A nautical unit of depth.
1 I'd rather pay a million salvage than navigate her another cable 's length .
2 Five minutes later the whale-boat was at a cable 's length from the jubarte.
3 Why, they lived here no more than a cable 's length from the meetin'-house!
4 In another half-hour, Christy had dropped his anchor a cable 's length from the Bellevite.
5 The distance between my outer and inner points might have been a cable 's length .
6 The Christabel was about a cable 's length ahead of them.
7 Before the conspirators had gone a cable 's length , he succeeded.
8 They were ignorant of their whereabouts, they could scarcely see a cable 's length around.
9 Clear and distinct, not half a cable 's length away, wallowed a great black shape.
10 The action was fought nearly at the distance of a cable 's length from the enemy.
11 The Egyptian frigate, which had fired into our ship was distant about half a cable 's length .
12 The Seabird passed within a cable 's length of the breakers at the northern end of the reef.
13 We returned by sundown, and found the Loriotte at anchor within a cable 's length of the Pilgrim.
14 The latter obeyed, and when the brig was only half a cable 's length from it, Hatteras called out:
15 Not until within a cable 's length of the shore could any opening be discovered by the keenest eye.
16 The two immediately behind were but a cable 's length asunder, and evidently meant to engage on either side.
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