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Example sentences for "five versts"

  • It was hopeless to think of starting with a dangerous river to cross and the next post twenty-five versts distant.

  • These sources are formed by a depression of about twenty-five versts in diameter, towards which converge several small ravines.

  • The news obliged my husband to suspend his scientific operations, and proceed to Selenoi Sastava, from which we were distant only thirty-five versts.

  • Shenkursk is a village about one hundred and twenty-five versts up the Vaga River from its junction with the Dvina River.

  • Winter blizzards found the outfit broken into trusty detachments scattered all the way from Kholmogori, ninety versts north of Yemetskoe, to Morjegorskaya, fifty-five versts south of company headquarters in Yemetskoe.

  • This condition persisted for thirty-five versts until we reached Beresnik.

  • If I have to go five versts on business, I'll go five versts, and if ten versts, I'll go ten.

  • We've got twenty-five versts to go and make them before dark," Arina Petrovna cut him short.

  • We were four hours making twenty-five versts to the last station before reaching Kazan.

  • The ancient town is on the site of the original settlement, but frequent inundations caused its abandonment for the other bank of the river, five versts away.

  • The journey by water was upon the Ghijiga river; five versts of rowing and thirteen of towing by men or dogs.

  • The second day from Blagoveshchensk we were where the Amoor flows twenty-five versts around a peninsula only one verst wide.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    always right; being formed; five acts; five cases; five centimes; five centuries; five children; five days; five eggs; five horizontal; five hundred; five miles; five months; five paces; five parasangs; five parts; five points; five pound; five regiments; five roubles; five rupees; five sail; five seconds; five thousand; five women; scientific thought