It will have been seen that the Heidelburgh Tun of the Sperm Whale embraces the entire length of the entire top of the head; and since --as has been elsewhere set forth --the head embraces one third of the whole length of the creature, then setting that length down at eighty feet for a good sized whale, you have more than twenty-six feet for the depth of the tun, when it is
lengthwise hoisted up and down against a ship's side.
Would he not far rather lay him down
lengthwise along the line of the equator; yea, ye gods!
After a brief consultation--whether to take the rows
lengthwise or diagonally--Prohor Yermilin, also a renowned mower, a huge, black-haired peasant, went on ahead.
These he tore
lengthwise and crosswise and dropped into the waste basket.
The sarcophagus separated in two parts,
lengthwise, and the lower part sank down and disclosed a coffin of rock crystal as clear as the atmosphere.
His fore-legs and hind-legs tied
lengthwise and crosswise, he was carried head-downward the short distance to the place of slaughter and cooking, and flung to the earth in the midst of the score or more of dogs similarly tied and helpless.
In front lay the broad moat, with the moon lying upon its surface, now clear and round, now drawn
lengthwise as the breeze stirred the waters.
But human life is of small account beyond thirty--a legacy from the bloody days when thousands of men perished in the trenches between the rising and the setting of a sun, when they laid them
lengthwise in these same trenches and sprinkled dirt over them, when the Germans corded their corpses like wood and set fire to them, when women and children and old men were butchered, and great passenger ships were torpedoed without warning.
Her arms had fallen
lengthwise before her, the fingers moving in slight convulsions; her head dropped upon her bosom, and her whole person seemed suspended against the tree, looking like some beautiful emblem of the wounded delicacy of her sex, devoid of animation and yet keenly conscious.
At the moment when this history begins, a brilliant July sun was illuminating the studio, and two rays striking athwart it
lengthwise, traced diaphanous gold lines in which the dust was shimmering.
Having noticed that the number indicating the greatest depth was apparently in the centre of the map, I laid a rule on the map
lengthwise, and then breadthwise, and found, to my surprise, that the line of greatest length intersected the line of greatest breadth exactly at the point of greatest depth, notwithstanding that the middle is so nearly level, the outline of the pond far from regular, and the extreme length and breadth were got by measuring into the coves; and I said to myself, Who knows but this hint would conduct to the deepest part of the ocean as well as of a pond or puddle?
Then came the nests of dories lashed to ring- bolts by the quarter-deck; the house, with tubs and oddments lashed all around it; and, last, the sixty-foot main-boom in its crutch, splitting things
lengthwise, to duck and dodge under every time.