‡ A verst is a measure of length, about 3500 English feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Hero of Our Time] Reference

The twenty-fourth verst into Leunovo is a hard drag.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference

French common soldier, especially in World War I. verst.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference

The kibitka was now only half a verst from Krasnoiarsk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Strogoff] Reference

He fell back to the new defenses at the fifteenth verst.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference

Slimak met him when he was about a verst from the cottage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selected Polish Tales] Reference

Michael Strogoff was not more than half a verst from the town.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Strogoff] Reference

Riuer of Tromschua, that runneth a hundred verst, welnigh beyond.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation] Reference

And he plunged into the river, which here was half a verst in width.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Strogoff] Reference

Nevertheless we arrive at end of our twenty-one verst march at 1: 25.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference

In a few minutes they were not more than half a verst from the river.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Strogoff] Reference

At that moment, a noise was heard on the road, about half a verst distant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Strogoff] Reference

He accordingly ran on towards this house, still about half a verst distant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Strogoff] Reference

Lord of ladders, what for lungitube I Can you read the verst legend hereon?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finnegans Wake] Reference

A verst (by their reckoning) is a 1000. pases, yet lesse by one quarter than an.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation] Reference

The fourteenth verst takes us across the river -- follow the telephone wires there.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference

You tenth verst, you break a beautiful scene on us with your trail across the valley.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference

"A verst inland," says the captain; "and I will give you just half an hour to see it.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864] Reference

The road is divided into sections of a verst each, a verst being about two-thirds of a mile.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers] Reference

He was generally acknowledg'd a good scholar, and throughly verst in Ecclesiastical learning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles] Reference

This time I continued out the village gate and less than a verst up the road to the vineyards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]

The sixt Onega, that falleth into the Bay at Solouetsko 90. verst from the port of S. Nicholas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation] Reference

Red Guards, realizing the strategic value of this road fought tenaciously for every verst of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference

And with it they were to feel the dogged sense of the grim necessity of fighting for every verst of frozen ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference

America was a long, long journey, but they had started, and every verst they covered lessened the number that lay between them and the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference

One verst further back in the big clearing was Kodish village, a place which by all the rules of field strategy was absolutely untenable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference

There was still a half-verst to go through the wood on foot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Created Legend] Reference

This I could not refuse; but he rode very slowly, and made the verst a very long one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar] Reference

He told me that if I would let him ride one verst more with me he would then turn back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar] Reference

The nearest settlement is Sredne Kolymsk, three hundred versts (a verst is 3,500 yards) away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Reminiscences of old Victoria] Reference

We rode on till we came to a copse, a quarter of a verst or so from the house of the young Barin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar] Reference