I told Pike that I did not consider myself bound by his orders to reserve fire, in the event of an attack, until the enemy were within half a dozen paces.
Before many minutes he dismissed the company, and turning about, saw me waiting within a dozen paces.
When we turned the corner, Medina immediately stepped back half a dozen paces, with a readiness that showed his experience in the formalities of the code duello.
A shadow had loomed out of the night half a dozen paces ahead of him, and before he could raise his revolver the shadow was lightened by a sharp flash of fire.
He had not taken a dozen paces, when far ahead of him he saw the red glow of a fire.
The weapon hurtled on viciously, and pierced the squat body of one of the waverers a dozen paces behind.
The raging brutes were not more than a dozen paces behind, when Grôm led the way out upon the floating mass, picking his steps warily and leaping from trunk to trunk.
She ran on blindly a dozen paces more, then reeled and fell in a swoon.
Neither had made a noise that would have been appreciable to human ears at a dozen paces.
A dozen paces away, the reins looped over a fence post, stood his pony.
Determined not to let the opportunity slip, I dismounted hastily and, leaving the Cid loose, advanced on foot until I stood within half-a-dozen paces of the window.
Yes, Count Hannibal was coming, riding a dozen paces in front of his men.
The man turned away with a shrug of the shoulders, and moved off a dozen paces, watched by all on the gate with the same fixed attention.
I cocked my hat, and drawing my cloak over my shoulders, went out with a swagger which drove the curs from the gate before I came within a dozen paces of it.
Manicamp threw the pistol away a dozen paces, and ran to his friend, uttering a cry of delight.
He stood for a minute undecided, while his enemies, less than a dozen paces away, were on the alert for a chance to seize any advantage that offered.
Upon the high sidewalk, a dozen paces away, a girl was passing; she acknowledged the sergeant's salute with a small bow.
The girl had moved half a dozen paces to where the shadow of the great yews was deepening on the path.
The small silk tent for Jeanne's use he set up in a little grassy corner of the clearing, and built their fire a dozen paces from it.
He began to run, so quickly that he approached within a dozen paces of the man he was pursuing without being heard.
Then he searched along the shore for a dozen paces, until he found an Indian willow.
He had not taken a half-dozen paces when a rifle cracked behind him.
The object of his anxious pursuit was but half a dozen paces in advance of him, when Albert turned cautiously the corner, and the young man stepped into a doorway, to allow him to proceed to a safer distance.
I who have made the clang of my hammer heard by midnight, when within a dozen paces of me was a—sight—sight that would—d—n the lights!
That conviction blazed in his eyes as he came to a halt within a dozen paces of where Harlan was sitting.
Lawson and Rogers, having advanced to a position within a dozen paces of the group in front of the sheriff's office, now backed away, silent, watchful.
Yet her eyes were still flashing ominously when Harlan rode to within a dozen paces of her and brought the big black to a halt.
Within a dozen paces of their objective, they swerved sharply to their left and sent the great timber crashing through the slender stone columns of a large window.
For a full minute the man and the lion stared woodenly into each other's eyes, across a space of hardly more than a dozen paces.
Lifting him thus, Tharn swung the man aloft like a bundle of grass, then flung him heavily to the sands a dozen paces away.
He and Ortensia stepped back half-a-dozen paces, and the musician stood still, but Ortensia moved a little farther away and to one side.
While I was bracing up my courage, he silently went on a dozen paces, and then he comes to a stand, so that I knew he was in the presence of the dead; for had there been any room for hope he would not have stopped short.
As if his words had been heard, a fourth arrow flew by, straight to a tree a dozen paces ahead.
But ere I had made half a dozen paces I stopped, and the cold sweat burst out again upon my brow on observing, amidst the crushed and blood-blackened fertile plants, a fair pale body that had been stripped of clothing.
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