cubit

For a long time people did not know exactly how much a cubit was.

It felt like he had to stop and rest every hundred cubits, sometimes more often.

If the water rose to the level of 14 cubits, there would be enough food to go around.

All this is thousands of cubits beyond what can be done with books and paper.

He was less than thirty cubits away when the man started to turn.

Her voice was already growing faint, with less than three cubits between them.

And the baby comes out quickly, a healthy child of one cubit in size.

"Another two hundred cubits - or three if it seems clear."

"Would you want to bring your forces through three cubits of icy water?"

Even as he looked, they seemed to close the gap to several hundred cubits.

Not a hundred cubits to the west, the same grass had turned brown.

Then he climbed the last few cubits and looked down on the forest.

Two hundred cubits to the west was another tunnel and door.

The road was no more than two cubits above the spring runoff.

Those movements, in turn, could be used to represent different cubits.

Two hundred cubits was the limit of their effective range.

Sometimes ell is used as an other word for the cubit.

"He could never get one to go higher than twenty or thirty cubits into the air."

Tents are to be set up at a distance of 30 cubits from each other.

The square is another hundred cubits down the narrow street.

The floor space between the bunks was less than three cubits.

Most of the town sat on a bluff a good ten cubits above the river.

I was less than twenty cubits from the tent when the figure in white turned.

Cubit said his first season "was hard physically and mentally."

"Nearly two hundred cubits, and high enough for women to walk in.