The next second I saw Marigold semaphore a few yards in front of the car and then swing sickeningly at the horse's bit; and then the whole lot of them, Marigold, horse and rider, come down in a convulsive heap on the greasy road.
You know that for about two hundred yards before the lock gate, and for about twenty after, the towing-path is raised above the level of the main road which runs parallel with it a few yards away.
I was condemned to sit in the car a few yards off, an anxious spectator.
I may mention here, that although there was always light enough to see my path and a few yards on every side of me, I never could find out the source of this sad sepulchral illumination.
But when we met, instead of passing, she turned and walked alongside of me for a few yards, still keeping her face downwards, and busied with her flowers.
When the thought of doing so occurred to me first, I happened to be within a few yards of it.
A few quick silent steps, and this conjecture became a certainty: someone was talking within a few yards of him, just round the obstructing corner, and he felt sure the voice was Redgrave's.
Hoping to escape unobserved, she turned quickly, and walked a few yards.
The baffled burglar had fled but a few yards, when, casting his eye back, he saw their helplessness.
At first we certainly gained on him a few yards, but after that I could not near him.
The point itself, though long, and covered with tall trees, was nearly flat, and for some distance only a few yards in width.
The men now plied the paddles again, and they were presently within a few yards of the rock, floating towards it, though their efforts were suspended.
The canoe shoved from the point was within a few yardsof him, he having directed his own course towards it on quitting the land.
Although the water was deep within a few yards of the beach, it was not more than breast high, as close in as the spot where the two combatants fell.
A few yards away a tiny waterfall came tumbling over the rocks into a deep pool.
In some way or other he had become connected in her mind with the murder which had taken place within a few yards of his office, and in some other equally mysterious manner that murder had become a subject of interest to her.
He was accustomed to lunch always at the same restaurant, within a few yards of his office, and with the same little company of friends.
You seemed interested in the fact that my office was within a few yards of the passage where it occurred.
The white one with the rose comb had come and settled on the palings in front of the house, within a few yards of them, and his notes thrilled their ears through, dwindling away like echoes down a valley of rocks.
Their walk having been circuitous, they were still not far from the house, and in obeying his direction she only had to reach the large stone bridge across the main river and follow the road for a few yards.
Thus he bore her off the premises in the direction of the river a few yards distant.
Werper, going over his head, rolled a few yards farther on, scrambled to his feet and ran back.
Colmor's hit," called the voice of Gordon, a few yards distant.
A long, low building, a storage shed evidently, showed a few yards in front of them.
The man had swung aboard Danglar's car, which was only a few yards behind.
It appeared to make a right-angled turn just a few yards in, and what light there was seemed to filter in from around the corner.
Pointing wildly to Martin to go back, Gerard ran a few yards to the right, then crept cautiously into the thick coppice just as three men burst out.
So when he had passed them a few yards, he reflected, and turned back, and came towards them bashfully.
Gerard looking all round, to make sure, there he was a few yards behind, apparently fastening his shoe.
Thus, within the distance of a few yards, the pursuers and pursued were passing one another upon opposite tracks.
When they were within a few yards of the top Archie turned and bounded off at full speed.
Their progress was slow now, the party only moving for a few yards at a time, and then halting while the guides searched for ground solid enough to carry their weight.
Walking on a few yards, one stands on the brink of a vast precipice, and below one sees a grand bay or gulf, for I know not what other name to give it, thickly covered with forest.
Though the springs are only a few yards apart, they have very different temperatures; and this appears to be the result of an unequal mixture of cold water: for those with the lowest temperature have scarcely any mineral taste.
I had only gone a few yards when I was arrested by a patrol, the officer of which told me that, as I had no lantern and as eight o'clock had struck, his duty was to take me to the guardhouse.
The servant walked a few yards before me, and carried a parcel of my things.
Within a few yards from me the vehicle was suddenly upset on the side of the river, and the woman, falling over the officer, was in great danger of rolling into the Brenta.
I was afraid of the major and the countess, who were a few yards in front of us, turning round .
They had just passed the last sentinel posted in their line of circuit, and were within a few yards of the immediate rear of the fortress, when a sharp "Hist!
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