It was near night when we got back, so that these deserters had traveled nearly forty miles since "tattoo" of the night before.
The Dismal Swamp, for example, in Virginia and North Carolina is forty miles across.
They are separated by the Appalachian valley, forty miles wide, cut in strata which have been folded and broken into long narrow blocks.
He was at Statesville, forty miles on his way, when Sherman and Johnston made the armistice on the 18th, of which he did not hear a word till he was over the mountains on the 23d.
His party disintegrated before he entered Georgia, and he was nearly alone with his family when he was captured thirty or forty miles southeast of Macon.
Sailing on past numerous islands which followed Antigua, Columbus arrived, forty miles farther on, at an island which surpassed all the others in size, and which the natives called Agay.
The Admiral, who first explored this region, believes these peaks rise to a height of forty miles, and he says that at the base of the mountains there is a road leading to the South Sea.
Thirty-five miles north of Guadaloupe looms the island called Montserrat, which is forty miles in circumference, and is dominated by a very lofty mountain.
Moving up through Trommel and Clocolan, Ficksburg was occupied on May 25th by the Colonial Division, while Rundle seized Senekal, forty miles to the north-west.
Altogether the British forces were extended over a line of forty miles.
Towards morning all anxiety respecting the alleged chain of mountains across the inlet was at an end; for the two shores were still forty miles apart, at a distance of one hundred and fifty miles from the mouth of the channel.
The two vessels continued on forty miles farther, to a place where they killed a large number of seals and took their skins on board.
The country between Latooka and Obbo, a distance of forty miles, is very beautiful.
Old Vivi is one of these spots, situated on a rocky platform, with steep drainage, and with the majestic river dashing off between the slopes of high mountains for a distance of forty miles.
The dangerous route was the Long Route, from Fort Larned, Kansas, to Fort Lyon, Colorado, the distance was two hundred and forty miles with no stations between.
Major Anthony asked me if I would wait a couple of hours so he and Colonel Leavenworth could talk over Indian matters a while before we proceeded to Bent's Old Fort, forty miles south of Fort Lyon.
Truth is stranger than fiction, and it is the truth that we would often make thirty-five orforty miles a day with those sheep.
Gisborne had made a beginning, and got some thirty or forty miles out of St. John's.
A battalion of marines was landed in the harbour of Guantanamo, forty miles east of Santiago.
About four o’clock the next afternoon they arrived at Las Tunas, forty miles away.
The American troops made a landing on the eastern side of Guantanamo Harbour, forty miles east of Santiago, at two P.
It was frequently necessary to carry water thirty or forty miles, and on account of the great heat it was impossible to carry it in skins or in wooden cases, owing to the rapid evaporation.
When all is ready, a day is appointed for the hunt, and notice is sent to everybody within thirty or forty miles.
In some places they are within thirty or forty miles of each other, and there are portions of the line where they are one hundred miles apart.
He is driving in forty miles to the railroad when his work is done to-night, while Branscombe Denham is building peach-houses at Barrock-holme.
It's forty miles to Prospect, and there's not much of the afternoon left.
She had been six days icebound at Duluth and the answer to our captain's inquiry was-- "Forty miles of ice; only one passage.
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