Paces
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At ten
paces
you can’t hear our words.
There will be disagreement, but is it better to have a static Europe or a Europe that advances, sometimes at different paces, and that is open to all?
She was in the fifth box in the lower tier, some twenty
paces
from him.
When he had gone some forty
paces
he stepped behind a spindle bush with pink and red earring-shaped blossoms, and paused, knowing that he could no longer be seen.
They went a few
paces
in silence.
The shortness of her legs prevented her seeing anything before her, but from the scent she could tell that it was not five
paces
off.
With lusty cries and a sound of the beating of concave wings so peculiar to the double-snipe, a bird rose; and, following the report of the gun, it fell heavily on its white breast ten
paces
from the first spot into the wet bog.
CHAPTER VIN THE SLANTING SHADOW of a pile of sacks heaped up on the platform, Vronsky, in a long overcoat, his hat pulled down low and his hands in his pockets, was walking up and down like an animal in a cage, turning sharply every twenty
paces.
When they were still about two hundred
paces
from the house the wind had already risen, so that at any moment a downpour might be expected.
He went on some two hundred
paces.
Then he moved on a few paces, attracted by the winding engine, of which he could now see the glistening steel and copper.
When they were some thirty
paces
off, the gossiping recommenced with redoubled vigour.
A hundred
paces
farther on he came across more couples.
He was surprised, therefore, when he had gone a hundred
paces
along the path, to find that they were already standing up, and that they appeared, like himself, to be returning to the settlement.
The latter stood upright, a few
paces
from the table, while all turned to look at him, huge, out of breath with the news he was bringing.
They were silent, and walked some hundred
paces
without exchanging a word.
The sentinel, stiffened by cold, was walking up and down, taking twenty-five
paces
towards Marchiennes, and then returning towards Montsou.
She had crammed herself in more closely, with Bébert, and was saying, in a high voice:"Oh, the white-livered pigs!"Catherine, a few
paces
off, was gazing and listening, stupefied by new scenes of violence, into the midst of which ill luck seemed to be always throwing her.
But then the volley swept the field, mowing down the inquisitive groups who were laughing at the battle a hundred
paces
off.
They went back towards the Voreux slowly, and he added, after a few paces:"Have you seen the new placards?"
As soon as he had gone ten
paces
he must come back and knock up against this man.
A few
paces
away, a monstrous, meter-high sea spider was staring at me with beady eyes, poised to spring at me.
Not a single object was visible past ten
paces.
A shot went off, I heard a faint hissing, and an animal dropped a few
paces
away, literally struck by lightning.
I was lagging behind some twenty
paces
when I saw Captain Nemo suddenly come back toward me.
Indeed, it was essential to beat a retreat because some twenty natives, armed with bows and slings, appeared barely a hundred
paces
off, on the outskirts of a thicket that masked the horizon to our right.
They formed distinct male-and-female groups, the father watching over his family, the mother suckling her little ones, the stronger youngsters emancipated a few
paces
away.
When he had gone about a hundred
paces
he stopped, and as he saw the cart disappearing, its wheels turning in the dust, he gave a deep sigh.
On the other side of the passage was Charles's consulting room, a little room about six
paces
wide, with a table, three chairs, and an office chair.
The Church is on the other side of the street, twenty
paces
farther down, at the entrance of the square.
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