A Commonplace Book

Category: length...

  • a measure of frogs being snout-vent length
  • swimming underwater the length of an Olympic-size pool
  • It is not length of life, but depth of life. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
  • Life's like a play; it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that matter. (Seneca)
  • walking the length of Hadrian's Wall in Britain - 72 miles
  • your body being eight times the length of your head
  • the distance from your elbow to your wrist equaling to the length of your foot
  • getting the right shoelace length
  • ¾ length sleeves
  • the length of alphorns
  • satirical verses of two rhyming couplets of uneven length - like the old Burma Shave slogans
  • the total length of the bookshelves of the Library of Congress - approximately 838 miles
  • Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length. (Robert Frost)
  • Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that a child cannot do much harm one way or another. (Robert Benchley)

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