It is of granite, and with the approaches nearly a half mile long, crossing the river upon nine arches, each of one hundred and twenty feet span.
It is built in the form of a quadrant, its four walls enclosing a plot about a half mile square.
Other caverns are within, the entire cave extending nearly a half mile, a little river traversing its full length.
It was not necessary to employ his glasses, and he watched the flight of the machine until it was nearly a half mile away.
If Bohunkus wasn’t with me, I could rise a half mile or more, but there’s no use of trying it now.
With the propeller revolving more than a thousand times a minute, he ought to have risen a half mile higher.
He is as far to the west as Uncle Tommy’s house, but a half mile north of that.
About a half mile further is ~Pulpit Rock~, on the south side of the river.
One-half mile beyond we suddenly emerge at ~Bridalveil Meadows~, obtaining a most charming view of the Gates of the Valley.
The enemy had thrown up two lines of heavy earthworks for infantry and redoubts for the artillery, one near Fair Oaks, the other one-half mile in the rear.
They fired on me fearfully for a half mile or more, but as usual not a bullet struck me or my horse.
They had buried some in very deep gullies, just piled them and cut brush and threw some dirt over them but the rains, had by this time, washed out the bones and the land was strewn with skulls for a half mile, or more.
We rode on about a half mile under a heavy fire, but they were over shooting us, just stripping the leaves from the trees, when one of the horses fell dead from his wound and the other one was still running on three legs.
I hadn’t gone more than a half mile when I met a nice sorrel horse, galloping saddled and bridled, but no rider.
On the 15th was a twelve-mile march to a dry camp and on the 16th, after a sixteen-mile march, camp was made a half milewest of the pueblo of Tucson.
The first camp was about a half mile south of the present St. David and soon was given permanency by the erection of a small stone fort of eight rooms.
Sunday, yesterday morning, a boat landed about a half mile below us, and unloaded our camp equipage.
We have heard much of the Great Cypress Swamp and its terrors, and felt quite brave as we looked at it from a half mile distance.
The man, as near as I could judge the distance, was a half mile away by this time, though by watching the place he could be made out every time he came up in sight.
We were in a clearing maybe one-half mile square, with woods on all sides.
The wind was of uncommon strength, seeming to increase steadily in power, and a half mile of wild waters raced between them and the town.
They came presently to the sea and Ned saw before him, about a half mile away, a somber and massive pile rising upon a rocky islet.
Despite the fact that the Texan force was merely a band of volunteer soldiers there was an abundance of sentinels and they were halted when they were within a half mile of the Salado.
When he saw that Ned's slumber was deep he rose and walked up and down the stream again, going a half mile in either direction.
We had no well and all the water we used was hauled from the lake, nearly a half mile distant.
There was a cranberry marsh a half mile west of Lake Calhoun, on what is now Lake Street, where we used to go to gather berries.
A reddish colored stone, about two feet high stood a half mile west of our place on the Indian trail leading from Minnetonka to Shakopee.
With the little ones I fled across the fields to the nearest house, a half mile away, later, to find this a false alarm.
I took no time to throw reins over his head, but with the rein swinging from my hand to the bit I pushed him into the brush and a half mile farther on before stopping.
On the opposite hillside a half mile away, we saw about twenty savage wolves watching the herd.
Along the valley, which is about one-half mile wide, there are more or less of pine and oak.
Took a long ramble over the bluffs that range east and west, a half mile south of Mr. J.
And on we went, along the creek over a half mile, to make another call.
A little distance south of Brookfield the valley broadens again to one-half mile, and this width is retained with some variation as far as Danbury.
This plain continues southward with a width of about one-half mile until, at Brookfield, it is interrupted by ledges of bare rock.
Immediately north of the bridge is a level swampy area about one-half mile in length.
I fancy I could beat you by about twenty yards in a half mile,” he said musingly.
Suppose you skate around Long Isle and back,” suggested Grove; “that’s about a half mile.
The two boats raced from the down-stream end of Long Isle up the river for a half mile, and the varsity’s victory was too decisive to allow of its being explained by crediting the second with unusually slow work.
They are a half mile away, situated only half above ground, the entrance looking out on a smooth lawn that extends to the edge of the river.
About a half mile to the south a narrow footbridge crossed the river, only wide enough for one man.
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