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Updated: June 28, 2025
Any fool knows how far it is from Guadalajara to the Long Trestle. It's about five-eighths of a mile." "From the depot of the town," remarked S. Behrman placidly, "to the head of the Long Trestle is about two miles." "That's a lie and you know it's a lie," shouted the other, furious at S. Behrman's calmness, "and I can prove it's a lie.
Then at five and five-eighths of an inch from broad end of peg-box, I take centre of extreme end of wood, here to be one and three-eighths of an inch when ready for the fingerboard afterwards, and I divide it, making a distinctive mark as to breadth and centre.
Holland Park is a great irregular oblong, extending from Kensington Road on the south very nearly to Holland Park Road on the north. Its average length is little more than a mile, and it varies from five-eighths of a mile in its widest part to a quarter of a mile in the narrowest.
As the arms are complete and the legs are not, I have based my calculations on the width across the two arms. But measurement of the thigh-bones gives the same result. The length of the thigh-bones is one foot seven inches and five-eighths." "So the deceased might not have been taller than five feet eight?" "That is so; from five feet eight to five feet nine." "Thank you.
Instead, he called them out in a drawling sing-song: "September wheat now seventy-three, the half, five-eighths, a half, five-eighths split, now a half, three-eighths, a quarter, seventy-three!" Frye set his feet hard together, and clinched his hands. Only two cents in price stood between him and the loss of all his twenty years' saving.
"September wheat now seventy-one seven-eighths, seven-eighths, three-quarters, seven-eighths split, now the three-quarter, five-eighths, a half, a half, five-eighths, a half, a half again, three-eighths, a quarter, an eighth, a quarter, an eighth, a quarter, an eighth, an eighth, a quarter split, an eighth,
"The mining markets, both the South African and the Australian, opened dull, but grew more animated as the day proceeded, prices closing at the best. Out crops upon the Rand mark a general advance of one-sixteenth to one-eighth. The chief feature in the Australian section was a sharp advance of five-eighths in El Dorados, upon a telegram that the workings had been pumped dry."
"In a mile and a half race?" said Engle. "I hope he tries it! He'll just about ruin that skate for life if he does. Five-eighths, yes, but a mile and a half? No chance!" "You'll tell Goldmark?" "Yes, I'll tell him. So long." Engle swung away through the dark and Squeaking Henry watched him until he was swallowed up in the gloom.
The metre is 3.28 feet of our measure, with five more decimal places after it. "Ten metres make a decametre, and one thousand metres make a kilometre, and ten thousand metres make a myriametre. Without bothering with all these decimals, a kilometre is about five-eighths of a mile. Five kilometres make three miles and one-tenth, which is the distance between these posts," said Louis in conclusion.
After leaving Tagish he finds himself in Mud or Marsh Lake, 24 miles long, then into the Lynx River, on which he continues for 27 miles till he comes to Miles Canyon, five-eighths of a mile long. Immediately on leaving Miles Canyon he has three miles of what is called bad river work, which, while not hazardous, is dangerous from the swift current and from being very rocky.
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