Hard by is a small house where the pilgrims take their coffee, and the house of the Bedou mollah, who looks after the tomb, is about a quarter of a mile off.
The ugly village had moved away from its old site to a hillside half a mile off, and picturesque cottages now line a broad avenue, in the centre of which is a fountain with a tall pillar surmounted by an angel.
On returning to Lime in the spring of 1841, I was sent to Mr. Green's school, a commercial school at Windmill Hill, about a mile off.
When it comes sailing along, it occasionally flaps its wings, and then the blue surface flashes in the sunlight, so that it is visible a quarter of a mile off.
The grass blades of a meadow a mile off, are so far discernible that there will be a marked difference between its appearance and that of a piece of wood painted green.
Far off-- nearly a mile off, we fancied we could distinguish the same form flattened out as before; but the gloam of the prairie-grass rendered our vision uncertain.
Nearly a mile off, looking westward, I perceive the sheen of water: it is a reach of the great river that glances under the setting sun.
All rushed to the door; and sure enough there was a great fire raging down the street, about a quarter of a mile off.
But during a flood it becomes converted into a raging torrent, and you can hear its roar a mile off.
The chief was now urged to order a halt of his people; and, in compliance with the request, he gave a shout that might have been heard nearly a mile off.
One of the horses, which had strayed from its companions, was now more than half a mile off, and was wandering onwards.
He was seen half a mile off, and fast increasing the distance.
His bark is tremendous; so loud, indeed, that I have often distinguished it nearly a mile off.
At Horton, England, about the year 1818, a gentleman from London took possession of a house, the former tenant of which had moved to a farm about half a mile off.
In the afternoon I strolled down to our Advanced Dressing Station which is only half a mile off, at the foot of the hill.
I had a walk with Stephen last night, just before dark, to a hill about a mile off.
There was an old serai about half a mile off, but it was full of merchants and their belongings, and savoured so strongly of fleas and dirt, that we gave it up as impracticable.
When the riders first faced to the mountain, it appeared to be about a mile off, and all, except Hans, believed that it was not more.
It certainly appeared only a mile off--that is, to one who had been in the habit of measuring distances by the eye in the ordinary atmosphere of a lowland country.
When they had ridden for a full half-hour, and the mountain still looked a mile off, Hans had five very crest-fallen boys moving along in his rear.
The house in question being half a mile off, I told him that I was too weak to walk that far, on account of my back being out of whack.
It was too late to figure on what to do, for they had already seen us, only being about half a mile off.
Being only a mile off, John proposed to me that we go over and tackle them for something to eat.
But let us rise from the greensward, and before we pace along the sweet shores of Loch Achray, for its nearest murmur is yet more than a mile off, turn away up from the Brigg of Turk into Glenfinlas.
If we cut across to the left, Vale Farm was not more than a mile off: and we turned to it.
South Crabb, half a mile off, is ever so much larger; but the church and school are at North Crabb.
Beyond, stretches the open sea outside the surf, with the breakers more than a mile off.
These are still more than a mile off, and to the ordinary eye only distinguishable as mounted men wearing cloaks--one of scarlet colour, the other sky-blue.
The stair at which the boat should lie is not over a quarter of a mile off, and will take but a few minutes to reach it.
We found from twenty to thirty fathoms water, at the distance of a mile from the cape; and saw several outlying breakers about half a mile off shore.
The water on the west shore is not deep; from ten to thirty fathoms at a quarter of a mile off shore, but getting more shallow advancing northward.
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