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Definition of Sazhens

1. sazhen [n] - See also: sazhen

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sazhens

Literary usage of Sazhens

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. "The Greatest Failure in All History": A Critical Examination of the Actual by John Spargo (1920)
"... of which 858000 cubic sazhens was on hand, leaving 4096000 cubic sazhens as the amount to be provided. A report published in the ..."

2. The Great Siberian Railway from St. Petersburg to Pekin by Michael Myers Shoemaker (1903)
"I am awakened by the rumbling of the train and find the yellow floods of that great river rolling beneath me. This bridge has 13 spans of 50 sazhens each (a ..."

3. The Great Siberian Railway from St. Petersburg to Pekin by Michael Myers Shoemaker (1903)
"At the outflow of the Angara, there is a submerged granite cliff, called Shamanka, with a circumference of seven sazhens, which rises for only one ..."

4. The Great Siberian Railway from St. Petersburg to Pekin by Michael Myers Shoemaker (1903)
"At the outflow of the Angara, there is a submerged granite cliff, called Shamanka, with a circumference of seven sazhens, which rises for only one ..."

5. A Ribbon of Iron by Annette M. B. Meakin (1901)
"The Alexander bridge was named after Alexander II. It has thirteen spans of fifty sazhens each, a total length of six hundred and fifty ..."

6. World's Columbian Exposition 1893, Chicago: Catalogue of the Russian Section by Russia (1893)
"... that kept for irrigation of the Khanate of Khiva and the Amu-Daria section, it was determined 345 cubic sazhens per second at high waters, ..."

7. Treaties and Agreements with and Concerning China, 1894-1919: A Collection by John Van Antwerp MacMurray (1921)
"In the llth Article of these regulations the words 200000 cubic sazhens of ... be changed to 100000 cubic sazhens; the 800000 pieces of track wood should be ..."

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