This corporation does such an immense amount of freighting that, if their freight trains were connected, a continuous line of eighty miles would be constructed, of which sixteen miles are always in transit day and night.
From sixty to eighty miles can be rowed in ten hours as easily as forty miles can be gone over upon a river of slow current in the northern states.
Nevertheless, there were times when both he and Dede were not above confessing tiredness at bedtime after seventy or eighty miles in the saddle.
Why, I ran the water in there from the Rinkabilly, eighty miles away.
In the Rinkabilly watershed, eighty miles away, he built his reservoir, and for eighty miles the huge wooden conduit carried the water across country to Ophir.
I reckon it is seventy or eighty miles across to the other side of the gulf, and I don't suppose she can drag those spars through the water much more than a mile an hour.
Godfrey did not hesitate to strike for it, as it was seventy or eighty miles saved, and there was no risk of missing it.
I should think we ought to see the land to-night, Luka; three days at eighty miles a day is two hundred and forty miles.
A continuous barrier of barbed-wire fencing had been erected from Bloemfontein to the Basuto border, a distance of eighty miles, and this was now strongly held by British posts.
For a long time Gaberones, which is eighty milesnorth of Mafeking, remained his headquarters, and thence he kept up precarious communications with the besieged garrison.
On January 13th he occupied Piquetburg, eighty miles south of the Boer headquarters.
It seemed strange that we should have travelled one hundred and eighty miles, in a country like that we had passed through since leaving Fort William, without killing an animal.
The one originates in Pike's peak, seventy or eighty miles in the south; the other rises far in the west among the Eutaw mountains, and has a course of about two hundred miles, nearly parallel with the Arkansas.
Eighty miles south, on the contrary, the Sierra Ventana, toward which the travelers might possibly have to betake themselves should the Guamini disappoint their hopes, the landscape was totally different.
Then, if my memory serves me right, we must be eighty miles from it, for the peak of Tristan, seven thousand feet high, is visible at that distance.
From Mount Solon to Winchester iseighty miles by the Valley pike; to Harper's Ferry one hundred and ten miles.
The dispersion of these forces from Cumberland to Frederick, a distance of eighty miles, had doubtless been much in his favour.
A ground-shock has to be rather sharp to be felt as an earth-tremor at eighty miles.
It was twenty thousand feet high, eighty miles 167° from the base, and its appearance had been accompanied by such a burst of radio-noise as neither storm nor lightning nor atomic explosion had ever made before.
Even a spark has to be very, very fierce to mess up radio and radar reception at eighty miles.
The radar had said the thing which appeared in mid-air did soeighty miles away.
Then, again, he was a fortunate man who drove seventy or eighty miles a day, who had no horse to deal with which would not pretty effectually banish ennui for one stage.
St. Juan de Pasto, chief town of the district of the same name, in which are the sources of the Caqueta, falsely supposed to be those of the Rio Negro or Orinoco; this town is eighty miles S.
At Delagoa Bay it is some fifteen or twenty miles wide; at Beira it is sixty or eighty miles wide, so that the hills behind cannot be seen from the coast; and farther north it is still wider.
It seems to be the culminating point of the Maluti range, but may be exceeded in height by Mont aux Sources, eighty miles off to the north-east, where Basutoland touches Natal on the one side and the Free State on the other.
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