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    1. Also there are various electronic devices such as Yard Guard (Arbico) that really work! Another helpful tool is your dog or cat since they can keep many animals at bay


    2. Give Caesar his Due: Feeding the ants will reduce their activity in other parts of their kingdom(our yard and house)


    3. He needed to consult the map to find his way in from the front, the dock side of Taktor's yard and found that was all left blank


    4. When forested areas of the world use up the nutrients in the soil, the earth has a built-in remineralization system that can be learned from and applied right in the back yard


    5. However, simply by taking care of one’s yard and garden through natural means, the accumulative effects will yield significant results on a global scale


    6. But it may be that it is not stolen yet, but is about to be stolen as soon as Tahlmute gets it out of that yard


    7. Talshi and her friend Wootondi brought a grate and a campfire into his yard for noonmeal


    8. Tahlmute stood up and preceded him back up toward the house, but went between the house roots and across his marshaling yard while doostEr stopped at the shop under the roots for his measure and level


    9. That spring we’d built a little garage in our back yard and I was


    10. "I saw it on a vid screen down at Dolib's," that was the closest reliable pouring keg to his yard

    11. exposed wood shaving floor of her tin cell yard, feeling as though she ran under the


    12. A cook came by with a push cart to Taktor's yard every day of the week and that was where they took their lunch


    13. His yard boy, who was friendly with Estwig, though half a decade younger, ran a few blocks after them, then snatched off and waved his shorts as they rumbled out of sight


    14. He was very glad it was seldom right around his yard, but he wouldn't have bought the place if it wasn't level getting in and out


    15. filth in the yard


    16. a drink in his hand once the sun was over the yard arm, and the sun was always over


    17. the yard arm somewhere in the world


    18. The boy in the red polo shirt, the boy with defiantly tousled hair and yard


    19. What's going on? The sonic war against me is getting more and more unbearable day by day and I just can't stand it any more! For some strange reason, I am surrounded by all kinds of noise pollution: Every morning, at 7:30 am, my father gets out to the yard and keeps himself busy with meaningless tinkering and hammering at pieces of wood or metal for hours! When I return from work at 4:00 in the afternoon and lie in bed so as to have a brief nap, dad goes upstairs, to Alice's half-built penthouse, and starts hammering at stuff again till 5:30 that I leave for the gym! He doesn't really repair anything, he just enjoys the noise! The yard and the penthouse are full of rusty tools, old dilapidated furniture and all kinds of junk dad finds on the road and carries home! I often complain about the noise and the piggery but he never listens; on the contrary, he swears like a trooper!


    20. She noted a dusty cobweb draped across the window as she glanced through the grimy glass only to see a rather dilapidated and neglected yard where three cars were parked

    21. So much had happened since she last sat here … an image of JJ laughing as he rode Black Hofnarr across the stable yard flew across her mind


    22. had fallen into the yard


    23. When he rides into the yard I’m out in the stable block ostensibly grooming Sefir, though the effectiveness of my so-called grooming would be called into doubt by any half-capable stablehand but Sefir doesn’t seem to mind


    24. tree and followed the others outside into the back yard where


    25. houses sit quietly queuing for the knacker’s yard,


    26. By the time I rein Sefir to a halt in the stable yard, Wiesse has broken the news to her


    27. The sound of someone running across the stable yard interrupts him


    28. You will recognise it from the others because it flies the noble flag of Greece from a tall white pole in the yard


    29. In a bare lime-washed yard behind the house, I found my aunt dressed in dismal black


    30. Pantelis had it put in for Alexis,' she pointed across the yard to a stone outhouse in one corner

    31. After a couple of minutes he returned carrying a cup of instant coffee and some slices of melon on a tray, 'If you would like, it might be more pleasant in the yard now the sun is at the front


    32. I was back across the yard in less than a second


    33. Despite the bright sunshine, there is an air of melancholy neglect … similar to the atmosphere you find in a junk yard, where unwanted relics have been piled up and forgotten, unwanted and unused


    34. ’ Berndt explained as he turns Adamant through an archway into the stable yard


    35. As he speaks, a man appears from inside the barn at one end of the yard


    36. By the time he and Orens have settled Sefir and Adamant in stalls, I am feeling a less shaky and able to cross the stable yard without assistance


    37. Berndt heads straight for a wayhouse called ‘The Bright Stars’, ducking his head as he rides Adamant under the archway leading into the stable yard, the gg’s hooves clattering on the cobbles of the yard


    38. (Loosely based on Andersen’s In The Duck Yard)


    39. When I was out in the court yard she came to visit me one day


    40. The shower in the yard came into its own and that's when I knew for sure why it was there

    41. She smiled a toothless grin and stood back, letting me through her yard


    42. The shop was in a yard overlooking the bay and covering its low walls hung every type of linen designed for every household need


    43. Hand-embroidered bed covers, chair covers, head covers, shirts and blouses of the national costume all decorated the yard, set off by a backdrop of rolling sea on one side and rolling hills on the other


    44. back yard or the fields that your partner grew up around, you can provide your love with a


    45. I was standing in the WC looking up through the window at the peaceful square of night, face of moon, two stars, when something attracted my attention in the yard


    46. ‘What a gorgeous spot …’ Gary commented, driving into the yard and parking the car


    47. The property was a six-hundred square yard plot, huge by Belrampur


    48. What has happened here must stay within the walls of this yard


    49. Irene Valeska stepped into the yard and I knew by her warmth that she would take care of my aunt, 'I'll be there for her


    50. Turning to Tarak with a glint in her eye she asked, “Lord Tarak, would you please point out the direction of the practice yard













































    1. Extra vagance! it depends on how you are yarded


    1. She noticed a fisherman about a thousand yards out had turned his glass on her so she waved and posed


    2. She flew off, over its head, smacking her knee on the hard shell of its big middle eye and then tumbling thru yards of splintery brush before coming to rest


    3. They look back at the dock, now more than a hundred yards back


    4. The island, from this vantage point, is about 100 yards away


    5. in the yards


    6. A villa sits in the moonlight a hundred yards inland and up a hill from the surf, which rhythmically pounds the white sand


    7. Bolt looks up at the top of a hill just as Ahmed’s 747 appears over the hilltop, roars past overhead on its way to landing just a few hundred yards away


    8. He carries him to a safer location about a hundred yards away


    9. One ambles a little way towards us but decides we are not worth the effort while still several yards away and we make it to the gate without mishap


    10. The redsuits were visible every thirty or forty yards or so, clinging to the ring

    11. Not that such thoughts occurred to Stu as he sauntered through those final dusty yards towards the taverna


    12. Why? Her new friends, the girls sharing her digs had elected to go on to a small club a few yards down the street, but not she


    13. Screams and growls and booms echoed across the plain; and at one time, a few hundred yards away, he heard the sloshing of deep water and a pitiful bellow


    14. He'd at least seen the forest in daylight before he had to spend a night in it and even then he was only a few hundred yards away from human habitation


    15. Then he saw his pack over by another tuft of brush a few yards away and spat it out


    16. It was from only a few hundred yards away


    17. It was between one hundred and two hundred yards out, way too far for him to see it, but BIG


    18. Desa went wild with the fire, building a blaze that lit the plains for a hundred yards in all directions from this keltoid clump


    19. choose to walk the two hundred yards that lead


    20. She had less than a hundred yards of that before dense vegetation began again

    21. They were two hundred yards from the wallow by now but continued to back away


    22. In tacit mutual agreement, Berndt and I stop a few yards into the wood, hiding behind trees, and look back to see what is going on


    23. Fenced crops extended about five hundred yards from the village and quite a few kedas lounged about in the shade


    24. His eyes were glued on his friend a few yards away who was buying a lottery ticket probably with the money they got from begging


    25. yards to the left all those years ago


    26. The road itself is fairly quiet but you can hear the noise of the traffic on the main road a couple of hundred yards away


    27. The nearest flame came from a building fifty yards away


    28. and fell, around twenty yards away from us


    29. The forest had grown back over the ruins that were once the suburban sea around Reston, except where a few yards remained clear and well armed families grew crops in the clearing, living in the circled hulks of old cars and trucks covered with tarps


    30. They still had to climb three stories and walk a hundred yards to get to an elevator

    31. By the light of the lamp standing on the pavement a few yards up the road, I can see every feature of his face


    32. was sited a few hundred yards from the coast, and guarded by a


    33. She gathered his shoes, the gun and the hose and moved them a few yards away


    34. and hood, appear over a rise in the ground only a few hundred yards


    35. Some hundred yards or so from the barracks, but out of sight of the building beside a large rock, she came across an area of ground which had obviously been disturbed recently


    36. Keeping still and quartering the landscape with her ears, she pinpointed it, even more thrilled when she spotted a flash of bright feathers in a bush a few yards from where she was standing


    37. were cracked and shattered, garbage littered the yards


    38. tailor-made cocktail that’ll stop a buffalo in his tracks thirty yards away


    39. path fifty yards away, then back at the man


    40. that it was about thirty yards from him

    41. Thirty yards away the dog began to bark


    42. The farm track runs down for twenty or thirty yards between two fields and then opens out into a wider, gravelled area in front of a derelict farmhouse


    43. point, becoming at least fifty yards wide at the point where the decades of scores


    44. At thirty yards the width of the Hollow


    45. The house sat about a hundred yards in front of the cornfields


    46. road ran in front of the house another two hundred yards further away


    47. The hall was narrow but stretched a good fifty yards


    48. The pump was but a few yards from the back door; he went over and tested it


    49. Suddenly, a shrieking cry shattered the night air, and then several pleas of NO! Followed, whirling around to look behind her, she could see two people struggling in the dark several yards from her


    50. Most streets are wide and shady and there’s always fine homes with big lawns and yards














































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    Synonyms for "yard"

    yard curtilage grounds railway yard railyard cubic yard pace 1000 chiliad g grand k m one thousand thou thousand tract area enclosure patch courtyard lot quadrant plot

    "yard" definitions

    a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride


    the enclosed land around a house or other building


    a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings)


    the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100


    a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)


    a tract of land where logs are accumulated


    an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines


    a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen


    an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)