thirty-foot

Shorty slipped and shot down the thirty-foot chute into the soft snow.

THE STAMPEDE TO SQUAW CREEK 2010

I have toiled all night, both watches on deck, in a typhoon off the coast of Japan, and been less exhausted than by two hours 'work at reefing down a thirty-foot sloop and heaving up two anchors on a lee shore in a screaming south-easter.

SMALL-BOAT SAILING 2010

Every urge of his being impelled him to spring upon the pack that cried at his heels, but it was the will of the gods that this should not be; and behind the will, to enforce it, was the whip of cariboo-gut with its biting thirty-foot lash.

The Enemy of His Kind 2010

At first he had been prone to turn upon his pursuers, jealous of his dignity and wrathful; but at such times Mit-sah would throw the stinging lash of the thirty-foot cariboo-gut whip into his face and compel him to turn tail and run on.

The Covenant 2010

We went into an empty classroom and I reached into my brief case to bring out two sets of note cards; one, a collection of colorful UNICEF cards that a kid gave me when I slipped him an extra bag of Reese's Pieces last Halloween, the other a box of formal ecru-with-blue-trim cards that were so thick you could use them to make a sail for a thirty-foot catboat.

I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Thank-You Note Con Chapman 2011

I figured I was little more than halfway up the thirty-foot climb.

Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear Elizabeth Chandler 2011

I figured I was little more than halfway up the thirty-foot climb.

Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear Elizabeth Chandler 2011

But the thirty-foot walk across the parking lot was unlike any other.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms Jack Canfield 2011

But the thirty-foot walk across the parking lot was unlike any other.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms Jack Canfield 2011

If you fall there is a thirty-foot vertical drop on either side ending with a hard landing onto piles of concrete blocks and steel rebar.

Odd Man Out Michael Gillan Maxwell 2011