Cubits

Yesterday she told him she couldn't call to mind the difference in cubits between the length and the breadth of Solomon's temple, and would he please save her the trouble of going to the Bible to find out? ❋ Unknown (1911)

The "height," sixty cubits, is so out of proportion with the "breadth," exceeding it ten times, that it seems best to suppose the thickness from breast to back to be intended, which is exactly the right proportion of a well-formed man [Augustine, The City of God, 15.26]. ❋ Unknown (1871)

Here the whole chapiter of five cubits is referred to. ❋ Unknown (1871)

The length of the whole court was a hundred eighty-seven cubits, that is, from east to west. ❋ 1602-1675 (1979)

Cyrus, in his edict for rebuilding the temple at Jerusalem, ordered that the height thereof should be sixty cubits, that is, thirty yards and more, Ezra vi. ❋ Unknown (1721)

It is supposed (from Joshua iii. 4) that the distance between the nearest part of the camp and the tabernacle (or perhaps between them and the camp of the Levites, who pitched near the tabernacle) was 2000 cubits, that is, 1000 yards, little more than half ❋ Unknown (1721)

To what degree they increased: they rose so high that not only the low flat countries were deluged, but to make sure work, and that none might escape, the tops of the highest mountains were overflowed -- fifteen cubits, that is, seven yards and a half; so that in vain was salvation hoped for from hills or mountains, Jer. iii. ❋ Unknown (1721)

It was a hundred cubits, that is, twenty-five fathoms broad, so that two vessels might pass with ease; it had depth enough to carry the largest ships; and was about a thousand stadia, that is, above fifty leagues long. ❋ Charles Rollin (1701)

Noah's Ark is said in the bible to be 300x40x50 cubits, that is 4 stories tall and half the size of the Titanic! ❋ Unknown (2009)

Hence "cubits" are mentioned in Eze 45: 2, not here, implying that there alone cubits are meant. ❋ Unknown (1871)

The leaves are rough, of a dingy green colour, and variously shaped, Gerarde's description being as follows: "Wilde Succori hath long leaues, somewhat snipt about the edges like the leaues of sow thistle, with a stalke growing to the height of two cubits, which is deuided towarde the top into many braunches. ❋ John Wood (N/A)

"Primum quidem columna ad sex erecta cubitos est, deinde ad duodecim, post ad vigenti extensa est"; but for the thirty-six cubits which is assigned as the height of the last column Tennyson's authority, drawing on another account ( 'Id'., ❋ Alfred Tennyson Tennyson (1850)

From this, it might be concluded that the draft how deep it sits in the water of the fully laden ark was about fifteen cubits. ❋ Ben Hobrink (2011)

This means that the ark, which was thirty cubits high, was almost half submerged. ❋ Ben Hobrink (2011)

… This is how you are to make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits Genesis 6:14–15 RSV. ❋ Ben Hobrink (2011)

In Genesis 7:20, it says that the water covered the mountains to a depth of fifteen cubits 6.9 meters, probably in order to indicate that the ark could float around freely everywhere. ❋ Ben Hobrink (2011)

Gorgeous facilities with amazingly engaging displays and animatronics, and at least a few hundred cubic cubits of bad science and misinformation. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Similarly, a “vehicle cubits traveled” tax for tractor trailers, a “vehicle angstroms traveled” for compacts, etc. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She could hear them bellyaching a thousand cubits away! ❋ Strannikov (2012)