There is a volcano about fifteen or twenty wersts from the port, which the naturalists who accompanied count de la Perouse visited, and which will be mentioned in his voyage.
A few wersts farther on, I perceived a volcano to the north, which emitted no flame, but a column of very thick smoke ascended from it.
It would have been the height of imprudence to quit the sand bank, and cross, in such foul weather and such feeble boats, two wersts of deep water, which is the width of the bay formed by the mouth of the river.
Ivaschkin is forty wersts from Khaluli, and very near to the sea.
It appeared to be about two wersts from us, south of the entrance of the Bolchaïa-reka.
Upon leaving Gavenki, we had quitted the eastern coast, and the western presented itself to our view twowersts from Pousteretsk.
There are some of these wandering Koriacs, I am told, in the island of Karagui, which is twenty-six wersts from the village of that name.
Farther on we found some more desolated habitations, formerly the ostrog of Ivaschkin, and which had been removed, for a similar reason, thirty wersts from its former situation.
We came up to it at ten wersts from Ganal, and found it in the state we had wished.
We were but four wersts from a village, and it was easy to have speedy succour.
The post service is performed by exiles of every description, whose settlements are at the distance of twenty-five, and sometimes fifty wersts from one another.
In the morning of 4 May, we passed over the mountain of Iné, two hundred and twenty wersts from Taousk.
The 27, about three o’clock in the afternoon I stopt at Ola, a Toungouse ostrog, a hundred and fourteen wersts from Siglann.
I hastened to pay my compliments to Madame Kasloff, and deliver the packets entrusted to my care, but she was in the country four wersts from Okotsk, and I was so fatigued that M.
The next morning I reached a place called Yarmangui, which is two hundred wersts from Amgui, and on the border of the Lena.
Twelve wersts from Okotik, a tolerably large salt work was pointed out to me on the sea coast; the men employed in it were all malefactors or convicts.
For the space of a hundred wersts we travelled across a moving swamp, in which our horses sunk so deep that we were obliged to alight in order to assist in extricating them; the rest of the way was not so bad.
The weakness of our horses obliged us to halt twenty-five wersts from Moundoukann, in a place that offered us most pasture, and that seemed to have few traces of bears.
Four hundred wersts from Peledoui I passed by a small town called Kirinsk, or Kiringui, at the bottom of which the Lena flows, and farther on the Kiringa.
These magnificent bridges, made of resinous fir, began at the distance of a few wersts from the passage.
In this manner did Ney support the retreat from Wiazma to Evé, and a few wersts beyond it.
Napoleon had proceeded but a few wersts from that place, when the winter began.
Moscow is but one hundred and ten werstsfrom Malo-Yaroslawetz; four days would have been sufficient to go that distance; we took six.
He proceeded several wersts in that direction, tired himself, and returned.
British, having been so low as the former rate in the year 1803, and that three wersts are about equal to two English miles, so that we may fairly enough estimate this insult, as K.
A Hebrew is not allowed to engage the assistance of any Christian servant, neither is he permitted to settle as an agriculturist within four or five werstsfrom the habitation of a Christian.
Twelve wersts more, and it would be at the end of its march.
This error, for such it was, led to his advanced guard, who had not been informed of the change of plan, being placed in some danger at Inkowo, a place about two wersts from Rudneia.
This escarpment occupies exactly the middle between the two points of the peninsula, and is three wersts long (two miles), and in the place where the mammoth was found, this rock has a perpendicular elevation of 30 or 40 toises.
This fortress, together with the surrounding country, to the extent of three wersts and a half, was ceded to Russia.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wersts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
