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Example sentences for "fifteen leagues"

  • Fifteen leagues farther he came to Orfucam, which was deserted by the inhabitants.

  • Java is an island to the south-east of Sumatra, from which it is divided by a strait of fifteen leagues in breadth.

  • Fifteen leagues more to the north-north-west there are five other islands almost close together, which make a pool between them into which ships enter.

  • Fifteen leagues further on there is another place on the coast, called Dadena.

  • On the 11th of June, I went some twelve or fifteen leagues up the Saguenay, which is a fine river, of remarkable depth.

  • From the Trois Rivières to St. Croix the distance is fifteen leagues.

  • The province of Quinbaya is fifteen leagues long by ten broad, from the Rio Grande to the snowy mountains of the Andes.

  • The distance from Pucara to Hatun-colla is fifteen leagues, and on the road there are some villages, such as Nicasio, Juliaca, and others.

  • The distance from the point of San Lorenzo to that of Santa Elena is fifteen leagues.

  • From here to the Isle Haute, it is fifteen leagues.

  • Some two or three leagues from the point of Bedabedec, as you coast northward along the main land which extends up this river, there are very high elevations of land, which in fair weather are seen twelve or fifteen leagues out at Sea.

  • The head [69] of the Baye Françoise, which we crossed, is fifteen leagues inland.

  • We ascended the river some fourteen or fifteen leagues, where the tide rises, and it is not navigable much farther.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    axial rotation; beautiful place; brief sketch; fifteen cents; fifteen cubits; fifteen fathoms; fifteen feet; fifteen francs; fifteen grains; fifteen inches; fifteen minutes; fifteen months; fifteen shillings; fifteen years; fifteenth century; five rupees; great city; honour bright; individual variability; internal heat; marry another; much disturbed; perpetuum mobile; strong solution; whole people; working together