Old units of length

Usage examples of cubits.

Each worker passed the deep, straight clefts that separated one foundation block from another, each foundation block a stone cube thirty cubits square.

Clartham, almost two hundred cubits of red oak and fir, stretched nearly the length of the western pier, her bright-work glistening in the midday sun.

Altara to finish her discussion with the blond Norland cargo-master, he studied the side paddle wheels, protruding another five cubits from the gently rounded midships curve of the trader, forward of the funnels.

Not more than fifty cubits to the south, while occasionally brawkking, yellow-feathered chickens pecked the ground around a small and low chicken house.

Perhaps thirty cubits from the door, the shelves end, and the room opens onto a space filled with three tables.

She points to a two-storied, slate-roofed structure perhaps two hundred cubits uphill with narrow windows.

Brede settles in the last seat at the other table, grinning briefly as Dorrin looks across the perhaps ten cubits that separate them.

A long serving table is set perhaps two cubits from the wall holding the doorways.

The redhead nods, his eyes going past her to the racks of weapons that line the space, which is less than twenty cubits square.

Yet it sits on the flattened top of a ridge that extends hundreds of cubits on each side of the small keep.

Readings between eighteen and thirty-two Roman feet constitute the Cubits of Plenty.

It is a well dug to one side of Nilus with the cubits marked on its wall.

The first Inundation after I came to the throne was just inside the Cubits of Plenty because Nilus gave me the grace of time to prove my fruitfulness.

If Nilus stays in the Cubits of Death another year, the famine will be joined by plague and locusts.

Nilus measured twelve feet, well and truly down in the Cubits of Death.