We moved slowly, in long hesitations and castings about, and in swift little dashes forward of a few feet; and often we went astray on false scents, only to return finally to the last certain spot.
Once the kill is made, the lion disembowels the beast very neatly indeed, and drags the entrails a few feet out of the way.
Her bedroom opened to a veranda a few feetabove a formal garden.
He moved forward a few feet, peered about, retraced his steps.
Say, Kitty," called to a girl who was doing a waltz step in a few feet of space near one of the windows, " are you going to the ball with me?
She soon withdrew them, however, and retreated a few feet to rest against the window-sill.
Others stood off a few feet, not wishing to be in the crowd and yet not counted out.
He listened for a moment to the music, and looked into the wonderful eyes which shone from that beautiful face a few feet away.
The other stood a few feet away, gazing at the lights of Dover.
Most real of all was the fact that within a few feet of him lay a murdered man, and that in his hands was that brown leather pocket-book with its miraculous contents.
To think that I was in my room, reading about aviation, while a woman's life was being choked out of her within a few feet of where I was seated!
Unquestionably, the number of the gray landaulet now within a few feet of them was XY 1314.
These fiends killed Mrs. Lester within a few feet of this very room.
Although within the reef the water is exceedingly shallow, not being more than a few feet deep, as I am informed by the Rev.
Upon arriving within a few feet of the spot, pushing my way with difficulty through the tangled lemon grass, I could not see where he lay, as daylight had now vanished.
We were now within a few feet of them, but not an inch of their bodies could be seen, so effectually were they hidden by the thick jungle.
Little did I think that at that very moment they were within a few feetof us.
I had taken two shots within a few feet of him that I would have staked my life upon.
After a measurement or two from some landmark, we set to work a few feet inside, under cover of the bushes and the shadows, like two grave diggers.
It was fully twenty feet from the downward slope of the campus there, and, as he craned his neck out, he noted that the copper leader of the rain pipe ran past it a few feet away.
The beds there are of the same age and within a few feet of the same height above the level of the lake.
Sometimes entire skeletons have been discovered within a few feetof the surface, in peaty earth at the bottom of small ponds, which the agriculturists had drained.
Its continuous extension to so low a level clearly shows that the valley had already been deepened to within a few feet of its present depth at the time of the flowing of the lava.
At last he was within a few feet of her, and when he shot a covert glance at her he saw that she was appraising him and that there was no evidence of anger upon her face.
Surprised and enraged, the bull clutched madly for support as he toppled sidewise, and then with an agile movement succeeded in projecting himself toward another limb a few feet below.
As seen from the vessel, they seemed to be stratified with extraordinary evenness and regularity to within a few feet of the top, the summit being crowned with loose sand.
There is nothing to do but gamble, which doesn't interest me particularly; or dress in a ridiculous costume and paddle about in a few feet of water, which appeals to me even less.
The stones outside were wet to within a few feet of his door.
Cecil, who had been standing in the hall within a few feet of the closed door, started away as though he had received some sort of shock.
Nevertheless, the salt water was within a few feet of her when he drove his pole into the bottom, and brought the punt to a momentary standstill.
The depressions, in which these salt-lakes lie, are from a few feet to sixty metres, as asserted by M.
The bay of San Carlos is in most parts bounded by precipitous cliffs from about ten to forty feet in height, their bases being separated from the present line of tidal action by a talus, a few feet in height, covered with vegetation.
The man passed, his hurried stride a half run; and, a few feet beyond, halted at old Isaac's side door.
Though the stairs could be only a few feet away, he could not see them.
Thinking it might be the cry of some boatman lost in the fog, he walked to the edge of the cliff, but the thick veil that covered sea and land rendered all objects at the distance of a few feet indistinguishable.
The house in which she lived was a small frame cabin raised from the marsh a few feet by stout piles, and was three miles distant from the settlements upon the river.
When she was within a few feet of him he called her by name.
Another darker and probably younger specimen met near the Caribou House, barked, chirruped, and showed off in fine style on a tree within a few feet of us.
Fortunately, I discovered another larger tree well situated a little farther down, which I felled, and though a few feet in the middle was submerged, it seemed perfectly safe.
Three of the trunk glaciers descend to within a few feet of the sea-level.
He did not wait for the attack, but when the first of the advancing horsemen had come within a few feet of him, he leaped with a shout upon them.
The fellow thrust at him with his lance, and the Baron went staggering a few feet back, but instantly he recovered himself and again leaped forward.
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