In elephant shooting, also, the hunter endeavors to approach within twenty or thirty yards, so that the bullets may be placed exactly where their penetration will be the most instantaneously deadly.
One by one we edged forward, and there, thirty yards away, partly hidden by slender bamboos, stood a motionless elephant.
Above this island the river Poncara falls into the Missouri from the south, and is thirty yards wide at the entrance.
It is thirty yards wide at its entrance, has a very gentle current, and is navigable for some distance.
At eight and a quarter miles we came to the mouth of a creek on the north, thirty yards wide, with some running water and a rocky bed: we called it Windsor creek, after one of the party.
The trees here were very large, and planted some twenty or thirty yards apart: as there are no branches on their lower parts animals see very far.
Crossed the Luao by a bridge, thirty yards long, and more than half a mile of flood on each side; passed many villages, standing on little heights, which overlook plains filled with water.
Keeping under cover as well as they could they retired to the barricade, thirty yards lower.
He went back to the embers of the fire, lighted the torches, and, returning to the barrier, threw them twenty or thirty yards up the ravine.
You see, we can't make them out till they are within twenty or thirty yards of us.
Then he tried at thirty yards, and as before, when he practised, the ball hit the tree five or six inches lower than the mark.
None of the four bullets struck either the tree or the branches; so, though they could hit it at thirty yards, they could not rely on their gun at sixty.
There he lay for half a minute, dazed, and they might easily have taken him prisoner, but they could not stop their rush till they had gone twenty or thirty yards.
The most formidable cataract in it, Morumbwa, has only about twenty feet of fall, in a distance of thirty yards, and it must entirely disappear when the water stands eighty feet higher.
Paul was cut off from the shore bythirty yards of heaving ice.
Thirty yards to the place where the trail ran between uprising walls of rock; thirty yards to that shelter; thirty yards to safety.
As to the hares, little more than a week of deep snow cripples their strength: they will run but twenty or thirty yards, and may be killed occasionally with a stick or captured alive.
So in the garden here he makes a desperate rush, seizes his prey, and off again twenty or thirty yards, exhibiting an amusing mixture of courage and timidity.
The lane, at the same time, is crossed by a torrent, which may spread out to thirty yards wide in the hollow, shallow at the edges, but swift and deep in the middle.
The stockade did not run across the road, but parallel to it, the distance varying from twenty to thirty yards.
Near him were Lieutenant Greaves and, thirty yards behind, Colonel Adams and Lieutenant Norman.
In front of them extended a courtyard, sloping downwards towards a large pond, twenty or thirty yards away, beside which grew a poplar-tree.
The man was found stripped to the skin, and his boots had been carried thirty yards away.
Three persons were sitting in the verandah of a house during a storm, when they suddenly saw a fireball travelling past them through the air for a distance of thirty yards or so.
Quail and rabbits usually will permit a man to approach them within twenty or thirty yards.
But he came onward, directly for us, and at thirty yardsstopped to root in the ground again.
There are lots of grizzlies in the park all right, and some of them are not very wild, but if you get out away from the hotels a few miles, they are not going to come up and present their broadsides to you at thirty yards.
I don't know, of course, just how close you can place your arrows at thirty yards, and it is getting the first hole into them that I am most interested in now.
Thirty yards behind it came the wild dogs; before it had gained the middle of the open space they ran into it, and though I was within 100 yards, they had torn it nearly to pieces when I got up.
In a short time a cow appeared round the corner within thirty yards of where I lay.
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