Furlongs
[fə:lɔŋz]
Examples
- That the mother and father, unknown to one another, were dwelling within so many miles, furlongs, yards if you like, of one another. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- New course (one mile and five furlongs). Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Is it a fact that at the weights Bayard could give the other a hundred yards in five furlongs, and that the stable have put their money on him? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
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