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  • noun Plural form of verst.

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Examples

  • Four versts from the town, near the airfield, on the road to Romanovka.

    The Saturday interview: Janet Suzman 2011

  • The countess who owned his village on the steep bank of the Volga five hundred versts from Moscow, feeling guilty for the centuries of serfdom, provided him with a scholarship to attend engineering school.

    A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010

  • In order to provide them with incentives he insisted that we shall go forward for ten-twenty versts kilometers and hang the kulaks, priests, and landowners.

    Deathride John Mosier 2010

  • The countess who owned his village on the steep bank of the Volga five hundred versts from Moscow, feeling guilty for the centuries of serfdom, provided him with a scholarship to attend engineering school.

    A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010

  • We asked him the nearest town, and could have cried with relief when he said Yenitchi: it was only forty versts away - a couple of hours 'driving, if the beasts held up and weren't pressed too hard.

    The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

  • So my spirits continued to droop, but what shook them worst was an incident on the last morning of our journey when we had halted at a large village only thirty versts [twenty miles] from Starotorsk, the estate to which I was being sent.

    The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

  • In order to provide them with incentives he insisted that we shall go forward for ten-twenty versts kilometers and hang the kulaks, priests, and landowners.

    Deathride John Mosier 2010

  • That way, even if we hit the coast fifty versts either side of Yenitchi, we at least stood a decent chance of finding our road to it in the end, for we had time on our side.

    The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

  • In its season, Monte Carlo attracted the super-rich Americans traveling over in yachts, widows both wealthy and on the prowl, and so many Russian princes and Grand Dukes that it seemed the court of St. Petersburg was replicated many miles (or versts to the Russians) away.

    The Season Abroad | Edwardian Promenade 2007

  • The last day of July; for a thousand versts around, Russia, our native land.

    Dream tales and prose poems 2006

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