Yards Sentence Examples
It must have been 50 yards away and it's dark.
A car was parked on the far side of the woods, about a hundred yards from the house.
He took Balashev by the arm and crossed the room with him, unconsciously clearing a path seven yards wide as the people on both sides made way for him.
Carts piled high with household utensils, chairs, and cupboards kept emerging from the gates of the yards and moving along the streets.
He carried her about a hundred yards and then set her on her feet, slapping her backside with a sting that brought tears to her eyes.
Dean couldn't tell, but it was many yards away.
The whole courtyard was permeated by a strong peaceful smell of stable yards, delightful to Pierre at that moment.
There were wounded in the yards, at the windows of the houses, and the streets were crowded with them.
An armadillo stared at them from a rocky ledge as they passed, and a doe and her fawn darted across the trail not more than a hundred yards ahead, disappearing into the brush.
The cart in which the officer lay was turned into the Rostovs' yard, and dozens of carts with wounded men began at the invitation of the townsfolk to turn into the yards and to draw up at the entrances of the houses in Povarskaya Street.
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The town has shipbuilding yards and lava quarries.
Extensive coal mines are in the vicinity, and there are manufactures of iron and steel, mill machinery, door and sash factories, etc., as well as several shipbuilding yards.
Derrick cranes are made of all powers, from the timber I-ton hand derrick to the steel 150-ton derrick used in shipbuilding yards.
Abd-ul-Aziz, however, with the aid of British naval officers, succeeded in creating an imposing fleet of ironclads constructed in English and French yards.
AdvertisementShipbuilding has made very important progress, and there are at present in Hamburg eleven large shipbuilding yards, employing nearly io,000 hands.
There are also two yards for the building of pleasure yachts and rowing-boats (in both which branches of sport Hamburg takes a leading place in Germany).
A small island, Hog Island, is included in the township. The principal village, also known as Bristol, is a port of entry with a capacious and deep harbour, has manufactories of rubber and woollen goods, and is well known as a yacht-building centre, several defenders of the America Cup, including the "Columbia" and the "Reliance," having been built in the Herreshoff yards here.
At the confluence the united stream has a width of 350 yards.
Two hundred yards east of the mansion is an ancient gateway, supposed to have led to the old House of Scone, and near it stands the cross of Scone, removed hither from its original site in the town.
AdvertisementBut the flank attack became entangled in mass in a loop of the river and suffered heavily, and two batteries that formed part of the frontal attack came into action within a few hundred yards of unsuspected Boer trenches, with the result that ten guns were lost, as well as in all some r roo men.
There are, however, several large breweries, among which that of Messrs Barclay & Perkins, on the riverside in Southwark, may be mentioned; engineering works are numerous in East London by the river, where there are also shipbuilding yards; the leather industry centres in Bermondsey, the extensive pottery works of Messrs Doulton are in Lambeth, there are chemical works on the Lea, and paper-mills on the Wandle.
Under favourable conditions mining may be conducted under the protection of a few yards of solid rock only, as in the submarine work for the removal of reefs in the harbours of San Francisco and New York.
On this occasion the Turks made a determined resistance; but the Allies' line was advanced by a few hundred yards at most points, and a three days' lull then ensued in the Helles area.
At a given moment the trenches, which at many points were but a few yards from those occupied by the Turks, would be vacated by detachments, which by that hour would have shrunk to mere handfuls of men.
AdvertisementA bridge, 300 yards long, connects it with its suburb Etwashausen on the left bank of the river.
The first dock (opened in 1846), the second (1859) and the third (1882) cover an area of '28 acres, with timber ponds of 44 acres and a total quayage of 2500 yards.
At the head of the industrial establishments of Trieste stand the two ship-building yards of the Austrian Lloyd and of the Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino, which are the largest of their kind in Austria.
The growth of Kure and Sasebo is attributable to the fact that they have become the sites of large ship-building yards, the property of the state.
It possesses excellent wharves, does a large import trade in coal, and has shipbuilding yards, breweries, distilleries, cloth aid paper factories, glass-works, copper-works, soap-works and rice mills.
This sub-family contains about woo species; few of them reach a length of more than two yards, some of the largest belonging to the Indian Zaocys s.
The south-eastern and smaller portion (called Leitimor) is united to the northern (Hitoe) by a neck of land a few yards in breadth.
The Zulus attacked with great gallantry but were received with so deadly a fire that they could not come within thirty yards of the rifles.
The shipbuilding yards developed greatly and war vessels of all types, including dreadnoughts and submarines, were constructed during the war.
The growth and development of the shipbuilding industry has been immense, the firm of Harland & Wolff being amongst the first in the trade, and some of the largest vessels in the world come from their yards.
There are great naval docks, refitting yards, magazines and stores on the south-east side of the Grand Harbour; small vessels of war have also been built here.
Arrived at the summit, Bredow sounded "line to the front," but at that moment a storm of French bullets swept down on them, and the men, no longer to be restrained, dashed forward, before the line could be completed, almost due east against long lines of infantry and artillery which they now saw for the first time about 1200 yards in front of them.
The same idea had, however, occurred to Ladmirault, and he had called on the two nearest French cavalry divisions to put it into execution, and as the Prussians began to reach the plateau west of Mars-la-Tour and the Yron brook from the south, the French were deploying across it some two thousand yards to the north.
Thus the 1st brigade lay, facing about east-south-east, south of the chaussee and some five hundred yards west of the village.
The and brigade lay south-west of the village about three hundred yards away from it and facing nearly north-east.
She missed her with a torpedo and opened fire at Boo yards.
The banks of the port are closely lined with the offices, warehouses and wharves of commercial houses, with timber yards and innumerable ricemills, while the custom house, the harbour master's office and many of the foreign legations and consulates are also situated here.
Such valleys are very clearly indicated in the belts of the western Baltic by furrows a thousand yards wide and twenty to thirty fathoms deeper than the neighbouring sea-bed.
Connected with the harbour are dry docks, the yards where the largest ships in the French navy are constructed, magazines, rope walks, and the various workshops requisite for a naval arsenal of the first class.
It is served by the Southern Pacific railway, which has car shops and terminal yards here.
Its greatest breadth within the town is from 80 to 90 yards, and it is usually frozen from November to March.
The tangent sight was graduated in yards as well as degrees and had also a fuze scale.
Disadvantages of earlier patterns were, the telescope was inverting, the drum was not graduated in yards, and drift not allowed for.
If now the telescope be directed on the target and this level be brought to the centre of its run, the angle of sight can be read - if afterwards any range ordered is put on the sight and the gun truly layed, this bubble will be found in the centre of its run - so that if thereafter the target becomes obscured the gun can be relayed by elevating till the bubble is in the centre of its run, or at a completely concealed target the angle of sight can, if the range and difference of level are known or can be measured from somewhere near the gun, be put on by means of the micrometer screw, and the gun subsequently layed by putting the range in yards or degrees on the sight drum and elevating or depressing till the bubble is central.
There must be two sets of elevating gears, one which brings the axis of the gun and the sights together on to the target, thus finding the angle of sight and also pointing the axis of the gun at the target, and a second by which, independent of the sight which remains fixed, the elevation due to the range can be given to the gun and read by means of a pointer and dial marked in yards for range.
Shield sights were introduced for disappearing mountings to admit of continuous laying for line, and a disk engraved for yards of range duly corrected for height, and called an " elevation indicator," replaced the index plate and reader.
The veterans did the work magnificently with the bayonet, ousted the Prussians from the place, and drove them back 600 yards beyond it.
The casemates in the gorge, partially cut of rt off from the terreplein by a couple of deep sunk yards Arthur.
It is a strip of stuff, usually silk, some 21-- yards long by 4 inches broad; in the middle and at the ends, which are commonly broadened out, it is ornamented with a cross.
There are ship and boat building yards, engineering works, lead and copper smelting works, cement works and brick and tile works.
Its largest industry is, perhaps, the manufacture of thread; there are also in the town ironworks, breweries, shipbuilding yards and electrical works.
It is a modern commercial town, having a school of arts and crafts, several churches, and large government yards for the building of river steamers, lighters and tug-boats.
The Great Causeway is chiefly from 20 to 30, and for a few yards in some places nearly 40 ft.
At about half a dozen yards from the cliff, widening and becoming lower, it extends outwards into a platform, which has a slight seaward inclination, but is easy to walk upon, and for nearly ioo yds.
The morainic belts and other obstructions in the drift plains hem in the waters in the intervening basins and create what are called " glacial lakes," var y ing in diameter from a few yards to several miles.
At West New Brighton is a large dyeing establishment, there are also ship-building yards, oyster fisheries, and truck farms, and among the maufactures are linoleum, paper, white lead, linseed oil, brick, and fire-clay products.
In 1770 the miners accidentally discovered a complete gallery, which has been driven many hundred yards into the bed of coal, branching into thirty-six chambers dressed quite square, and in a workman-like manner.
On the Danube the amount was 2 millions, but this total bids fair, under normal conditions, to be easily passed, inasmuch as the work of developing the port of Bratislava, the construction of docks, warehouses and shipbuilding yards, was already proceeding energetically.
The soil of yards and the floors and walls of houses rapidly become contaminated, and the ideal condition would be to have an impermeable flooring covering the whole area, and supplied with suitable layers of sand, sawdust, peat-moss or other absorbent substances which can be changed at frequent intervals.
Christiansand is an important fishing centre (salmon, mackerel, lobsters), and sawmills, wood-pulp factories, shipbuilding yards and mechanical workshops are the principal industrial works.
In this table (93) sin 20=Ca, where a is a function tabulated for the two arguments, V the initial velocity, and R/C the reduced range in yards.
Sioux City is the see of a Roman Catholic bishop. The Chicago, Milwaukee & Saint Paul, the Great Northern, and the Chicago, Saint Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha have shops here; meat packing is an important industry, and the city has large stock yards.
Even the small island-rocks of the Mediterranean, sometimes only a few hundred yards in diameter, are occupied by peculiar races of lizards, which have attracted much attention from the fact that they have assumed under such isolated conditions a more or less dark,.
It is a shipping and transfer point and has paper mills, machine shops, flour mills, sash, door and blind factories, a launch and pleasure-boat factory, and knitting works, cheese factories and dairies, brick yards and grain elevators.
It has flour and grist mills (the products of which ranked first in value among the city's manufactures in 1905), wholesale slaughtering and meat-packing establishments, cooperage works, railway repair shops, cotton compresses, lumber yards, salt works, and manufactories of cotton-seed oil and cake, boots and shoes and cotton and agricultural machinery.
The abbey mill was situated about 80 yards to the north-west.
Thus canoe navigation may be carried on for hundreds of miles, with here and there a waterfall or a rapid requiring a portage of a few hundred yards or at most a mile or two.
Its principal industrial establishments are mechanical works (both in the city and at Lundby), saw-mills, dealing with the timber which is brought down the Gota, flour-mills, margarine factories, breweries and distilleries, tobacco works, cotton mills, dyeing and bleaching works (at Levanten in the vicinity), furniture factories, paper and leather works, and shipbuilding yards.
There are also lumber and coal yards.
It is a flourishing town, containing shipbuilding yards, and manufactories of mill machinery, agricultural implements, furniture and sewing-machines, flour-mills, saw-mills and large grain elevators.
In some districts, especially in Yorkshire, the count is based on the number of yards per ounce, and in others the older method of drams avoirdupois per woo yard skein.
In default of formed bodies to fire at, the latter had for a moment ceased fire; Napoleon, riding by, half carelessly told them to reopen, and one of their first shots, directed at 2000 yards range against the mass of officers on the sky-line, mortally wounded General Moreau, who was standing by the emperor Alexander.
There are large collieries in the neighbourhood of the town, the workings in some cases extending beneath the sea, and blastfurnaces, engineering works, cycle and motor works, shipbuilding yards and paper mills.
It gives in thousands of yards the quantities of cotton goods exported from Great Britain during 1903, 1904 and 1905 respectively, together with average value per yard for each of the countries.
Scale of Metres o co 20 30 40 5 Scale of Yards 0 i p zo g o 40 ?o climbing plants with slender herbaceous or shrubby shoots, to which belong the yam and the British black bryony, Tamus communis.
There are iron foundries, breweries, distilleries, rope and sail works, coachbuilding yards, steam joinery works, and brick and tile works.
In the Mediterranean on a sunny day it is possible to see for several yards through the water at about 25 ft.
It derives its name from the springs of the Pader, a small affluent of the Lippe, which rise in the town under the cathedral to the number of nearly 200, and with such force as to drive several mills within a few yards of their source.
In its outskirts and the surrounding country are an immense number of xarqueadas (slaughter-houses), with large open yards where the dressed beef, lightly salted, is exposed to the sun and air.
For the destruction of weeds on gravel walks or in paved yards a strong dose of salt, applied either dry or in a very strong solution, is found very effective, especially a hot solution, but after a time much of it becomes washed down, and the residue acts as a manure; its continued application is undesirable, as gravel so treated becomes pasty.
In the front row patches of the white arabis, the yellow alyssum, white, yellow, blue, or purple violas, and the purple aubrietia, recurring at intervals of 5 or 6 yards on a border of considerable length, carry the eye forwards and give a balanced kind of finish to the whole.
Shipbuilding yards extend above and below the city, one of the earliest being that of the Netherlands Steamboat Company (1825).
Their name is preserved, but since the seat of this industry was removed to Wilton near Salisbury, the inhabitants of Axminster have found employment in brush factories, corn mills, timber yards and an iron foundry.
The principal shipbuilding yards are at Amsterdam, Kinderdijk, Rotterdam and at Flushing, where there is a government dockyard for building warships.
The fruit-body before it ruptures may reach the size of a hen's egg and is white in colour; from this there grows out a hollow cylindrical structure which can be distinguished at the distance of several yards by its disgusting odour.
Other thriving industries include bleaching, dyeing, calico-printing, weaving (carpets, shawls, tartans), engineering, tanning, iron and brass founding, brewing, distilling, and the making of starch, cornflour, soap, marmalade and other preserves, besides some shipbuilding in the yards on the left bank of the White Cart.
The advantage of this arrangement was that it left all hands free to fight, a barrier could be formed with the oars and yards, and the enemy's chance of making use of his superior numbers to attack on both sides would be, as far as possible, limited - a great point when all fighting was with the sword, or with such feeble missile weapons as bows and javelins.
The better sort of houses in Manila have two storeys, the lower one built of brick or stone and the upper one of wood, roofed with red Spanish tile or with corrugated iron; the upper storey contains the living-rooms, and the lower has servants' rooms, store-houses, stables, carriage-houses and poultry yards.
There are also shipbuilding yards and docks.
The shores are for the greater part formed of fine gravel; some yards from the shore the bed is uniformly covered with fine greyish mud.
If by any chance he missed a post, he would go back a hundred yards and repair the omission.
In shipbuilding, likewise, Germany is practically independent, yards having been established for the construction of the largest vessels.
In 1905 and subsequent years, however, the degree of employment in German yards increased to such an extent, principally owing to the placing of the Admiralty contracts with private builders, that the more urgent orders for mercantile vessels were placed abroad.
The Ansaldo shipbuilding yards construct armoured cruisers both for the Italian navy and for foreign governments..
The Odero yards, for the construction of merchant and passenger steamers, have been similarly extended, and the Foce yard is also important.
Large shipbuilding yards and a yard for the construction of trams and railway carriages have been constructed in the latter city.
There are large iron works (including foundries and factories for engines, boilers, chains and cables), shipbuilding yards, glass manufactories, chemical, soap and candle works, brick and tile works, breweries and tanneries.
South and west of this highland, along the Kansas river, is a low, level tract occupied chiefly by railway yards, stock yards, wholesale houses and manufacturing establishments; north and east of the highland is a flat section, the Missouri River bottoms, occupied largely by manufactories, railway yards, grain elevators and homes of employes.
There are slips and shipbuilding yards, and a manufacture of sail-cloth.
Other species, especially the alligators, make a very large nest of leaves, twigs and humus, scraping together a mound about a yard high and two or more yards in diameter.
The average width of the .cultivated land is about I0 m., of which the greater part lies on the left (western) bank of the river; and outside this is a belt, varying from a few hundred yards to 3 or 4 m., of stony and sandy ground, reaching up to the foot of the limestone cliffs, which rise in places to as much as 1000 ft.
Besides the large number of saw and planing mills, there are shipbuilding yards, engine and boiler works, cotton and woollen mills, and factories for acetic acid and naphtha.
There are numerous saw-mills, shipbuilding yards, engineering works, distilleries, sugar refineries, tobacco factories, linen bleacheries and stained glass, salt and white lead works.
The greatest of these tombs with its dependencies covered a space of over 3000 square yards.
He suffered the torments of dyspepsia; he was often sleepless, and the crowing of " demon-fowls " in neighbours' yards drove him wild.
There are iron-works and boatbuilding yards.
All the great iron foundries and engineering works are situated in the Central Plain or Lowlands, in close proximity to the shipbuilding yards and coalfields, especially in the lower and part of the middle wards of Lanarkshire, in certain districts of Ayrshire and Renfrewshire, at and near Dumbarton, in south Stirlingshire and in some parts of East and Mid Lothian and Fife.
At the time of the Union the annual amount of linen cloth manufactured in Scotland is supposed to have been about 1,500,000 yards.
The principal Clyde yards are situated in the Glasgow district (Govan, Partick, Fairfield, Clydebank, Renfrew), Dumbarton, Port Glasgow and Greenock.
On the east coast the leading yards are at Leith, Kirkcaldy, Grangemouth, Dundee, Peterhead and Aberdeen, which, in the days of sailing ships, was renowned for its clippers built for the tea trade.
There are yards also at Inverness.
The Tyne dock has a water-area of 50 acres, the tidal basin of 10 acres, and the quays and yards about 300 acres.
It is rarely less than moo yards wide, and in some places it is fully a mile across.
Its winter channel may be estimated at from two-thirds to three-fourths of its flood channel, except where it is confined within narrow limits by a rocky bed, as at Kilif, where its un varying width is only 540 yards.
The horses are guided from the boat, and a twentyor thirty-foot barge with a heavy load of men and goods will be towed across the river at Kilif (where, as already stated, the width of the river is between 500 and 600 yards only) with ease by two of these animals.
Linen and woollen fabrics, hosiery, paper, cigars, soap, vinegar and earthenware are manufactured, and there are iron-foundries, distilleries, tanneries and shipbuilding yards.
But if the nest were removed but a few yards from its former position, the bee seemed no longer able to recognize it, sometimes passing over it, or even into the unfinished cell, and then leaving it to visit again uselessly the place whence it had been moved.
There are collieries near the town, the workings extending beneath the sea; there are also iron mines and works, engineering works, shipbuilding yards, breweries, tanneries, stone quarries, brick and earthenware works, and other industrial establishments in and near the town.
The rivers are small, and none is navigable beyond a few hundred yards from the sea.
In this vicinity, too, are several yards for building yachts, launches and other boats.
Sea-going vessels can navigate up to Blaydon, and collieries and large manufacturing towns line the banks - Newburn, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Wallsend and North Shields on the Northumberland side; Gateshead, Jarrow and South Shields on the Durham side, with many lesser centres, forming continuous lines of factories and shipbuilding yards.
The industries include boat-building and timber yards, iron-foundries, copper and lead works, furniture, organ, tobacco and other factories, and the manufacture of gold and silver wares.
It possesses iron-foundries, shipbuilding yards, breweries, distilleries, and manufactories of chemicals, soap and amber wares.
The town possesses shipbuilding yards, iron foundries,.
The neighbouring Eutaw Springs issue first from the foot of a hill and form a large stream of clear, cool water, but this, only a few yards away, again rushes underground to reappear about a m.
The Chilean navy is essentially British in organization and methods, and all its best fighting ships were built in British yards.
Nearly all the European garden flowers, even the rarer ones, can now be seen not only in the parks and gardens of the rich and well-to-do but in many unpretentious courtyards with only a few square yards of surface.
The turban worn by priests is generally white, consisting of many yards of muslin.
The roadstead is perfectly sheltered and so deep that the largest vessels can lie within a few yards of the shore.
Prince's Dock lies within its bounds and the shipbuilding yards have turned out many famous ironclads and liners.
In 1851 the river was diverted eastward into a new channel (called the New Cut) and its old channel was locked and floated, thereby forming the North Dock with an area of 112 acres and a half-tide basin 500 yards long covering 22 acres.
The Swansea Valley canal has a connecting lock with this dock, and on the island between the dock and the New Cut are patent fuel works, copper ore yards and other mineral sheds and large grain stores and flour mills.
The chief industries include gold and silver work, and there are also tobacco factories, saw-mills and some small boat-building yards, a considerable number of vessels being engaged in the Zuider Zee fisheries.
The imperial docks (five in all) and ship-building yards are on the east side facing the town, between Gaarden and Ellerbeck, and comprise basins capable of containing the largest war-ships afloat.
Entering the city at the Potsdam Gate, traversing a few hundred yards of the Leipziger-strasse, turning into Wilhelm-strasse, and following it to Unter den Linden, then beginning at the Brandenburg Gate and proceeding down Unter den Linden to its end, one passes, among other buildings, the following, many of them of great architectural merit - the admiralty, the ministry of commerce, the ministry of war, the ministry of public works, the palace of Prince Frederick Leopold, the palace of the imperial chancellor, the foreign office, the ministry of justice, the residences of the ministers of the interior and of public worship, the French and the Russian embassies, the arcade, the palace of the emperor William I., the university, the royal library, the opera, the armoury, the palace of the emperor Frederick III., the Schloss-briicke, the royal palace, the old and new museums and the national gallery.
On the northern side of the range which separates the upper Bukhtarma from the upper Katun is the Katun glacier, which after two ice-falls widens out to 700-900 yards.
Northport - pop., (1910 census) 2096 - incorporateu in 1894, is the most easterly of these; it has a large law-publishing house, shipbuilding yards and valuable oyster-fisheries.
Albany ships much cotton, and has a cotton compress, a cotton mill, cotton-seed oil and guano factories, brick yards, lumber mills and ice factories.
The industrial population is chiefly employed in the shipbuilding yards, in the manufacture of ships' fittings, and in engineering works.
The city is on one of the main lines of communication between the east and the west, is the centre of a vast railway system, and has freight yards with a total capacity for more than 60,000 cars.
Some of the valleys are of considerable width; in other cases the opposite walls of the gorges are but two or three hundred yards apart, and fall almost vertically thousands of feet, representing an erosion of hard rock of many millions of cubic feet.
At a few hundred yards' distance it is invisible, hidden among dense olive groves.
The enemy's artillery was three hundred yards away, yet the British pressed on in spite of their losses, and as some of the Light Division troops reached the "Great Battery" the Russians hurried their guns away to safety.
It takes ten acres of Karroo to feed a sheep, but it was now seen that a few square yards of diamondiferous blue ground would feed a dozen families.
Although of modern growth, Bacau is one of the chief commercial centres in Moldavia, possessing many large timber yards.
The durbar hall, which is a separate building, is 60 yards long by 20 broad, with a painted roof supported by two rows of pillars.
In 1914 he issued an order prohibiting the use of intoxicants on ship-board and within the limits of navy yards and stations.
Numerical quantities, to be added or subtracted, must be in the same denomination; we cannot, for instance, add S5 shillings and loo pence, any more than we can add 3 yards and 2 metres.
The ordinary form has a dial-plate marked for yards and miles.
The lagoon is slowly filling up and becoming cultivable land, but the rate of recovery from the sea has been specially marked since the eruption of Krakatoa, the pumice from which was washed on to it in enormous quantity, so that the lagoon advanced its shores from 20 to 30 yards.
Below Munich the stream is 140 to 350 yards wide, and is studded with islands.
It contains iron foundries, shipbuilding yards, refineries, and other industrial establishments, and enjoys a considerable river trade in grain and coal.
In England red-clover hay, or, better still, crimson-clover or lucerne hay, is liberally fed to farm horses with about io lb per day of oats, while they usually run in open yards with shelter sheds.
There are shipbuilding yards, with foundry, engineering shops, &c.; the chief export is agricultural produce; imports, iron, coal, cereals and yarn.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company and the Susquehanna Coal Company have coal docks here and the latter has great storage yards.
Any plane object a few yards distant can be used.
The focal length of an objective can be more simply determined by placing an objective micrometer on the stage and reproducing on a screen some yards away by the objective which is to be examined.
Seventy yards of band and bridge were swept away in 1885.
It is practically united with Karl-Johansvaern, which is defended by strong fortifications, is the headquarters of the Norwegian fleet, and possesses an arsenal and shipbuilding yards.
The harbour is good; the industries include foundries, shipbuilding yards and sawmills.
Mostaufi describes a great cupola of finely worked stone still standing by a court over a hundred yards square (1340).
There are breweries and large works for the manufacture of machinery, among which may be mentioned the Kockum mechanical works, with yards for the construction of vessels of war, and others; of cotton and woollen goods, gloves, chocolate, sweetmeats and tobacco.
Exiting the parked Jeep, they climbed the rocky trail a few yards further, looking off to the left, the direction where the mine should have been located.
But their distress was short lived as the recently created path ended a few hundred yards further, behind a cluster of boulders.
They scrambled into a late model blue car parked a few yards away and were starting their U-turn as Fred caught up.
A neat sequence of link up play on the left midfield resulted in the Dutch having to concede a free kick 30 yards out.
A small silver-lead mine comprising two adits (both open) and an associated shaft, 500 yards west of Crymych village.
He was 20 or 30 yards distant from the point where the inspectors were endeavoring to form the air shaft.
The pitch was only about 100 yards from the hangar doors in which the R101 airship was housed.
Quaint little alleys and yards off the steep main street house many interesting shops offering a wide range of unusual gifts and mementos.
Bygones is one of the largest reclamation yards in the UK providing high quality architectural antiques.
The house, situated in a quiet backwater of the village, two hundred yards from the river Lot.
Situated just 300 yards from the beach, this tiny cottage was once the village bakery.
The property is ideally located within yards of the entrance to Portsmouth Harbor and enjoys Solent views over the historic battlements.
The fish was taken from a silty patch at 30 yards on a Perfection Groundbaits bloodworm pop-up over the bloodworm pellets.
After a few yards turn right through some metal bollards and head up the pedestrian path (Orchard Road) which borders playing fields.
However, for the last seventy or eighty yards, a somewhat breathless charge with fixed bayonets was organized.
The Bill Stuart memorial cairn stands a few yards further on.
The Second Class fired at 150 yards with three shots off-hand and three from a rest for an all green cockade.
Landscaping around your front, back and side yards will be creative and quite colorful.
A devastating corner by Kavanagh found Thorne leaping above his markers to nod the ball into Delaney's bottom left-hand corner from six yards.
The engine cowling had come to earth 20 yards away in the back yard of Nether Hill Farm.
I think you can safely say the 150 lb. crossbow will shoot pretty accurately and easily to about 70 yards.
To do this, a space, of about 150 yards swept by a heavy crossfire, had to be crossed.
Jelleyman flashed a left foot curler over the angle from 20 yards as Mansfield looked for a quick way back into the contest.
The preservation movement was helped by the large number of engines lying derelict in yards all over the country.
The Bowkers had gone only yards off the public road when they encountered a barking dog, then a barking landowner.
Helen took a physical drumstick and used it to materialize yards of material which covered the floor of the room.
In contrast, freshwater eel are targeted by casting small peeler crab baits 100 yards or more into the main channel.
The Americans lead was gradually eroded further at 1,000 yards, where the Irish finished on 302 points for a total of 931.
The formerly extensive site consists of railroad marshaling yards, mostly abandoned.
The tunnel was entered 30 yards from the golden fishplate, and its interior was inspected with the aid of Neptune's lights.
Much of it is due to the par fives, three of which play at least 580 yards.
Emre, whose neat footwork was a feature of the first half, won a free-kick 25 yards out.
A very fortuitous ricochet fell to Hogg only 5 yards from goal.
Jason Cousins Saw Red windsor got the best start imaginable when they won a free kick 30 yards from the Bracknell goal.
That means, from left fullback to right fullback the distance should be no more than 50 yards.
There was a minaret from a mosque popping up only a few yards away, also damaged by gunfire.
Dave Bentley scored a spectacular second goal to wrap things up with a fantastic half volley from 30 yards.
After 200 yards there is a right hand turn down a track.
Just a few hundred yards down the road a team of dog handlers also waited to go into action.
He hit it 300 yards and some of the boys wouldn't believe him and made hi go back and do it again!
Set a few yards away from the other holiday cottages it offers a marvelous hideaway in Cornwall for couples or for honeymoons.
On 14 October, the two armies faced each other over 400 yards of marsh and scrubby hillside.
Complete darkness will require the use of an IR illuminator which is ideal for close range work, effective up to approx 50 yards.
The river is deep, 80 yards wide, and much infested with crocodiles.
The huge Villa of the Papyri, which belonged to Julius Caesar's father in-law, extended for 250 yards along the shore.
On reaching the lakeside, a sailing boat could be seen lying on its side some 90 yards from the lakeside bank.
Car parking is available opposite the Church forty yards from the Church, and coaches can park in a nearby road lay-by.
In the far left-hand corner turn right on a track for a few yards to reach a road.
A small hill loch, suitable for brown trout fishing, is situated just a few hundred yards from the lodge.
A few yards further on, the assembly of the first Shanghai is depicted in a heroic diorama complete with life-size mannequins.
Cows in cubicles are likely to have more lameness problems and cows in straw yards more cases of environmental mastitis.
Lewis has mile after mile of empty golden beaches, two of which are only 100 yards from your own back door.
Had the elevation of the parabolic mirror been a few yards higher, none could have lived to tell the tale.
It holds about 120 yards of 10 lb monofilament line on the deeper of the two supplied spools.
The sound was still quite loud at 100 yards but it was so muffled as to be useless.
It was a bloody nuisance - there was his flat, just a few yards away, and he couldn't get to it.
The young lad led us to a small outhouse about fifty yards from the main building.
The castrum forms a parallelogram of one hundred and twenty yards north and south, by eighty yards east and west.
It is nearly a rectangular parallelogram, about 300 by 700 yards.
A few yards upstream the Mole flows between concrete pilings and under the A309, clogged tight with early morning traffic.
A hundred yards short of the summit and the central cairngorm plateau came into view.
The intense pressure saw Musson cross for Gibson to score with a technically superb volley from 20 yards.
There is a rather ramshackle affair about twenty yards away at platform 3b that no one seems to own.
The led readout on the outside panel can be seen several yards away.
In Britain the job losses threatened in British shipbuilding yards are an even more tangible proof of a deepening recession.
Matty Hamshaw's hopeful ball forward somehow ricocheted through to striker Barker who drilled home at the near post from 15 yards.
Five species of bat are found on the site with two bat roosts found within 50 yards of the building.
I feel I am at least as likely to hit a roquet of 10 or 15 yards.
The first fifty yards or so is more or less flat, which is very rutted and muddy.
Two outbreaks of dermatitis occurred in cabinet-makers working with East Indian satinwood in Glasgow ship-building yards; not all the men exposed were affected.
The main Low Street outfall sewer was seriously damaged for a length of about 25 yards.
The livestock market and butchers ' shambles used to take place in the market place and the yards of the inns along Sun Street.
Irvine's was closed down for the final time, and the yards were used by other shipbuilders.
About ten yards away, a loud siren on a telephone pole goes off.
However, smaller yards and private buyers may only have one stallion.
The gradient steepened in the last few hundred yards and in addition there was a very sharp right hand curve.
I had not gone a hundred yards when I reached the stockade.
Paul Stansfield rattled the Brigg crossbar from 25 yards and keeper Peter Collinge made some smart saves to deny the home strikers.
The defence-splitting pass played in the pacy striker only for him to poke the ball wide of the post from 18 yards.
These Aussies can't even hit the stumps from 80 yards!
The aqueduct is followed by the short (308 yards) Hyde Bank Tunnel after which the scenery becomes more suburban than rural.
However if she hits a fence she has a major sulk & wont go within 10 yards of another fence.
By the end the supreme tank destroyer was the Jagdtiger with an ability to penetrate 10%27%27 at 1000 yards.
From an elevated tee, the green was just 116 yards away from the white tees with a vertical drop worthy of any rollercoaster.
Kay Foster unleashed a thunderbolt into the top corner from 35 yards to open the scoring for Brache.
First there are a number of little foaming torrents, bursting through rocks about twenty yards above the promontory on which I stood.
A free hit on the right of the South circle saw him dawdling near the left touchline, 30 yards from goal.
All along the western wall, we find slight traces of what appear to be the buried foundations of buildings and yards.
If you miss the turning into Flag lane South then turn right at the traffic lights and then first right after about 200 yards.
Here, access to the companies ' yards was controlled by small turntables which would turn wagons off the main sidings at 90 degrees.
I look out and see yards upon yards of brown tweed stretched out on a rack in the field.
Needless to say, we ran into difficulties about an hour upriver, just 50 yards from our destination.
Many of the environments are very urban in style, taking place on abandoned streets in England or even training yards.
Two minutes later Momo unleashed a vicious volley from 20 yards tho this time his effort was off target.
About 400 yards downstream from the arched bridge is the lock and a long footbridge which crosses the adjacent weir.
She had a refit in 1897 when the funnels were heightened, the yards were removed and she was given a wheelhouse.
There was also heavy flak to the north of Hamme on the approach to the railroad marshaling yards.
Rutland Square Hotel, Nottingham The Rutland Square Hotel is situated only 50 yards from historic Nottingham Castle.
The house is situated about 2 miles from Addington Equestrian Center, close to local livery yards.
Ironically, the Kenyon Cutting, east of the Newton Viaduct, yielded 750,000 cubic yards of material.
They can only fly a few yards at a time.
The shipbuilding yards of La Seyne have, however, been axed, closing the book on a centuries-old and at times notorious industry.
Extensive coal mines are in the vicinity, and there are manufactures of iron and steel, mill machinery, door and sash factories, &c., as well as several shipbuilding yards.
It is served by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway, which maintains here yards and machine shops.
The white poplar is an ornamental tree, from its graceful though somewhat irregular growth and its dense hoary foliage; it has, however, the disadvantage of throwing up numerous suckers for some yards around the trunk.
The decade from 1896 until 1905, inclusive, saw huge sums spent on yards, passing tracks, grade reduction, elimination of curves, substitution of large locomotives and cars for small ones, &c. During those ten years, the route mileage increased 34,991 m., or 17%, while the mileage of second, third, fourth and yard tracks and sidings increased 32,666 m., or nearly 57%.
Into the square axial hole fits the square end of a hooked iron bar which projects several yards beyond the mouth of the furnace; by means of this bar a workman moves the fireclay cylinder about in the glass with a steady circular sweep. Although the weight of the iron bar is carried by a support, such as an overhead chain or a swivel roller, this operation is very laborious and trying, more especially during the earlier stages when the heat radiated from the open mouth of the crucible is intense.
This account does not by any means accord with one given by von Koppenfels, in which it is stated that while the old male gorilla sleeps in a sitting posture at the base of a tree-trunk (no mention being made of a bed), the female and young ones pass the night in a nest in the tree several yards above the ground, made by bending the boughs together and covering them with twigs and moss.
The French army proceeded to form up in an imposing array some 1300 yards from Wellington's position, and if some misgivings as to the result filled the minds of men like Soult, Reille and Foy, who had had previous experience of Wellington in the field, none at any rate dwelt in Napoleon's mind.
The fisheries of the town are important, including extensive mussel-fisheries under the jurisdiction of the corporation, and there are also breweries, corn-mills, iron and brass foundries, agricultural implement manufactories, ship-building yards, rope and sail works.
Modern research has discovered no crab to surpass Macrocheira hampferi, De Haan, that can span between three and four yards with the tips of its toes, but at the other end of the scale it has yielded Collodes malabaricus, Alcock, "of which the carapace, in an adult and egg-laden female, is less than one-sixth of an inch in its greatest diameter."
The city has important horse and mule yards.
There were odd wooden houses, with carved wooden flowers in the front yards.
I'll teach you to run into the yards!
Its quiet location, being set 100 yards back from the road, has stunning views set under big Norfolk skies.
Windrush lies in a quiet cul - de - sac a few hundred yards from the village center.
The Main line rail station is only 300 yards away.
It began to rain, so they went to a box car in the railroad yards.
But Liam Nimmo was on hand to knock the rebound into the net from six yards.
He continued alone for a week and was recaptured when only Soo yards from the American lines.
Matty Hamshaw 's hopeful ball forward somehow ricocheted through to striker Barker who drilled home at the near post from 15 yards.
There were further disasters with Simon Randall ricocheting off a tree to find himself thirty yards behind his starting point.
Although his shot was initially blocked, the ball ricocheted around in the box before Duffy blasted home from six yards.
Darren Bent started their resurgence with a strike from 25 yards in the 20th minute which narrowly sailed over the crossbar.
In the away leg, Mark Hateley scored with a scorcher from 25 yards and a McCoist header made it 2-0.
The goal, a screamer from 30+ yards, was fantastic.
Irvine 's was closed down for the final time, and the yards were used by other shipbuilders.
The ball landed at the feet of Proctor who slammed the ball over the top from six yards out.
The eight sloops recently built in his Majesty 's Yards have been ordered to their stations to prevent the running of wool from Ireland.
A hundred yards or so away, there 's a slow-moving queue to enter the Tower grounds.
The slow-moving police vehicle disappeared into the trees only to emerge a hundred yards further along the shore.
Each of the four separate yards included smithies, where iron fittings for the ships were prepared.
Between outings, snorkeling off the beach proves very rewarding with a Hawksbill Turtle grazing the sea grass literally 25 yards from the shore.
If I 'm aiming to sprint 25 yards in 15 seconds or so, I can afford to turn over as fast as possible.
Chris was only yards away and chased after the man who had stolen two purses from Icelandâs canteen.
A goal up for 86 minutes and rarely in danger, only to concede a stoppage time goal struck from all of 30 yards !
A crude challenge from Richard Langley sent Albion midfielder Jason Koumas crashing to the ground 20 yards from goal on the stroke of half-time.
These Aussies ca n't even hit the stumps from 80 yards !
He made no mistake from six yards out, thumping the ball into the roof of the net.
The striker then did a great job in shielding the ball from Hill and thumping a shot through Jackson 's legs from 7 yards.
On 78 minutes, Hyde 's top scorer Simon Yeo blasted his 14th goal of the season with a thunderbolt from 25 yards.
A 55 foot pole has been obtained from Sweden for use as a mast and two 30 foot poles for mainsail and topsail yards.
The parallel farm track is just 60 yards away across a drainage ditch to the touchdown point.
This is useful after touchdown celebrations, so your extra point is not from about 20 yards out.
He rushed for 187 yards and two touchdowns in three games before the injury.
Medieval Trebuchets could launch missiles hundreds of yards at, or even over, a castle, fortress or city wall.
We finish off the round with a first-rate two-shot hole of 385 yards.
The mill was apparently run by an undershot wheel in the stream crossing under the lane 40 yards south of the house.
It surfaced a few yards away with a huge upwelling of water.
The ironstone seam varied in thickness from 8ft at the outcrop to 5ft high and 80 yards wide where mining was abandoned.
At about 400 yards was a ventilator shaft about 35 feet to the surface.
Within a hundred yards I tracked down the male lesser spotted woodpecker feeding in the upper branches of an oak.
Smith looked two yards offside as the ball was played forward by Dacourt again.
The 8 & unders played 9 holes of approximately 1900 yards from Blue tees.
They are perfect portable beds for hotel rooms, etc. They also make great play yards when baby needs that extra freedom, but you want to keep her safely in sight.
The following play yards should be destroyed immediately.
Use one of your wood clubs to tee off with when the fairway is 150 yards or longer.
The field of view is 488 ft at 1000 yards and a close focus of 4 feet.
The field of view is 383 ft at 1000 yards and a close focus of 8 feet.
The field of view is 345 ft at 1000 yards and close focus at 11.5 feet.
Most residential yards can make do with a smaller lawn tractor that has a short turning base.
Your wooden swingset will definitely be inexpensive--prices are very low at salvage yards.
Add about three extra yards for extremely odd corners and small mistakes.
A motion detector sweeps the area for up to 300 yards and emits a burst of sound undetectable to human ears.
This sound will keep cats out of vegetables gardens, yards or other spaces they aren't allowed.
Obviously, it's much easier for non-city dwellers to grow their own fruits and vegetables and even raise livestock if they wanted to because most non-urban homes have a nice little (or big) yards to do so.
For example, paper recycling saves over three cubic yards of landfill space for every ton of paper made from recycled materials.
There are many different types available which are suitable for all types of gardens and yards.
Place the basket on two to three yards of cellophane, tulle, or fabric, and bring up around the basket.
If you don't have a jigsaw, or just aren't confident in your ability to cut your wood properly, most home improvement stores or lumber yards will do it for you.
You can often find unique wood pieces at salvage yards, yard sells, used furniture stores, and other recycling venues that you can re-design into an attractive and one-of-a-kind headboard.
If you like the look and feel of silk but buying yards of it doesn't fit into your budget, use it as an accent fabric.
Sometimes a retailer will have just a few yards of a particular fabric left.
That is, players are awarded points for scoring touchdowns and for gaining yards, usually six points per TD and one point for every 10 yards rushing or receiving.
Some fantasy leagues ask participants to draft a team defense; they then award points, based on things like quarterback sacks, interceptions and total yards surrendered.
Named one of the "100 Must-Play Courses of the Mid-Atlantic" by Golfstyles Magazine, the Wisp Resort Golf Course is designed around the base of the ski slopes with stunning mountain views and 6,700 yards of tree-lined fairways.
The lack of detail and yards of fabric usually mean the dress will cost less than some of the more traditional options, saving more money for a DJ or an extra night or two at your honeymoon destination.
Farrell successfully obtained a restraining order, prohibiting Bradford from being within 150 yards of Farrell, his ex-girlfriend, Kim Bordenave, and their son James.
At the end of his high school years, the profilic running back had amassed an astounding 106 touchdowns and 8,804 yards.
To this day, Emmitt Smith is still the NFL's All-Time Leading Rusher with 18,355 yards.
With a 16-foot train and yards upon yards of silk taffeta, the designer dress became the inspiration for a number of knock-offs and copycats.
Built in Turku, Finland, by STX Europe (Aker Yards), Freedom of the Seas became the largest passenger ship upon its completion in 2006 - a title previously held by Cunard's RMS Queen Mary 2.
Dog doors are convenient for people with fenced yards.
He may still not enjoy being groomed, but he's only a few yards away from his owners at the time; so overall, the experience is far easier on him.
Especially designed for dogs over 40 pounds, the Comfort Fit dog training collar is designed to give you more control over your dog, especially when he's off lead, and it's effective as far as 100 yards away.
With spring here and summer around the corner, now we can be outside again and make use of our back yards, parks and beaches.
T. cordifolia bears little starry creamy-white flowers, the buds delicately tinged with pink, a well-flowered mass seen a few yards off having a close likeness to a wreath of foam.
While some yards and gardens can be grown through happenstance, a water garden is typically created by the gardener.
Narrow yards, new yards, shady areas and overgrown gardens are all problems that have been covered in past issues.
If the entire yard gets only partial sun or shade due to immovable objects like garages, homes, or trees in neighbors' yards, look for a place that gets bright direct sunlight and grow vegetables in pots instead.
It's available from most home and garden centers or lumber yards and can be cut using a power or manual saw.
Like cedar, it's readily available at most home and garden centers and lumber yards, and is easy to work with using common saws and tools.
That box contains approximately 2.5 cubic yards of mulch, or about equal to 6 cubic yards of traditional wood mulch.
When you click "calculate", the calculator gives the number of square yards of flooring needed to complete the project.
He took those wood pieces and sold them out of the back of trucking yards.
Larger yards or busy homeowners may require a professional to complete any home improvement yard light plan.
Position security lighting so that the entrance to your backyard and both your side yards is illuminated.
These slabs can be cut, edged and finished like a natural stone counter, and can be viewed at the same stone yards as granite.
Spend a few days visiting showrooms and lumber yards before you begin your plans.
Even if you don't have excess sodium, the addition of sulfur and calcium is important in many yards.
Chicken manure sounds icky but actually it's considered a perfect fertilizer for yards and gardens because of its stellar nitrogen composition.
They also run through yards, carrying pesticides everywhere.
My approach is much easier and means that thousands of families can enjoy gardening in their back yards and involve their children in the process.
Each ball of yarn is about 68 grams and contains 132 yards of fiber.
You can conceal your hips if you avoid the bulk created by the yards and yards of fabric in the traditional circle skirt.
Once upon a time, plus size sleepwear options consisted of shapeless gowns that resembled muumuus, and a handful of tops and bottoms that would just about hide a woman's body beneath yards of unnecessary fabric.
Additionally, many wrecks end up with cars veering off the road and into yards, homes, stores, and other structures in the buildings surrounding the street.
Under ideal circumstances and with the right equipment, you can see someone who is up to 200 yards away from you.
The more yards and touchdowns you earn will raise your Clash Meter.
The simulated game featured a strong defensive efford from the Steelers that resulted in four quarterback sacks (look out, Matt Hasselbeck) and limited one of the Seahawks' top runners to just 70 yards rushing.
For example, a certain Bronze card may make first downs only 5 yards (instead of the usual 10) for one drive.
When it's 1st and 9 and I'm ahead by 14, do I really need my running back hauling butt 70 yards for a touchdown?
Do all your cooking several yards downwind away from your camp.
Identifying the plant, particularly if people live in a wooded area or have a lot of vegetation in their yards or neighborhood, is essential to preventing the rash.
Water fountains are among the most popular water features for gardens and yards.
Visit scrap yards and recycling depots for bits and pieces of mechanical parts to put together.
Yards can remain unkempt as the house sits empty and begins to fall into disrepair.
When thrown the shuriken blades rotate in a circular motion and can travel several yards.
An old sheet, blanket, or a few yards of velvet fabric from the craft store will work well.
Members petitioned the Illinois legislature to become a state policing agency to stop to the cruel and inhumane treatment of animals at Union Stock Yards throughout the state.
In some cases it may actually be more economical to purchase a highly-detailed costume from a discount retailer than to buy yards of pricey fabric and spend every spare moment sewing it.
You can go to the fabric store and buy a few yards of unbleached muslin for very little money and then cut out eyeholes and throw it over your head.
For this easy mermaid costume you will need a few yards of Lycra fabric in the color of your choice.
These skirts contain yards of material in several layers, circle upon circle.
If you don't have an extra white sheet, it will be cheaper to purchase 5 to 6 yards of inexpensive white cloth.
Whether a woman wears a simple, non-ornamented dress, or a multicolored one with sashes and gold trim, there are yards and yards of fabric composing it.
Arm yourself with a few artistic supplies, including fabric glue, several yards of colorful lace, faux flowers, buttons, sequins or anything else you dream of affixing to your handbag.
The only real disadvantage to a plastic tote is in added weight if lugging the tote more than a few hundred yards.
Rolling yards and haunted houses are often a part of Halloween celebrations, but there is always a possibility of an accident.
They conducted the first series at 100 yards apart, the second series at 250 yards, and then the final two series at 100 yards apart again.
There's nothing like the real thing if you're truly planning to go the whole nine yards.
For example, the Kodak Theater may not want fans closer than 5 to 10 yards of the red carpet.
Remote controls for stop watches are often able to operate from several yards away, and are powerful enough not to require a direct line of vision.
Manufacturers and designers of dress watches put all their creative thought into designing a watch that will turn heads rather than one that will perform a certain number of yards under water or that has other sporty features.
To create a "Frankenstein" car, auto enthusiasts look for car parts online, in junk yards, and in classified ads.
For instance, you could sell pompoms in your team's colors, spirit signs for yards, spirit decals for cars or T-shirts to support your squad.
It might say something like "100 percent cotton, worsted weight, 100 yards per ball."
Then you know if the pattern takes eight skeins, you'll need to buy a worsted weight yarn and at least 800 yards.
Say your project requires 1,300 yards of yarn and you're shopping for skeins that have 250 yards each.
Batting the same size - If you don't have any batting around the house, buy four yards of muslin.
Buy two yards each if using two colors, or one yard of each of your top fabrics and two yards of your backing fabric.
You can also use two yards of each of the top fabrics and four yards of backing fabric, if you want to make a bigger quilt.
If you want a slightly more homemade holiday quilt, buy fat quarters of eight different fabrics (or larger quantities of a smaller number of fabrics, adding up to two yards) as well as two yards of another fabric.
Short but intense dashes, 30-50 yards, repeated a half-dozen times with a minute or two of rest in-between, should be a great help building that extra boost.
Both the horizontal and vertical line should be 10 yards long so that the cone intersecting the horizontal line is 5 yards from each of the horizontal cones.
Do you actually want to block off part of the street, or could the party take place in people's front yards?
If you are working in individual yards you could start setting up the night before.
Drop yards of inexpensive, tulle (netting) fabric over plastic tablecloths.
Create a welcoming red (or pink)path out of a few yards of inexpensive material.
Drape yards of organza or tulle netting across the tops of windows and doorways, and tie large bows on the backs of chairs.
Utopia Platinia Yards is an excellent website where the web master scoured the Internet for blueprints and schematics in order to provide them in one central location on his website.
For those who have or desire a fish pond feature in their yards, keep the water moving with a power source such as a small motor.
About two hundred yards away a lone wolf stood poised for flight, watching them cautiously.
I almost plucked a little beauty from a nearby tent the other night as her parents partied with other campers several yards away.
Dean was loading three full sacks in the rear of his Jeep when he was surprised to see Ginger Dawkins several yards away.
A hundred yards ahead of them the infrequently used Jeep road became impassable in a washed-out jumble of stone.
The passageway continued beyond where Martha had ventured and the Deans continued another hundred yards but once more the passageway forked.
They'd traveled several hundred yards when Dean saw it, nearly covered by brush and invisible from all but a few feet away.
Skidding, half on his feet, half on his seat, he had negotiated a hundred yards further when a glowing flash brightened the sky to the north.
Back on the pavement, Dean pedaled past Tom, a well-known wild turkey who'd in past months adopted a location on the highway from which he never seemed to stray more than a few hundred yards.
He turned and jogged up the final yards without looking back.
The sound of waves rushing the shore and the firm sand beneath his feet indicated its location a few yards from them.
However, winter locked the mountain jeep roads beneath yards of snow for all but a few short summer weeks.
Dean skied a few tentative yards down the slope, took a couple of turns, stopped, and assessed himself.
In any case, Katie managed to get the car stuck less than a hundred yards from the gate.
Moonlight spilled over triangular roofs into grassy front yards.
He took off running toward the palace, his demon vision guiding him in the darkness. Kris followed closely, and they burst onto the yards surrounding the palace.
As the man turned from his room, a young man emerged from the main entrance several yards away and stepped outside.
Suddenly a flash of lightening illuminated the crouched figure of Cynthia Byrne several yards away.
But some specter in his fitful half-sleep wouldn't even give permission for him to dream about Cynthia Byrne, sleeping restfully just yards away.
The afternoon was a blur as Dean's mind alternated between the task at hand and the sobering fact that he might be within miles, or perhaps yards, of Cynthia Byrne's missing husband.
Dean stopped a few hundred yards down the road and swapped his sweat top for a nylon windbreaker.
Do you know how many edible plants grow naturally in our own front yards?
Other leading industries are hosiery, tanning (with the largest yards in Scotland), dyeing, iron and brass founding, engineering and boot-making.
In October he appears dining in the hall there as a guest, and at Christmas 1442 he received a royal livery, five yards of violet cloth, as provost of Eton.
The dock and victualling yards occupy together an area of some i oo acres spread over the shores on both sides of those arms of the great harbour known as "Dockyard" and "French" creeks, the dockyard being partly on the former, but principally on the latter creek.
There are blast furnaces, iron foundries, engineering works, iron ship-building yards, extensive saw-mills, flour-mills and a manufactory of "blue and white" pottery.
It is one of the largest buildings of the kind in Germany, covering an area of 15 acres, and having a frontage of about 600 yards.
At Bagdad it has an average breadth of about 200 yards and a current in flood time of about 44 m.
The latter selected a position a few hundred yards to the north-east of the old city of Chung-tu or Yenking, where he founded the new city of Ta-tu ("great capital"), called by the Mongols Taidu or Daitu, but also KhanBalik; and from this time dates the use of the latter name as applied to this site.
The river banks, however, are fringed with trees, and in the more undulating lands the timber belts vary from a few hundreds of yards to 5 or 10 m.
There are tobacco and earthenware manufactories, boat-building yards, and distilleries.
The buildings of the shrine together with a space extending to about one hundred yards beyond the gates of the shrine on each side is sanctuary (bast).
Push-and-pull shunting is simple, but it is also slow, and therefore efforts have been made at busy yards where great numbers of trains are dealt with to introduce more expeditious methods.
One of the earliest and best known of such " gravity " yards is that at Edgehill, near Liverpool, on the London & North-Western railway, which was established in 1873.
This is described as having "an head about a quarter of a yard long, a staffe of two yards long put into their head, twelve iron pikes round about, and one in the end to stop with."
The valleys vary in width from a few hundred yards to several miles.
The colonies of Aphaenogaster occupy nests extending over an area of fifty to a hundred square yards several feet below the surface of the ground.
There are two large fish-docks, and, for general traffic, the Royal dock, communicating with the Humber through a tidal basin, the small Union dock, and the extensive Alexandra dock, together with graving docks, timber yards, a patent slip, &c. These docks have an area of about 104 acres, but were found insufficient for the growing traffic of the port, and in 1906 the construction of a large new dock, of about 40 acres' area and 30 to 35 ft.
Thus arose, beside minor streets, the imposing central avenue which, starting from a triumphal arch near the great temple of the Sun, formed the main axis of the city from south-east to north-west for a length of 1240 yards, and at one time consisted of not less than 750 columns of rosy-white limestone, each 55 ft.
The Malays wear a loose coat and trousers, and a cap or headkerchief, but the characteristic item of their costume is the sarong, a silk or cotton cloth about two yards long by a yard and a quarter wide, the ends of which are sewn together, a forming a kind of skirt.
Eastwards the mountain system, the Jebel Sangeli, maintains the same general character as far as Bandar Gori (Las Korai), where the precipitous northern cliffs approach within 200 or 300 yards of the gulf, their bare brown rocks and clays presenting the same uninviting appearance as the light brown hills skirting the Red Sea.
The peculiar musky odour was perceived from a distance of a hundred yards; but according to Professor Nathoist there was no musky taste or smell in the flesh if the carcase were cleaned immediately the animals were killed.
Saw-mills, iron foundries, chemicals, glass and soap works, shipbuilding yards and a cocoanut-oil factory in connexion with the soap-manufacture at Port Sunlight, England,are among the chief industrial establishments.
The river is not deep and can be forded in many places; the banks are fringed with thick bush and dom-palms. At the junction of the Ganale and the Web the river is swift-flowing and 85 yards across; just below the Daua confluence it is 200 yds.
The city proper lies on both sides of the little river Alster, which, dammed up a short distance from its mouth, forms a lake, of which the southern portion within the line of the former fortifications bears the name of the Inner Alster (Binnen Alster), and the other and larger portion (2500 yards long and 1300 yards at the widest) that of the Outer Alster (Aussen Alster).
An empty space of some seven hundred yards was all that separated them.
He had not ridden many hundred yards after that before he saw to his left, across the whole width of the field, an enormous mass of cavalry in brilliant white uniforms, mounted on black horses, trotting straight toward him and across his path.
The oasis of the Otradnoe covert came in sight a few hundred yards off, the huntsmen were already nearing it.
About two hundred yards away there's a tavern where ours have already gathered.
At ten o'clock that evening the Rostov family and the wounded traveling with them were all distributed in the yards and huts of that large village.
The buildings in Carriage Row, across the river, in the Bazaar and the Povarskoy, as well as the barges on the Moskva River and the timber yards by the Dorogomilov Bridge, were all ablaze.
Having run through different yards and side streets, Pierre got back with his little burden to the Gruzinski garden at the corner of the Povarskoy.
In the village, in the house, in the garden, by the well, by the pond, over all the rising ground, and all along the road uphill from the bridge leading to the village, not more than five hundred yards away, crowds of men could be seen through the shimmering mist.
He examined the bailiff's accounts of the village in Ryazan which belonged to his wife's nephew, wrote two business letters, and walked over to the granaries, cattle yards and stables before dinner.
He closed the door and they walked several yards down the hall before he spoke.
He was yards behind and took copious notes.