The same result again on the 10th: observation 2 kilometres behind reckoning.
With the greatest ease they covered the day's march at a pace of seven and a half kilometres (four miles and two-thirds) an hour.
It also told us what course to steer by compass to reach the next beacon, which lay five kilometres from this one.
All the sledge-meters gave seventeen geographical miles, or thirty-one kilometres (nineteen and a quarter statute miles).
According to this, Polheim would be assumed to lie one and a half geographical miles, or barely three kilometres, from the South Pole, and certainly not so much as six kilometres from it.
There was also a small village called Pernes, about three kilometres away, which most of the boys will remember.
This fortification wall was thirty-four kilometres in length; was strengthened by ninety-four bastions, and surrounded and supported by thirteen detached forts.
Again, at the end of this chapter we are expressly told that he was now in his dukedom of Viseu, in the province of Beira, some 50 kilometres N.
As to the island on which Dinis Diaz and his men landed near the Cape, this may have been either (1) Goree, two kilometres from the mainland, and fronting Dakar on the S.
The mother-convent of the Order of Christ was at Thomar, in the (Portuguese) province of Estremadura, 45 kilometres N.
In particular, a divisional order taken in December, 1917, gave the gas danger zone as within fifteen kilometresof the front line, and within this region every one must carry a mask.
Again, prisoners taken at Maurepas stated that one of the English gas attacks was effective 10 kilometres back.
I will give you only one instance of this gas; men 7 and 8 kilometres behind the front line became unconscious from the tail of the gas cloud, and its effects are felt 12 kilometres behind the front.
The alert position of the mask was insisted upon within two kilometres of the front line.
From these stakes, which marked the ends of our line, we were ordered to take a course due north, sighting our direction by trees and natural objects several kilometres in the rear of the German lines.
At Arras there are more than four hundred kilometres of trench-line which they have restored to France.
Everybody is aware how scrupulously France avoided every hostile measure, and, during the critical days preceding the war, withdrew all troops ten kilometres from the frontier to prevent a clash.
Maria del Mare, on the cliff top, very near the sea, and about three kilometres south of Staletti.
After 2-1/2 kilometres the road descends as far as the stream of Longeau or Eparges.
About 3 kilometres past Varennes, a road leads right to some German dug-outs said to be those of the Crown Prince.
The enemy advanced to within 8 kilometres of their objective, the railway station of Les Islettes.
Turn left and drive carefully for the first two kilometres which are in pretty bad repair.
Already the enemy patrols had reached the cross road of Maison Forestiere, 2 kilometres south of Hill 285.
The extent of the zone of forts reached 30 kilometres and 11 new forts were added.
The terrace of the table-lands of the right bank, for some ten kilometres in width, separates the valley of the Meuse from the marshy plain of the Woevre.
Cross the railway and about 4 kilometres from Varennes, take the road leading right to the new village of Vauquois at the foot of the famous mound.
In a field hospital, some ten kilometres behind the lines, Marius lay dying.
The writer of these sketches has experienced many "months of boredom," in a French military field hospital, situated ten kilometres behind the lines, in Belgium.
The guns are raising Hell, seven kilometres beyond us, and our baracques shake and tremble with their thunder.
Its length was two kilometres all but forty-four yards, or an English mile and a quarter.
I took the road viâ Rouen as the best, though there is a shorter cut, and about two kilometres beyond the quaint old city, just as it was getting light, I got a puncture on the off back tyre.
About seven kilometres along that road you'll come to cross-ways.
Thirty kilometres beyond Die is the village of Aspres, where I knew I should join the main road from Grenoble to Aix in Provence, and was keeping a good look-out not to run past it.
Two kilometres behind, and parallel to, this portion of the German line ran the Roeux--Gavrelle road.
For the rest, there was nothing to suggest that Paris might not be fifty kilometres distant.
To be strictly truthful, I ought to state that, not being enough used to the Greek language to discriminate fine shades of meaning, I am not sure but that the man meant to send his wife the two kilometres in question.
On the hottest part of the return journey, as we stopped at a house and asked for grapes, the man of the house said that his vineyard was two kilometres distant, but insisted upon going to it at once.
We've killed a lot of Huns and only lost a few kilometres of ground .
I crept two kilometres like that until I found a dressing-station.
We landed at Rouen, and went by train, via Amiens, to Houtmont, a few kilometres west of Mauberge.
Forty-five kilometres reckoned down from Bonn bring us to the confluence of the Wipper and the Rhine.
Perhaps he took three or four days to perform the forty-five kilometres which separate Sancerre from Bourges.
He had established his new camp to the east of that of Caesar, perhaps at La Cheneviere, at the confluence of the Yevre and the brook of Villabon, fourteen kilometres from Bourges.
The two armies encounter near the little stream of the Haine, at fourteen kilometres from Charleroi.
It retains this character as far as fifty-five or sixty kilometres from Alise, to the east of the road from Pranthoy to Dijon, where it becomes more easy and open.
This position is at the distance of seven kilometres to the east of Avranches.
We believe, therefore, that they were at a distance of less than two kilometres from the gate O of the town, engaged in fortifying the plateau of the heights of Risolles.
Admitting that the Helvetii had passed near Issy-l'Eveque, Mount Tauffrin, which rises at a distance of four kilometres to the west of that village, answers to the conditions of the text.
The battle-field of the Vingeanne, which we consider as the true one, is at a distance of sixty-five kilometres from Alise.
Santiago de Compostella was once the capital of Galicia; it lies 55 kilometres south of Coruna, on the north bank, and near the source, of the River Sar, which flows into the Ulla.
Within a distance of less than three kilometres [= one mile and seven eighths English], more than sixty torrents hurl into the depths of the gorge the debris torn from its two flanks.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kilometres" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
