1 The kingdom is upwards of three hundred leagues in diameter, and divided into thirty provinces; there the Fathers possess all, and the people nothing; it is a masterpiece of reason and justice.
2 Taking it from its root in the stocks to its tip in the clouds, it is sixty fathoms long, and its diameter at its base is three feet.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN... 3 Any man who has been a prisoner understands how to contract himself to fit the diameter of the escape.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAV... 4 Tyranny constrains the writer to conditions of diameter which are augmentations of force.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER 5 He provided a table sixty feet in diameter, upon which I was to act my part, and pallisadoed it round three feet from the edge, and as many high, to prevent my falling over.
6 It was about a foot long, and four inches in diameter.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan SwiftContext Highlight In PART 2: CHAPTER VIII. 7 It is hooped round with a hollow cylinder of adamant, four feet yards in diameter, placed horizontally, and supported by eight adamantine feet, each six yards high.
8 It is situated on a mount at one angle of the inner court, and forms a complete circle of perhaps twenty-five feet in diameter.
9 Shadwater Weir had at its foot a large circular pool, fifty feet in diameter, into which the water flowed through ten huge hatches, raised and lowered by a winch and cogs in the ordinary manner.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 5: 9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together 10 At the end of an hour the stone was extricated from the wall, leaving a cavity a foot and a half in diameter.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.