Then taking his meerschaum from his lips, he set it down, and seated himself at a few paces from Edward Arundel on the lowest of the moss-grown steps leading up to the pavilion.
To top it all, my sergeant tried to put me through the paces of the military drill, and succeeded.
When, after your return from Martinique, you came to dwell in the little town of Niort, with your lady mother, I saw you often in our Jesuit church, which was at twopaces from your house.
His courage would have cost him his life, had not my musket missed fire; for I was not five paces from him when he threw his spear, and had resolved to shoot him to save myself.
I ordered two casks to be filled with water out of a pond about twenty paces behind the landing-place; giving the natives to understand, that this was one of the articles we wanted.
He then wrings his hands and paces the floor excitedly ending at D.
After a few paces she breaks forcibly away from Tom, and with a wild cry of "No!
Buccini gives the following account of this eruption: "The crater was five miles in circumference, and about 1,000 paces deep.
Its crater was only twenty or thirty paces in diameter; but the melted lava 'seethed and rolled in waves as high as towers.
So they stayed behind the ridge, about a hundred paces from the trees where the two Russian sentinels were posted.
Between the double rows of haggard creatures slowly strode the General, stopping every few paces to speak to the wounded.
The hot iron was then thrown down, and was frizzling on the wet ground a few paces from me.
The man fired as I passed only a few paces from him; but, as luck would have it, this second attempt also left me untouched.
Lieutenant Delamain on going eight or ten paces down, got a sight of the lion and discharged his rifle at him.
Their paces are very agreeable, being wholly without the circular motion of the hind legs, which makes ours so tiring to ride.
You 'd say that any fool could put up two men, twelve or even ten paces asunder, and tell them to blaze away; and if that was all there was in it, it would be simple enough.
We went on half a day before we could come to the landing place, and wear forced to make another carriage a point of 2 leagues long and some 60 paces broad.
I was in a place which was not 200 paces in the wood, where many peeces of copper weare uncovered.
I admired the weather, cleare and calme that we could scarce see him, yet that we should heare them speake, and understand, as if they weare but 20 or 30 pacesfrom us.
Within 200 paces nigh we found them converted into men, who weare of an extraordinary height, lying all along the strand asleepe.
The elders, heering this, goes and meets him some 50 paces out of the village for to maintaine their rights.
We retired into the wood, where we made a fire some 200 paces from the river.
My nephew & the other man that was with him came also within 10 paces of us without any feare, although they see the Indian well armed.
We carryed our boat and equippage into the wood above a hundredpaces from the watter side, where we stayed most sadly all that day tormented by the Maringoines; [Footnote: Musquetos.
We wanted strength to draw the living out of the cabans, or if we did when we could, it was to putt them four paces in the snow.
Especially the Eden villa was as clearly defined in every part as if it were only a few paces off.
Without a word in reply, the old gentleman, turning away, drew off a few paces with the ladies as if he wished to have no further intercourse with a stranger of such revolutionary sentiments.
The foremost among the rest of his party were probably some twenty or thirty paces distant as we seized upon the canoe.
They now fell to disputing in regard to the fate of the survivors, who lay not more than four paces off, and could distinguish every word said.
He turns his back to me, and angrily paces the cell.
Smithy incessantly paces the cell; the gnawing of the river rats reaches our ears; the silence is frequently pierced by the wild yells of the insane man, startling us with dread foreboding.
And he ordered Ravitzky, with two men, to ride forty paces in advance, while four others, with carbines cocked, were to drop a similar distance to the rear.
He had not gone many paces when a boy overtook him, saying, "Come back, sir; the postmaster has two letters for you.
And, with slow and measured stroke, the skiff neared the shore, about twenty paces from where they stood.
He came and stood still two paces from her, his eyes all bloodshot but his face white.
But the night was hazy, and the fires of the enemy three or four hundredpaces distant were scarcely visible.
In addition to this, Catognatus had a cutting dug at a hundred paces from the Oppidum between its northern salient and the plateau.
On the top of the promontory was seen the outline of a rampart made of stone, wood, and earth, but with square towers composed in great part of timber and wattle-work, about a hundred paces apart.
From the two sides of this interval extended at right angles two galleries (vineae), solidly constructed with trunks of trees and covered in; these galleries were about a hundred paces long.
To obviate these disadvantages Vauban inclined his capital some paces eastwards.
Outside the fosse he formed a vallum about four hundred pacesin length, with an outwork containing a guardhouse and a watch-tower.
As the circumvallation measured four thousand five hundred paces, and the towers were one hundred paces apart, there were forty-five towers, including the stronger and loftier ones placed on the two sides of the entrances.
Towards the middle of the night fires were seen to be lighted in the woods, about a thousand paces from the camp.
A second body followed, consisting in great part of cavalry, dispersed in the woods at a hundred paces from the first line, and masking the encampment of Childebert, surrounded by the bulk of his troops.
He ascended the nearest tower, and saw that the enemy remained not far off; they were forming a contravallation of barricading three hundred paces from the Oppidum.
This line consisted of a body of men, one thousand strong, grouped somewhat confusedly behind a barricade of trees and brushwood, four hundred paces from the northern salient.
The besiegers had no outposts; but their army encamped in front of the Oppidum, and at a distance of about six hundredpaces from it, was intrenched behind barricades of timber; the intrenchment presented an extended front.
Paces up and dawn in silence; then speaks to himself] Fifty-seven rubles, six and three, nine to Peter Ananyev.
Paces up and down in silence] Afónya, do you know where my wife went?
It was then to our right, and we went at it with a dash, but before we had gone a hundred pacesdown came the mist again.
Somewhat sadly we moved toward the pyramid, sighing that there was no other to conquer, but hardly had we gone two hundredpaces before there rose a superb white cone on the left, which had been hidden before by a slope of snow.
To be sure," answered Grasshopper, stealing down the bank several pacesas soon as the beaver's back was turned.
Brace turned, startled at the change that had come upon his rival, the young man's heart quailed for a few moments, for he was standing within six paces of the Viscount, who was taking deadly aim at his breast.
Sir Murray knew that the man saw his emotion, but he could not hide it then; and with a muttered oath he once more entered the conservatory, but had not advanced more than a few paces when he became aware that he was followed.
He crossed the road, and placed himself on the curb within a couple of paces of where she stood, and stared at her furtively with unbelieving eyes.
She went on counting still, exactly at the rate of her paces on the road.
I followed them with my eyes, but not far; for at twenty paces off they plunged into the thicket, and disappeared.
We had gone but a few hundred paces from the river, when we encountered an obstacle, that proved not only a serious barrier to our progress, but almost brought our tracking to a termination.
I rode slowly, and but a few paces before reining up my horse.
The savages had advanced within less than a hundred paces of the Mexican line, when they were observed to pull suddenly up.
A few paces farther, and both were under my eyes, glittering through the feathery frondage of the mimosas.
You could never have approached within two hundred paces of a Stanhopea, of the epidendrum odoratum, of the datura grandiflora, with its mantle of snow-white blossoms?
There were still not over two hundred paces between us, for the pond was only twice that in diameter.
Both were riding in straggling clumps, and scarcely two hundred pacesseparated the rearmost of the pursued from the headmost of the pursuers.
And the speaker indicated a bunch of the artemisia plant that grew some two hundred paces off in the direction of the horsemen.
These sounds ceased as I came to a stop; and although still fiftypaces distant from the speakers, I could catch every word of their conversation, favoured by the loud tone in which it was carried on.
It was placed directly in front of the solitary tent, and not a dozen paces from its entrance.
Shortly after, I again heard the voice of Rube, who was some pacesin the advance.
They were already within ten paces of the spot, and must have been seen long before by Ijurra.
Ours commenced calling me with a loud voice, opening the way for me and placing me at their head, about twenty paces in advance, until I was about thirty paces from the enemy.
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