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Ladders, seven metres in length, followed one another, some still firm, others shaky, yielding and almost broken; the steps were narrow and green, so rotten that one seemed to walk in moss; and as one went down the heat grew suffocating, :he heat of an oven proceeding from the air-shaft which was, fortunately, not very active now the strike was on, or when the furnace devoured its five thousand kilograms of coal a day, one could not have risked oneself here without scorching one's hair.
It was along this wall, for a
length
of more than a hundred metres, that the haulage was carried on, in a temperature of sixty degrees.
From the bottom to daylight there were a hundred and two ladders, about seven metres in length, each placed on a narrow landing which occupied the breadth of the passage and in which a square hole scarcely allowed the shoulders to pass.
Without stopping, the band cast gloomy looks through the grating and at the
length
of protecting walls, bristling with broken bottles.
All brought him news of increasing gravity concerning the march of the strikers among the pits: and the chief captain told him at
length
what had gone on at Mirou and the fine behaviour of Father Quandieu.
It was said that two captains had been buried at the Victoire; there was an inundation at Feutry-Cantel, it had been necessary to wall up a gallery for the
length
of a kilometre at Saint-Thomas, where the ill-kept timbering was breaking down everywhere.
Then the priest stood and talked at
length.
At length, however, suspicions began to arise and jokers accused him of hiding in a cellar, where Mouquette kept him warm; for this relationship, when known, had done him harm.
Rolling his shoulders and belly, he went on at length, allowing his facile eloquence to flow with the lulling gentleness of warm water.
Had the weight of the soil against the timber which formed the internal skirt of scaffolding to the shaft so pushed it in that the winding-cages rubbed as they went down for a
length
of over fifty metres?
He had been obliged to seize the oak guides, the joists along which the cages slid; and suspended over the void he traversed the
length
of the cross-beams with which they were joined from point to point, slipping along, sitting down, turning over, simply buttressing himself on an elbow or a knee, with tranquil contempt of death.
Landslips were threatening everywhere; the passages had suffered to such an extent that the timbering had to be repaired along a
length
of several hundred metres.
His hair stood up before the horror of this murder; and yet, in spite of the revolt which came from his education, a certain gladness made his heart beat, the animal joy of an appetite at
length
satisfied.
It was at
length
their wedding night, at the bottom of this tomb, on this bed of mud, the longing not to die before they had had their happiness, the obstinate longing to live and make life one last time.
Striking an average of observations taken at different times-- rejecting those timid estimates that gave the object a
length
of 200 feet, and ignoring those exaggerated views that saw it as a mile wide and three long--you could still assert that this phenomenal creature greatly exceeded the dimensions of anything then known to ichthyologists, if it existed at all.
From their simultaneous observations, they were able to estimate the mammal's minimum
length
at more than 350 English feet; this was because both the Shannon and the Helvetia were of smaller dimensions, although each measured 100 meters stem to stern.
Now then, the biggest whales, those rorqual whales that frequent the waterways of the Aleutian Islands, have never exceeded a
length
of 56 meters--if they reach even that.
"The common narwhale, or sea unicorn, often reaches a
length
of sixty feet.
The museum at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris owns one of these tusks with a
length
of 2.25 meters and a width at its base of forty-eight centimeters!
Not once did he comment on the
length
or the hardships of a journey.
Those reports from the Shannon and the Helvetia had slightly exaggerated its dimensions, and I put its
length
at only 250 feet.
Unconcerned, the latter let us come within half a cable length; then, not bothering to dive, it got up a little speed, retreated, and was content to keep its distance.
As for me, with your permission I'll go perch on the bobstays under the bowsprit, and if we can get within a harpoon length, I'll harpoon the brute."
Total: a
length
of 35 meters.
Brightly lit, the engine room measured at least 20 meters in
length.
The
length
of this cylinder from end to end is exactly seventy meters, and its maximum breadth of beam is eight meters.
It was located between latitude 5 degrees 55' and 9 degrees 49' north, and between longitude 79 degrees 42' and 82 degrees 4' east of the meridian of Greenwich; its
length
is 275 miles; its maximum width, 150 miles; its circumference, 900 miles; its surface area, 24,448 square miles, in other words, a little smaller than that of Ireland.
This dugong that Ned Land was preparing to attack was of colossal dimensions, easily exceeding seven meters in
length.
A vast expanse of water whose surface area is 25,000,000 square miles, with a
length
of 9,000 miles and an average width of 2,700.
I spotted gigantic furrows trailing off into the distant darkness, their
length
incalculable.
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