half-a-foot

Updated: June 24, 2025

"What!" said I, "the thimble-engro of Fair here at Horncastle." Advancing nearer, however, I perceived that though the present person was a thimble-engro, he was a very different one from my old acquaintance of Fair. The present one was a fellow about half-a-foot taller than the other.

George Henry Borrow - The Romany Rye

And I guess he comes pretty near doing it, too, for there's a good many lives to his credit, if that counts for anything, and I'm figuring it does." He ceased as our host returned and said, "She's falling half-a-foot an hour, an' for the sake of the sick man I'll see ye over with the break of dawn. Got hurt on the gold trail ye need not tell me.

Harold Bindloss - Lorimer of the Northwest