Leaving his comrades to take possession of the barricade, he dashed towards a second position, sixty yards ahead, where a machine-gun section was frantically trying to turn its weapon upon the stormers.
In many cases the trenches had walls of concrete, and the wire entanglements were as much as sixty yards deep.
Towards dusk the submarine ventured within sixty yards of the land, and then Lieutenant Hughes, stripped to the skin, went overboard, and pushing his raft before him, swam to the shore.
The balls can be thrown fifty or sixty yards, but with little certainty.
All occurred in a level area of shifting sand, sixty yards by twenty, situated among some high sand-hillocks, and at the distance of about half a mile from a chain of hills four or five hundred feet in height.
It varies in width from thirty to sixty yards, and its surface is level and smooth; it is composed of obscurely-stratified hard sandstone.
Anxious not to fail in this first trial, I got down flat on the ground and crawled snake-fashion for a distance of fifty or sixty yards, until I was less than twenty yards from the birds, when I fired and killed one.
In the afternoon we passed the town of Parkersburg, in the state of Virginia, at the mouth of the Little Kenaway, fifty or sixty yards wide.
About noon we passed the mouth of the great Hockhocking river, fifty or sixty yards wide; this river runs through the State of Ohio, between the Scioto and Muskinghum rivers.
The river bed in the front of our camp was found by admeasurement to be sixty yards in width, twenty of which were naked sand-bar, the remaining forty covered with water, having an average depth of about ten inches.
Then they could hit anything with it up to sixty yards.
Hurling it the string imparted a second force, and the dart, twirling like an arrow, flew fifty or sixty yards.
They could not trust themselves to swim more than fifty or sixty yards; there was, too, the risk of weeds, in which they might get entangled.
According to all the books we should have been able, provided we were downwind and made no noise, to have approached within fifty or sixty yards undiscovered.
While waiting for the safari to come up, Billy wandered away fifty or sixty yards to sit under a big tree.
Sometimes he would start off quite confidently for fifty or sixty yards, so that we thought at last we were rid of him, but always he returned to the exact spot where we had first seen him, there to stamp, and blow.
I have often tried them at a mark at sixty yards, and, although a very bad hand with a bow myself, I have invariably beaten them with their own weapons.
It is therefore customary in Africa, to fire at the shoulder with a very heavy rifle at a distance of fifty or sixty yards.
The ground was very favourable, and, having the wind, we reached an excellent position among some trees within sixty yards of the herd of deer, who were standing in a little glade.
It varies in width from thirty to sixty yards, and its surface is level and smooth; it is composed of obscurely stratified hard sandstone.
The breadth of the groove is often not more than from forty to sixty yards, and it has some sharp turnings, double channels, and little cataracts in it.
The country being covered with open forest, a small tree had to be cut about every fifty or sixty yards.
When he had passed this obstacle he continued his crawling till he reached a distance of sixty yards.
In other words, at sixty yards a bow can shoot arrows with an error of dispersion of no more than six inches.
Hastily nocking a blunt arrow on my bowstring, I let fly at sixty yards as he started to make his escape.
Undaunted, our bowman hastened back, saw the crafty beast retreating in a slinking gallop, drew his faithful bow, and shot at sixty yards.
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