Lengths first spanned by balls

Usage examples of distances.

For great distances in all directions rugged hills and arid stretches of dead sea bottom discourage intercourse with them, and since there is practically no such thing as foreign commerce upon warlike Barsoom, where each nation is sufficient to itself, really little has been known relative to the court of the Jeddak of Kaol and the numerous strange, but interesting, people over whom he rules.

When I was two-thirds up I halted, and placed my men at distances of four paces from one another, keeping Alphonse close to me, however.

At distances all over the surface of the kraal were the remains of fires, round each of which slept some five-and-twenty Masai, for the most part gorged with food.

Standing in semicircles at equal distances from each other on the north and south of the sacred place are ten golden angels, or female winged forms, exquisitely shaped and draped.

From this point his eye, accustomed to estimate heights and distances, was fixed for a long time on the cone, the summit of which he wished to reach the next day.

The two horizontal distances were found out by means of the pole, whose length above the sand was exactly ten feet.

The stakes, sharpened at their upper end and hardened by fire, had been fixed by means of cross-bars, and at regular distances props assured the solidity of the whole.

Several farm waggons and carts were moving creakily along the road to Addlestone, and suddenly through the gate of a field we saw, across a stretch of flat meadow, six twelve-pounders standing neatly at equal distances pointing towards Woking.

A similar tube was handed to each of the three, and the seven proceeded to distribute themselves at equal distances along a curved line between St.

Half stunned, I lay watching the agile brown body melt into the distances of the cellars.

The Shantak now flew lower, revealing beneath the canopy of cloud a grey barren plain whereon at great distances shone little feeble fires.

I had first seen the place on a moist afternoon when distances are deceptively diminished.

In the pass we had three main lines of defence, one arranged behind the other and separated by distances of a few hundred yards.

A child whose logic cut corners and sought shortest distances, and found them.

At the same time it is useful to be able to test and to set out distances in arranging a composition.