Leagues

Examples

• For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• My wife, said Defarge aloud, addressing Madame Defarge: I have travelled certain leagues with this good mender of roads, called Jacques. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• And Dr. Pillule is my very good friend, was the answer, in perfect English; but he is busy at a place three leagues off, and I am come in his stead. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• In this state they traversed without change, except of horses and pace, all the mire-deep leagues that lay between them and the capital. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• This island of Luggnagg stands south-eastward of Japan, about a hundred leagues distant. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• I have been carted out of Marseilles in the dead of night, and carried leagues away from it packed in straw. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• It may be that several partial leagues may precede any world league. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Where promises are not observed, there can be no leagues nor alliances. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Two leagues beyond the summit of the hill? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The problem was settled easily enough for his purpose by Jules Verne, in his Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• At the utmost their minds reached out to alliances and leagues. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Third, there can be no leagues or alliances or special covenants and understandings within the general and common family of the League of Nations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He had been some few leagues behind Monseigneur, early in the afternoon. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Yes; at the distance of a thousand leagues! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He said, by the best computation he could make, we were at least a hundred leagues. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• After some days spent in listless indolence, during which I traversed many leagues, I arrived at Strasburgh, where I waited two days for Clerval. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I have but one, and she necessarily detained from me at a thousand leagues' distance. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The breaking of a mirror gives us more concern when at home, than the burning of a house, when abroad, and some hundred leagues distant. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• I would like to swim ten leagues in a strong soup made from the _cojones_ of all of them, Agustín said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• We rowed, by my computation, about three leagues, till we were able to work no longer, being already spent with labour while we were in the ship. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• He could not but look at her with disconcertment, as she sat breathing bitterness and scorn, and staring leagues away. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Surely the leagues of bright green lawns are swept and brushed and watered every day and their grasses trimmed by the barber. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• We had one violent storm, and were under a necessity of steering westward to get into the trade wind, which holds for above sixty leagues. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• About two leagues beyond the summit of that hill above the village. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• She arrived in safety at a town about twenty leagues from the cottage of De Lacey, when her attendant fell dangerously ill. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I wondered if America really got into the war, if they would close down the major leagues. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• It was about ninety leagues distant, and our voyage lasted four days and a half. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.

Edited by Leopold