Versts is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for VERSTS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• VERST, (Russian) a unit of distance equal to approximately 2/3 of a mile, also VERSTE
• a Russian measure of length, about 1.1 km (0.66 mile).
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a Russian measure of distance

Words related to VERSTS

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How to use VERSTS in a sentence

• The day I landed a battle had been fought, which had proved disastrous, and resulted in a hurried retirement to twelve versts to the rear of Kraevesk.
• For about one hundred versts the Russian forces, in small detachments, were allowing themselves to be pinned to the railway.
• The Fates had sent ours to Vladivostok, 5,000 versts east, at the very moment when their presence and general political policy would have paralysed correct military action.
• We are not more than twelve versts from the Amu-Daria, and beyond that river I shall enter on my adventure.
• About nine hundred versts still separated Kiow from Moscow.
• A succession of granite quays, thirty versts in length, borders its course, and this magnificent labour of man is worthy of the transparent water which it adorns.
• On that curved line, discovered at once, easy to attack, under a shower of bullets, Vlassof developed a speed of ninety versts an hour.
• This surprised them because they had heard that the Austrians were many versts distant.
• Five versts further, then stopped at a farmhouse, pitched tents.
• Our only other transition, after a day or two longer at our farmhouse, was forward four versts to a tiny village on a high hill overlooking the Nestor, to the left of Nijnieff.
• I walked down into the middle of them, found an officer, asked him about wounded, and got directed some two versts in front of me.
• The nets employed in catching them would, if laid side by side on the ground in all their length, extend over a line of 40,000 versts, or twice the distance from St.
• We chose the coast route, and travelled for five hours in the afternoon over forty-eight versts of the most singular road in the world.
• For instance, not very far beyond the Urals there is one magnificent stretch of perfectly straight road for 116 versts, or nearly eighty miles.
• On for many hundreds of versts rolls the train through the pasture lands of the splendid Kirghiz race.
• This was a farm-house known by the name of Nijnege Pegersky Hootor, twenty-five versts distant from Sizeran.
• We, poor creatures, were carried away as children from a country a thousand versts distant, and have had to do the hardest work early and late.
• She spent several years in an Institute at Moscow, and then went to live with her brother and one of her aunts at Pokrovskoe, a family estate situated fifteen versts from O.
• Riding in this way, a distance of about three versts, we reached the gate, and passed through to the south side, under a vaulted arch, lined with moss and overgrown with shrubs.
• This eruption is said to have scattered ashes over the peninsula for three hundred versts to a depth of an inch and a half.
• This river empties into the Kamchatka from the north, twelve versts above Kluchei.
• We camped for the night under the huge spreading branches of a gnarled birch, a few versts from the scene of our exploit, and early Friday morning were off for Sidanka.
• When about fifteen versts from the village Dodd suggested a gallop, to try the mettle of our horses and warm our blood.
• That night we floated down the Tigil River to Tigil, where we arrived just at dark, having accomplished in sixteen days a journey of eleven hundred and thirty versts.
• If we had been three-quarters of an hour in losing two versts, how long would be we in losing versts enough to get back to the place from which we started.
• The village of Okhotsk, eight hundred versts distant, could be reached on dog-sledges in about a month.
• The distance which remained to be traversed, therefore, was only about fourteen hundred versts from Okhotsk to the Russian outpost of Anadyrsk, just south of the Arctic Circle.
• We had hoped to reach the Aklan by night, but the day was so short and the road so bad that we travelled five hours after dark, and then had to stop ten versts south of the river.
• Since leaving Gizhiga we had travelled nearly three hundred versts, had found only four places where we could obtain poles, and had passed only three settlements.
• On the fourteenth day after leaving Gizhiga we reached the native settlement of Penzhina, two hundred versts from Anadyrsk.

Similar words containing VERST without suffix s

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