...It was the heroic hymn of a humanity that was suddenly concentrating its aspirations on the harmonious rhythm of the thigh joints, measuring its intelligence by the agility of its feet... 
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
...There was a pause, during which Marguerite could watch these twoantagonists who, evidently in their minds, were measuring themselves againstone another...
Baroness Orczy 「The Scarlet Pimpernel」
...I regretted the want of proper means of measuring and marking its width at the falls, in order that, at some future time, the question whether it is progressive or not might be tested...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...4other kind of measuring instrument...
David Livingstone 「The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873」
...The Nzadi is the smallest, measuring a maximum of only 12 to 15 miles from the Malela or Bananal Creek to the mangrove ditches of the southern shore...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2」
...She was a fore-and-aft schooner of twenty tons, measuring 42 feet 6 inches over all and put up at Bonny Town by Captain Birkett...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1」
...On measuring the snake, we found it full thirty feet in length, with a girth as large as the body of a stout man...
W.H.G. Kingston 「The Two Supercargoes」
...Alexander, Bremen, and Omrah did the same, and they followed the lion, which stood at bay under the mimosas, measuring the strength of the party, and facing them in a most noble and imposing manner...
Captain Frederick Marryat 「The Mission; or Scenes in Africa」
...The newly hatched boll worm walks like a geometrical larva or looper, a measuring worm as it was called...
Louis Hughes 「Thirty Years a Slave」
...This specimen was a large one, measuring 5 feet 4 inches in height...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
...Its dimensionsare large, measuring upwards of two feet from head to tail...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...Theynest in holes in large trees in the most impenetrableswamps; laying three, and probably asmany as six pure white glossy eggs measuring 1...
Chester A. Reed 「The Bird Book」
...The bear was a large one, measuring seven feet two inches from end to end...
Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock 「Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper」
...Care shouldbe taken in measuring that the head be raised, so that the top ofthe skull be as much as possible in a line with the vertebræ...
Robert A. Sterndale 「Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon」
...[38] The horns are exceedinglylong, measuring in some individuals nearly 2½ feet...
Robert A. Sterndale 「Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon」
...The largest single bone of a Dinosaur is the thighbone of a Brontosaurus in the Field Columbian Museum,this measuring 6 feet 8 inches in length...
Frederic A. Lucas 「Animals of the Past」
...The tail is very long, measuring eight inches three quarters; the total length of the bird being near fifteen inches...
William Swainson 「Zoological Illustrations, Volume I」
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