What is "yards"

Usage examples of "yards".

All about the Yards lie mile upon mile of rail track with what appear to be carriages for cranes still on them and in operating condition.

One can still trace out what must have been a complex of roads leading away from the Yards and through what I think may be the remains of a town that surrounded them.

And I will further confess to you that any ships that might have issued from the Yards did not sail upon any sea.

Once the way to the Yards is open, the building of the ship may commence.

Even those that I found in the Yards have translated from their rune-language into our own on a very unsure basis.

You will build it so that eight power lines may run into a far-off place called the Yards where this mighty mechanism is abuilding.

They must be able to go to the Yards and come back to their godforsaken villages and tell of the glory and power of the ship.

The Yards are many leagues from here and you can be sure that with every step the pilgrim travels back toward his home, the ship will grow just that much more magnificent.

After the eventual success of the Yuma war, and the sending of a secret expedition to the Yards, Limpkin found that the next logical step would be to begin leaking word of the Myth of the Ship, as it has since been called, to the people.

Somewhere in the wilderness between here and the Yards the flag of the Caroline must be raised in great and glorious conflict, for only an act of violence can be accomplished out there -- such is the nature of the land.

One of the figures raised a gnarled staff and pointed it at a straggling ship about two hundred yards off.

Although the initial mission of reaching the Yards had been a failure, they had defeated a great and ominous force that would have threatened future travelers.

At dawn they had cast off again and had tied up at the Yards shortly afterward.

Seeing at once that here was a man tailored for the job at hand, Limpkin enlisted him as the head of the technical elite which would rule in the Yards -- and which would build the ship.

The island was about five hundred feet in length and was situated a mile and a half from the Yards, three miles from the Sea, and two miles from the western shore.