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Example sentences for "mile ahead"

  • Orson Pratt's company are camped a half a mile ahead of us and our camp was formed by Colonel Markham.

  • Elder Kimball, who was one of the hunters who started out at four o'clock, said the objects seen from camp were antelope, but he had seen a herd of buffalo about a mile ahead of where we now are.

  • I was about a mile ahead of the wagons and having no shelter was soon completely drenched with rain.

  • All further attempts at a communication were instantly useless; the corvette being half a mile ahead in a quarter of an hour, rolling her yardarms nearly to the water.

  • Within a mile ahead of us; but to enter the Hook, the bar must be crossed a league or two off.

  • On repairing to the deck, Captain Truck and his companions perceived the land less than a mile ahead of them, and the corvette about half that distance to the leeward, and nearly abeam.

  • They were about a mile and a half down the Reach, and the Spray, not quite half a mile ahead, was apparently at the end of her cruise.

  • That's a canoe, down about a mile ahead, just off that white line of beach, and there are two paddling it.

  • We'll get it right along now," said George, "until we can clear that point about a mile ahead there.

  • But even as he said it a smaller sloop turned the head of an island half a mile ahead, and came down the Thoroughfare, running off the wind.

  • Rapidly the gap of water widened, and when darkness fell on the lake, the fugitives were more than half a mile ahead of their pursuers.

  • The frigate was three miles to leeward, but she was fully a mile ahead.

  • And presently, when I had got about half a mile ahead of the wagon, I suddenly caught sight of a fine koraan on the ground about three hundred yards to my right front, as it emerged from behind a big clump of melkboem, feeding busily.

  • Before an hour passed, we noticed a smoke cloud hanging low in the morning air about a mile ahead.

  • We were nicely strung out where you saw those graves on that last ridge of sand-hills, when there they were about a mile ahead of us, moseying along.

  • After a sharp trot of ten miles without any escort whatever, we were very glad to see his Excellency's little camp about a mile ahead.

  • We had fairly entered the game district, and as our Brigade was in front the following morning, some of us rode on about a mile ahead, so as to come on the herds before they were alarmed by the approach of the column.

  • Together, the two yachts turned in under the lee of a long wharf, less than an eighth of a mile ahead, lowered the sails so they should not be visible, and came to anchor.

  • They were getting down near to the mouth of the river now, and already, a mile ahead, the bay broadened out before their eyes.

  • Her consternation amused him; she saw that, if they held their present course, the cutter would take the beach about a mile ahead, where these animals were densely crowded.

  • When the sun went down, he was about a mile ahead of her.

  • She crossed the boat's track a mile ahead, and her people looked over the bulwarks, and waved their hats to encourage those tossed and desperate men.

  • Of course there was nothing for it but to obey, which I did forthwith; but when I had got about a mile ahead, I gradually slowed down again; if there was any fun toward, I was not going to miss it.

  • We were both creeping along as close as possible to the foot of the cliffs under Golden Hill, in order to elude the notice of the Russians above; and Honda, with fourteen men, was about a quarter of a mile ahead.

  • Our patrols were working half a mile ahead of the regiment, so in spite of every effort it was half an hour later before we filed silently past the station, formed up once again for the attack, and charged with the bayonet.

  • A mile ahead we passed a position, strongly entrenched but luckily deserted by the Turks, and it was not for another two miles, when our patrols came close to the station, that the enemy was reported in any numbers.

  • A mile away to the eastward are our brethren of the Second and Third; a quarter of a mile ahead of them, the compact battalion of infantry.

  • The trail is so crooked we never see more than a quarter of a mile ahead.

  • Stopped all day waiting for the steamer about a mile ahead of the noggurs.

  • A mile ahead, both channels are closed by a sudd of vegetation, we must thus await until the boats arrive.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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