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Example sentences for "mile distant"

  • The valley of Ellyria was about four hundred feet below, at about a mile distant.

  • Presently we saw the Turkish flag emerge from Gondokoro at about a quarter of a mile distant, followed by a number of the traders' people, who waited to receive us.

  • Soon after, they returned with the aggageers, whose camp was but a quarter of a mile distant.

  • The interior is filled with gravel and clay, with a concavity in the centre popularly supposed to communicate by means of a subterranean gallery with the palace some half a mile distant.

  • A second smaller town was half a mile distant; two miles westward was a third.

  • After putting up my horse and refreshing myself, I entered into conversation with mine host, who asked if I should like to pay a visit to the Wolf-pits, which were about half a mile distant.

  • Eleven animals were in the herd, which was about a mile distant.

  • Gazing out over the landscape, I saw a band of about thirty Indians some half-mile distant.

  • On the second day out we discovered a large party of Indians on the opposite side of the Saline River, and about a mile distant.

  • The stream was only a half-mile distant, but the balloon was sheltered from observation by reason of its position in the hollow.

  • He was probably a mile distant, and his gray vesture was little relieved by the blue haze of the forest.

  • As he stood gazing down the ravine to the south, a half-mile distant a dark figure passed over a bright patch of sand.

  • Then, hastening outside to the rear of the barn, he proceeded to connect one of them to the same strand of the fence wire to which the telegraph line was secured a mile distant.

  • A mile distant, and hidden from the boarding-train by the cars on the sidings, was a depression in the prairie bordered with low scrub.

  • They were half a mile distant perhaps, but he was certain that the man and boy he saw pass about a turn in the road were the man and boy he had been following for a month.

  • Thus it happened that as Murrell and Slosson were dragging Yancy down the lane, Cavendish was just rounding a bend in the Elk, a quarter of a mile distant.

  • A mile distant, on what was called "Shanty Hill," were the quarters of the slaves.

  • The nearest water was by the caves, occupied by the peasants in the glen, about a quarter of a mile distant.

  • From the summit of the hill, about two hundred yards beyond this spot, the view was exceedingly good; the sea lay about half a mile distant, with several houses and gardens near the shore.

  • The first object that attracted my attention was a large steamer stranded in a cove about a mile distant.

  • This formed a prominent object at the back of the large village of Varoschia, situated upon the slope beneath facing the sea, about a quarter of a mile distant.

  • I was careful not to descend into the irrigated bottom, therefore we had halted on the highest point, a quarter of a mile distant.

  • Luckily the village was not a mile distant, and there I took a comfortable chair by the kitchen fire of The Ship.

  • I looked farther, and, about a mile distant, saw two farm-houses.

  • A captain, however, with eighteen men was sent across the river after buffalo, which we saw half a mile distant.

  • One of them was mounted on a mule, the other on a horse; they came in sight of a large band of buffalo feeding upon the open prairie about a mile distant.

  • They did so, and perceived that there was a skirmish between a party of Cavaliers and some of the Parliamentary cavalry, at about a quarter of a mile distant.

  • They did so, and perceived that there was a skirmish between a party of Cavaliers and some of the Parliamentary cavalry at about a quarter of a mile distant.

  • To the rear the high ground extended to the main turnpike, half a mile distant, down which were seen the white covers of the crowded wagons moving in retreat.

  • As we approached the camp we all stopped at a bend in the river, about three quarters of a mile distant, when all began to wash their faces, comb their hair, and put on their best clothes.

  • After spending some hours with them, learning their condition, and establishing pleasant relations between them and his own party, the governor moved to the main river, a mile distant, and established his camp and council ground.

  • Bob rowed ashore in the little tender, and set off at once for a point of rocks some half-mile distant, which commanded a view of the bay.

  • Soon a wagon or two from down the island came rattling into the village, while from the hotel, a quarter of a mile distant, a number of guests appeared on the veranda, curious to scrutinize such new arrivals as might appear.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    directed fire; eight companies; measures adopted; mile above; mile after; mile ahead; mile and; mile before; mile beyond; mile broad; mile from; mile front; mile limit; mile walk; miles across; miles below; miles from the sun; miles further; miles high; miles north; miles southwest; quite thick; steady fire; summer residence; violet rays; will listen