square rod
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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“There is not a square rod of admirable, hardly one of passable, gravel-walk in all of the Exposition Ground,” he wrote.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
But amid these low, dense, dark spruces, which make a sort of canopied privacy of every square rod of ground, what could be more in keeping than this delicate musical whisper?
From In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs by Burroughs, John
Every square rod of the valley for a mile was hunted over without result, and we all gathered once more about the two cellars, in which the coals still glowed.
From Captured by the Navajos by Curtis, Charles A. (Charles Albert)
It should be dug in at the rate of about three pounds per square rod.
From The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition by Sutton and Sons
A square rod of iron, 26, 27, Pl.
From Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Lavoisier, Antoine
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