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Apparently each hundred-foot mamsize tissue is sold singly, which seems about right, but whose mother did they measure?

June « 2009 « Sentence first 2009

Seaward, glimpsed through a fringe of hundred-foot coconut palms, was the ocean; beyond the reef a dark blue that grew indigo blue to the horizon, within the reef all the silken gamut of jade and emerald and tourmaline.

ON THE MAKALOA MAT 2010

With a novelist's flair, he conveys the experiences of ordinary people pitted against powerful and unpredictable nature: "Unable to stop his fall, the sachem slid toward a hundred-foot cliff over jagged rocks, saved only when a strap on his pack snagged a sapling, leaving him dangling and badly shaken."

How the East Was Won Alan Taylor 2012

Apparently each hundred-foot mamsize tissue is sold singly, which seems about right, but whose mother did they measure?

Attack of the 100 Foot Tissue 2009

The Endeavour was the first vessel Cook sailed around the world: a lumbering, hundred-foot coal ship with a very shallow keel that made it exceptionally rocky in heavy seas.

An Interview with Tony Horowitz, author of Blue Latitudes 2010

But Nixon and his team of twenty-four engineers and consultants say it can be done and that a hundred-foot wave would only displace the ship by one inch.

Will Your Kids Live in a Floating City? « Colleen Anderson 2009

Since most white women did not want to touch the race dimension with a hundred-foot pole, I was left to peacefully pursue and study racial identity absent any serious exploration or engagement with feminism.

Deborah Plummer: Embracing Feminism 20 Years Later 2010

Gray placed a hand on the rock and looked down the hundred-foot sheer drop to the desert floor.

Vince Flynn Collectors’ Edition #2 Vince Flynn 2010

Early on the morning of September 19, 1933, three carpenters and their foreman were trying to work loose a stuck wooden form when it gave way, plummeting down the incline with all four men aboard like a toboggan, gathering speed as it headed for a hundred-foot drop where the spillway intersected the diversion tunnel.

Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

From a town-engulfing firestorm, to a rampaging tornado, and a hundred-foot tall wave, these natural disasters show how powerful Mother Nature can be.

Natural Disasters: 7 Record-Breaking Catastrophes (PHOTOS) 2010