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He was impressed by the extensible tongue, so useful for slurping up ants, and by certain other incongruous features, such as “the snout very long and slender, long eares like a mule, without haire, the taile thick and straight of a spanne long, fashioned at the end lyke a dystaffe.”
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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He was impressed by the extensible tongue, so useful for slurping up ants, and by certain other incongruous features, such as “the snout very long and slender, long eares like a mule, without haire, the taile thick and straight of a spanne long, fashioned at the end lyke a dystaffe.”
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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Not dressed, but in the heare, facioned rounde, beyng a fowre or fiue spanne ouer, and so set rounde about on the bordre, or verge, with ringlettes of iron: that putting a couple of stringes throughe the ringes, it maye be drawen together, and shutte and opened like a purse.
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Then hee tooke a sworde of a cubite and a spanne long, (I did not mete it my selfe) and put it into his bellie halfeway and sometime lesse, but no wounde was to bee seene, (they continuing in their sweete song still).
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The haire of them is a yard long, the rumpe is aboue a spanne long: they vse to hang them for brauerie upon the heades of their
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Vpon these mountains [Marginal note: These seeme to be the mountains of Iamus, called by the people Cumao.] are people which haue eares of a spanne long: if their eares be not long, they call them apes.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Eglentyne had such a fair forehead ( 'almost a spanne broad, I trowe')?
Medieval People Eileen Edna Power 1914
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Holding itself equal to all attempts and conditions, and to be heir, not of its own spanne of yeares and compasse of
David Poindexter's Disappearance, and Other Tales Julian Hawthorne 1890
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There is also another great hearbe in forme of a Marigolde, ahout sixe foote in height; the head with the floure is a spanne in breadth.
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Sulke "juwele" is daar heelwat van by die ander S-A spanne ook.
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