| Night and day she worked on her cloth, and when it was finished she had eight varas. |
| Solares, or house-lots, of twenty by forty varas were given to settlers in numbers equal to the available suertes, field-lots. |
| Spain settled what is now Texas, and with the Spanish people came their way of measuring distance in varas. |
| Authorities evacuated 4,000 people and they closed access to the area, near the cities of Puerto Varas and Puerto Montt. |
| Basta descender cinco mil varas para pasar de los musgos del polo a las selvas del Ecuador. |
| They were round and fixed, pools of bottomless blackness, staring at me through two varas of clear, swaying water. |
