Width

Examples

• Double cultivators are constructed so that their outside teeth may be adjusted in and out from the centre of the machine to meet the width of the rows between which they operate. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• These ditches, however, were not over eight or ten feet in width. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He was careful to cut the sticks of the proper width, so that the letters would not be too far apart when they should be used for printing. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The remaining crack was not over an inch in width a moment later. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Four brass chains support a slab of wood about 28 inches long by about 8 or ten inches in width. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• We also knew the width, length, and approximate depth of every one of these deposits, which were enormous. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• An important result of these changes is the use of elongated instead of round balls, this permitting of the employment of much heavier projectiles for the same width of bore. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• There is the width of the track, and it was only after a long and expensive contest that countries and corporations settled upon a uniform gauge. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The railway system of Great Britain was commenced without sufficient attention to the determination of the best width apart of the rails. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Its span is 220 feet, the height of the roadway above the bed of the stream is 100 feet, and the width of the structure is 20 feet 4 inches. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• He retreated into the corner, step by step; but do what he would, the interposition of his own person, prevented its being opened to its utmost width. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The main entrance was some hundred feet in width and projected from the building proper to form a huge canopy above the entrance hall. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The field of ice is almost a league in width, but I spent nearly two hours in crossing it. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• There I found a flat surface about a foot in width and along this I walked until I came to the cell in which I saw the boy sitting upon his bench. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Forged dimensions: outside diameter, 141 inches; inside diameter, 131 inches; width, 51 inches. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It is supposed that greater rigidity is obtained by this means than by the suspension, and, like the suspension, great widths may be spanned without an under supporting frame work. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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