Milestones
[maɪl,stəʊnz]
Examples
- They are extremely important as symptoms, as milestones, and as instruments. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- All them old cats _will _run their heads agin milestones,' observed Mr. Weller, in a parenthesis. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Well, Major Dobbin passed through all this from Southampton to London, and without noting much beyond the milestones along the road. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- As we make the backward run of one hundred years we have passed by many milestones of progress. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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