seventy-five-foot

Updated: May 10, 2025

After that he was seen no more. He had disappeared and left no trace except an ugly, stupid word, chalked on the black paint of the seventy-five-foot standpipe which was the reservoir for the Moonstone water-supply; the same word, in another tongue, that the French soldier shouted at Waterloo to the English officer who bade the Old Guard surrender; a comment on life which the defeated, along the hard roads of the world, sometimes bawl at the victorious.

Willa Sibert Cather - The Song of the Lark

Almost immediately he released the zone, pointed the bar parallel to the compass bearing upon Osnome, and slowly applied the power. "How much did you take, anyway?" asked Dunark in amazement. "It looks bigger than the Skylark!" "It is; considerably bigger. Thought we might as well take enough while we're here, so I set the zone for a seventy-five-foot radius.

E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith - Skylark Three