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Instinctive shooting. arrowed him at 12 paces from a ground blind on the edge of a soybean field.

What was the first deer you ever killed with a bow?

A bright blue plastic "honey bucket" for human waste stands a few paces from the front door.

For many with a stake in Alaska native corporations, promise of a better life remains unfulfilled

All were lying face down a dozen paces from the water where black scorpions and the tarantulas of the desert crawled across their corpses.

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NBC, more than any other network carrying golf, lets viewers regularly eavesdrop on player and caddies via microphones held about 10 paces from the conversations.

Bird-Magic final 'wasn't very exciting'

A few paces from the bottom of the steps were grouped the forty-odd culprits, with behind them, in solid array, the several hundred blacks of the plantation.

Chapter 21

Longest shot of the year was today 52 paces from the stand.

Very Little Drops Dead

If he had one complaint -- and he had a lot more than just one -- about where he lived, it was the gnarled and twisted olive tree that stood a few paces from the opening to his home.

Why do miracles at all? (Prologue -- The Angry Man)

On the porch, only a few paces from the corner of 3rd and L Streets, N.W., she would stare at the gaslight on the corner and smell the smoke from the hearth of someone's dying fire, listening to the song and remembering the world around Arlington, Virginia.

Excerpt: All Aunt Hagar's Children by Edward Jones

On Hitler's Mountain is a powerful, intimate, riveting, and revealing account of a seemingly halcyon life lived mere paces from a center of evil and madness; a remarkable memoir of an "ordinary" childhood spent in an extraordinary time and place.

On Hitler's Mountain: Summary and book reviews of On Hitler's Mountain by Irmgard Hunt.

This morning, about ten loping paces from the kitchen window, a Cooper's hawk caught and feasted on a dark-eyed junco.

A beauty both great and terrible