| James William Massie - 1840 - 512 pages
...elder youths. But those brown, sun-dried, reed-like slips of the palmyra leaf, from ten to eighteen inches in length, and about an inch and a half in width, are their repositories of wisdom and learning. Three, five, fifty, or five hundred of them, cut into... | |
| Jacob Post Giraud - 1844 - 430 pages
...of which material, and a few rushes, it is formed. The eggs — four in number, are rather more than two inches in length, and about an inch and a half in breadth, and very thick at the largest end — the color dark olive, blotched with blackish-brown,... | |
| Charles Knight - 1851 - 902 pages
...Burmese musical instrument, consisting of twenty-three flattish pieces of wood, from ten to fifteen inches in length, and about an inch and a half in width : these bars are strung together so as to yield dull and subdued musical notes when struck with a cork... | |
| Charles Knight - 1851 - 882 pages
...Burmese musical instrument, consisting of twenty-three flattish pieces of wood, from ten to fifteen inches in length, and about an inch and a half in width : these bars are strung together so as to yield dull and subdued musical notes when struck with a cork... | |
| Edward Forbes - 1853 - 580 pages
...as certain of the preceding species, but we possess some (possibly exotic ones) that measure nearly two inches in length and about an inch and a half in width, which is twice the general size of those taken upon our coast. Our belief in the propriety of keeping... | |
| John Eric Erichsen - 1854 - 942 pages
...make it sufficiently adhesive, this, spread upon calico, should be cut into strips sixteen or eighteen inches in length, and about an inch and a half in width ; the centre of the strip should then be laid smoothly on the side of the limb opposite to the sore,... | |
| 1841 - 520 pages
...Burmese musical instrument, consisting of twenty-three flatfish pieces of wood, from ten to fifteen inches in length and about an inch and a half in width; these bars are strung together so as to yield dull and subdued musical notes when struck with a cork... | |
| 1874 - 786 pages
...varicosed ; placentary tissue very consistent, oval-shaped, showing near the margin to the extent of three inches in length and about an inch and a half in width, a dark, soft mass of previously detached placenta! tissue ; the utero-placentar vessels gradually breaking,... | |
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