17 examples of yard's in sentences

Scotland Yard's rung through to say they've received a report that Sir Horace Fewbanks has been murdered.

How had Scotland Yard's anonymous correspondent learned about the murder, and what were his motives in informing the police in the way he had done?

Fifteen or twenty feet under the drift, where it seems no rain could penetrate, the main trunk grows, attaining often a yard's thickness, resistant as oak.

"We'll make a foot give us a yard's worth.

Charles knew his power; and Cromwell and Ireton knew it likewise, and knew that it was the power of a man who was within a yard's length of a talisman, only not within an arm's length, but which in that state of the public mind, could he but have once grasped it, would have enabled him to blow up Presbyterian and Independent both.

But, looking back in a few seconds, Mr. Raleigh observed that the exhausted rowers had made scarcely a yard's distance.

The Widow's Home Alas, my home is lonely, They've parted from my side; My husband in the church yard's laid, My daughter is a bride.

In weight, measure, or time, the part is sometimes made possessive of the whole; as, "a pound's weight, a yard's length, an hour's time."

Turning quickly, I perceived, at about a yard's distance, a reptile of that beautiful species the rattle-snake.

Scotland Yard's Yankee Dick.

Scotland Yard's Yankee Dick.

Scotland Yard's greatest secret.

Scotland Yard's greatest secret.

Scotland Yard's Yankee Dick.

Scotland Yard's Yankee Dick.

Scotland Yard's greatest secret.

Scotland Yard's greatest secret.

17 examples of  yard's  in sentences