China was what Nomuri called a thirty-foot country.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bear and the Dragon]

There the party halted in a thirty-foot valley, while.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference

A thirty-foot yacht motored into the chop beyond the breakwater.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

A thirty-foot gate tower closed the landward end of the causeway.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mask of Apollo]

It was at least a thirty-foot drop to the jagged rocks and the surf.    From Wordnik.com.  [Consent to Kill]

In a shaky voice, mindful of a thirty-foot drop and an enemy camp below.    From Wordnik.com.  [2005]

Can't you - "" Climbing a thirty-foot tree is not in my job description.    From Wordnik.com.  [Too Many Bosses]

A house with its centre torn out; a thirty-foot yawn between surviving flanks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hot Money]

To the middle of this bail Jim tied the thirty-foot painter with a clove hitch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

Above, a thirty-foot boy spread Meadow Gold Butter on a ten-foot slice of bread.    From Wordnik.com.  [Middlesex]

Near the walls, Holaf chopped a thirty-foot sapling, which we carried to the wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Valley of the Croen] Reference

In those thirty-foot fingers the tiny cards looked like little bits of pink confetti.    From Wordnik.com.  [Half-Past Seven Stories] Reference

They hadn't been strong enough to break into the city or mount its thirty-foot walls.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eternal Mercenary]

We broke these in in jig time and looked down a thirty-foot hole on a dug-out full of graybacks.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Yankee in the Trenches] Reference

In Siaya, the managers at Dominion Farms erected a massive thirty-foot cross over their compound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laura Flanders: Obama's Ruined Homeland] Reference

With no siege engines they could not storm the thirty-foot walls, and were relying on ladders and ropes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waylander]

The enormous animal soared toward the ceiling on thirty-foot wings, scraping a catwalk with one wingtip.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time Scout]

I mean, they have giant bugs and dinosaurs and ice-cream cones standing around, so a thirty-foot eyeball?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Victoria Lautman: Chicago's Big Shoulders Get an Eyeball to Match] Reference

And a boathouse big enough for a thirty-foot electric launch that Mr. Finchley is going to buy for Stuart.    From Wordnik.com.  [An American Tragedy] Reference

Three hundred yards from the null two thirty-foot spears ripped away from her carpet, impelled by sorcery.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Rose]

If it had been possible, he would have built a thirty-foot wall around the entire ranch to keep everyone safe.    From Wordnik.com.  [For The Roses]

The Phantoms jammed his fire-control radar, leaving behind a series of chaff clouds as they came in at thirty-foot height.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Storm Rising]

The entry was narrow, probably scaled down for effect, because I quickly passed into a large room with a thirty-foot ceiling.    From Wordnik.com.  [I is for Innocent]

"Don't worry, I've never gotten used to it myself," said Montrose about the panoramic view from his thirty-foot wall of glass.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beach House]

Hearing Janis in a thirty-foot room backed by a harmonica and bass may have been deceptive, but they are adamant in that view.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buried Alive, The Biography of Janis Joplin]

After paying off a mortgage and putting the kids through uni Peter couldn't compete with a villa in Ibiza and a thirty-foot yacht.    From Wordnik.com.  [Must Have Own Canoe] Reference

I'm high on the hill, with a commanding view of the guard towers, the thirty-foot cement walls, and the prison behind those walls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Matlack: Are There Good Men in Sing Sing?] Reference

One came shortly before dawn as we were crossing a viaduct with neither wall nor protection of any kind against a thirty-foot drop.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Our Army in Palestine] Reference

If the subject can read only the thirty-foot line, his vision is said to be 20/30; if only the forty-foot line, the vision is 20/40.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Science of Human Nature A Psychology for Beginners] Reference

When you go up on the top floor, and the thirty-foot tinted window panes, and see the whole city of Pittsburgh, it is an ivory tower.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Carlee Drye, April 2, 1980. Interview H-0005. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

Dido was at Sarawak, Mr. Jago, the carpenter, built a very beautiful thirty-foot gig, having cut the plank up in the Chinaman's sawpit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference

I dived — and I aimed to find the bottom, too, for a thirty-foot wheel had got to go over me, and I wanted it to have plenty of room.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn] Reference

Between the door and the woolly mammoth stood a giant cat -- a mountain lion, guessed Tas -- connected to the wall by a thirty-foot chain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kendermore]

There was no gate, no visible means of entry, just the forest like growth of thirty-foot trees, and for a moment I thought I'd been misled.    From Wordnik.com.  [When The Bough Breaks]