When the twelfth day after the accident came, I was taken to the sale, a few miles out of London.
Then as soon as we were out of the village, he would give me a few miles at a spanking trot, and then bring me back as fresh as before, only clear of the fidgets, as he called them.
I was well pleased, and he and Willie drove me a few miles.
After we had gone a few miles I would suddenly call a halt, and pretend to my companions that I had forgotten something.
When at length I was able to get away, I and Bruno rushed off to the native camp a few miles away, and brought back the blacks to see what I had done.
We were next put on board a large catamaran, our hands and feet having been previously tied with hair cords; and we were then rowed over to the mainland, which was only a few miles away.
To the surprise of the men, he turned off after riding a few miles.
Our friends live a few miles away, and they will hide us till the army moves away from these parts.
The best plan would be for you to stand treat again at a cabaret a few miles out of the town, get them all in there, then I could slip out of the waggon and throw the sacks back into their place.
Should he, after Aletrium, go down again to the Latin Way, or should he push a few miles further to the valley of the Liris, and to his own villa?
On hearing that Lisa was so near at hand, Mr. Hunt perceived that it was useless to attempt any longer to evade him; after proceeding a few miles further, therefore, he came to a halt and waited for him to come up.
With all these stoppages, it was between five and six o'clock and we were yet a few miles short of Saint Albans when he came out of one of these houses and handed me in a cup of tea.
At the inn we found Mr. Boythorn on horseback, waiting with an open carriage to take us to his house, which was a few miles off.
Never wavering, he never even stopped to make an inquiry until we were within a few miles of London.
They had now gained a straight-away course for the work-train, so that with the Sioux behind they had only to hold out for a few miles.
Must their great project fail because of a few miles of steep ascent?
They kept to this, traveling east for a few miles, and then entered an intersecting valley, where some distance up they had a camp.
The distance was farther than he had imagined, and probably exceeded ten miles.
The breath and the charm and the pestilence of her passed over Neale like fire.
Presently Horn appeared carrying a deer slung over his shoulders.
How much needless work begun and completed in the building of the railroad!
In the evening we sailed a few miles further up, and then pitched the tents for the night.
Captain Fitz Roy, to avoid the chance of an encounter, which would have been fatal to so many of the Fuegians, thought it advisable for us to sleep at a cove a few miles distant.
One day, two of the officers and myself rode to Ribeira Grande, a village a few miles eastward of Porto Praya.
The Huron River, emptying into Lake Erie, was navigable within a few miles of the village, and provided an admirable outlet.
Other railroads also prevented any further competition by the canal, for a branch of the Wheeling & Lake Erie now passes through the village, while the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern runs a few miles to the south.
The lead herd had been sighted in trail formation but a few miles distant, heading north, and it was the intention to head them at the earliest moment.
The latter was an Indian trading-post, located on the mail route to Fort Reno, and only a few miles north of the Chisholm Crossing.
Near noon that day, and within a few miles of the North Fork, we rounded an alkaline plain in which this deadly creek had its source.
It is quite probable, however, that at a station a few miles in the interior, away from the recently elevated coralline rocks and the influence of the sea air, a much more abundant harvest might be obtained.
There ware about eighty men employed, chiefly convicts; but this was far too small a number for mining operations in such a country, where the mere keeping a few miles of road in repair requires the constant work of several men.
My first stay was at Dodinga, situated at the head of a deep-bay exactly opposite Ternate, and a short distance up a little stream which penetrates a few miles inland.
A few miles further on rose higher mountains, apparently well covered with forest, but they were entirely uninhabited and trackless, and practically inaccessible to a traveller with limited time and means.
After travelling a few miles, he fell asleep; and Emily, who had put two or three books into the carriage, on leaving La Vallee, had now the leisure for looking into them.
From this central dominating peak it falls gently towards the west, and gradually subsides in long spurs, reaching to within a few miles of Kabul and barring the road from Kabul to Ghazni.
After descending north-eastward to within a few miles of Lake Athabasca, it is met by a stream emerging from that lake.
After traversing North Italy, in a direction first southerly and then easterly, it falls into the Adriatic at Porto Fossone, a few miles north of the mouth of the Po.
Of later origin are the jam, pickle and potted meat factories, hundreds of acres having been laid down in strawberries and other fruits within a few miles of the city.
And now, at starting, he has taken Ziethen in his carriage with him a few miles, to explain the thing by word of mouth.
The next morning, though the smoke had long since died down, we continued on our course and in a few miles reached a large area of still smouldering spinifex.
A few miles more, and--joy unspeakable--I found a condenser and a camp.
We made camp amongst some auriferous hills in what is now known as the Niagara District, and within a few miles of a spot where, subsequently, a rich find of gold was made.
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