A shout of joy, and an exclamation of thankfulness escaped my lips as it reached the bank, and, by the aid of my pole, I leaped on to the dry land a dozen feet at least from the edge.
I sprang up as if I had been galvanised, and leaped a dozen feet or more away from the fangs of the rattlesnake.
This I did till I had got up a dozen feet or more.
It was a dozen feet in length, some three or four in width, and, when he stood erect, his head was level with the surface of the ground above.
By this time he was within a dozen feet of the spot whence came the rustling that so disturbed him, and was staring with all his eyes in quest of the redskins.
He was not directly above them, but a dozen feet off to the left.
Instead of two or three Indians, as he had anticipated, he saw an enormous grizzly bear, about a dozen feet in the rear, coming directly toward him, with very little doubt of his purpose.
Smoke called a warning to prevent a rear-end collision, and the Baron, hawing his animals and swinging on the gee-pole, went by a dozen feet to the side.
But up the bank Big Olaf lifted his body hugely, regaining a dozen feet.
Dog by dog, separated by half a dozen feet, the two teams were running abreast.
Before replying, Smoke let out an unexpected link that threw Shorty half a dozen feet in the rear.
He crept over the edge of the knoll and worked himself down through the low bush on the opposite side, which would bring him within a dozen feet of the man over the fire.
A little below the first rocks a stunted banskian grew out of an earthy fissure in the cliff, with its lower branches dipping within a dozen feet of the stream.
A dozen feet away, full in the moonlight, three figures sat on the edge of the cliff, as motionless as though hewn out of rock.
A thick mass of bushes was drifting leisurely along the base of the cliff a dozen feet above, and something behind it--as yet invisible--was making a great commotion in the water.
The main channel--only half a dozen feet wide--headed abruptly to the right, and swept at breakneck speed in a perfect half circle under the outwardly projecting base of a steep and wooded hill.
When Ned wheeled around the brute was within a dozen feetof him, growling savagely, showing his fangs and teeth, and coming on at a pace which meant business.
Spanning it with his eye, he estimated its width at a dozen feet; certainly not less.
No doubt the natives considered themselves in little danger from intrusion, so long as they were guarded by a dozen feet of sheer pit, with a dozen brace or so of healthy crocodiles at the bottom of it.
As he did so, Eugene Black shot through the tent doorway, landing on the ground a dozen feet beyond.
Reade, as, jerking Bad Pete to his feet, he planted a kick that sent the bad man down the trail a dozen feet.
The axles and springs of the springboard wagon were making noise enough to keep their voices from reaching the ears of any human being more than a dozen feet away.
Reade ran his foe outside a dozen feet, then released him, turning and reentering the tent.
The mirror was shattered, but a dozen feet back of him the treacherous Mexican threw up his arms and fell lifeless, a bullet through his cowardly heart.
Taking the blade by its point between thumb and forefinger she sent it with a quick flick of the wrist into the wall a dozen feet away.
It did not seem to him that it was more than a dozen feet away, and he felt a great sympathy and pity.
He had dug so deep a hole and he lay so close under the hedge that even a vigilant scout looking for an enemy might have passed within a dozen feet of him without seeing him.
The thick snowy blast was still driving past, and his eyes could not penetrate it more than a dozen feet.
Pausing in the middle of the clearing, the dusky lad with a flirt of the stick, flung the crotch a dozen feet in air and uttered a shout which was echoed by every one of the waiting players.
So deftly was the trick done that the weapon of the Sauk flew a dozen feet straight up in the air, turning rapidly end over end and falling between the two.
Yet only a dozen feet away, the tangled jungle growth actually quivered on the fringe of the falls that dropped in one huge deluge into the dizzy depths below.
From this hollow, open space where Mr. Brewster had guided them, they watched tons of dirt and stone drop down in a solid curtain, only a dozen feet away, for the bulge of the cliff above was comparatively slight.
He was not an instant too soon, for there was the crouching figure of the Apache warrior, no more than a dozen feet distant, his gleaming knife clutched in his right hand, and his eyes fairly aflame with passion.
There were plenty of Indians around, some of whom were within a dozen feet, and yet they paid no more attention to it than if the two were quietly smoking their pipes.
And so it was; for, as he approached, Ned saw that his outer garment was composed entirely of greenbacks, carefully stitched together in such a way that they made a blanket of half a dozen feet square.
We dived into schools of the vari-colored fish, which we could see a dozen feet below, and tried to seize them in our hands, and we spent hours floating and playing in the lagoon, or lying on our backs in the sun.
These slender spears were a dozen feet of light, tough wood, two of them with single iron points two feet long, and a third fitted with ten fine-pointed darning-needles.
The third bullet had carried his hat a dozen feet away.
It had come a dozen feet nearer, and was perking its head and seesawing on its long legs as it watched with inquisitive inspection the unusual manifestation of life behind the rock.
A porcupine crashed within a dozen feet of his trail.
The first notice was a faint purring sound, as if made by a gigantic cat, accompanied by a rustling of the vegetation scarcely a dozen feet away.
He had not raised the weapon when the noose was around his hand and the pistol was jerked a dozen feet.
Between the school-house and our home was a mill-pond, which in many places was fully a dozen feet deep.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dozen feet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
