Then we started for the ship, towing the skin, but when we reached the crack in the ice, it had opened about twenty-five yards, so we were fairly caught.
Time after time he charged to within twenty-five yards, at the head of his warriors, firing with a pistol and urging the braves to ride over the white men.
It took me a full hour to make twenty-five yards in this manner, which brought me within, as I should judge, thirty-five yards of them.
I felt that I must get very near to be sure of my aim with arrows, and to pierce them sufficiently deep to produce death; at least within twenty-five yards.
Sherman was twenty-five yards back, in the rear of the lot, and running in a very hopeless fashion.
Teddy was, perhaps, five yards to the good when he swung into the stretch, and looked over his shoulder, expecting to see his college mate close up and ready to take up the running.
And the announcer lifted his crimson trumpet: "Forty-five Yards Hurdles--fourth heat won by No.
Twice she barely made her distance; the third time she failed by six inches and, amidst cheering plainly heard on the campus, Erskine took the ball on her opponent's twenty-five yards.
He was given a handicap of thirty-five yards, and, although this time he was careful to wait for the pistol, he came to the conclusion when half the distance was run that he might as well drop out of the race.
They are built of loose stones and earth, and of various sizes; some as high as five yards, with a diameter of from five to twenty yards.
The wall is in general from four to five yards high, and has on the inside terraces with steps to lead to the top.
It is about thirty-five yards wide, and said to be navigable for boats several leagues.
We passed two creeks, one called Tiger creek on the north, twenty-five yards wide at the extremity of a large island called Panther Island; the other Tabo creek on the south, fifteen yards wide.
At the junction the Missouri is about eight hundred and seventy-five yards wide, and the Osage three hundred and ninety-seven.
Among these I made out a bull facing us about a hundred and twenty-five yards away, and managed to stagger him, but could not bring him down.
Twice he came in our direction, but both times gave it up after advancing twenty-five yards or so.
If you do not believe it, take a picture of a horse at as short a range as twenty-five yards.
They passed my thorn-bush, Umkopo leading by five yards, and I fired twice at the brute's shoulder as he hurtled by.
I twisted myself round to the other side of the bush while his impetus carried him forward, and by the time I was able to peer out at him, he was already twenty-five yards away, and facing once more in my direction.
The wagons were then in a deep ravine, and could not be seen, by the Indians in pursuit, until within seventy-five yards.
It is not more than half a mile from the mouth of Pole Alley, farther to the south, where Pudding river embogues into the Willamette; it is twenty-five yards in width at the mouth.
At the mouth it is about twenty-five yards in width, quite deep, and will bear upon its bosom crafts of large burthen for ten miles, to the falls.
It has an interior diameter of approximately twenty-five yards.
This time it was St. Clair who caught and who, eluding both Thacher ends, ran straight along the side line until he was upset near the enemy's thirty-five yards.
Got off two nice little runs, one for thirty and the other for forty-five yards.
Four seconds later it was snuggled under Tim Otis's chest near the thirty-five yards, for Tim had followed the forwards through and trailed the bouncing pigskin up the field.
Bevis stepped five yards nearer, if he could not hit it at twenty-five yards, he did not think it would be his fault.
Bevis was obliged to be content with accuracy up to twenty, or at most twenty-five yards.
Compton is particularly good at long ranges, so he pointed out a bush about one hundred and seventy-five yards distant.
But the backing permitted its being drawn to ten inches, when it shot a distance of eighty-five yards.
Having a blunt arrow on the bowstring, he shot across the twenty-five yards of bank, and quite unexpectedly cracked the animal on the foreleg, breaking the bone.
This bow, when drawn the standard arrow length of twenty-eight inches, weighed sixty-five pounds and shot a light flight arrow two hundred and twenty-five yards.
The German front line was only sixty-five yards away, and the town of Messines could be seen in the distance.
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