The historical position of that gun was one kilometre due east of the town of Bathelemont and three hundred metres northeast of the Bauzemont-Bathelemont road.
They succeeded, though not without loss, and at the end of the day, thanks to this slow but sure tenacity, they were within one kilometre of Fismes and masters of Villes, Savoye and Chezelle Farm.
The target was a German battery of 150 millimetre or 6-inch guns located two kilometres back of the German first line trenches, and one kilometre in back of the boundary line between France and German-Lorraine.
Through kilometre after kilometre of gaslit clattering monotony that immense and deafening conveyance took me.
They were late, no doubt, for they were hastening onward at full speed, thundering along under the stormy sky, through the fiery atmosphere, devouring kilometre after kilometre in swift succession.
Kilometre after kilometre of this vile road is paved with blocks of stone as big as one's head, half of which are out of place.
Blessed be the paternal French government; the traveller in la belle France has much for which to be grateful to it: its excellent roadways, its sign-boards, and its kilometre stones most of all.
They average, taken together, eighty-three kilometres to thekilometre carré.
There are sixty-six kilometres of roads to the square kilometre (kilometre carré).
They average fourteen kilometres to the kilometre carré.
It is much better than a mere pegging away round and round a two hundred and fifty kilometre circuit, as some trials and races have been run.
There are fifty-four kilometres of roads of all grades to the kilometre carré.
The beast did not look as though he could draw a perambulator, but he buckled down to it with a will, and brought us safely through the half-kilometre or so of crooked streets which led to the centre of Givors.
We were going by easy stages now, even the long tows of grain and coal-laden barges were gaining on us, for we were straggling disgracefully and stopping at almost every kilometre stone.
We had to carry the loads nearly a kilometre that afternoon, and the canoes were pulled out on the bank so that they might be in readiness to be dragged overland next day.
On the 10th we again embarked and made a kilometre and a half, spending most of the time in getting past two more rapids.
Seven hours were spent in getting past a series of rapids at which the portage, over rocky and difficult ground, was a kilometre long.
The first day we shifted camp a kilometre and a half to the foot of this series of rapids.
After walking about a kilometre he heard ahead a kind of howling noise, which he thought was made by spider-monkeys.
A kilometre and a half after leaving this camp we came on a stretch of big rapids.
We had a guide; we took our baggage down by a carry three-quarters of a kilometre long; and the canoes were run through known channels the following morning.
The day of our arrival in the village where Tante Rosa spread for us the banquet mentioned in the second chapter, we were so fortunate as to witness the final sprint of a twenty-five kilometre race.
On the main express routes that radiate outward from Brussels in every direction there were a number of rapides, or fast express trains, that made very good time indeed--a speed of a kilometre per minute being about the average.
A day was taken up by preparations for the passage of the Yser, a kilometre below Dixmude.
The General had decided that an attack should debouch from the town "supported by a powerful mass of artillery and having for main objective the Chateau on the road to Woumen, about a kilometre from Dixmude.
He knows that there is a triple row of tents, a quarter of a kilometre apart.
On one of the military roads which branch off from Sidi-bel-Abbes in all directions, the march goes on until the twelfth kilometre is reached, and then the men are marched back again.
One left camp Saturday afternoon and returned Sunday night, making the 40-kilometre trip in two to four hours, depending on the success with which the diminutive engine that pulled the train made the ascent of the hills en route.
We went only a kilometre or so to the left, toward Seicheprey, when we found the way impassable.
Two days later the regiment left Luneville on a 120-kilometre hike to the divisional area, in the vicinity of Langres, where the division was to spend some time in manoeuvres.
The two platoons were about half a kilometre apart, Lieutenant Leprohon commanding the first, and Lieutenant Lombardi the second.
In suburban Hennebont, scarce a kilometre away, on the left bank of the Blavet, are to be seen the remains of the old Abbaye de la Joie, a famous establishment of the monks of the Cistercian order.
Farman made rapid progress; and, as has been said, by the beginning of 1908 he gained the two thousand pound Deutsch-Archdeacon prize for a closed circuit of one kilometre in length.
He also won the passenger-carrying prize in a flight which carried two passengers round the ten-kilometre course in about ten minutes and a half.
At La Ganterie on the road to Dol, at the 8½ kilometre milestone, a little to the left is a ruined allée couverte, on the site of a prehistoric workshop for tools.
A kilometre west of le Moustoir, on the Lande de Coh-Coet, a large dolmen formed of three blocks only; the coverer is 18 feet long.
A fine dolmen is on a rocky elevation a kilometre N.
Er-lanic is situated half a kilometre to the south-east of Gavrinis, and here are the two cromlechs already mentioned, one dipping into the sea, the other already in deep water.
A kilometre beyond the gardens which face the Casino at Monte Carlo is a little winding road leading blindly up the hillside.
There is a kilometre stretch just west of Salon that the Automobile Club de France has adjudged to be perfectly level, and there a road-devouring monster of 200 h.
One will be more interested in making his way eastward along the coast, when every kilometre will open up new splendours of landscape.
Illustration: The Kilometre West of Salon] Before returning to the shores of the Étang de Berre, one should make a détour to Roquefavour and Ventabren.
On January 7th Latham, flying at Mourmelon, first made the vertical kilometre and dedicated the record to Delagrange, this being the day of his friend's funeral.
Von Koenik gave an order, the sergeant bundled Rollo and Kenneth into an isolated house situated about half a kilometre from the town.
We made at once for Princess Margaret's Church, rather more than a kilometre distant from the lower part of the town, at the end of a long, straight, squalid road.
This wooded region extends over a width of a kilometre and a half and a depth of four kilometres.
In the immediate vicinity of our trenches, to the west at the Mill and to the east of the wood of Sabot, they swerved to the extent of over a kilometre to the north of the village and of the source of the Ain.
To the west of the road, from Saint-Hilaire to Saint-Souplet, the troops traversed the first enemy line and rushed forward for a distance of about a kilometre as far as a supporting trench, in front of which they were stopped by the wirework.
A kilometre beyond is still another point of call, and from there one can look directly into one of the most fought-over sections of ground in the long line from the sea to Belfort.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kilometre" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
