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Sentences ending with length

At any rate, you think you move them backward and forward at such a rate as your will determines, don't you?--On the contrary, they swing just as any other pendulums swing, at a fixed rate, determined by their length. [6]
The lowest classes will detain us for a very short time, but the higher animals, especially birds, must be treated at considerable length. [1]
I hope it will be understood that it is from no disinclination to oblige anybody that I do not address you at greater length. [7]
The police problem was referred to at length. [5]
The dining room was long, low and narrow, and a narrow table extended its whole length. [5]
I shall, therefore, treat the subject at considerable length. [1]
If he says to me here that he does not hold the rule to be good, one way or the other, I do not comprehend how he could answer me more fully if he answered me at greater length. [7]
I beg indulgence to discuss these proposed articles at some length. [7]
Oh, Judge, the time of all artful men will come at length. [9]
I have neither the voice nor the strength to address you at any greater length. [7]

Short sentences using length

At length Austen turned. [9]
At length he turned. [11]
At length Becky said: "Tom! [5]
At length I paused. [9]
At length the morning dawned. [12]
At length her look steadied. [11]
Cephas was at length consulted. [9]
At length he interrupted me. [11]
Length, about eighteen inches. [6]
At length something actually happened. [4]

Sentences containing length two or more times

One slides by the other, half a length, a length, a length and a half. [6]
We were at sea now, for a very long voyage--we were to pass through the entire length of the Levant; through the entire length of the Mediterranean proper, also, and then cross the full width of the Atlantic--a voyage of several weeks. [5]
Again, in P. malaccense, the ocelli on the tail-coverts are, as we have seen, confluent; and these feathers are of unusual length, being two-thirds of the length of the tail-feathers, so that in both these respects they approach the tail-coverts of the peacock. [1]
In its length, in its tone of kindliness, of personal confidence, especially in its length, it was evident that the writing of it had been a pleasure, if not a relief, to the sender. [4]

More example sentences with the word length in them

I will tell you,--I said.---When a given symbol which represents a thought has lain for a certain length of time in the mind, it undergoes a change like that which rest in a certain position gives to iron. [6]
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 have troubled you at this length because my mind is much occupied with the pathology of these cases, and because no case can, on personal grounds, more strongly challenge our attention. [6]
At length a yearly honorarium was sent to him, and then again, after a dignified delay, there was forwarded to him a suggestion from the Cabinet that he should come to Brisbane and take a more important position. [11]
It is entirely wrong because none of you, I, or anybody else, could interview a man--could listen to a man talking any length of time and then go off and reproduce that talk in the first person. [5]
I might easily write a volume, pointing out inconsistencies between the statements in Adams's last address with one another, and with other known facts; but I am aware the reader must already be tired with the length of this article. [7]
At length Philip wounded his opponent slightly in the left breast, and the seconds came forward to declare that honour was satisfied. [11]
No doubt he would wait now any length of time for her. [4]
At length he worked the problem out. [11]
The clothes they wore had been Sunday clothes for at least that length of time. [4]
At length parting words were uttered in louder tones, the door of the cell was locked and the prisoner approached his window. [10]
She wore heavy woollen rider's stockings, half length, and these were pulled up over the ends of her short trousers. [13]
Slowly drawing the wonderful soft web of hair over her shoulders, she began to weave it into one wide strand, which grew and grew in length till it was like a great rope of spun gold. [11]
At length, having won back nearly all he had lost, he rose to his feet and looked round. [11]
With these, and with the world at large, her manner might best be described as difficult; and I was often amused at the way in which she contrived to keep them at arm's length and make them uncomfortable. [9]
She was familiar with the way they were going, but its length seemed to have stretched tenfold. [10]
Leaving the spot with slow and cautious steps, and skirting the ruin for a few paces, he came at length to a door. [12]
Truly (I thought with remorse) she had been more industrious than I. I fell at length into a fevered sleep, and awoke, athirst, with the light trickling through my lattices. [9]
Squire Asa Northcutt, with his arms fanning like a windmill from the edge of the platform, at length shouts down everybody else--down to a hum. [9]
I walked home with her, slowly, the length of the Hutchinses' block. [9]
So it was with Cynthia leaning against the entry wall, her arms full length in front of her, and her hands clasped as she prayed for strength to withstand the temptation. [9]
He comes down with a sheepish air, at length, and informs us that his wife won't let him go. [4]
But at length, with a grunt of satisfaction, he produced a form and held it under my eyes. [9]
I do not wish to dwell at great length on this branch of the subject at this time, but allow me to repeat one thing that I have stated before. [7]
I do not wish to dwell at any great length upon this matter. [7]
You see, it will take nearly twice as long to do the first set as it will to do the second, and that will give you a marked sense of the difference in length of the two reigns. [5]
The colored divisions will smartly show to the eye the difference in the length of the reigns and impress the proportions on the memory and the understanding. [5]
I hope you will regard the other duties claiming my attention, together with the great length and importance of these documents, as constituting a sufficient apology for not having responded sooner. [7]
Soldiers and merchants, whose various ranks in society were betokened by the length of their white garments, bordered with colored fringes, were interspersed among the crowd of half-naked, sinewy men, whose only clothing consisted of an apron, the costume of the lower classes. [10]
Extremes meet, and who so like to be the other party as the elderly gentleman at the other end of the table, as far from her now as the length of the board permits? [6]
It was he who first confided in me that he would not force Antoinette to marry; it was she, at length, who told me the story of Nicholas Temple and his mother. [9]
A red and white awning, stretching up the length of the walk which once had run beside the tall pear trees, gave it an unrecognizable, gala air. [9]
The length to which this paper has extended does not allow me to enter into the consideration of this most important subject. [3]
All the shots which just missed the top of the rampart cut into the dead wall pretty much in a straight line, and at length cut right through and brought the upper story tumbling down. [5]
Increasing his stake, which had begun at five francs and had risen at length to five louis, he still coaxed the sardonic deity. [11]
And I marvelled where the Swabian, who was so slow of speech, found the words for retort and answer, till at length it was too much for him and he laid his hand on his hanger as a second and a sharper tongue. [10]
And at length, when the sun was beginning visibly to fall, they came out into an open cut on the western side and saw again the long line of Coniston once more against the sky. [9]
And at length, when some of the besieged had died in their anger, the ports were opened no more. [9]
A morning came when I went on deck to survey spaces of a blue and white sea swept by the white March sunlight; to discern at length against the horizon toward which we sped a cloud of the filmiest and most delicate texture and design. [9]
The moon, which, when I took possession of my new apartments, was invisible, gradually gained each evening upon the darkness of the night, and at length rolled in full splendor above the towers, pouring a flood of tempered light into every court and hall. [4]
At any rate when he at length went away from Hawkeye he was no nearer it. [5]
At length, after what seemed an age of staring at his legs, the ground caved on him, and he would have smothered if we had not dragged him out by the heels, sputtering and all powdered brown. [9]
At length there were signs that we were drifting out of the wilderness, and one morning we came in sight of a rich plantation with its dark orange trees and fields of indigo, with its wide-galleried manor-house in a grove. [9]
At length we were in sight of the lights of Fanning Hall. [9]
The day I went out, the Champs Elysees, on both sides, its whole length, was crowded with people, rows and ranks of them sitting in chairs and on benches. [4]
At length I went and laid my hands upon his shoulder, and at my touch he started. [9]
For Maryland was well content with the government she had enjoyed, and her best patriots long after shunned the length of secession. [9]
To find the weight of the earth take the length of a degree on a meridian and multiply by 6 1/2 pounds. [5]
Nay, or ever we had ceased he had taken his foot from the stag's neck, and at length we walked with him back to the forest lodge, half amused, yet half grieved, with the mocking words he tormented us with. [10]
At length, when we had all but given her up, Dorothy arrived. [9]
And at length we came to Hans's farm, in a prettily rolling country on the Broad River. [9]
But at length we came to a trim-built bark lying off Redriff Stairs, with the words "Betsy, of London," painted across her stern. [9]
I inquired the way to the office of the conductor: it was closed, but would soon be open, and I waited; and at length the official, a stout Frenchman, appeared, and I secured places in the interior, the only ones to be had to Visp. [4]
We pursued our way slowly, from time to time catching a glimpse of a dwelling almost hid in the distant foliage, until at length we came to a place a little more pretentious than those which we had seen. [9]
Numb as Venters was when at length Jane Withersteen lifted her head and looked at him, he yet suffered a pang. [13]
But the storm was so thick they could not see the ship's length out into the river. [9]
A modest silence was maintained from the stoop, broken at length by Lem Hallowell, who (men said) was an exact reproduction of Jock, the meeting-house builder. [9]
At length she was laid to rest by him and his soft-hearted mother, in the cemetery of Alexandria. [10]
I knew it was just about the length of the capitol at Washington--say seven hundred and thirty feet. [5]
At first he was dazed, but at length all that had happened came back to him. [11]
Now at length was come his chance to be of use in life,--to dedicate the labor of his hands and of his brains to Abraham Lincoln uncouth prophet of the West. [9]
When the animal was at length ready to go, Davie took him by the bridle, ran by his side, coaxed him into a gallop, and then, leaping in behind, lashed him into a run, which had little respite for ten miles, uphill or down. [4]
At length there was another stir; and the king descended from the rear of his pavilion, attended by his ministers, and moved about among the people, who made way for him, and uncovered at his approach. [4]
In the centre was a toy man-of-war, three feet in length, with turrets and guns, and propellers and a real steam-engine. [9]
We passed the Walnut Hills, the Nogales, the moans of the alligators broke our sleep by night, and at length we came to Natchez, ruled over now by that watch-dog of the Spanish King, Gayoso de Lemos. [9]
How long we waited I know not, but at length we heard their voices raised, and without more ado Madame la Vicomtesse, beckoning me, passed quickly through the gap in the hedge and went towards them. [9]
For a while voices came up to him from the street, but at length the groups dispersed, one by one; and a distant clock boomed out eleven solemn strokes. [9]
At length the visitor fell silent, his sense of superiority suddenly gone. [9]
At length a veteran officer spelled it over deliberately and shook his head three or four times and said that in his opinion it was seditious. [5]
This story is very short, and is perhaps the most highly tragic of anything of its length that has ever been witnessed in real life. [7]
On another reclined Verus, at full length, and as usual, crowned with roses; the third was for Plutarch, but was unoccupied. [10]
At length I ventured to give him a hint that our young friend and myself would both of us be greatly gratified if he would begin reading from his unpublished page where he had left off. [6]
How dared he venture to wear a sword in the precincts of the Emperor's residence, contrary to the law, and, moreover, a weapon of such unusual length and width, which had not been carried for a long while? [10]
She dropped her veil, and for a long space was silent while they rapidly threaded the traffic, and at length turned into upper Fifth Avenue, skirting the Park. [9]
His cheerfulness had vanished, his tufted eyebrows were raised, and his pinched lips seemed unwilling to part, when at length he reluctantly said: "Nothing--nothing is wrong. [10]
He felt called upon to go to the Legislature--and this is what he saw:--(Mr. Crewe is quoted here at length in an admirable, concise, and hair-raising statement given in an interview to his biographer. [9]
My pyrhanism vanished upon his statement that in the very region referred to he had seen petrified trees of the length of two hundred feet. [5]
It was agreed upon at length by the trustees, that the Cynthia Badlam Fund for Educational Purposes should be applied for the benefit of the two foundlings, known as Isosceles and Helminthia Hopkins. [6]
Something drew him up, and he would find himself living again, at length to recognize the hand if not to comprehend the power. [9]
She had built up, after each invasion, her defences more carefully and solidly than before, only to be again astonished and dismayed by the next onslaught, until at length the question had become insistent--the question of an alliance for purposes of greater security. [9]
The voyage thence up the Derwent Frith displays a grand succession of fairy visions, in its entire length elsewhere unequaled. [5]
At length, screwing up one eye, and with a suggestive smile, he answered: "Sure, it's all a matter of time, to the selfishest woman. [11]
I spoke promptly up and said: "It's no trouble to guess this noble creature's figures height, three feet; length, four feet and three-quarters of an inch; weight, a hundred and forty-eight and a quarter. [5]
An officer picked up a few curls, preserved in a bit of cardboard, and marked 'Ned's hair, with love'; but around were strewn locks, some near a yard in length, dissevered, not as a keepsake, by quite other scissors. [5]
It was not until I had walked the length of the block that I began to realize what a shock my presence there must have been to him, with his head full of the contrast between this visit and my former attitude. [9]
At length we turned into the avenue through the forest, lined by wild orange trees, came in sight of the low, belvedered plantation house, and drew rein at the foot of the steps. [9]
At length she turned away, and walking thoughtfully through the churchyard, came unexpectedly upon the schoolmaster, who was sitting on a green grave in the sun, reading. [12]
At length Miss Treherne came to us and said that Justine insisted she was well enough to go back to the vessel alone, and wished not to be accompanied. [11]
At night she tossed about and wandered, and it became at length apparent that there was a settled attack, something like what they called, formerly, a "nervous fever. [6]
At length Gorse took a cigar from his pocket and lighted it; the smoke, impelled by the fan, drifted over the panelled partition into the bank. [9]
At length Big Tom separated himself from his companions and took a course in accordance with his notion of that which would be pursued by a man lost in the clouds or the darkness. [4]
He stepped across to where the old man sat, with his bald head shining like ivory under the gas-jet, and his fine patriarchal length of bearded mask taking picturesque lights and shadows, and put out his hand to him. [8]
Venters led him to the thicket, and, bending the close saplings to let him squeeze through, at length reached the open. [13]
His mind flashed to that upstairs room, where a comely captive creature was lying not an arm's length from the coats and trousers and shabby waistcoats of this barbarian. [11]
Then she stopped to take pleasure in her own image displayed in a large mirror which stood on a dressing-table, and between whiles she compared the couch, on which she lay clown again at full length, with those in Paulina's house. [10]
The church-bell began to ring at four-thirty in the morning, and from the length of time it continued to ring I judged that it takes the Swiss sinner a good while to get the invitation through his head. [5]
At length, unable to remain where I was any longer, I descended to the street and walked uptown in the rain. [9]
He was longing to relate at full length, to his friends and companions, the wonderful and important thing that had happened; but he would not approach the subject while they took their places in his presence. [10]
In order not to pass through the whole length of Nuremberg, Eva guided her friends around the fortifications. [10]
Now, I wish to know what the Judge can charge upon me, with respect to decisions of the Supreme Court, which does not lie in all its length, breadth, and proportions at his own door. [7]

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