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Example sentences for "hundred and fifty yards"

  • The village stood on rising ground, and was surrounded for a distance of a hundred and fifty yards by a clearing.

  • Having the wind fair, we advanced quickly for about half the distance, at which time we were within a hundred and fifty yards of the elephant, who had just arrived at the water and had commenced drinking.

  • We now hunted for the "Baby's" elephant, which was almost immediately discovered lying dead within a hundred and fifty yards of the place where it had received the shot.

  • Slices of liver, well peppered with cayenne and salt, were grilling on the gridiron, and we were preparing to dine, when a terrific roar within a hundred and fifty yards informed us that a lion was also thinking of dinner.

  • By crawling on his hands and knees he came within a hundred and fifty yards, when his progress was stopped by a fallen tree.

  • When he was a hundred and fifty yards off, the ram raised his head again and took a longer observation.

  • A very noble buck, broadside on, was trotting head up across my front and down a mountain slope nearly a hundred and fifty yards away,--out of reasonable range as archers count distances.

  • At this position the slope of the valley towards the river was exceedingly gradual upon the west bank, until within a hundred and fifty yards of the Atbara, when the ground rapidly fell, and terminated in an abrupt cliff of white sandstone.

  • Reloading at once, the chase was carried on down the hillside, and the burrel were again found, standing looking at their pursuer about a hundred and fifty yards off.

  • About a hundred and fifty yards to the left of the laager was a little dell where I had hidden my horse, together with one belonging to the Boers, and my saddle and bridle.

  • With her went the dogs, who also had grown tired of inaction; a while passed, and suddenly she heard the dogs barking furiously about a hundred and fifty yards away.

  • The house was before us, not a hundred and fifty yards distant; and beyond it were some of the offices and several negro cabins.

  • It could not be more than a hundred and fifty yards wide, but extended on either hand as far as the eye could see, like a long avenue through the forest.

  • From time to time I turned my head, looked round, and listened; but I could perceive no sign of anyone following me, for a hundred or a hundred and fifty yards.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    her whole; hundred and; hundred and fifty miles; hundred and fifty pounds; hundred and fifty yards; hundred and fifty years; hundred crowns; hundred cubits; hundred days; hundred dirhems; hundred ducats; hundred francs; hundred knights; hundred leagues; hundred lines; hundred louis; hundred million; hundred millions; hundred pieces; hundred times; hundred tons; hundred twenty; hundred ways; hundredth part; slavery itself; western passage