Before he was aware, I had seized him with a grip which made him howl; and next moment he was reeling and staggering a dozen yards away in the midst of the enclosure.
But he only caught me by the arm and shoulder, and flung me off with such strength that I reeled and staggered for a dozen yards before I finally fell headlong with my face in the dust.
Mukoki, who held the important position in the stern, kept the bow of the birch within half a dozen yards of the bank, and to Rod's mind they slipped up-stream with amazing speed and ease.
On one side of them, a dozen yards away, the face of the mountain rose sheer above them for a thousand feet; on the other, scarce that distance from where they stood, was the roaring chasm.
Ned to lay their instruments hurriedly down on deck and run aft to the lee quarter, where the first thing they saw was the unfortunate man's hat tossing on the crest of a sea about a dozen yards astern.
Here a couple of stout posts, eight or nine feet high, had been driven into the ground about a dozen yards apart.
That hideous head raised over him, scarce half a dozen yards distant, is suggestive of nightmare personified.
The coil of a lazo has settled around him; he is jerked from his feet, dragged back a dozen yards--stunned, half senseless.
And Vipan raised his hat as he rode by at a foot's pace within a dozen yards of them.
And then we sat still again, knowing that we should be sure to hear of something wrong in the morning, and knowing, too, that even if there was some game carried on within a dozen yards of us we should not hear it.
Crawling back, I proceeded in the other direction, and found that I could go what I guessed to be quite a dozen yards, feeling more and more in shelter.
For, looking up, I saw within a dozen yards of me a man whose mocking eyes were following my movements.
A bullet had swept his hat off, whirling it away a dozen yards.
Assailants and assailed were barely a dozen yards apart.
They followed, worming their way in the same fashion about a dozen yards.
Why, look you," says he, pointing to the road a dozen yards ahead of us.
We had not advanced half a dozen yardsbefore I felt a sharp stinging sensation in my left arm; it was pierced by an arrow.
Scarcely had he walked half a dozen yards, when he stood face to face with Franks.
He walked on, but before he had gone a dozen yards, stopped abruptly, turned, crossed to the other side of the road, and went back till he stood opposite the closed shop.
They passed through the gates; he, at a distance of a dozen yards, still followed.
From the central shaft several surface galleries radiated, running for many rods about a foot below the surface, with, at intervals of half a dozen yards, mounds where the loose earth had been expelled.
Two of the dogs would follow the track half a dozen yards ahead of him, but no farther; and two of the camaradas could just about keep up with him.
The trivial encounters with gorillas in England paled into nothingness compared with this, for the animal was less than a dozen yards away.
To begin with, I'll guarantee that I could disguise myself so that no gorilla could tell me from one of its own kind at half-a-dozen yards away.
I turned round, rushed over to the spot where the implement was lying, some half-a-dozen yards away, and picked it up.
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