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Example sentences for "hundred and fifty miles"

  • It was the plan of Mr. Clarke to lay up his boats here, and proceed by land to his place of destination, which was among the Spokan tribe of Indians, about a hundred and fifty miles distant.

  • Six days had now elapsed since their interview with the Crows; during that time they had come nearly a hundred and fifty miles to the north and west, without seeing any signs of those marauders.

  • By setting out the next day, the 10th of October, they would arrive on the 13th, for with the present wind it would not take more than forty-eight hours to make this passage of a hundred and fifty miles.

  • A voyage of a hundred and fifty miles in a comparatively small vessel, over unknown seas, could not but cause him some anxiety.

  • About a hundred and fifty miles to the northeast," replied Harding.

  • The diggings of Maryborough district, situated a hundred and fifty miles northwest of Melbourne, are famous, and give occupation to some eight thousand miners.

  • Nearly forty square miles of gold-bearing lands are being worked by Europeans and Chinese in the district of Ararat, a hundred and fifty miles north of Melbourne.

  • It receives in its bosom one important river, the Longen, after it has run a course of nearly a hundred and fifty miles.

  • From Burgos to San Sebastian by rail is a hundred and fifty miles.

  • They were two days driving the hundred and fifty miles to the railway station, and stayed two nights on the way.

  • Then you may look in vain for justice and protection in this dirty, wretched little town a hundred and fifty miles from a railway station!

  • To Denver was a hundred and fifty miles, and it took a team a month or more to go there and return via Poncho Pass.

  • A traveling salesman, whose baggage had been looted in Medora, swore out a warrant in Morton County, a hundred and fifty miles to the east.

  • A man named Bly who had kept a hotel in Bismarck, at a time when Bismarck was wild, and had drifted west with the railroad, was, that season, cutting logs for ties a hundred and fifty miles south in the Short Pine Hills.

  • Even the Mandan Pioneer, a hundred and fifty miles to the east, thought it worth its while to brag about it.

  • Somewhere, hundreds of miles to the south, there was a United States marshal; somewhere a hundred and fifty miles to the east there was a sheriff.

  • They had advanced but about one hundred and fifty miles when a violent tempest overtook them.

  • After traversing a route about a hundred and fifty miles in length, they reached, on the 8th of April, the Kankakee River, an important tributary of the Illinois.

  • Their principal village was still farther up the river, nearly a hundred and fifty miles in a northwesterly direction.

  • That would never do, Luka; we should have to haul the sledge back a hundred and fifty miles.

  • There is nothing for it but for us to keep along this shore for something like a hundred and fifty miles.

  • Steamers make their way up as far as Lewiston, a hundred and fifty miles, and receive cargoes of wheat at different points through chutes that extend down from the tops of the bluffs.

  • A short distance below the Lower Arrow the Columbia receives the Kootenay River, the largest affluent thus far on its course and said to be navigable for small steamers for a hundred and fifty miles.

  • From its confluence with the Okinagan the river pursues a southerly course for a hundred and fifty miles, most of the way through a dreary, treeless, parched plain to meet the great south fork.

  • With favoring atmospheric conditions it can be seen a hundred and fifty miles away.

  • Tanana River, a hundred and fifty miles away, which is the earliest known picture of McKinley.

  • They vary in length from eight to a hundred and fifty miles, with walls successively rising from thirteen hundred to thirty-five hundred feet in height.

  • He only said something about a hundred and fifty miles.

  • We were the only whites in a hundred and fifty miles anyway, and if the strange behavior of the natives meant mischief, we were probably doomed as it was.

  • There was not another white man within a hundred and fifty miles.

  • There is a Portuguese fort a hundred and fifty miles away," I answered grimly.

  • To have hostile drums beating all about you and to realize that a hundred and fifty miles of jungle lie between you and the nearest help is bad enough in itself.

  • About a hundred and fifty miles to the north-east," replied Harding.

  • Perhaps an hundred and fifty miles away, as the crow flies, it rose up and filled all the angle of vision to the southwest.

  • Our winter itinerary called us to leave the Allakaket immediately after New Year's Day, and our route lay overland through a totally uninhabited country for nearly one hundred and fifty miles, to Tanana on the Yukon.

  • But the vast country bordering the coast between the Kuskokwim and the Yukon, and extending inland a hundred and fifty miles, is low and swampy.

  • It was in eruption in 1867, and ashes fell on islands more than a hundred and fifty miles away.

  • Here the waters cut through the lower spurs of the mountains, and for a distance of a hundred and fifty miles, reaching to Dawson, the scenery is sublime.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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