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Sentences ending with paces

It would be time enough after she had her team well in hand, she said to herself,--had felt their mouths and tried their paces. [6]
She did not run down the steps, but she caught her aunt by the arm ere that lady had taken six paces. [9]
I say the broncho was not so ver' bad, and I tell him try the paces. [11]
The mother instinctively bounded away a few paces. [4]
Some of the best of the colts are pranced round, a few minutes each, to show their paces. [6]
They walked on a few paces. [8]

Short sentences using paces

Only ten paces divided them. [2]

Sentences containing paces two or more times

The seconds, measuring the paces, left tracks in the deep wet snow between the place where they had been standing and Nesvitski's and Dolokhov's sabers, which were stuck into the ground ten paces apart to mark the barrier. [2]

More example sentences with the word paces in them

When he was within twenty paces, and Nicholas could clearly distinguish every detail of his handsome, happy young face, he experienced a feeling tenderness and ecstasy such as he had never before known. [2]
They both listened with such tension that the veins in their foreheads swelled; but from the tablinum, which was hardly thirty paces from them, came only very faint and intermittent sounds, indistinct in character and drowned by the tumult without. [10]
Leaving the spot with slow and cautious steps, and skirting the ruin for a few paces, he came at length to a door. [12]
The roof, thatched with palm-leaves and reeds, had begun to crackle when Antinous rushed into the tower only a few paces off crying: "Fire--fire! [10]
Suddenly, when he was within fifty paces, a cry escaped me,--I should have known that smiling, sallow, weakly handsome face anywhere in the world. [9]
A shell tore up the earth two paces from Pierre and he looked around with a smile as he brushed from his clothes some earth it had thrown up. [2]
Colonel Clark rode twenty paces in front, alone, his head bowed with thinking. [9]
I have consciences to come all the way from China and Russia to see a person of that kind put through his paces, on a special occasion. [5]
Pierre stopped some thirty paces from Kutuzov, talking to Boris. [2]
From above on the left, bisecting that amphitheater, wound the Smolensk highroad, passing through a village with a white church some five hundred paces in front of the knoll and below it. [2]
All at once the circle had vanished, and the two men were standing not five paces apart with their rifles clutched across their bodies, each watching, catlike, for the other to level. [9]
Prince Andrew and the battalion were already within twenty paces of the cannon. [2]
He was some ten paces behind me. [9]
Suddenly she rose, swept past Mammy, and met him ten paces from the summer house. [9]
Her glance rested sorrowfully upon him a long time, but even when she moved several paces nearer he retained the same motionless rigidity which had seized upon him and even communicated itself to the dog. [10]
It had grown so dark that one could not distinguish the uniforms ten paces off, and the firing had begun to subside. [2]
Anywhere, on any side, one might encounter an enemy invisible ten paces off. [2]
Yet she was quiet and unmoving, now and then saying an encouraging word to Lapierre, who smacked his lips for miles afterwards, and took out of his horses their strength and paces by masterly degrees. [11]
They constitute a problem which society must solve or which will dissolve society," and he knew from that formula, which the colonel had, once used with him, that he was laying out a road for the exhibition of the hobby's paces later. [8]
About a thousand paces from this spot the faithful freedman pitched the little tent obtained in Tennis under the shade of several tall palm trees and a sejal acacia. [10]
Having advanced six paces and strayed off the track into the snow, Pierre looked down at his feet, then quickly glanced at Dolokhov and, bending his finger as he had been shown, fired. [2]
Then she set out on her way home, expecting to traverse the short distance swiftly and without delay; but, when she had gone only a few paces from the Grieb, a tall man came toward her. [10]
Fletcher laughed, whipped out his hunting knife, and cut the thongs; but he and Willis had scarce got twenty paces from the officer before they seized poor Maisonville by the hair and made shift to scalp him. [9]
The Indians came on at a dog trot, but when they were within fifty paces of me they halted abruptly. [9]
From the door of one of these, only a few paces beyond where they stood, light streamed out; and as they were about to pass it a large dog barked. [10]
But, in spite of Mr. Walpole, John Paul was led out in the paces that best suited him, and finally, to the undisguised delight of Mr. Fox, managed to trip Horry upon an obscure point in Athenian literature. [9]
Suddenly the troop of horsemen appeared in full gallop only a hundred paces before her, and distinctly visible. [10]
Othman did not observe the Vekeel, who was but a few paces distant. [10]
But I had not gone a dozen paces in my disappointment when I heard him running after me, asking if my honour were Mr. Richard Carvel. [9]
The woman was no longer kneeling, but lay face downward several paces nearer to the narrow passage choked with stones and lime dust which separated her from us. [10]
Twelve sharpshooters with muskets stepped out of the ranks with a firm regular tread and halted eight paces from the post. [2]
He followed, not more than a dozen paces behind her. [11]
He had not met Iberville since his capture, but now, on entering the prison, he saw his enemy not a dozen paces from the door, pale and stern. [11]
How dare he march undaunted to within six paces of those eyes? [9]
Before he had made six paces I had him by the shoulder, and he let out a shriek of fright like a woman's. [9]
Astley was a large man, about my build, and I donned a pair of his leather breeches and boots, and put Indian Chief to his paces around the ring. [9]
While I was kneeling over his comrade one of the Blemmyes had crept up to me, and had flung his lance at me from a few paces off. [10]
The regiment stood in columns of battalion, three hundred paces apart, but nevertheless the men were always in one and the same mood. [2]
My house is in a garden belonging to Paulina, the widow of Pudeus, near this and close to the sea; it is not above a thousand paces off, and there you will have a soft couch and tender care. [10]
At about a hundred paces from the nyssa she saw, above the sandy curtain, the red cap of Hippias flash past, and then--close behind it--the blue cap worn by Marcus. [10]
We had not, however, gone a half dozen paces in the entrance hall when there were quick steps behind, and four soldiers came towards us, with an officer at their head--an officer whom I had seen in the chamber, but did not recognize. [11]
For above an hour he sat drinking with the brave old fellows; then, quitting them, he went to look at the Canopic way by night, as it was but a few paces thither from the scene of his hospitality. [10]
Five paces from him, a cannon ball tore up the dry earth and disappeared. [2]
The fog had grown so dense that though it was growing light they could not see ten paces ahead. [2]
When he was got within three paces he halted. [9]
Before I had gone twenty paces I heard them laughing at their game and shouting out the stakes. [9]
The antagonists stood forty paces apart at the farther edge of the clearing. [2]
The spot chosen for the duel was some eighty paces from the road, where the sleighs had been left, in a small clearing in the pine forest covered with melting snow, the frost having begun to break up during the last few days. [2]
He darted forward for a few paces, as if into the mouth of some dim, yawning cavern; then, thinking he had gone wrong, changed the direction of his steps; then stood still, not knowing where to turn. [12]
I walked the floor, turning the thing over in my mind, and finally it occurred to me that Gatling-guns at fifteen paces would be a likely way to get a verdict on the field of honor. [5]
Some hundred paces farther along the edge of the wood stood Mitka, the count's other groom, a daring horseman and keen rider to hounds. [2]
With the naked eye Prince Andrew saw below them to the right, not more than five hundred paces from where Kutuzov was standing, a dense French column coming up to meet the Apsherons. [2]
How Mr. Crewe's ears must tingle as he paces his headquarters in the Pelican! [9]
She did not draw it away, and after they had gone on thus for a few paces he sighed and said: "Do you know how I feel? [10]
The space, a dozen paces wide, which divided them, permitted the antagonists to understand each other, and the attention of the whole throng was fixed upon the wranglers. [10]
Thanks to the delay caused by this crossing of the wolf's path, the old dog with its felted hair hanging from its thigh was within five paces of it. [2]
When the forces crept forward again, it was as infantrymen, moving five paces apart, and feeling their way up to the Boer trenches. [11]
Two orderlies, a courier and a major-domo, stood near by, some ten paces from Prince Andrew, availing themselves of Kutuzov's absence and of the fine weather. [2]
He has not counted it; but when they have gone a few paces beyond the box for poor Prisoners, he hastily returns and drops it in. [12]
She now perceived close to her, at hardly a hundred paces from where she stood, the line of sphinxes by the side of which lay the tombs of Apis near which she was to await Publius. [10]
Mrs. Falchion was but a few paces from us, smiling agreeably as she acknowledged our greetings. [11]
The gem-cutter would be quite content to conceal himself where his treasure was, and the garden and work-room were only distant a few hundred paces from his own home. [10]
Twice he started away from his post to go to her, but before he had gone a hundred paces he came back. [11]
I stood up, and there, not twenty paces away, was Colonel Clark himself rushing toward me. [9]
Having led him about ten paces, Willarski stopped. [2]
In the cross-valley about a thousand paces farther north--to the northwest of our stronghold--the surprise is to be effected. [10]
From a campfire a hundred paces off came a sound of general, merry laughter. [2]
In the water, a few paces off, by the next boat, we saw the youngest daughter of Colonel Williams. [5]
She was only a couple of paces away when she saw him, and to her too he was not the Nicholas she had known and always slightly feared. [2]

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