He had accordingly gone all the way, about ten miles, to Paris at four in the morning to purchase antimony and morphia to kill cats and dogs.
Holmes had actually perpetrated, in all probability, about ten murders.
Dewar had been last seen alive about ten o'clock on the Saturday night getting off a car near his home.
By the way we met a party of about ten or a dozen marching with their guns and cartridge-belts, and the cheerful alacrity and brightness of their looks set my head turning with envy and sympathy.
With incredible labour, I have rewritten the First Chapter of the Justice Clerk; it took me about ten days, and requires another athletic dressing after all.
I thought so about ten o'clock this morning," Thorpe replied.
About ten million of this was on French Creek; the remainder on the main banks of the Ossawinamakee.
He took Helen back to Mrs. Renwick's about ten o'clock.
We find only six feet of water up to King's Bridge at low tide, about ten feet up to the rice-mill, and sixteen to Fort McAllister.
The rebel inner lines are well adapted to our purpose, and with slight modifications can be held by a comparatively small force; and in about ten days I expect to be ready to sally forth again.
I will go round to Preston Street immediately I have finished dinner --in about ten minutes or a quarter of an hour.
Situated in a room near Her Majesty's bedroom in the Sea Palace was a Pagoda, about ten feet in height, made of carved sandalwood.
This Palace garden is quite close to Her Majesty's own Palace, about ten minutes' drive.
It was a beautiful morning, and when she had posed for about ten minutes, she told me that she felt too tired to proceed, and asked if it would be all right to ask Miss Carl to postpone it.
The village had only been formed about ten years, and was quite as neat as those I had passed through, and much more picturesque.
About ten species of these birds are now known, all much resembling each other, but yet sufficiently distinguishable in every locality.
I passed the evening with the Controlleur of Tondano, and the next morning at nine, left in a small boat for the head of the lake, a distance of about ten miles.
Then a child appeared, a little girl of about ten, dressed in a chemise and a linen, petticoat, with dirty, bare legs and a timid and cunning look.
I was coming home one night at about ten o'clock, the night after you got here.
A woman passed by, holding two children by the hand, a little boy of about ten and a little girl of four.
We had a brisk ride, and arrived in the immediate vicinity of the thieves' rendezvous at about ten o'clock in the morning.
About ten o'clock on the morning of the 23d a party of armed men, alighting from their wagons, approached the site of the massacre.
The first station from Mekka, on that road, is Zeyme, short of which, about ten miles, are several steep ascents.
In the afternoon we issued from this chain into the western plain, which declines slowly towards the sea of Suez, and encamped in it after a ride of about ten hours.
The sentinel paraded before us, about ten or fifteen yards in front of the cave, tack and tack, waiting only to serve one, if not both of us, as we should have served a shrimp or an oyster.
About ten o'clock, an object loomed up in the distance.
At about ten o'clock Colonel Broadwood decided to go no further till there was more light.
The troops bivouacked some ten miles south-west of Fashi Shoya, and then marched in bright moonlight to Nefisa, encountering only a Dervish patrol of about ten men.
As they advanced the scrub became denser, and all were in broken and obstructed ground when, at about ten o'clock, the sound of Maxim firing and the patter of musketry proclaimed that Mahon had come into contact.
At about ten minutes to six it was evident that the masses were in motion and advancing swiftly.
The party reached itabout ten o'clock in the morning, but landed on the opposite side of the river, where they spread out their baggage and effects to dry.
In one of the valleys between the sand hills, at a distance of about ten miles in a south-westerly direction, we found a shallow waterhole where a creek is formed for a short distance, and is then lost again on the earthy plain beyond.
At about ten miles we crossed a large earthy flat lightly timbered with box and gum.
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