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Example sentences for "fifty leagues"

  • There is no village between Batabano and Trinidad, a distance of fifty leagues; scarcely are there more than two or three corrales or farm yards, containing hogs or cows.

  • The third town, now the capital of the province, is fifty leagues west of the confluence of the Carony.

  • Messana; and Zubut, to which they now directed their course, fifty leagues W.

  • Mindanao, next to Luzon, is the largest of the Philippines, being sixty leagues long by forty or fifty leagues broad.

  • The weather cleared upon the 14th, when they again saw land, which proved to be Cape Falso, forty or fifty leagues short, or to the eastwards of the Cape of Good Hope.

  • The 14th we were driven among certain islands, never before discovered, fifty leagues or better from the shore, east-northerly from the straits.

  • With my merchandise and trade I went into the interior as far as I pleased, and travelled along the coast forty or fifty leagues.

  • The eastern monsoon was now, we reckoned, fairly settled; and we had a constant gale blowing right upon our stern: So that we generally ran from forty to fifty leagues a-day.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    adopted child; being what; certain regions; chain mail; electrical apparatus; fifty acres; fifty cents; fifty cubits; fifty days; fifty leagues; fifty miles; fifty pounds; fifty thousand; fifty times; fifty tons; fifty years; great effort; last years; made void; nebulous matter; perfectly willing; soft cloth; topped hills; true civilization; wheeled carriage; white laborers