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Meanings of oblong form in English

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Usage of oblong form in English
1
However, the oblong form of the orb was already clearly seen.
The Moon-Voyage
2
These permanent dwellings are constructed in an oblong form, of poles interwoven with bark.
Wyandot Government: A Short Study of Tribal Society / Bureau of ...
3
The permanent wigwams were of an oblong form, built of poles interwoven with bark.
The Border Watch: A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand
4
The city of Sennaar is of an oblong form, its longest side opposite the river.
A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar / Under the...
5
By dint of straining my eyes I could see an oblong form outlined against the sky.
Who Goes There? / The Story of a Spy in the Civil War
6
Messina is certainly built in a very straggling oblong form, but still its breadth is not inconsiderable.
A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy
7
The tubers are of an oblong form, and remarkably large; specimens having been produced measuring ten inches in length.
The Field and Garden Vegetables of America / Containing Full Des...
8
Shape into an oblong form.
The South African
9
He first cut a piece of the hide, of an oblong form, a few inches longer than his foot.
The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean
10
Its form, an oblong square, is symbolic of the supposed oblong form of the world as known to the ancients.
The Symbolism of Freemasonry / Illustrating and Explaining Its S...
11
The water was now eight or nine miles round; it was of an oblong form, whose greatest length is east and west.
Australia Twice Traversed / The Romance of Exploration, Being a ...
12
Mr. Marshall, aged 60, had a troublesome ulcer under the outer ankle, of an oblong form and of the size of sixpence.
An Essay on the Application of the Lunar Caustic in the Cure of ...
13
This fruit seemed to be of the plum species, of an oblong form, and a good deal larger than the magnum-bonum plum.
The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean
14
There is near this rock a lower one of an oblong form, its sides fluted with pillars; these columnar masses are basalt.
Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years ...
15
Those of an oblong form had columns either in the front alone, in the fore and back fronts, or on all the four sides.
The Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilizati...
16
It was of an oblong form, open to the air, surrounded with columns, at one end of which was the tribunal of the judge.
The Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilizati...
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