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Example sentences for "mile from"

  • Ten minutes from now you-alls finds this yere infant a mile from camp as safe an' solid as a sod house.

  • On a hill a mile from here is the mansion of Colonel Hickman," replied Deck, pointing in the direction of the house.

  • I reckon it ain't more'n half a mile from here," replied the scout.

  • They reported the enemy approaching very leisurely towards the hill, and not more than half a mile from it.

  • The company was compelled, about half a mile from Columbia, to deal with a horde of about thirty guerillas; but their officer was not so stupid as the one with whom my son had to deal, and they ran away as soon as they saw us.

  • The night passed without alarm; but the next morning we were sickened by a horrible scene which was passing about half a mile from us.

  • About half a mile from us stood a band of twenty Indians, with their war-paint and accoutrements, silently and quietly occupied in tying the horses.

  • They encamped on the other side of the stream, within a quarter of a mile from us.

  • I therefore stood for the north side of the island, where we anchored about three-fourths of a mile from shore; the extremes of it bearing south, 88° E.

  • Amsterdam at half a mile from shore, on which the sea broke in a great surf.

  • In this we made some trips to try for anchorage; but found no less than eighty fathoms water, the bottom a fine dark sand, at half a mile from shore.

  • There was a hill, not above a mile from me, which rose up very steep and high, and which seemed to overtop some other hills, which lay as in a ridge from it, northward.

  • The descent from Buxa is gradual at first and not unpicturesque: after passing a small chokey about half a mile from Buxa, sandstone of a coarse nature commences.

  • Moved to Candahar, skirting the low hills just mentioned and passed through two villages, a mile from Candahar in a fine open plain.

  • This bridge is about a mile from Machynlleth, at which place I arrived at about five o’clock in the evening—a cool, bright moon shining upon me.

  • Coming to the small village about a mile from Rhiwabon, I felt thirsty, and seeing a public-house, in which all seemed to be quiet, I went in.

  • He collected his army on a range of heights in front of the British position, and not above a mile from it.

  • Nearly a mile from Aix by the Chambery road is the Marlioz mineral water establishment, with hotel, furnished apartments, and villas, all within a large park.

  • Nearly a mile from Allevard at the junction of the lias with the primitive talc-slate rise the springs, temp.

  • The road to the left leads up the Carrione to the valley of the stream Torano, and the village of the same name, ¾ of a mile from Carrara.

  • In a deep burrow at the foot of a hill, about a quarter of a mile from a farmstead built on a declivity at a bend of the broad river, Brock, the badger, was born, one morning about the middle of spring.

  • The cattle were grazing in a good meadow off toward the river, half a mile from camp.

  • When I awoke next morning, soon after daylight, I saw a lone one quietly eating grass about half a mile from camp.

  • During the night the oxen strolled off more than a mile from camp.

  • The Repulse Isles are of small size; they are surrounded by rocks, which do not extend more than a quarter of a mile from them.

  • About an hour before daylight we arrived at a copse of trees, close to the road-side, and surrounded by a ditch, not above a quarter of a mile from a village.

  • At this time, the revenue boats were about five miles astern of the Happy-go-lucky, and the yacht about three-quarters of a mile from her in the offing.

  • We gave him the loaded guns as we forged a-head, and when we were about half a mile from him, hove-to to repair damages.

  • We steered for her, and were very soon in the same situation, not more than a quarter of a mile from her.

  • This continued for about twenty minutes, when the French line-of-battle ships were not more than a mile from us, and our own commodore had made the signal of our recall, for he thought that we should be overpowered and taken.

  • The party of Zulus were still more than a quarter of a mile from him, when he thought of a bold expedient.

  • One is beside the Vlei near the Bavians Kloof; the other is in the thorn-bushes a mile from it.

  • Victor with surprise; "she is more than a mile from us.

  • So we mounted our trees, and the beaters went into the woods some half a mile from us.

  • We had not been there long, however, before one of them came sweeping round the shore, and stopped unpleasantly near to us; even though we were inside the rock she hovered about outside, not a mile from us.

  • It standeth about a mile from Pegu, builded with a faire court within, and is in a great groue or wood: and there be many huntsmen, which go into the wildernesse with she elephants: for without the she they are not to be taken.

  • North point, there lay three other great Portingal ships, we being not aboue half a mile from them, wherevpon wee helde in the weather and to seawarde Northeast as much as we might.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    magnum opus; mile ahead; mile apart; mile distant; mile from; mile road; mile south; mile walk; mile west; mile when; mile wide; miles distant; miles east; miles from; miles from the sun; miles high; miles northeast; miles per; miles southeast; miles square; north latitude; placed upon; poor mistress; single wire; then take off the; whatever comes