eight inches--full six inches under your own height. [9]
Between this cage and the wall is a space of eighteen inches in width. [4]
Heavy as lead, and flexible as India-rubber, usually about forty inches long and tapering gradually from an inch in diameter to a point, it administers a blow which leaves its mark for time. [5]
I finally fell, and brought up in a world of white foam at the foot of the Fall, whose celled and bubbly masses towered up several inches above my head. [5]
Each desk has an extension, consisting of a removable board eighteen inches long, six wide, and a half-inch thick. [5]
The houses are all built between these mounds, and hence are all flooded to a depth of eighteen inches on their floors. [5]
He was not above five feet nine inches in height, and he was slim and neat; and though his buckskin coat and breeches were worn and even frayed in spots, he had an air of some distinction and of concentrated force. [11]
It was open about three inches at the bottom. [11]
The veins were about eighteen inches thick and two or three feet apart, and they slanted along downward for a distance of thirty feet or more, and then disappeared where the cut joined the road. [5]

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