It was not often that a man could measure himself against the giants and come off well in the comparison.
And to a stranger, a man neither of them had met face-to-face or measured.
The old man measured them with his cane, and said he thought they would not be long enough.
The older man gave him a long, measured look, and said finally, 'Kathleen was an experiment.
We know that it has not changed since man first measured it.
The end was in sight although no man could measure it in terms of time.
Here was a glorious sight by which man might well measure his own insignificance!
The black man measured him with his eyes and said, "Then where you from, Jack?"
That part of it, at least, with which a young man measures his own worth.
He doubted if man could measure so short an interval of time.