Everybody looked at her
feet; and when she stepped through the chancel door on the church pavement, it seemed to her as if the old figures on the tombs, those portraits of old preachers and preachers' wives, with stiff ruffs, and long black dresses, fixed their eyes on her red shoes.
It weighed half a pound per nine square
feet. Hence the surface of the outside balloon being about eleven thousand six hundred square
feet, its envelope weighed six hundred and fifty pounds.
900
feet. At the bottom the masonry rested upon a massive block measuring thirty
feet in thickness, while on the upper portion it was level with the surrounding soil.
As I raised my long-sword to deal the creature its death thrust it halted in its charge and, as my sword cut harmlessly through the empty air, the great tail of the thing swept with the power of a grizzly's arm across the sward and carried me bodily from my
feet to the ground.
The broad base of this monster wedge is planted upon a grand glacier-paved Alpine platform whose elevation is ten thousand
feet above sea-level; as the wedge itself is some five thousand
feet high, it follows that its apex is about fifteen thousand
feet above sea-level.
"A safe lair," said Mowgli, rising to his firm
feet, "but over-far to visit daily.
1500
feet. Nor has Patagonia been affected only by upward movements: the extinct tertiary shells from Port St.
His grasp relaxed, his
feet slipped, and in an instant he was a crushed and mangled corpse upon the sharp ridges beneath him.
Instead of progressing in a sane and dignified manner, my attempts to walk resulted in a variety of hops which took me clear of the ground a couple of
feet at each step and landed me sprawling upon my face or back at the end of each second or third hop.
I speak of the north shore of Tahoe, where one can count the scales on a trout at a depth of a hundred and eighty
feet. I have tried to get this statement off at par here, but with no success; so I have been obliged to negotiate it at fifty percent discount.
SOCRATES: But since this side is also of two
feet, there are twice two
feet?
As long as the sun described its daily course, the rigging was crowded with sailors, whose
feet were burnt to such an extent by the heat of the deck as to render it unbearable; still the Abraham Lincoln had not yet breasted the suspected waters of the Pacific.