Yards

Examples

• At this point the water recedes a few hundred yards from the high land. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Edith Baxter was within thirty yards of the stables, when a man appeared out of the darkness and called to her to stop. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• One day Edison appeared with some tin-foil and four or five yards of fine wire. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• At the same time I heard the reapers not a hundred yards behind me. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Shut into the drawing-room, the pair took seats, each in an arm-chair, placed opposite, a few yards between them. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• They came down the last two hundred yards, moving carefully from tree to tree in the shadows and now, through the last pines of the steep hillside, the bridge was only fifty yards away. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The London train whizzed by, drew back some yards, and in Mr. Bell was hurried by the impatient guard. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• So far Morse had only used his recorder over a few yards of wire, his electro-magnet had been of the simplest make, and his battery was a single pair of plates. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Yet a few yards to Yeobright's left, on the open heath, how ineffectively gnashed the storm! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• In front of both the ground was clear for several hundred yards and then became wooded. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Below, the water extended into the woods several hundred yards back from the bank on the east side. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I had not gone more than a few hundred yards when I saw a body of troops marching past me not fifty yards away. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• There were some boats and barges astrand in the mud, and these enabled us to come within a few yards of her without being seen. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• At the distance of a few hundred yards a man might fire at you all day without your finding it out. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• There are over 50,000 tons of steel in the superstructure, and about 140,000 cubic yards of masonry and concrete in the foundation piers. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The truck had stopped up the road about a hundred yards. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• From the entrance into the lists, a gently sloping passage, ten yards in breadth, led up to the platform on which the tents were pitched. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The wire cloth moves at the rate of from 25 to 40 feet per minute, and such a machine would consequently make at least 10 yards of paper in that time, which is equal to a mile in three hours. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• When they had gone three hundred yards they stopped, and we went on rejoiced. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• A single suit of her sails consisted of 15,563 yards of canvas. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• We had gone perhaps a hundred yards when the party turned abruptly through a doorway at their right. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred yards or more down the lane. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• About a hundred yards in advance was the other chaise, which had pulled up on hearing the crash. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Both his staff and mine retired to the camp-fire some yards in front of the tent, thinking our conversation should be private. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The cut is nine miles long, 300 feet wide, 272 feet greatest depth and required the excavation of 100,000,000 cubic yards of material. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Quickening his step, he marched some yards in advance of his company. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The people here live in alleys two yards wide, which have a smell about them which is peculiar but not entertaining. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• There was a broad, irregular smudge covering some yards of the track. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The picket lines were within a few hundred yards of each other. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• And Wat Tyrrel's mark, at a hundred yards, said a voice from behind, but by whom uttered could not be discerned. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.

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