The Air Force had a forty-foot long birthday cake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Berger Remarks At Nsc 50th Anniversary Symposium] Reference

Up, but now it was as beautiful as a forty-foot motor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moment Of The Magician]

Ringing it were loudspeakers on forty-foot steel posts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Waste Lands]

You fetch the forty-foot ladder and I'll open the crate.    From Wordnik.com.  [I'm A Stranger Here Myself]

He rose and ran a hand along the stone of the forty-foot sea wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan Of The Isles]

He ran the flag up to the top of his forty-foot staff and wrote: —.    From Wordnik.com.  [Australia Felix] Reference

I was dodging between forty-foot cargo containers, running, running.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]

It was a long, cramped climb; the lookout sat atop a forty-foot tower.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fire Upon the Deep]

Well, the Cape Fear River was at forty-foot or something, flood stage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Steve Holland, December 16, 1999. Interview K-0510. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

The next thing he knew, he had made a forty-foot dive over a sand bank.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Luck] Reference

Good news is then we enter the main chamber, which has a forty-foot vault.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Killing Hour]

There were scores who would not touch "mealie-pap" with a forty-foot spoon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference

Canal Street, had a forty-foot canal in center, fine shaded houses at sides.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kirk on Rutgers Farm] Reference

Dad's got a forty-foot twin GE Craft catamaran docked down at Puerto Pen-asco.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cyber Way]

People own their own planes, three or four cars, forty-foot boats, sable coats!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare]

Three-Toe Hill was a forty-foot high promontory half a mile east of the causeway.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nemesis]

Very few pigs were over thirty-nine feet high, so we did not need a forty-foot barn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Lauch Faircloth, July 16, 1999. Interview I-0070. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

The walls were hung with forty-foot portraits of long-dead leaders of the Third Reich.    From Wordnik.com.  [...And Nail] Reference

Within eight days, forty-foot drifts had accumulated, trapping the group in the mountains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Snow removal in the United States] Reference

The house sat on a forty-foot ledge on the mountainside, with a tiny dirt yard surrounding it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Luce: Madonna, Mercy and Malawi] Reference

If we take an inch to be a foot, then the entire forty-foot length would have to be forty inches.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.] Reference

His right hand, meantime, describing stately circles — for it was representing a forty-foot wheel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Tom Sawyer] Reference

A second later, the sun was blocked out as a forty-foot wall of rock and earth hurtled down on them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Date With Death]

Luckily, both Jim Tillek's forty-foot sloop, Southern Cross, and Per Pagnesjo's Perseus yawl were in port.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Fall]

He saw its great calm eyes regarding him in the starlight; he saw the forty-foot spread of its giant wings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wings in the Night]

The great forty-foot bubbles waited silently in their passage cradles, and Boysie Gann stood regarding them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starchild Omnibus]

Bad Clams had a forty-foot Cigarette-one of those ul - trafast, ultraslim power boats so coveted in Florida.    From Wordnik.com.  [Second Skin]

We came to the end of the causeway, and there was a forty-foot gap between it and a pier on the opposite shore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dwellers in the Mirage] Reference

Lazily and mildly I helped the Camel Corps in their long watering at the forty-foot wells, and enjoyed the kindness of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference

I cannot believe that I have just swung over a forty-foot drop hanging onto a vine growing from the innards of a cliff.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Adventure in the Mukutan Gorge - Part 5] Reference

It was a forty-foot drop, he had just escaped death, but he had not even noticed it in his haste to find Molly Zaldivar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starchild Omnibus]

As the great forty-foot sphere gathered speed and stability, Boysie Gann became aware that he had been hardly breathing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starchild Omnibus]

When he first saw the contraption it was a forty-foot length of filmy epoxy glass resembling a spiderweb and not much firmer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Space]

There was a back route out the kitchen; it was a forty-foot drop, but a few of Otik's customers found this setup very convenient.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragons of Autumn Twilight]