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Example sentences for "league distant"

  • The inhabitants who survived the catastrophe retired to a small chapel, on the banks of a river, about a league distant, where the new town of La Vega was afterwards built.

  • The latter threatened to set fire to the house; but after a little consideration, contented himself with seizing their store of provisions, and then marched towards Fort Conception, which was not quite half a league distant.

  • These frequently run so far into the sea that travellers are forced to go on the sands, and at other times they are three-quarters of a league distant.

  • Having done with this place, we directed our course towards the convent of St. John, which is about a league distant eastward.

  • On Good Friday of this same year we went from this island to another a league distant.

  • There seems to be another line about half-a-league distant.

  • It preceded us to another large island which was a league distant.

  • The island lay a league distant on the larboard beam, and looked a wondrous vast field of ice going into the south, and it stared very ghastly upon the dark green sea out of the clouds whose gloom sank behind it.

  • I was on deck at noon, looking at an iceberg half a league distant when it overset.

  • Indians told us of two others half a league distant.

  • Coming out from the cave, we went on to the aguada, which was nearly a league distant.

  • He advised that we should keep to sea until sunrise; accordingly I took an oar and pulled on the land side, until we were a league distant, when we gave her stern to the sea.

  • Don Garcia Lopez de Cardenas went on with a part of the force to another village about half a league distant, because almost all the people in this region had collected into these two villages.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    although very; blue flowers; both from; for granted; great grief; imitative magic; inferred from; league boots; league broad; league distant; league from; leagues distant; leagues farther; leagues from; leagues long; less degree; like most; mind like; municipal government; other rocks; plain enough; social duty; sometimes referred; sought for; summer home; will multiply