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Example sentences for "eleven miles"

  • To the north-east and north our view was not more than ten or eleven miles, being broken into low grassy hills of pretty much the same elevation with that on which we stood.

  • After making out upwards of eleven miles, we encamped in a valley where water lodged in holes and where we found also abundance of grass.

  • At eleven miles we encountered a channel in which were many ponds, its direction being, like that of the others we had crossed, to the southward of west.

  • After a journey of eleven miles we encamped about three-quarters of a mile from the Bogan on a spot where we found excellent grass.

  • We crossed, at eleven miles, a line of ponds in a deep channel whereof the bank seemed the highest ground; and beyond them was a rich plain with a few clumps of trees; where the grass also was remarkably good.

  • The distance between ten or eleven miles, the road is impracticable for guns, etc.

  • Yet although the distance was only eleven miles, we did not reach till 5 P.

  • Among the places of interest near Nashville are the Hermitage, the home of General Andrew Jackson, eleven miles to the east.

  • From Manchester to Kendal, which virtually (though not in law) is the capital of Westmoreland, there were at this time seven stages of eleven miles each.

  • Off we are at last, and at eleven miles an hour; and for the moment I detect no changes in the energy or in the skill of Cyclops.

  • Ten or eleven miles South 80 degrees East from Snapper Island is the north-west end of a shoal, extending to the South 41 degrees East for sixteen or seventeen miles; the Tamar anchored under it.

  • On the western side of the bay there is a strait two miles wide separating Croker's Island from the main; it is ten or eleven miles in length, and is navigable since the Malay fleet were observed to pass through it.

  • It is eleven miles south of Asotin and is largely devoted to wheat raising, extensive crops being annually gathered.

  • At eleven miles we came upon a salt lagoon (Wealaroo) two miles long by one broad.

  • At eleven miles passed a brackish water creek and salt lagoon; searched for springs but could find none, although reeds and rushes abound, but no water on the surface.

  • At eleven miles and a half passed a large reedy swamp on our left, dry.

  • At eleven miles and a half crossed the Blyth, coming from the south.

  • But when they are told it is eleven miles, at the end of that distance they begin to look out anxiously for their camping-place.

  • At twelve o'clock I started for what I was told was an eleven miles' ride; but it turned out the longest sixteen I have ever ridden.

  • Eleven miles north of Belmont station the road and railway leading to Kimberley enter a network of kopjes, which dominate the line until the plain through which the Modder river flows is reached.

  • We then proceeded, and at the distance of eleven miles encamped on the lower part of a willow island, in the middle of the river, being obliged to substitute large stones in the place of the anchor which we lost.

  • At eleven miles on top of small rocky range.

  • Distance travelled about ten and three-quarters to eleven miles.

  • Then, by almost superhuman effort on the part of its citizens, as well as those of Carthage, it built its railroad to that village, eleven miles distant.

  • The road from Watertown to the Harbor--eleven miles--was constructed in the following summer.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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