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Example sentences for "mile above"

  • The last half mile carried us to the Sowadnehunk Deadwater, so called from the stream of the same name, signifying "running between mountains," an important tributary which comes in a mile above.

  • We found that we had camped about a mile above Hunt's, which is on the east bank, and is the last house for those who ascend Ktaadn on this side.

  • As a thunder-shower appeared to be coming up, we stopped opposite a barn on the west bank, in Chester, about a mile above Lincoln.

  • However, in the bed of a river, a mile above Ndriti, there was an extensive exposure of a highly altered greenish rock which was crossed by a vertical dyke, 4 feet thick, formed of a dark grey less altered rock.

  • Further up the valley about a mile above Tembe-ni-ndio, and about 250 feet above the sea, the impure foraminiferal limestones again appear; but they here exhibit an important difference in texture.

  • There is also a hot spring which rises up at the edge of the stream at Thongea (Cogea) nearly a mile above Ndavutu.

  • They have crossed the divide, a mile above sea-level, and are in another State.

  • This time I had a partner, and we had a glorious three months of it, nearly a mile above sea-level, and only half a day's climb from the nearest settlement.

  • But to take the record on its face would be to set him a mile above Fisher's ldg.

  • Brockman, on the right, a mile above Bear cr.

  • This considerable stream falls in a mile above Harrison's ldg.

  • A mile above this is a large island, which seems to be Pike's Turkey isl.

  • Rock Island, a quarter of a mile above | | Davenport's residence | .

  • Yet no one would have suspected from the appearance of the country that we were considerably more than a mile above sea-level.

  • The town rose up to us at last and for the first time since mounting to San Luís Potosí two months before, I found myself less than a mile above sea-level.

  • Being barely a mile above sea-level, the town has a suggestion of the tropics and the temperature of midday is distinctly noticeable.

  • In front of Pawtuxet, about a mile above, are the remains of breast-works, thrown up during the war of 1812.

  • It is about a mile above Schuylerville, and nearly opposite the mouth of the Batten Kill.

  • The little sketch here given was taken from the steam-boat, half a mile above, look ing northeast.

  • The two perogus dureing this Storm was in a Similar Situation with the boat about half a mile above- The wind Shifted to the S.

  • On the opposite shore a long wooded hill sloped down to a point a mile above camp, round which the river came from the west.

  • Passing a bend half a mile above we came in sight of a beautiful wooded island, and saw that we had reached the edge of the burned-over country.

  • Three-quarters of a mile above where we crossed the course of the river bent away to the east, and we could see the water leaping and tossing in a wild rapid as it came round through the opening in the hills.

  • About a mile above camp I stepped out on a great boulder close to where they were very heavy.

  • Here we continue straight ahead, paralleling ~Yosemite Creek~, to another junction a quarter of a mile above.

  • The trail now follows up the north bank of ~Sunrise Creek~, crossing about a mile above to the south side.

  • We now ascend ~Lilly Creek~ to the crossing about half a mile above.

  • About a quarter of a mile above us a tributary joins the main branch from the eastward, that when flooded must have a fall of three or four feet, and something of the character of a Canadian rapid.

  • Our camp at Cawndilla was on the right bank of the Williorara, about half a mile above where it enters the lake.

  • Whilst so employed, Topar's quick and watchful eye caught sight of some smoke rising from the bed of the creek about a mile above us.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cloth dipped; dead body; golden chain; little onion; mile ahead; mile apart; mile before; mile distant; mile from; mile from the shore; mile front; mile off; mile west; miles distant; miles from its mouth; miles from the sea; miles from the sun; miles high; miles nearer; miles northwest; miles per; miles square; miles west; much milk; under ground; will depart