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Example sentences for "twenty yards"

  • Then he put the revolver in the side pocket of his coat, and recklessly firing it without drawing, much less sighting or even showing it, he peppered a white blaze at twenty yards.

  • He took the gun quite down from his shoulder, nodded to his friend, brought it up again, and turned the bird over very handsomely, at twenty yards, or a little further.

  • Iron butts are expensive, especially for the large surface required by a beginner; at twenty yards, a beginner could not in my opinion safely shoot at a background less than twelve feet high and some ten in width.

  • Twenty yards of garden divided his cottage door from the road, and prevented the inmates from breaking their necks as they stepped over its threshold.

  • Zeb shook his wits together and dashed off towards the spot, twenty yards away, where Ruby stood holding the lantern high, its ray full on her face.

  • For the creeping barrage there was one gun to twenty yards, firing at maximum rate.

  • For the creeping barrage there were fourteen 18-pounder batteries, giving, as at Messines, about one gun to twenty yards.

  • On another morning at dawn the tracks of a big male showed that he, too, must have passed at some hour of the night within five-and-twenty yards of the snow-screen.

  • Twenty yards further he saw another, and then the glow of lights came through the trees.

  • At last he saw the shelving bank, twenty yards away, then ten, then five.

  • Ear guided eye, and he became sure that the sound came from a point fifteen or twenty yards in front of them, but approaching.

  • Two miles further we encamped at Moreau creek, a stream of twenty yards width, on the southern side.

  • Its sources are in the first range of the Black mountains, and though it has now only water of twenty yards width, yet when full it occupies ninety.

  • Beyond Cedar island, are some others of a smaller extent, and at seven miles distance a creek fifteen or twenty yards wide, entering from the north, and known by the name of Cedar creek.

  • He had not gone far before, to his great delight, there came a welcome chattering in answer to his low whistle, and the busy little fellow flew up to show himself and promptly led the way, going ahead ten to twenty yards at a flight.

  • Twenty yards out, where increasing depth steadied him, he turned for a moment and seeing himself alone in the water called to me with eager confidence, "Come on, Baas.

  • They are miserable marksmen, and were even at small distances unable to strike a large object, as for instance a hat at twenty yards, although offered a handsome reward; nor can they shoot at all at long distances.

  • With one of these pistols I made the highest possible score at thirty yards; with another I made ten out of twelve bulls at twenty yards.

  • Tell him you want them for taking a full sight in daylight at twenty yards.

  • Twenty yards away a girl sat a grey stallion, the poise of her head suggesting that she had heard the beat of his horse's hoofs.

  • Twenty yards beyond, Swinton touched the major's shoulders and whispered: "I heard something behind; I feel that we are being followed.

  • Halting just outside the village, Harry formed his men with a front across the whole road, and directed the lines to advance, twenty yards apart.

  • They had already edged down within twenty yards of this ship, and slowly as they were moving through the water, in another three or four minutes the vessels grated together.

  • They found that it was particularly bad at two points, while between these the ground was firm for a distance of twenty yards on each side of the track.

  • Kendall added two more and on a wing shift Still made the distance and the ball was down on the Blue's twenty yards.

  • A penalty, however, set her back ten yards, and Norton punted again to Claflin's twenty yards.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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