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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.

Surely the sea is the most beautiful fact in our universe, but you won't find a fisherman who will say so... 2009

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.

Refighting the Battle of Gettysburg Thomas Donnelly 2011

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.

Libyan rebels plot moves after setback 2011

At dawn they transferred to handcars, then walked as they approached the Yellow River and the 1,200-yard-wide so-called Japanese front.

The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009

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.

Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2005

From end to end of the boiling pool, across the face of the black rock, ran a yard-wide ledge.

Dwellers in the Mirage 2004

His pants had what seemed to be yard-wide bottoms and hung well below the waistband of his underwear.

Say When Elizabeth Berg 2003

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.

The Beautiful and Damned 2003

Naked Burmans in yard-wide hats of palm-leaf ploughed the paddy-fields, driving their buffaloes through knee-deep water.

Burmese Days 2002

One of the thick mud-brick walls of the crystallomancers 'office had a new, yard-wide hole in it.

Rulers of the Darkness Turtledove, Harry 2002