Metres
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Examples
- Rivers and pipes have their metres, so that now the velocity and volume of rivers and streams are measured and controlled, and floods prevented. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Oh you should see what I did in the removal of three metres of small intestine and better now than ever. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Thus we have made a purgation of music, and will now make a purgation of metres. Plato. The Republic.
- With a bomb containing about 20 pounds of powder I advanced to within 200 Metres, then taking my direction so as to pass near the Sloop, I struck her with the bomb in my passage. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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