Former Russian measure

Usage examples of verst.

I went to work with a gang of kiln men to the tileries which were situated two versts from prison.

This was only about a verst from the house, or a little more than half a mile.

Christmas holidays I fell sick, and was sent to the military hospital, which was situated about half a verst from the fortress.

The road is divided into sections of a verst each, a verst being about two-thirds of a mile.

A Russian verst about night-fall, and under such conditions as I have endeavoured to point out to the reader, is an unknown quantity.

Andreevich did as he had said, and having gone about half a verst came to a tall oak stake which had a few dry leaves still dangling on it, and there he turned to the left.

As the time drew near he stationed guards at the distance of a verst around the castle, that no clattering vehicles should pass, no dogs bark loudly, nor any other disturbance occur which might agitate the Princess.

Dressing myself quickly, I would tuck a towel and a French novel under my arm, and go off to bathe in the river in the shade of a birch tree which stood half a verst from the house.

The distance to the Casino was about half a verst, and our route led us through the Chestnut Avenue until we reached the square directly fronting the building.

The pilotcomp landed the half-wing behind the consulate -- it had its own drop beacon -- and I presented my ID and request to the consular agent, a wrinkled man named Clave Verst who, like Sutherlan, seemed to be marking time until retirement.

I call back to the consulate, report the situation, and then continue on with my errand while Verst handled it.

Yet we were still ten versts from the next village, and in the meanwhile the large purple cloudbank--arisen from no one knows where--was advancing steadily towards us.

As the versts went by, Greg seemed ever more eager to return to the family home, but soon Natalya began to look doubtful, as if she were uncertain of her welcome when she arrived.

It ought to speed things up if we could knock off a thousand versts or so by rail.

Mikhailoff, however, has his suspicions as to the true character of the section: from the gravity of the crime for which he is forced to march three or four thousand versts on foot.