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It ended on a complaint that she was 'tired rather and spending my time at full length on a deck-chair in the garden.'
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOODThese sections also have vibrations of their own which are of shorter length and more rapid motion.
EXPRESSIVE VOICE CULTUREJESSIE ELDRIDGE SOUTHWICKBesides this fundamental or primary vibration, the movement divides itself into segments, or sections, of the entire length.
EXPRESSIVE VOICE CULTUREJESSIE ELDRIDGE SOUTHWICKAt length only four or five flames remained, feebly wavering in their pools of melted wax.
THE BOARDED-UP HOUSEAUGUSTA HUIELL SEAMANThe experience of the Jesuit fathers at Port Royal is related at length, from their own point of view.
THE JESUIT RELATIONS AND ALLIED DOCUMENTS, VOL. II: ACADIA, 1612-1614VARIOUSBeginning with single twigs and working over them patiently she at length painted whole trees, and later animals.
WOMEN IN THE FINE ARTS, FROM THE SEVENTH CENTURY B.C. TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY A.D.CLARA ERSKINE CLEMENTHe recounts at much length the reasons for which he supposes the governor arrested him.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, 1493-1898, VOLUME XX, 1621-1624VARIOUSTheir glances met, she holding him always at arm's length by that grip upon his shoulders, a grip that was firm and nervous.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINIMy two eyes haven't quite the same focal length and this often puts me out of the straight with a column of figures.
THE SALVAGING OF CIVILISATIONH. G. (HERBERT GEORGE) WELLSHere it broke into the Calcutta and Bombay branches, each nearly a thousand miles in length.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACYWORDS RELATED TO ARM'S LENGTH
- a piece
- abroad
- abstracted
- apart
- arm's length
- asunder
- away
- backwoods
- beyond range
- far
- far back
- far-flung
- far-off
- farther
- further
- in the background
- in the boonies
- in the distance
- in the sticks
- inaccessible
- indirect
- isolated
- middle of nowhere
- not home
- obscure
- out of earshot
- out of range
- out of reach
- out-of-the-way
- outlying
- remote
- removed
- retired
- secluded
- secret
- separate
- sequestered
- telescopic
- unapproachable
- ways
- wide of
- yonder
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