From Bath to Bristol is a dozen miles only, and the topographical characteristics change entirely, following the banks of the little river Avon.
To Reading from Henley is perhaps a dozen miles, by a pretty river road which shows all the characteristic loveliness of the Thames valley about which poets have raved.
It was from Tottenham that Piscator and his friend set out to take their “morning draught” at the “Thatched House” of Hoddesdon, after a walk of over a dozen miles.
Nay, I could name one philosopher of note who on Sundays became peripatetic, but never thought of leaving his hard-paved rounds till I opened his eyes by turning him on to grass for a dozen miles, by ways undreamt of in his philosophy.
Finchley is a very wide word, as I can tell, who, while yet a stranger to Middlesex, paying a visit here, found myself let in for a dark walk of over half a dozen miles to the Finchley Road Station.
To keep along the Downs, curving as an amphitheatre of some half-dozen miles on to Reigate, is no easy task.
Across that quarried hollow, we again ascend the Downs for their last half-dozen miles in Surrey.
All their friends come to see them off, although it is quite possible that the traveller is only going to the next station on the fjord, not a dozen miles away.
Every English boy knows what it is to take part in a cross-country run of half a dozen miles.
Memory is a net; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook; but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
About a dozen miles from us is an educational institution of the higher grade, where a large number of young ladies are trained in literature, art, and science, very much as their brothers are trained in the colleges.
I know the bigger part of the families within a dozen miles' ride.
It was well that there were no tithing-men about on that next day, Sunday; for it shone no Sabbath day for the young men within half a dozen miles of the village.
But driving cattle is a mortally slow job, and we took the better part of the day to cover a dozen miles.
Just then I heard a noise in the sky, and lo and behold there was that infernal aeroplane, flying low, about a dozen miles to the south and rapidly coming towards me.
But I did not stop till I had put half a dozen miles between me and that accursed dwelling.
From Brading the central line of downs runs westward for half-a-dozen miles to the valley of the Medina.
Behind Chale, by the outlying Chale Green near the head of the Medina, is reached the tiny village of Kingston with its tiny and picturesquely perched Church, some half-dozen miles south of Newport.
Cowes, under half a dozen miles off, may be gained by roads on either side the river, or by boat when the tide serves.
He managed in that way to establish relations with certain of Agatha's friends, whose residence was ten or a dozen miles away.
The Turks were holding Beled Station, half a dozen miles away in a straight line.
So in April the 7th Division had withdrawn to Baghdad, all except the 28th Brigade, who were at Babi, a dozen miles up-stream.
Within a dozen miles of Bangor we passed through the villages of Stillwater and Oldtown, built at the falls of the Penobscot, which furnish the principal power by which the Maine woods are converted into lumber.
It was at least five miles by the way we had come, and as my companion had gone over most of it three times, he had walked full a dozen miles, bad as it was.
Off Lily Bay it is a dozen miles wide, but it is much broken by islands.
The nearest permanently inhabited house behind us was now a dozen miles distant, so that the interval between the two nearest houses on our route was about sixty miles.
We are ready, of course, to take you to the village over yonder, ten or a dozen miles away, at any time you like.
A stretch of water, more than half a dozen miles in width, lay before them, and the tide was strong against them.
Except on the mainland side a dozen miles of salt water, mud banks and marsh islands, separate it from the nearest land.
Beyond these low buildings the black bulk of the Medicine Bow Mountains, only a dozen miles away, tumbled confusedly against the sparkling sky.
Have you two men who can ride hard a dozen miles or so--and carry out their orders?
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