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- 1981, Froylán Tiscareño (translator), Miguel del Barco (author), Ethnology and Linguistics of Baja California, Los Angeles: Dawson’s Book Shop, 48:
- […] bone, which is used as an awl to repair the two first pieces mentioned; a small stick to start fires; a large net made of agave fiber, and in which the women carry everything they must take, except firewood; another net, in the form of a purse, which the men use to collect pitahayas (in season), or roots or whatever else the season or the current situation offers; two little boards less than a palmspan in length, and about half a palmspan in width, and shaped from a certain type of palm, and between which they keep hawk feathers, so that they will not fade or spoil, and which they use for their arrows; some flints for these; and finally, the bow and arrow, to which may be added, by those who take more care and are better prepared, a shell for drinking water.
- 1982, Denver Quarterly, volume XVII, 57:
- As the most appropriate site they chose the neighborhood of an ancient cemetery whose streets overlaid strong, underground vaults, and when everything was cleared away, masons came from France and laid out the foundations of the cathedral, which was to be spacious and solemn. But they still had not raised the floors a single palmspan when don Sisnando died, from all reports still weeping and sobbing for Esclaramunda, and since he left no property of his own to pay for it, no building could go on until four or five archbishops later, when with Saint Marcelo it was given its principal form, and that is what we still admire today.
- 1987, Margaret A. Neves (translator), Antônio Torres (author), The Land, Readers International, →ISBN (10), →ISBN (13), 113:
- Come, and I will shelter you. // Seven palmspans has your bed, // You’ll sleep so soundly.
- 1991, Ian Mathieson Stead and Janet Ambers, Iron Age Cemeteries in East Yorkshire: Excavations at Burton Fleming, Rudston, Garton-on-the-Wolds and Kirkburn, English Heritage, →ISBN (10), →ISBN (13), 107/1:
- The diameters of 41 of 43 surviving bases fall within the overall range of 65–105mm (Fig 75, a). The mean diameter is 85mm, or about a palmspan, and 32 vessels are within a 10mm range of this value, which means that they vary by no more than the thickness of the vessel wall.