Paces
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But as the doctor's house was only some fifty
paces
from the inn, they had to say good-night almost immediately, and the company dispersed.
Apart, outside the enclosure, a hundred
paces
off, was a large black bull, muzzled, with an iron ring in its nostrils, and who moved no more than if he had been in bronze.
Then some hundred
paces
farther on she again stopped, and through her veil, that fell sideways from her man's hat over her hips, her face appeared in a bluish transparency as if she were floating under azure waves.
They stopped at the barrier; Emma undid her overshoes, put on other gloves, rearranged her shawl, and some twenty
paces
farther she got down from the "Hirondelle."
Finally, her carriage passing out at a gallop through another of the gates of the town, she made her way back to the road along which the King was to pass, and was able to follow the Guard of Honour at a distance of twenty paces, in a noble cloud of dust.
A young man, robed in violet with a lace surplice, but bare-headed, was standing three
paces
away from the mirror.
Julien was within six
paces
of the King, who was praying with genuine fervour.
But the young lady behind the counter had remarked the charming appearance of this young country cousin, who, brought to a standstill three
paces
from the stove, hugging his little bundle under his arm, was studying the bust of the King, in gleaming white plaster.
But the
paces
of that horse which she knew so well, the way in which Julien rapped with his whip at the stable door to summon a groom, sometimes drew Mathilde to stand behind her window curtain.
Miss Montag followed him a few paces, as if she did not quite trust him.
The priest had only gone a few
paces
from him, but K. was already shouting loudly, "Please, wait!""I'm waiting," said the priest.
The captain he conjured to dispense with his erect military carriage, and for a season to adopt the humble
paces
of his father's negro; and Caesar he enjoined to silence and disguise, so long as he could possibly maintain them.
Dismounting, he stepped back a few paces, and for a moment viewed the condition of his horse with the eye of one who well understood the animal, and then, casting a brief but expressive glance at his aid, he retired into the building, followed by that gentleman.
Then he set her down again, and I found that this had been their parting; for, indeed, in another hundred
paces
they would have come in view of the upper windows of the house.
It had not taken fifty
paces
before a gun banged out from an English battery on our left, and the battle of Waterloo had begun.
After ten minutes of it we moved our square a hundred
paces
to the right; but we left another square behind us, for a hundred and twenty men and seven officers showed where we had been standing.
Their front line was forty
paces
from us at the moment, and we had a good look at them.
This arcade, at the most, is thirty
paces
long by two in breadth.
Then slowly, straightening his leg, he moved a few
paces
away.
On a certain occasion Laurent noticed one of the latter standing at a few
paces
from the glass, and pressing her cambric handkerchief to her nostrils.
On a slab a few
paces
away, was stretched the body of a great, big fellow, a mason who had recently killed himself on the spot by falling from a scaffolding.
Laurent advanced a few
paces
without speaking, and took off his coat and waistcoat.
He had gone but a few
paces
into the wood, when he saw a mare tied to an oak, and tied to another, and stripped from the waist upwards, a youth of about fifteen years of age, from whom the cries came.
The advice seemed good to Don Quixote, and, he leading Rocinante by the bridle and Sancho the ass by the halter, after he had packed away upon him the remains of the supper, they advanced the meadow feeling their way, for the darkness of the night made it impossible to see anything; but they had not gone two hundred
paces
when a loud noise of water, as if falling from great rocks, struck their ears.
"Very likely," said Sancho, "but that's not my fault, but your worship's, for leading me about at unseasonable hours and at such unwonted paces."
They went it might be a hundred
paces
farther, when on turning a corner the true cause, beyond the possibility of any mistake, of that dread-sounding and to them awe-inspiring noise that had kept them all the night in such fear and perplexity, appeared plain and obvious; and it was (if, reader, thou art not disgusted and disappointed) six fulling hammers which by their alternate strokes made all the din.
He had not gone a hundred paces, however, when he returned and said:"I must say, senor, your worship said quite right, that in order to be able to swear without a weight on my conscience that I had seen you do mad things, it would be well for me to see if it were only one; though in your worship's remaining here I have seen a very great one."
All this was heard distinctly by the curate and those with him, and as it seemed to them to be uttered close by, as indeed it was, they got up to look for the speaker, and before they had gone twenty
paces
they discovered behind a rock, seated at the foot of an ash tree, a youth in the dress of a peasant, whose face they were unable at the moment to see as he was leaning forward, bathing his feet in the brook that flowed past.
With this object they resolved to show themselves, and at the stir they made in getting upon their feet the fair damsel raised her head, and parting her hair from before her eyes with both hands, she looked to see who had made the noise, and the instant she perceived them she started to her feet, and without waiting to put on her shoes or gather up her hair, hastily snatched up a bundle as though of clothes that she had beside her, and, scared and alarmed, endeavoured to take flight; but before she had gone six
paces
she fell to the ground, her delicate feet being unable to bear the roughness of the stones; seeing which, the three hastened towards her, and the curate addressing her first said:"Stay, senora, whoever you may be, for those whom you see here only desire to be of service to you; you have no need to attempt a flight so heedless, for neither can your feet bear it, nor we allow it."
Perhaps at this moment, envious of hers, thou art regarding her, either as she
paces
to and fro some gallery of her sumptuous palaces, or leans over some balcony, meditating how, whilst preserving her purity and greatness, she may mitigate the tortures this wretched heart of mine endures for her sake, what glory should recompense my sufferings, what repose my toil, and lastly what death my life, and what reward my services?
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