They say that in deep places you can see the bottom over a verst below; and I myself have seen to such a depth, with rocks and mountains plunged in the turquoise-blue, that it sent a shiver all over me.
On reaching the quays below a low wooden bridge, very much like that which spans the Rhine at Mayence, crosses the Oka at a point about a verst distant from its embouchure.
Price of posting: Horses three kopeks, a verst each from Irkoutsk to Bogotolsk.
Footnote 2: A verst is about three-quarters of a mile.
As a house without a foundation will quickly fall, so will a Christian that is not well verstin the fundamentals of Religion.
America was a long, long journey, but they had started, and every verst they covered lessened the number that lay between them and the Promised Land.
But the Reds had their artillery all set to command the road at Verst 19 and threw the Russian troops into confusion with severe losses.
One verst further back in the big clearing was Kodish village, a place which by all the rules of field strategy was absolutely untenable.
After our digging in at Verst 445 in early November, a Company of Liverpools came from Economia to aid the French infantry and American and French machine gunners, supported by French artillery, to hold that winter front.
At Verst 445, the very front, "I" Company gallantly went in to relieve the French and Russian under artillery barrage and a heavy machine gun barrage together with a heavy infantry attack on one flank.
Here we are back to the river again and another picturesque scene with its formidable hill--Verst 18.
That "stolen horse" pole there may be a verst post.
The Reds could not get themselves together for another attack at this point before dark but did drive Ballard backverst after verst that afternoon.
We crawl along the east shore for a verst and then cross squarely to the other side, facing a cold, harsh wind.
After this we stretched in exhaustion on the floor and slept off the day and night in spite of the constant roar of Bolo guns and the bursting of shells that were coming from our camp at Verst 18.
Whilst still half a mile from the hills, I noticed a large herd of antelopes galloping for a point, to gain which they had to cross my line of march about a quarter of a verst in front of me.
For the first verst or so of the sixteen we had to travel before nightfall, the weather kept clear and bright, after which it grew suddenly murky and overcast.
It was a ten-verst tramp, and he chose the night to do it in.
After a verst or two I began to find my friend was no ‘blagueur,’ for in a very short time we had bagged several hares and a few quail.
Every verst showed us deeper drifts, and at the last station from Tiflis the drivers, in defiance of their master’s orders, refused to get out of their warm corners to drive us through the wintry night to the end of our journey.
After going for a verst or so, my yemstchik came to his first halt.
In this he failed, and I started with a lead of half a verst or more.
After riding about a verstthey came up with the robbers, to find they were three times their number, and prepared to fight for their booty.
Footnote 6: A verst is two-thirds of an English mile.
All the stancias on this road are leased by the Government to Yakute peasants, who are legally entitled to receive three kopeks a verst for every pair of deer.
From Verkolensk to Yakutsk, 4½ kopeks a verst per horse.
About half a verstaway there was a big marsh, around which splendid reeds for his flutes grew.
Semyon used to go over his verst twice a day, examine and screw up nuts here and there, keep the bed level, look at the water-pipes, and then go home to his own affairs.
The road is divided into sections of a verst each, a verst being about two-thirds of a mile.
A Russian verst about night-fall, and under such conditions as I have endeavoured to point out to the reader, is an unknown quantity.
Moreover the Austrians were advancing "a verst a minute.
I had myself already known something of the kind and had wondered at the fashion in which the crossing of a mere verst or two can bring the old life about one.
I said, "we're only a verst or two from the Austrians and not a sound to be heard.
Simultaneously a new attempt was made to drive the Jews from the forbidden fifty verst zone along the Western border of the Empire, particularly in Bessarabia.
To settle freely in the formerly prohibited cities and city districts, [1] not excluding those situated within the twenty-one verst zone along the Prussian and Austrian frontier.
Lizaveta Prokhorovna's manor stood a verst and a half distant from her village, on the left-hand side of the country road along which Akim was walking.
This I could not refuse; but he rode very slowly, and made the verst a very long one.
Suffice it to say that, after another night passed on foot, I stood within half a verst of my father's door, yet I dared not venture into the village by daylight.
He told me that if I would let him ride one verst more with me he would then turn back.
We rode on till we came to a copse, a quarter of a verst or so from the house of the young Barin.
We had marched a verst or more when thick clouds began to gather in the sky, and loud rumblings were heard.
This ceremony over, the Count and his friends drove on to his mansion, about a verst farther within the estate.
Looking out of the windows we could see four long trains ahead of us, and one about half a verst behind us.
As I passed on to the road I saw the hussars (I believe it was the same party) riding over the country about a verst away; and I lost no time in getting into some hollow ground, which was a marsh, with a brook running through it.
He fainted twice; and sometimes we were compelled to carry him a verst or two; but as soon as he gained a little strength he insisted on marching like the rest of us.
When morning came, I calculated that 2,000 German bodies lay on half a verst of our front.
I looked back for the last time when we were half a verst along the road.
Neither side had a decided victory in any part of the field, and the ground lost or won never exceeded a verst or two in extent and was often less than a hundred yards.
At that moment, a noise was heard on the road, about half a verst distant.
From a verst above and below the point where the scarp met the river's bank, came a dull murmur, proving that the Tartars were on foot, expecting some signal.
In a few minutes they were not more than half a verst from the river.
And he plunged into the river, which here was half a verst in width.
Mad with rage, he tore along over verst after verst with the speed of an express train, lashing his sides with his tail, seeking by the rapidity of his pace an alleviation of his torture.
He accordingly ran on towards this house, still about half a verst distant.
Michael Strogoff and the iemschik took more than two hours in getting up this bit of road, only half a verst in length, so directly exposed was it to the lashing of the storm.
Michael Strogoff was not more than half a verst from the town.
He was not more than half a verst from Kolyvan when he observed flames shooting up among the houses of the town, and the steeple of a church fell in the midst of clouds of smoke and fire.
In the language of the Russian postillions the "crow" is the stingy or poor traveler, who at the post-houses only pays two or three copecks a verst for the horses.
Half a verstfrom the first houses," replied Nadia.
On the 22d, Spangberg cast anchor one verst from shore, and sought to communicate with them.
They soon began to sound, and one verst from shore they cast anchor.
The town of Kansk is a verst and a half from the ferry.
Along the whole length of the post-road the distances from station to station are marked at every verst by wooden poles, painted black and white; and at each station a high post indicates the distances from the chief towns.
As the current was running at the rate of six or seven miles an hour, we were carried more than half a verst down before we gained the shore; the other Chinese and the Karaikee crying out for assistance.
On the 5th of August Mr. Dobell reached the river Aldan, one of the principal tributaries of the Lena, and found it a very deep stream, about a verst and a half wide, abounding with fish.
As they found no good bay on that shore, they proceeded through a strait of about a verst broad, which separates Umnak from Unalashka.
In the beginning of September they arrived at Umnak, one of the Fox Islands, and cast anchor about a verst from the shore.
But the vessel was impeded by large bodies of floating ice, and a strong current, which seemed to bear Westward at the rate of a verst an hour.
Samit led Ammalát among the bushes, over the river, and having passed about half a verst among stones, began to descend.
Trirodov's house stood about a verst and a half from the edge of the town, not at the end where the dirty and smoky factory buildings squatted, but quite at the other end, along the River Skorodyen, above the town of Skorodozh.
There was still a half-verst to go through the wood on foot.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "verst" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
