Malcolm slowed and stopped five paces from the new line.

His sad-eyed companion stopped two paces behind and to the left of him.

They moved slowly, stopping every dozen paces to look and listen.

He stopped ten paces from Ruth, glared up at her.

Blue looked up to see that the woman had stopped a half dozen paces from the bench.

Oh-was He hadn't realized he'd stopped four paces from the kitchen.

The steps hesitated again, and then stopped about five paces from him.

He stopped about twenty paces from them, said something, and two of the others laughed.

At last they stopped only three hundred paces short of the laager.

The two men stopped three paces or so away.