yard measure

The critic was to begin his painful duties with a yard measure.

"Give him a yard measure," shouted another; "he cannot handle steel!"

One of guards dismounted and stepped forward with a folding iron yard measure.

Mrs. Rogers' yard measure discovered in the kitchen dresser assisted them.

He knelt down, and taking a little yard measure from his pocket, he 190 DEAD MAJTS FOLLY measured its dimensions carefully.

I found scissors and thread, and needle-book with many needles in it, and crochet hook and emery, and thimble, and box, and yard measure and buttons, and pin-cushion.

Miss Lavinia, self-charged with the superintendence of my darling's wardrobe, is constantly cutting out brown-paper cuirasses, and differing in opinion from a highly respectable young man, with a long bundle, and a yard measure under his arm.

The mosque's yard measures 61x47 m, and the roof arch of the southern prayer all has a height of approximately 17 m. The interior decorations of the mosque consist of tile works, stucco carving and moqarnas chiseling.

There are no yard measures, neatly divided into the fractions of an inch, that one can lay against the qualities of a good mother or the devotion of a daughter, or the fidelity of a sister, or the capacity of a housekeeper.

When he decries Bentham's application of the 'yard measure' of now to 'the past, present and future', he decries the implication that society, and people, have always been, and will always be, as they are now; that is, he criticizes essentialism.