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Updated: June 27, 2025
"Nay, your honor," says the carpenter, "I am certain it is six feet six!" and takes out his foot-rule. "Pshaw, it was to be longer than yourself." "Well, it is." "No it isn't!" The carpenter, to end the matter, gets into his chest; and will convince any and all mortals. And if the thing had been only a popular Myth, is it not a significant one?
She sat down suddenly on the floor, and it was like a four-fold foot-rule folding itself up. "It's no use sitting there, girl," said Gerald. "I'm not sitting here," retorted Mabel; "I only got down so as to be able to get through the door. It'll have to be hands and knees through most places for me now, I suppose." "Aren't you hungry?" Jimmy asked suddenly.
"There's just one perfect spot for it on the top of that little rise, looking toward the south, and away from the grove." "Right you are. But the trees are too thick." He pulled out a foot-rule and began to measure. Presently he announced the result: "One tree, this little fellow, will have to come down." "Do you dare?" "Of course I dare. Where can I get an axe?"
"Now we shall have a set of new cups for the spring, presently," said Oliver, as he measured lump after lump with his little foot-rule. "Cups for the waters!" exclaimed his father. "So that is the reason of this prodigious hurry, is it, my boy? You think tin cups not good enough for your mother, or for her customers, or for the waters. Which of them do you think ought to be ashamed of tin cups?"
The man looked at the note, then at his foot-rule and measure, then verified his former measurement by a second. 'They correspond, he said, 'within a hair-breadth to a foot-mark broader and shorter than the former. Hatteraick's genius here deserted him. 'Der deyvil! he broke out, 'how could there be a footmark on the ground, when it was a frost as hard as the heart of a Memel log?
In such cases it is not always necessary to fit a new lining; if the chimney is removed, the loose flakes shaken out and the asbestos well damped and patted down with a wooden or steel foot-rule or other suitably shaped tool, it will be fit for another long spell of work.
Yet even they may profit by my words; we are not likely to be attacked again; we have disposed of all our enemies; but there might be a Celto-Gothic or an Indo-Bactrian war; then our friends' composition might be improved by the application of my measuring-rod always supposing that they recognize its correctness; failing that, let them do their own mensuration with the old foot-rule; the doctor will not particularly mind, though all Abdera insists on spouting the Andromeda.
"I've got such a many things to ask you still " "I wish you could make it out to ask them to-morrow," rejoined Matthew. "I've overdone myself already, with more talking than I'm used to. I want to be quiet with my tongue, and get to work with my hands for the rest of the day. You don't happen to have a foot-rule in the house, do you?"
No one had a foot-rule in its pocket, so Robert could not be measured but he was taller than your father would be if he stood on your mother's head, which I am sure he would never be unkind enough to do.
"Cloudy and I'll stay here from three to five, and you can meet the trains; but first I want the dimensions of those rooms, so Cloudy and I can plan. We've got a whole lot to do before college opens, and we can't spare a minute. O Cloudy! I'm so happy! Isn't that house just a duck?" They went to the village store, bought a foot-rule, a yardstick, and a tape-measure, and repaired to the house.
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