But our men are willing and anxious to meet them," said Dick.
He handed the glasses to Warner and said quietly: "George, I see troops on the edge of that far hill to the south and the east.
Unless he had witnesses nobody would believe the boy.
A quarter of a mile away was a lofty ridge on which were posted Union guns with gunners who knew so well how to use them.
Lee was a mile away, standing on a wooded hill, the bearded Longstreet by his side, watching the battle in his immediate front, where accumulating masses under Pope's own eye were gathering.
The cry was taken up by others who saw also, and suddenly a long Southern line, less than half a mile away, emerged into the open and advanced upon them in silence, but with resolution, a bristling and terrific front of steel.
Had the cottage been a mile away, it would still have seemed near.
We drove to the Grand Duke Michael's, a mile away, in response to his invitation, previously given.
The Redan was within rifle-shot of the Malakoff; Inkerman was a mile away; and Balaklava removed but an hour's ride.
I have seen a ship in flames that looked scarce a mile away, and yet, sailing with a brisk wind, it took us over an hour to come up to it.
The revenue man on that beat has been paid to keep his eyes shut, and we shall get them all stored in a hut, a mile away in the woods, before daybreak.
Suddenly a tremendous explosion was heard a quarter of a mile away.
The kraal was built on the top of a hill, and below it the land sloped gently to the banks of a river about half a mile away.
Suddenly a shout announced that they had found the spoor of the cattle, and the whole Impi of them started down it at a run till they vanished over a rise about a quarter of a mile away.
Evidently the herd had travelled fast and far, and I began to think that we should have to give it up, when suddenly I caught sight of a brown mass moving through the thorn-trees on the side of a slope about a quarter of a mile away.
Ki Sing turned, and pointed to a rude hut some half a mile away in a little mountain nook.
I met that Chinaman of yours half a mile away, and he brought me here.
If I am not very much mistaken, we shall find it hidden in a hole in a tree, quarter of a mile away.
It had seemed very near, but proved to be fully a quarter of a mile away.
For there, marching rapidly, not half a mile away, were some five hundred white-robed men.
That is the matter," he said, pointing to a man mounted on a rough pony who just then appeared from behind some bushes about half a mile away, galloping down the slope towards the plain.
They sat upon the bowlders to watch, for their officers were not going to waste their wind in assisting to repulse a Ghazi rush more than half a mile away.
A weak fire broke from the rear-guard more than a mile away, and was answered by cheerful howlings.
These gangs were in the out-workings, three-quarters of a mile away, on the extreme fringe of the mine.
Three-quarters of a mile away, directly opposite, the other bank of the stream uprose in precipitous bluffs hundreds of feet in height.
The first spruce-trees, in the creek bed, were a mile away, and it was evident that Shorty had passed through them and gone on.
Here the Klondike entered the Yukon, and half a mile away, across the Klondike, on the north bank, stood Dawson.
The Indians were already a quarter of a mile away, and were just entering the wood below.
These were half a mile away, but every movement was as clearly visible as if they were but a hundred yards distant.
In ten seconds the other five were howling with him, and scarcely had the tumult burst from their throats when there came a response from the fire half a mile away.
Not more than a third of a mile away a point of yellow flame flared up in the night.
As there was nothing whatever for us to do while this was going on, I had ample leisure for observing the little game that was being played about a quarter of a mile away.
Out we shot from the ship, all on our mettle; for was not the skipper's eye upon us from his lofty eyrie, as well as the crew of the other ship, now not more than a mile away!
Not a mile away, dead to leeward of us, quietly beating the water with the flat of his flukes, as if there was no such thing in the watery world as a whale-ship.
Five or six mighty waterspouts in various stages of development were often within easy distance of us; once, indeed, we watched the birth, growth, and death of one less than a mile away.
At Athabaska Landing I was shown a house on a hill, half a mile away, to which he had carried on his back 450 pounds of flour without stopping.
A score now appeared on a sandhill half a mile away; another and another lone specimen trotted past our camp.
It was undoubtedly some animal with short legs, whether a Wolverine a mile away, or a Musk-ox two miles away, was doubtful.
They sat upon the boulders to watch, for their officers were not going to waste their wind in assisting to repulse a Ghazi rush more than half a mile away.
Half a mile away, the regimental band was playing the overture to the Sing-song, for the men had been told that Bobby was out of danger.
A great Sussex wain, top-heavy with hay, was drawing out of a farmyard among trees, a quarter of a mile away.
The bottom of the coombe was flat as a floor, the cliff running athwart it a quarter of a mile away.
The cottage stood about a quarter of a mile away, conspicuously solitary in the greensward, the Union Jack brave above it.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mile away" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
