As the meridians of longitude converge toward the poles, the lengths between each lessen.
"Lectures in Navigation"
Ernest Gallaudet Draper
Although it is advantageous when possible to keep to the number of spindles given in the table on the opposite page, other lengths can be built, but even boxes are preferable.
"Illustrated Catalogue of Cotton Machinery"
Howard & Bullough American Machine Company, Ltd.
A few hymns are arranged in stanzas of ten lines with a break in the middle of each line, but no definite metrical laws existed for the lengths of lines or number of feet, so as to make a uniform rhythmical pattern of the composition.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell