A mile or so distant the lights of one of New York's suburbs twinkled in the darkness.
Peter Peck, address unknown, was discovered by a company track walker early this morning on the South West Pacific grade crossing half a mile south of the town of El Gatos.
A huge bi-motored plane was circling to the landing field a half mile away.
By adding more powder one may light up a square mile in the darkest night--a great boon to aviators.
Securely sealed up in a duramen tube a half mile in air with no means of communicating with his friends and with this enemy staring him in the face, his situation was anything but pleasant.
It was just then under a cloud, but we had not gone a quarter of a mile before it shone out very brightly.
The walk which these little girls and I best love is to a small house, about half a mile from mine.
The farthest house to which Mary intended extending her invitations was only three quarters of a mile distant, yet as she had several calls to make, I did not expect them to return under an hour and a half, or perhaps two hours.
Harriet was soon ready, and as the day was bright and the road good, we had a very pleasant drive of a mile and a half to Mr. Dickinson's.
I could not go more than a mile or two, and that must be in the close carriage.
So when we were about half a milefrom home, there stood Alice by the road-side, with a bunch of flowers in her hand.
I am to meet a friend upon the road, half a milefurther on.
The only route by which a cart can enter Birchmead branches off from the Dorminster Road, across a quarter of a mile of meadows: and when the gate of the first meadow is closed, the village is completely shut in on every side.
The light is not dim or ineffectual, but very soft and high, and it is as rich as floating gold dust in the far distance, and in the apse, an eighth of a mile from the door.
There is a blue and hazy atmospheric distance, as painters call it, up in the lantern of the cupola, a twelfth of a mile above the pavement.
It is less than half a mileto the river, and a mile farther up it is so shallow that you can easily ford it; on the other side you will be comparatively safe.
But no hail came, for the men's eyes were bent upon the revenue cutter, a mile away, watching every movement of that and the chasse-maree.
I was a quarter of a mile behind when I heard some shots fired, and thinking that I might be of some use, I rode on at full speed, and of course did what I could.
Your mare carried me splendidly; but another half-mile and they would have had me.
I reckon that if we stays where we are now, she'll pass us about a matter of three or four mile to the nor'ard.
Directly the men have finished eating, do you go down with four of them and cut faggots and bring them up; there are plenty of bushes half a mile lower down.
Yes, in that ravine that runs from the valley half a mile from this house.
Below, the valley narrowed to a pass not a hundred yards in width, and if the pony rider could get to this well ahead of his pursuers he would be able to hold his own along the trail in the 10-mile run to the next relay station.
He suddenly realized that he was at least a mile ahead of his men.
It was when Buffalo Bill was in the Pony Express service between Red Buttes and Three Crossings, which included the perilous crossing of the Platte River, half a mile in width.
As some of the streams are very rapid, and a quarter to a half mile wide, considerable drifting is done.
Cody entered into the undertaking with zest, selected a site on Big Creek one mile from Fort Hays, and the town was duly laid out and the first house built.
Sir:-- I am glad to inform you that the entire body of Indians are now camped near here (within a mile and a half).
Half a mile from the fort Bill got within rifle range of his exasperating steed and gave him a furlough to the eternal grazing-grounds.
It was thus the chase continued to Ash Grove, four miles from Fort Larned, at which point Bill was less than half a mile ahead of the Indians, who were trying to make line shots with him and his mule as a target.
When the three reached Cedar Bluffs they suddenly discovered a score of Indians emerging from the head of a ravine less than half a mile distant and coming toward them with great speed.
So said the station boss of the Pony Express trail, addressing Buffalo Bill, who had dashed up to the cabin, his horse panting like a hound, and the rider ready for the fifteen-mile flight to the next relay.
The roof sloped down on one side to the very floor, and there was a little window in it, from which I could see away to the manse, a mile off, and far beyond it.
Not very far, about a mile or so from our house, rose a certain hill famed in the country round for its store of bilberries.
With the words he set off at a good swinging trot in the direction of a little rocky knoll in a hollow about half a mile away, which he knew to be a favourite haunt of Wandering Willie, as often as he came into the neighbourhood.
Having heard so much, Bob wanted to hear more, and so walked with his father for the first mile along the road, listening to the strange tale concerning Tiny.
The racing craft had gained at least a quarter of a milein the race for East Hampton.
After going a quarter of a mile he heard the quiet running of an automobile engine.
Tom had steered the “Rocket,” by this time, within a half mile of the stranger’s pointed stern.
The “Rocket” was more than a mile away from the schooner when a jarring thump shook the motor boat.
The schooner was less than an eighth of a mile away when Joe Dawson made one more effort to adjust the substitute valve.
Behind them trailed the schooner, now a bare third of a mile astern, and gaining visibly.
One swift glance Halstead shot out over the water, at that small boat, still more than half a mile distant.
By the time they were a mile from the pier dinner was announced.
So rapidly was the fog lifting that the skippers of the two boats could now see the ocean for a half mile on either side, ahead or astern.
That launch you set us to watching for has just gone into Henderson’s Cove, a mile north of here.
After more than anothermile had been covered, however, Hank came loping back over the course.
One hand on the wheel, the other on the speed control, the young skipper increased the speed by slow degrees until the “Rocket” had settled down to a steady twelve-mile speed.
Joe, shut off speed jerkily,” ordered the young skipper, by the time the two craft were almost a mile apart.
After tramping more than a mile down a dusty, lonely country road, Ellis hauled up under a tree, removing his hat and mopping his face.
And now, Tom, gazing keenly ahead, saw a big black hull rapidly emerge out of a bank of fog more than a mile away.
Even with her lessened speed the “Rocket” was now within less than a quarter of a mile of the racing craft.
From this point, a mile and a half beyond Uckfield, all trace of the car and its occupant was lost.
And a nice little breakwater half a mile south of Cape Town," said John Minute, "where the Cape government keeps highwaymen who hold up the Salisbury coach and rob the mails.
The driver pulled up at a little tea house half a mile from the town, ordered sandwiches and tea, which were brought to him, and which he consumed in the car.
The lodge at the gate was half a mile away, at the end of a good avenue of beech and sycamore.
We found that we had camped about a mile above Hunt's, which is on the east bank, and is the last house for those who ascend Ktaadn on this side.
I aroused the Indian early this morning to go in search of our companion, expecting to find him within a mile or two, farther down the stream.
He had reached the lake, after crossing Mud Pond, and running some rapids below it, and had come up about a mile and a half on our path.
At evening the Indian arrived in the cars, and I led the way while he followed me three quarters of a mile to my friend's house, with the canoe on his head.
It was a tangled and perplexing thicket, through which we stumbled and threaded our way, and when we had finished a mile of it, our starting-point seemed far away.
But, as usual, our smooth progress ere long came to an end, and we were obliged to carry canoe and all about half a mile down the right bank, around some rapids or falls.
Having reached this clearing, a mile or more below our camp, the night overtook him, and he made a fire in a little hollow, and lay down by it in his blanket, still thinking that we were ahead of him.
Having carried over the dam, he darted down the rapids, leaving us to walk for a mile or more, where for the most part there was no path, but very thick and difficult traveling near the stream.
We could see the red carcass of the moose lying in Pine Stream when nearly half a mile off.
Suppose you get under way, and heave-to a mile outside, I will then come off in the syndic's barge.
To be awoke out of a profound sleep, and all of a sudden to find yourself floundering out of your depth about half a mile from the nearest land, is anything but agreeable; the transition is too rapid.
About ten he weighed and made sail, and hove-to about a mile outside, with a light shown as agreed.
The frigate was within a milewhen Mr Vanslyperken arrived on board of the cutter, and when the batteries saluted, the cutter did the same.
She walked along with a free swing under her short cloth skirt; evidently she could walk thus for many a mile with no slackening and no fatigue.
We had frequently regretted the absence of a garrison in Castle Pinckney, as that post, being within a mile of Charleston, could easily control the city by means of its mortars and heavy guns.
He said, with a quizzical look, "Certainly; you shall have a mile of wire, if you require it.
It was situated on the edge of the channel, in the narrowest part of the harbor, between Fort Moultrie and Cummings Point, distant about a mile from the former place, and twelve hundred yards from the latter.
There was fully a quarter of a mile of water between him and the shore, but the distance was being cut down bravely by the race-about, whose specialty was going to windward in a blow.
Thar haint no sense of yer takin' er five-mile walk through them drenched bushes, an' gittin' soaked yerself.
Not less than eighteen or twenty miles long, and from five to six hundred feet high, making it in the neighborhood of a mile in thickness.
The ship, meantime, was hastening at a forty mile gait toward the Capital.
Then the wind lulled to a ten-mile breeze and veered a point or two easterly.
A mile up from the water gate that turns the creek into supply pipes for the town, begins a row of long-leaved pines, threading the watercourse to the foot of Kearsarge.
Once wanting some womanly attentions, the stage-driver assured me I might have them at the Nine-Mile House from the lady barkeeper.
On the other side of Ceriso, where the black rock begins, about a mile from the spring, is the work of an older, forgotten people.
Maybe the pinpoint shriek of field mouse or kangaroo rat that pricks the wakeful pauses of the night is extorted by these mellow-voiced plunderers, though it is just as like to be the work of the red fox on his twenty-mile constitutional.
The Cheese-Wring and its adjacent rocks were visible a mile and a half away, on the summit of a steep hill.
Thus, if you stop to ask your way, you are not merely directed for a mile or two on, and then told to ask again; but directed straight to the end of your destination, no matter how far off.
About a mile out at sea, to the southward of the town, rises a green triangular shaped eminence, called Looe Island.
On our road to this curiosity, about a mile and a half from St. Clare's Well, we stopped to look at one of the most perfect and remarkable of the ancient British monuments in Cornwall.
This will be found on proper computation and comparison, to be considerably under the average population of a square mile throughout the rest of England.
A three-year-old, fifteen-mile traction connects the court-house with the Indestructo Safe Works.
At the end of the mile the trees began to open above their heads, and they soon came to the edge of the timber.
It was a path worn smooth by the travel of many feet, and for a mile not a star broke through the tree-tops overhead, nor did a flash of light break the utter chaos of the way but once, when Joe Clamart lighted his pipe.
He did not breast the current with the same fierce determination with which he had crossed through the storm to the raft, but drifted with it and reached the opposite shore a quarter of a mile below the bateau.
Half a mile from the bateau he sat down on a rotting log and filled his pipe with fresh tobacco, while he listened to catch the subdued voice of the life in this land that he loved.
And always he kept ahead, until at last--a mile from the ridge--David came to the edge of a wide stream and saw what it was that made the wedge of forest.
Freight that grew more precious with each mile it advanced must reach the beginning of the waterway.
His eyes were turned toward the river, and on the far side, a quarter of a mile away, three canoes were moving swiftly up the slow current of the stream.
For a mile he continued along the path, and then he stopped, knowing he had come to the dead-line.
A hundred and eighty miles farther on was Fort McMurray, and another two hundred beyond that was Chipewyan, and still beyond that the Mackenzie and its fifteen-hundred-mile trail to the northern sea.
A quarter of a mile ahead the river widened, so that on the far side was a low, clean shore toward which the efforts of the men at the sweeps were slowly edging the raft.
On both sides, a quarter of a mile apart, rose the walls of the forest, like low-hung, oriental tapestries.
At the same time there came from the river a quarter of a mile away a thunderous burst of voice.
With St. Pierre's wife he had gone again to the ridge-line for flowers, half a mile back from the river.
Still a quarter of a mile upstream, floating down slowly with the current, was a mighty raft, and for a space his eyes took in nothing else.
There, sure enough, Tompion perceived the mistico, about a quarter of a mile off, with her head to the southward, evidently watching their movements.
He was, by this time, nearly an eighth of a mile from the Ione, and pulling directly out towards the mouth of the harbour.
The two gigs were now in full chase, rather more than a quarter of a mile astern, and the brig had ceased firing, leaving all the work to be performed by them.
They had by this time nearly doubled the distance they were from the shore when the first boat was seen, and had thus gained the best part of half a mile from the harbour's mouth.
When she had stood in within a quarter of a mile of the shore she tacked, either fearing to get becalmed should she approach nearer, or being, uncertain of the depth of water.
The nearest of the pirate's boats was rather more than a quarter of a mile off, which in a stern chase, with slow-pulling boats, was a considerable distance.
The wind freshened, and backing round more to the westward, the Ione stood boldly in for the entrance of the magnificent harbour of Argostoli, and, before nightfall, anchored within a mile of the town.
And it would just be impossible to move half a mile a day in this snow.
I don't believe it is more than a mileup to the farther end, and not half that down to the other.
The next day several hummocks stood in the way, and just about noon they came to a channel of open water about a mile wide.
Its northern face was very snowy, had few trees, and sloped down an eighth of a mile to the water.
On the other side of the valley, which is rather more than a quarter of a mile wide, is growing a line of thick heavy bushes, very dense, showing that to be the boundary of the beach.
We effected an entrance with difficulty at a part of the bay where the width was about a mile and a quarter.
On each side of the river is a perpetual succession of lagoons extending generally in length from one to two miles, and about a quarter of a mile in breadth.
Intending to come down on the opposite side and hail the vessel, I crossed on the banks of the river, a large marsh, one mile and a half broad by three or four long, of the richest diluvium; not a tree was to be seen.
As the path we had observed was leading northerly, we took up that course, and had not proceeded more than a mile upon it, when we suddenly found ourselves on the bank of a noble river.
After travelling about a mile on the third day in a west and north-west direction, they arrived at a large tract of forest land, rather hilly, the grass and timber tolerably good.
This cove, which I honoured with the name of Sydney, is about a quarter of a mile across at the entrance and half-a-mile in length.
Proceeded along the valley; at one mile and a half coming upon a small creek, with running water, and the valley being covered with beautiful green grass, I have camped to give the horses the benefit of it.
There was a good feed for the horses under the Hampton Range, about a mile and a half distant.
Over this heath they proceeded about a mile and a half, and encamped by the side of a fine stream of water, with just wood enough on the banks to serve for firewood.
After following it one mile and a quarter, came to the well, and old sheep yards, and camped.
The camp was on a small boulder-strewn kopje, in the centre of an amphitheatre about five acres in extent, and half a mile east of the river.
Although only a mile in length, the work proved to be of unusual difficulty since the pathway for the canal had to be blasted throughout practically its whole length out of solid rock.
This sixty-mile road out of Baltimore was evidently one of the worst in the East.
The barge in the meantime is ascending at a rate not exceeding one mile in the hour.
In 1804 an eight-mile trip which Fulton made on the Charlotte Dundas in an hour and twenty minutes established his faith in the undeniable superiority of two fundamental factors of early navigation--paddle wheels and British engines.
The report was favorable, so far as the improvement of the river was concerned; but the nine-mile road to the mines was unanimously voted impracticable.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mile" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
