She turned and fled, and to avoid possible pursuit, struck into the underbrush at an angle which she calculated would bring her in a few rods to another path which would lead quickly into the main road.
The gentleman, he perceived, stood for a moment on the rotting bridge across the old canal, and then walked slowly ahead until he turned to the right into Back Street, a few rods farther on.
A couple of hours later, they found her lying unconscious in the edge of the swamp, only a few rods from a well-defined path which would soon have led her to the open highway.
Failing to call the response, the other would conclude that the signal was in truth the call of a bird; but to guard against any error, he repeated the tremulous whistle, when the stealthy Deerfoot was within a few rods.
The shore was only a few rods away, the Mississippi being much less agitated at the side than in the middle.
The lad caught several glimpses of the strange animal, and, when within a few rods, identified it.
A guide's fee ranges all the way up from a half-dollar (for some trifling excursion of a few rods) to twenty dollars, according to the distance traversed and the nature of the ground.
I said I had meant no harm, and hoped I had not lowered myself in his estimation by raising him a few rods in the air.
Passing up the street by the Hospital, a large and elegant mansion surrounded by trees and shrubbery and climbing vines, I found myself, after walking a few rods farther, in full view of the Merrimac.
Turning into a ravine a few rods distant, we found an ammunition wagon, and, under a dropping fire from the enemy, refilled our empty cartridge boxes.
Of his dead, one officer and eight men were left within a few rods of our line.
A few rods further on, a bend in the road gave us a good view of the entire front of his fortifications.
General Negley's quarters are a few rods to my left, and General Thomas' just below us, at the bottom of the hill.
Within the compass of a few rods we find a hundred men of the Third and Fifteenth lying stiff and cold.
The statement may be true; but instead of a cave there is only a tunnel a few rods in length.
Raymond, with his hardy mule, was a few rods before me, when we came to the foot of an ascent steeper than the rest, and which I trusted might prove the highest point of the defile.
Henry was riding with Shaw a few rodsin advance of the Indians, when Mahto-Tatonka, a younger brother of the woman, hastily called after them.
Advancing a few rods in that direction, I saw a crowd in furious agitation, while others ran up on every side to add to the confusion.
Issuing from between the rocks I saw a few rods before me the men, women, and children, dogs and horses, still filing slowly across the little glen.
In the course of his stalking this small game, Black Bruin came to within a few rods of the road.
He went directly to the little pond where he had first seen the bull moose, and had arrived within a few rods of the shore when his keen ear caught a slight sound.
A few rods farther on, feeling that he was no longer pursued, he glanced back just long enough to see the bear tearing the paper from the package and licking out the honey.
The bird had no opportunity to see the road along which it was carried, or to get the general direction, except at the time of starting, when the boy carried him a few rods openly.
THE CROW One very cold winter's morning, after a fall of nearly two feet of snow, as I came out of my door three crows were perched in an apple tree but a few rods away.
Once, when I was climbing up to the nest of a broad-winged hawk, the young took fright and launched out in the air, coming to the ground only a few rods away.
Lad, for a few rods, gave chase to the retreating Schwartzes.
A few rods on the far side of the road which separated the meadow from the rest of the Place, Wolf paused to investigate a chipmunk hole.
Here, for a few rods, was danger of recognition; and it behooved him to make speed.
Alessandro had not been ploughing more than an hour, when, hearing a strange sound, he looked up and saw a man unloading lumber a few rods off'.
After a few rods of this steep climbing they came out on the top of the canon's south wall, in a dense oak forest comparatively free from underbrush.
At last, just as it had grown so dark she could see only a few hand-breadths before her, and was panting more from terror than from running, lights suddenly gleamed out, only a few rods ahead.
To the right of him rose a huge rock, or cliff, in front of him the canyon bent sharply to the north, and beneath him a few rods away a speck of white gleamed above the water of a deep and still pool that he knew.
Still holding her hand they started toward the cabin a few rods away.
He had proceeded but a few rods when he heard footsteps behind him; and, supposing himself pursued, he hurried into the woods, casting a glance backward.
At a distance of a few rods, Oswald had watched the whole proceeding, and followed, curious to learn cause of the arrest.
Crawling a few rodsout of their path, but in full view, he watched them, expecting to be seen.
They would increase their speed for a few rods, and then gradually drop off again.
At the end of a few rods he could go no further, but sank on the roadside with a burst of passionate tears, while the hospitable proprietors of the carriage rolled comfortably on, without an idea of the despair they had left behind them.
The night was clear and the starlight bright enough to make objects dimly visible a few rods away.
A few rods away a small stream of water wound its way, half-hidden by tall grass and bushes and low trees, through the little valley where they had stopped.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "few rods" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
