As she steadied on her course the water under her bows--fifty yards off--turned white, and leaped up in a high solid pillar to the impact of the next salvo.
She ported her helm to ram; but "E 31," being inside her turning circle, was missed by fifty yards.
Dick insisted on her drinking some wine, and then, covering her with another rug, they left her and lighted a fire, fifty yards away.
Three hearty cheers broke from all on board the Madras as, after pouring in a broadside at a distance of fifty yards, she left the brig behind her, and proceeded on her way.
It ceased some forty or fifty yards away, and by the sound of voices and orders, it was evident that the other houses were being searched.
I peeped over the rock with my rifle, when the three monsters were scarce fifty yards from me, proceeding to cross my trail above me.
They stopped, but I did not know whether at a distance of twenty or fifty yards.
I prefer a heavy charge, as giving more accuracy at fifty yards; but one cannot stand many shots with a heavy charge without feeling the consequences.
If you only have one pistol have it with my front sight, sighted to your normal or average shooting, at twenty or fifty yards, to whichever you decide to confine yourself, and both back and front sights made fixtures.
They had just left Spider Jack's, and were, perhaps, fifty yards or so ahead of him.
From a survey of the house, Jimmie Dale gave attention to the details of his surroundings: the trees on either side; the open space in front, a distance of fifty yards to the road; the absence of any fence.
You are sure she said 'fifty yards to the north of the bridge'?
Fifty yards on the down side of the beck from the smithy--that was the place, Ralph.
But nothing is so conspicuous as a long line of men riding at fifty yards' interval.
A white-frost fog blots out everything at fifty yards, and a white sugary frost encrusts the grass.
Had got to fifty yards when he saw me, and a lucky shot killed him as he opened his wings.
Thus the receding ground sloped away so as to disappear from sight just at the entrances of the passes, forty or fifty yards away.
We continued approaching thus, and the interval was now reduced to fifty yards; looking beneath the ponies we could see hundreds of ducks all playing themselves in fancied security.
The ship was invisible at a distance of fifty yards, and it was impossible to preserve one's sense of direction in the raging wind and suffocating drift.
I happened to be a part of the load on his sledge, and a skid over some new drift within fifty yards of the winning post resulted in my being left on the snow.
Just before midnight a crack developed in the ice five yards wide and a mile long, fifty yards ahead of the ship.
It was very accurate at fifty yards, and the recoil was trifling with the considerable charge of six drams of powder.
The elephant thundered straight through obstacles we were obliged to go round, and in fifty yards we were fast in a thick bush and he within fifteen of us.
Surrounded by men with fixed bayonets he was hurried off to a distance of fifty yards, while other soldiers took up their position around the Arab prisoner.
All went well until the two officers and their prisoner were within fifty yards of one of the guard-houses that mark the termination of Spanish territory and the commencement of the Neutral Ground.
Fifty yards farther on, the gorge widened out suddenly, and they paused with an exclamation of astonishment.
They can shoot very straight up to forty or fifty yards, but beyond that their arrows are of very little use.
Our races here have usually been shot at fifty yards bounds," said Stevenson.
Snuff a candle at fifty yards, or drive a nail at forty.
So finally we decided that the rise should be at twenty-eight yards, the use of both barrels allowed, and the boundary at fifty yards--such rules as came to be later more generally accepted in this country.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fifty yards" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
