That point will be verified by the commissary, and the doctor will tell us if the blood could have spouted a distance of two yards from the arm-chair.
They turned their horses' heads in the direction of the lake, but they had hardly proceeded a hundred yards when George saw his friend Charles Balmer approaching on a handsome thoroughbred.
He descended from his carriage when about a hundredyards from the abode, and proceeded on foot to the appointed place.
This would have been ridiculous, as they were nearly eighty yards off.
I was kept awake part of last night by the howling of a hyena, about ten yardsfrom the tent.
In the evening I went a few hundred yards out of camp down the river, and shot an old cock guinea-fowl and a brace of small sandgrouse.
King Theodore was a celebrated spear thrower; it is said he could make sure of a man at thirty yardsor more.
The tail of the caravan did not come up till nearly dark, and so camped for the night about 150 yards from my tent.
I went out fishing in the evening, but some monster of the deep ran out about seventy yards of my line so fast that I could scarcely hold it.
It was a wonderfully lucky shot; as, if the deer had bounded a few yardsaway wounded, the bushes in this part were so dense that it would have been rather hard to find the game.
She was only a fewyards from the door, but lacked the courage to rise and fly.
A few yardsfurther off something grey, inert, was lying, a huddled-up heap of humanity twisted into a strange unnatural shape.
About four or five miles above Bedford, three Indians had made a blind of bushes, stuck in the ground as though they grew naturally, where they concealed themselves, about fifteen yards from the road.
That night they took me about three hundred yards from the camp, up a run, into a large, dark bottom, where they cut the brush in a thicket and placed a blanket on the ground and permitted me to sit down with my child.
Fortunately for us, they were using black powder, and outside four hundred yards one has time to avoid the bullet by dropping instantly at the smoke.
The strip of dry land is only a few hundred yards in width; on the lagoon side there was a white calcareous beach, the radiation from which, under this sultry climate, was very oppressive.
The theatre, half-hidden by its wealth of honeysuckle and fan-palm, is not fifty yards distant, but is quite thrown into insignificance by the hotel.
It was going at the rate of perhaps from twelve to fourteen miles an hour, and when nearest was perhaps 100 yards distant.
The island is connected with Marazion, a village on the mainland, 400 yards distant, by a causeway of stones.
Thus at the not inconsiderable fishing station of Sherringham several yards of cliff have been undermined and washed away in a few years' time; and in 1810 a large inn, placed too near the sea, was thrown in a heap of ruins on the beach.
About the year 1785, a vessel laden with wool, and having also on board two and a half tons of money, was driven ashore a few hundred yards west of the church, and soon went to pieces.
At the Falls all this water is narrowed to about 800 yards in breadth.
The women got frightened, and before the boat had gone twenty yards she upset in dark, icy water, ten feet deep.
Its length is from twelve to fifteen feet, while its weapon of defence is sometimes as much as two yards in length.
By the time he and the dog were within a hundred yards of the pasture gate Chum began to dance, from sheer anticipation; mincing sidewise on the tips of his toes in true collie fashion, and varying the dance by little rushes forward.
And from somewhere among the bushes, two hundred yards away, a second cowbell sounded in answer.
There, strolling unconcernedly, some yards in front of him, was a tall girl in white.
So they rejoined the waiting group and rode forward, Tad moodily in advance, Llyn and his sons in a whispering bunch someyards behind.
When the long parallel steel lines of the upper yards spread before us, flashing under the arc lights, we were away above yard speed.
He looked at the crimson ball of the sun, now drowning in a lake of ruddy vapors behind the belt of elms; he nodded appreciatively at the palely glimmering evening star and pointed to a spot some yards ahead.
We had left the track and plowed a hundred feet across the yards and jumped on to another track.
Running a locomotive into one of those big yardsis like shooting a rapid in a canoe.
Crossing the street, not twenty yards ahead, tripped the most dangerous one conceivable--the beautiful Bettina herself!
The attempt of the strikers to spill the silk in the yards had only made the reputation of a new engineer.
It was at this moment that I first caught sight of the fox, about fifty yards on the farther side of Casey's assortment of live stock and their guardian cur dogs, gliding over the wall like a cat, and slipping away up the road.
To be exact, the yellow mare sprang from inaction into a gallop, as if she had been stung by a wasp, and had a start of at least fifty yards before either the carman or the constable could get under weigh.
I called out to the invisible occupants of the car, which was about fifteen or twentyyards away, advancing towards it as I spoke.
We had proceeded perhaps a hundred yards without improving the situation, when my eye was caught by something moving swiftly through the furze-bushes that clothed a little hill on the right of the road.
Immediately, it was as if he was blinded by the bright light of a lantern, not ten yards from where he stood.
Though they were hidden from view of one another, they could not have been more than two yards apart.
It was so dark that they could not see twenty yards before them, and knew not in which direction they were being driven by the wind.
He then put the helm hard a-port, and did so only in the nick of time; for the white streak of a torpedo flashed through the water, missing the steamer's rudder by five yards at the most.
The first shot struck the water ten yardsfrom the "Kitty's" bows, whereas the next whistled high overhead, to plunge into the sea a long way astern.
The "Harlech" was now broadside on to the submarine, which was not a hundred and fifty yards away.
It plunged into the sea, not twenty yards from the "Mondavia's" bows; and both Crouch and his young companion were wetted from head to foot with spray.
The end was, that after forty yards or so, finding the foremost close upon me, I turn'd about and let fly with my pistol at him.
Billy walked beside one stirrup, and the girl on the other side, to see us a few yards on our way.
But already we were twenty yards away, and now in a broader street, whereof one side was wholly lin'd with warehouses.
But hardly had we gone ten yards than I saw a puff of white smoke above, then another, and then the summit ring'd with flame; and heard the noise of it roaring in the hills around.
I then serv'd the other in the same way: and at the end had two lines, each pretty near four hundred yards in length: which now I divided into eight lines of about a hundred yards each.
There was still many yards left, that could be paid out, when I heard my coin tinkle softly on the pavement.
In the pause of their first surprise we had stolen two hundred yards more.
This kinsman of mine had a fine house at the east end of Merton Street as you turn into Logic Lane: and I was ten yards from the front door, and running my fastest, when suddenly I tripp'd and fell headlong.
With sunk head Molly heaved herself up the last few yards and came to a halt with a stagger.
Twenty miles and more lay before me; and a bare hundred yards was all my start.
Morse, was four years old he was sent to school to an old lady within a few hundred yards of the parsonage.
He worked all day, and sometimes nearly all night, succeeding by April, 1845, in sewing a seam four yards long with his machine.
By the year 1802 the ship building industry had assumed importance in Pittsburg, one of the principal ship yards being upon the Monongahela The lumber being near at hand rendered the expense of building less than that in the Atlantic States.
There were no woodyards at that time and constant delays were unavoidable.
Two hundred yards further on was a large house, which had been transformed, as a flag proclaimed, into a hospital.
If you shape the mass roughly like a triangular pyramid you will have a base each of whose sides would be three yards long at most, or three yards and a half allowing for the space lost between the rouleaus of coins.
The two men leapt from the doors on either side and rushed to the pavement of the square, a few yards from the kiosk.
It would be well if he brought with him twenty powerful detectives, of whom half should be posted a hundred yards on one side of Essares' property and the other half on the other.
Four yards away, outside the windows of the library, was the basin with the statue of a child spouting a jet of water through a shell.
There was a woman there, within a radius of a dozen yards or so.
A few yards from the house, at the foot of a tree standing beside the slanting path, a man lay back in a wicker long-chair, with his face in the shade and his legs in the sun.
The car had gone down the Rue Raynouard, and Belval himself arrived just as it was stopping three or four hundred yards from the turning, in front of a large carriage-entrance on the left-hand side.
He was ten yardsfrom shore when he cried: "If you're afraid, I'll go alone.
It was a long, level strip of ground, several yards wide, carpeted with short grass and dandelions.
The Sea Monster's head appeared slowly, followed by several yards of neck.
I look'd hee should haue sent me two and twenty yards of Satten (as I am true Knight) and he sends me Security.
Eight yards of vneuen ground, is threescore & ten miles afoot with me: and the stony-hearted Villaines knowe it well enough.
A few minutes later the thin grey line of the British submarine rose above the swell some five hundred yards distant from the scene of her triumph.
A few minutes later a grinding crash came from the rocks less than a hundred yards distant from the end of the breakwater.
A few minutes later the U-boat rose to the surface about 300 yards distant, and after remaining there for some time, without making any effort to render assistance, she steamed slowly away.
A flicker of light, at first almost spectral, appeared from out of the darkness some 500 yards to starboard.
The sound-deadening qualities of falling snow would have cut short the range of any cry, for the human voice at its strongest, and with the atmospheric conditions favourable, can seldom be heard more than 1000 yards distant.
Each little vessel was given a number, and within a few weeks of their arrival from the building yards on the St Lawrence they sailed in flotillas out past the fortifications of Spithead, en route for their respective war bases.
This time a fiery rocket, bearing a life-line, soared from its tube with a loud hiss and sped across the hundred yards of boiling sea.
Flurries of snow obscured everything more than a few hundred yards distant.
When the range had closed to about 1000 yards she slowly swung round until almost broadside-on to the trawler, whose guns instantly opened fire in earnest.
About 120 yards to the south-west of it is "The Abbey Church," still used for worship.
Cathedral, from which the Abbey of St. Paul and St. Peter was distant 130 yards to the north.
The place might have been some twenty yards from the first pontoon, and for awhile the good beast which carried me found ground for his feet.
It touched the bank some fifty yardsfrom the place where we lay hidden, and instantly the girl leapt from it and disappeared in the brushwood.
It was a woodlander's hut, not twenty yards from the open, and hardly had we espied it before we were locked and barred within and laughing at the very magnitude of our misfortune.
He was quickly presented to Gerelda's girl friends, and then the party made their way up to the Crossmon Hotel, which was only a few yards distant, Varrick and Miss Northrup lagging a little behind the rest.
He gathered her up quickly in his arms, together with a few papers that lay under his feet, and carried her to his own lodgings, which were but a few yards distant.
They had said that Rosamond Lee had sent her to one of the stores for a few yards of velvet ribbon, without giving her her car-fare, expecting her to walk all the way in the face of such a storm.
