They had been seen as soon as they left the ranch, picked out of the darkness by the weary though watchful eyes of two men posted a few hundred yards away in the windless shelter of the trees.

A man was standing in the open door of the lighted orderly room a few yards to Mike's left, but he, too, suddenly made up his mind and went racing to join the confused activity at the east end of the stockade.

The valley was only a few hundred yards wide with just about room enough for a properly performed hundred-and-eighty-degree turn.

A few yards beyond the group of men, a man's nude body lay face down on a patch of thick green dichondra.

but by a blond girl in a sweater and skirt who stood a few yards off and tenderly regarded him.

Gun on shoulder, he would march smartly for a few yards, bring his heels together with a click, make a brisk pirouette, skirts flaring, and march back to his point of departure.

His legs suddenly feel heavy and unaccountably weary, as if he had walked for miles, instead of strolling a few hundred yards along the old campus paths.

Cardboard noisemakers, substitutes for the unavailable tin models, were being hawked and bought at makeshift stands every few yards along Broadway, and one's ears were continually serenaded by the horns' rasps and bleats.

They are still considered to be for use in restricted waters, however, and targets must come within a few yards of them.

Somewhere in the few scant yards of head start was the determining point.

Retrace your steps a few yards on the Via Di Santa Sabina and turn right on the Via Di S. Alessio, a street lined with stately homes.

Just a few yards to the right on the Via Capo Di Ferro will bring you to the Palazzo Spada, built in 1540 and now occupied by the Council of State.

A few yards farther, on the Via Dei Bergamaschi, is the Piazza Colonna.

Carnegie is buried only a few yards away from union organizer Samuel Gompers, another important figure of industry in the Gilded Age.

Gregory VII was meanwhile still resisting a few hundred yards away from the basilica in the Castel San Angelo, then known as the house of Cencius.

Although the Church of the Holy Sepulchre has its tomb just a few yards away from its Golgotha, there is no particular reason to regard this close juxtaposition as a necessity ; however, Gordon followed this principle, concluding that his site for Golgotha must also be the approximate location for Jesus ' burial, identifying a nearby tomb, now called the Garden Tomb, as the location for the event.

In a few hours 10, 000 Dervishes were killed by rifle and machine gun fire without any of them getting within 600 yards of the British force.

When Mountbatten was aboard en route to Donegal Bay, just a few hundred yards from the shore, the bomb was detonated.

Other good examples of this technique for eliminating several yards of waste space and a few seconds of waste time can be seen in Ralph Ince's films, particularly The Right Girl ( 1915 ), and by 1919 it was widely diffused in American films, but not in those made in Europe.

The stalemate lasted from 1914 until early 1918, with ferocious battles that moved forces a few hundred yards at best along a line that stretched from the North Sea to the Swiss border.

Henry Purcell's family lived just a few hundred yards west of Westminster Abbey from the year 1659 onward.

Tolson is buried a few yards away from Hoover in the Congressional Cemetery.

The Globe pub now occupies the site ( 2012 ), a few yards from the modern-day Moorgate station.

There is one circular road round the island, about long, and most arable land lies in the few hundred yards between this and the coastline.

Morse encountered the problem of getting a telegraphic signal to carry over more than a few hundred yards of wire.

It was established in a couple of buildings in the shopping district, with only a few professors, but all eminent men, and a few hundred eager students housed in nearby dwellings.

Soon the little shop became much too small and they moved to a much larger factory building nearby ( formerly a window glass factory ), and started mass producing the Aster for a period of a few years, in which time its staff grew twentyfold.

There is limited natural fresh water resources ( except for a few seasonal streams and springs on Tortola, most of the islands ' water supply comes from wells and rainwater catchments ). It has strong ties to nearby US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.

The next year he was transferred to nearby York Factory, and over the next few years spent time as a clerk at Cumberland House and South Branch House before arriving at Manchester House in 1787.

Only a few scenes were actually filmed in Åmål, but these were not included in the final version: the main shooting took place in the nearby town of Trollhättan, location of Film i Väst's ( the company that produced the film ) film studios.

As a result, in a few materials, the ferromagnetic ones, nearby spins tend to align in the same direction.

In general, Common Kestrels will usually tolerate conspecifics nesting nearby, and sometimes a few dozen pairs may be found nesting in a loose colony.

On the other hand, marriages tend to be between nearby families, and neighborhoods become small networks of direct and indirect affinal relationships with a few further connections of direct agnation or common clan membership.

Despite this legendary history, the first authenticated history of Totnes is in AD 907, when it was fortified by King Edward the Elder as part of the defensive ring of burhs built around Devon, replacing one built a few years earlier at nearby Halwell.

A few months later, further north, John's brother William Brunton's " section of the line ran near another ruined city, bricks from which had already been used by villagers in the nearby village of Harappa at the same site.

Where allegedly the victims were executed with cold steel weapons. A patrol of 16 special operatives were coming back from a raid in a nearby village which they had raided a few hours earlier they looted and beat the villagers is what they said, this was done several times a week through 5 villages the patrol rout was always the same which the investigation after the massacre claimed that Albanian guerrillas had been monitoring the patrol for some weeks after they got complains by the ethnic Albanian villagers and had realised that the patrol was always the same rout and approximate times.

The Valley Baptist Hospital was built nearby a few years later, and eventually the older hospital closed.

People can leave their personal vehicles in a nearby Floriana parking lot and transfer to a van for the rest of the trip, which takes a mere few minutes.

One of the few organelles they do contain at maturity is the smooth endoplasmic reticulum, which can be found at the plasma membrane, often nearby the plasmodesmata that connect them to their companion or albuminous cells.

These cameramen were in just as much danger as the soldiers on the ground, often within a few feet of mortars and shells exploding and bullets ricocheting nearby.

The countryside surrounding the town is mostly given over to farming, although there are a few areas of nearby woodland.

When he was a few months old, Robson's family moved to the nearby village of Langley Park where his father was a coal miner.

Relatively few of these unwieldy ephemera survive ; a rare surviving great-circle panorama is the Panorama Mesdag in a purpose-built museum in The Hague, showing the dunes of nearby Scheveningen.

The ship stayed a few days and Captain Robert Fitzroy visited the Fox family at nearby Penjerrick Gardens.

In historical areas of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, there are also a few mature American elms still standing — notably in Independence Square and the Quadrangle at the University of Pennsylvania, and also at the nearby campuses of Haverford College, Swarthmore College, and The Pennsylvania State University, believed to be the largest remaining stand in the country.

Her few projects came via friends, such as the Bliss winter and retirement estate, ' Casa Dorinda ', in Montecito, California and the patronage of Mildred Bliss's mother, Anna Blakely Bliss, for the nearby Santa Barbara Botanic Garden project.

Two men who were evidently spending the night on their way through were captured as they emerged from the cabin early that morning to collect water at the nearby Powder River, while the third Nick Ray, was shot while standing inside the doorway of the cabin and died a few hours later.

In E. Gadd's nearby workshop, he mentions how Luigi's newly won mansion is obviously the work of something not of this world, since it only appeared a few nights ago.