At sun set the anchor was dropped in five fathoms; Point Pearce, a cliffy level projection, bearing North-West by North five miles, and about one and a half from a low rocky point.
We left the railway at La Gouesnière, five miles and a half from Cancale, to which we proceeded by the mail cart.
The entrance of the cave is about a mile and a half from Mohler's house, and is situated in the middle of a steep side of a mountain on the bank of the South river.
As our schooner had not yet arrived, we went to meet it and found it in the canal, a mile and a half from town, where two cotton boats blocked up the way.
At Troy, five miles and a half from Albany, is the government arsenal, which appears to be a large establishment.
At three hours and a half from Hosrun, still following the foot of the upper chain of the Libanus, we entered the district of Tanurin (Ard Tanurin), so called from a village situated below in a valley.
Two hours and a half from Zebdeni we passed a spot with several wells, called Bir[Bir-- Well.
The mountain belongs to the district of the Emir of the Druses, commanding at Rasheia, a Druse village at one hour and a half from El Heimte.
Adams's brigade rested on the Lebanon road, about a mile and a half from town.
During the night some pools of water were discovered in small creek about two miles and a half from Perryville.
Thomas was at this time heavily engaged on "Horseshoe Ridge," between the La Fayette and the Dry Valley roads, about three miles and a half from Granger's headquarters.
Forrest now attacked the Third Minnesota on the east bank of Stone's River, about a mile and a half from town, which had just left their camp to join the force in the town, when Forrest with three regiments moved to the attack.
A mile and a half from Jamestown, I crossed the Powhatan Creek, a sluggish stream which finds its way into the James River through a fen in the rear of Jamestown Island.
Grayson, with the two brigades, had passed the Freehold meeting-house, two miles and a half from Monmouth, when he received the order.
This island was a league and a half from that we left in the morning, and 5 leagues short of Swakem.
This place is a days journey and a half from Mount Sinai, where is the church and monastery of St Catharine, in which the body of that saint is reposited.
This letter reached me a league and a half from Chunpich, at a very large aguada which there is there, and at three long leagues from there is another large abandoned town called Ixbam.
A league and a half from this rancho towards the South (we follow this direction) is found another permanent river with an artificial bridge, which cannot be passed in any other way.
Two leagues and a half on the right is found a great pond, called Yavilain; another two leagues and a half from there is an aguada called Chuncopo.
We turned off from the high road to the left, and at about two miles and a half from the caravanserai reached Saidabad.
The account of this new corps was continued in other letters (which, on the 23d, we received in two days and a half from Shiraz).
In three hours and a half from Kishon we came to a small brook, near which was an old village and a good khan called Legune, not far from which we took up our quarters this night.
He that will proceed through Turkey, goes towards the city of Nice, and passes through the gate of Chienetout, and men see constantly before them the hill of Chienetout, which is very lofty: it is a mile and a half from Nice.
The journey had been one of five hours and a half from Bayroot.
Forward we went to the Convent of the Dair el Mokhallis, which we reached in four hours and a half from Mokhtarah, where we rested a few hours; then visited once more the house of Lady Hester Stanhope.
This frigate was taken by the pinnace, in which the English captain sailed close by the shore, the English ship keeping about a league and a half from land.
Tomaco, and four and a half from an Indian village of the same name.
At sunset the First Corps went into bivouac on the south side of United States Ford, about four miles and a half from Chancellorsville.
In spite of every precaution, Jackson's column as it moved southward was seen to pass over a bare hill about a mile and a half from Birney's front, and its numbers were pretty accurately estimated.
Isle Haute, which is a league and a half from Port of Mines.
When they were about a league and a half from us, there came to them a savage dancing all over, as they expressed it.
Berrington, forty-seven miles from Worcester, and four and a half from Shrewsbury, lies a short distance from the station.
Septimus as his eyes twinkled, half from merriment, half from sadness, as he drew the graceful arm he held farther through his own.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "half from" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
