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“In the morning they glide just above the rough plush of the marshlands, as though on leashes, long-tailed and with yard-wide wings tipped upward, like dark Vs; then they suddenly fall in response to their wish, which is always the same --- to succeed again and again.”
“The two sides traded relentless mortar and rocket fire across a 500-yard-wide desert valley called Wadi Zeitoun that divides the town between north and south.”
“A wood, a rise of 10 feet, or a 10-yard-wide creek pass without notice, but these simple topographical features were often enough to hide or immobilize an army.”
The Wall Street Journal: Refighting the Battle of Gettysburg
“At dawn they transferred to handcars, then walked as they approached the Yellow River and the 1,200-yard-wide so-called Japanese front.”
“I have, in my office, five beautiful yard-wide, seven-foot tall, finished pine seven-shelf bookcases from 57th Street Bookcases now, of course, located in Evanston, nowhere near 57th Street.”
“From end to end of the boiling pool, across the face of the black rock, ran a yard-wide ledge.”
“She ran swiftly down a descending level to the bank and began climbing the iron stairway to the bridge, remembering that it was something she had always wanted to do, and that she would have the added excitement of traversing the yard-wide plank that ran beside the tracks over the river.”
“His pants had what seemed to be yard-wide bottoms and hung well below the waistband of his underwear.”
“Naked Burmans in yard-wide hats of palm-leaf ploughed the paddy-fields, driving their buffaloes through knee-deep water.”
“One of the thick mud-brick walls of the crystallomancers 'office had a new, yard-wide hole in it.”
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