Extra room, perhaps

Usage examples of ell.

It would have been an absurd misfortune that eighty men stationed in that bailiwick should, for the sake of a few louis and a few ells of English cloth, have occasioned the confiscation of Hamburg, French, and Dutch property to the amount of 80,000,000 francs.

Walker Boh and Morgan Leah and Pe Ell, suspicious cats with sharp eyes and hungry looks, their minds made up as to what they would do in the days that lay ahead and at the same time still quizzing themselves to make certain.

Pe Ell and Walker Boh glaring at each other from opposite corners of the hut - harsh, dark wraiths come from exacting worlds, their silent looks full of warning.

The line spread out along the broken seam, Dees in the lead, Carisman, Quickening, Morgan, and Walker Boh following, and Pe Ell last.

Two additional lights began to flash, and hope sprang into his heart as he realized that one of them lay behind him, near to the fountain, and another was not twenty ells beyond the bosquet, across the cordoned-off boulevard that skirted the pleasance.

Beneath lay ells of costly silks, samites, cendals, and damasks, as well as pelts of ermine and sable.

Walker, Morgan, and Pe Ell gathered together the foodstuffs, bedding, canvases, ropes, climbing tools, cooking implements, clothing, and survival gear that Dees had sent them to find.

Horner Dees to contend with as wEll, and there was something about this old man that bothered Pe Ell.

He had caught the hesitation in the look Horner Dees gave Pe Ell - just a hint of recognition.

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There would be a fine paid in ells of wadmal cloth or bags of silver, or they might forbid him to return to the home shore of Freyrsfjord, or to his birthplace in Halogaland.

The father brought in a milliner, who adorned the mask with an ell of lace for which I paid twelve sequins.

Duke Edward and Duke Harry would have burned every monkish rookery in the land if it would have furthered one ell their march to the throne.