Meanings of long measure in английском

Styx regarded him for a long measure, his expression never changing.

Horst took out the bottle, and poured a long measure.

It would take all of us-those who had waited, and I, who had hoped-a long measure of time to accept the evidence of our senses.

I recited the table of long measure: Sixteen and a half feet, one rod, perch, or pole; forty rods, one furlong; eight furlongs, one mile.

Tall and slim, he walked with long measured strides noiselessly.

These are the long measures and the short measures.

Their feet are round and roll on diagrams or long measuring tapes, dark with white lines.

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Thus a board 12 wide, and 8' long measures 8 square feet and so on down the column.

"In four, if necessary," said Pricker, taking the long measure from his wife and approaching the lady.

Her voice, naturally soft and rather wistful, trailed over the long measures and the threatening Biblical names, all familiar to her and full of meaning.