Mile

Examples

• About a mile west from where I had been stopping a road comes up from the southeast, joining that from La Grange to Memphis. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The Redan was within rifle-shot of the Malakoff; Inkerman was a mile away; and Balaklava removed but an hour's ride. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• But the twelve-mile drive? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The moor is before us now, and there is no life for many a mile round. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Capacity freight engine, ten tons net freight; cost of handling a ton of freight per mile per horse-power to be less than ordinary locomotive. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• As they passed the different mile-stones, Oliver wondered, more and more, where his companion meant to take him. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Before he had gone half a mile he had forgotten all about her, except that she was a woman who had sat down to rest. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The latter was then about a mile long. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Xerxes passed into Europe, not as Darius did at the half-mile crossing of the Bosphorus, but at the Hellespont (the Dardanelles). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The latter place was a large, comfortable dwelling, beautifully situated among woods about a mile to the northeast of Chesterfield. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The day was fine and clear; and the persons not being more than half a mile off she could see their every detail with the telescope. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Now the fighting was in the next mountains beyond and was not a mile away. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Mind--the seven-mile stage in less than half an hour! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I suppose the Academy was bacon and beans in the Forty-Mile Desert, and a European gallery is a state dinner of thirteen courses. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Before she had gone a quarter of a mile both passengers and observers on the shore were satisfied that the steamboat was a thoroughly practicable vessel. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• From Raymond there is a direct road to Edward's station, some three miles west of Champion's Hill. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Five days' journey from here--say two hundred miles--are the ruins of an ancient city, of whose history there is neither record nor tradition. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• This stand by the enemy was made more than two miles outside of his main fortifications. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• On succeeding days longer flights were made, one of two miles at a speed of forty-six miles an hour. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Searchlights have recently been made capable of being seen nearly a hundred miles away. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• At Stickleford--about two miles to the right of Alderworth, ma'am, where the meads begin. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• In 1854 there were 111 millions of passengers conveyed on railways, each passenger travelling an average of 12 miles. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Our rate at present is fifty-three and a half miles an hour. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Fred Bentinck rode by the side of my carriage for the first ten miles. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Page in accordance with his subsequent patent of 1854, drew a train of cars from Washington to Bladensburg at a rate of nineteen miles an hour. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The strait is only thirteen miles wide in its narrowest part. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I have never yet been ten miles from my native place, and I want to see the world. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• All Athens accompanied us for several miles. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Although we live only two miles apart I have never been inside her aunt's house in my life. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The enemy fell back to Sutherland Station on the South Side Road and were followed by Miles. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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