Miles

Examples

• 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.
• This at a distance of five or six miles. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I had all my girls to comfort me at home, and his last son was waiting, miles away, to say good-by to him, perhaps! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Some miles from New Carthage the levee to Bayou Vidal was broken in several places, overflowing the roads for the distance of two miles. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I told Mr. Brooke not to call for me: I would rather walk the five miles. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Our dear Willoughby is now some miles from Barton, Elinor, said she, as she sat down to work, and with how heavy a heart does he travel? Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• With Ephesus, forty miles from here, where was located another of the seven churches, the case was different. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The Kalmucks to-day, like the swallows, go yearly a thousand miles from one home to another. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• If extended in straight lines, it would build a track of two rails to the moon, and more than a hundred thousand miles beyond it. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• During this length of time the shell might have been carried by a marine country of average swiftness to a distance of 660 geographical miles. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Omean lies perhaps two miles below the surface crust of Mars. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• There was a gunsmith in Utica, and he walked there, fifteen miles over the hills, to have his barrel finished. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• And didn't I car Mas'r Haley night five miles out of de road, dis evening, or else he'd a come up with Lizy as easy as a dog arter a coon. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The telephone wire mileage in the United States is over 22,000,000 miles. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He got upon that road, destroyed its bridges at different places and rendered the road useless to the enemy up to within a few miles of Lynchburg. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The next afternoon, about twenty miles from Milton-Northern, they entered on the little branch railway that led to Heston. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.

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