Sabbaths have been called "milestones in the journey of life," and has not the poor cook, steaming over the fire day after day, need to count the milestones in the journey of her toilsome life?
Yet somehow all those outposts became eventually milestones on the highway to greatness.
And there is no keener intellectual enjoyment than to trace back to their original progenitors one of those mighty and original systems which are the milestones in the history of human thought.
As I grope my way back along the main road of the history of the law into the dark ages I seem to find the milestones of reform set at longer and longer intervals.
Their milestones will come at shorter intervals every day, until the burden of the law drops from the shoulders of the poor at the wicket gate.
Make of the deed your shepherd's staff and of facts your milestones and your guideposts.
I now reckon its flight almost solely by the milestones of my dreams, by the times when I could summon my beloved and was sensible of her presence.
For Bat, the walk up from the quayside was one of the many milestones in his chequered life.
She knew that she had reached one of the important milestones in her career.
The day before leaving Paris we visited Versailles and wandered through its pictured palaces, drinking in the historical milestones of the past.
Aunt--that there are milestones on the Dover Road.
As he dismantled himself of his case of pictures, and sat wearied and resting on the milestones along the road, he puzzled his mind with the thought, "Why should poor people walk and toil, and rich people ride and take their ease?
But after the mighty organisation of the Roman Empire lost its hold upon the land, roads went to ruin, and milestones were broken up or used for Anglo-Saxon gate-posts.
Till quite recently the milestones along it gave the distance to that city, between which and Cambridge there was of old a good deal of traffic, for the Universities were more closely connected then than even now.
Hence it is that thesemilestones bear the Crescent of the College shield.
In those days every great road in the country had its series of milestones recording the distance from the central milestone in London, which still exists, in its decay, as "London Stone.
Ask him for particulars about the Milestones in the Old Kent Road and on Salisbury Plain.
Learn that the Milestones in the Old Bath Road are in many cases illegible.
So identify yourself with Milestones that when your name is casually mentioned anywhere, let it be common form for some one to say, "Of course, the chap who looks after the Milestones.
You have been very instrumental in getting Milestones polished.
All the world knows that the Public Squander Department are responsible for all the Milestones not under the superintendence of the county authorities.
A number of old colonial milestones are still standing.
Benjamin Franklin set milestones the entire way on the post-road from Boston to Philadelphia.
In case of a road-book he must count the milestones for himself.
With all its crudeness, it serves as one of the milestones of the progress of a new order of things in Britain, and a space of only three centuries separates this poor little structure from the cathedrals!
This identification is confirmed by Roman milestones in the neighbourhood.
Between the four panels of Life on the Earth, stand the Hermes, milestones of ancient Rome, here used as milestones upon the road of Time.
He opened his Browning and found he was on the right road, passing the proper milestonesat the correct moment.
Indeed, there are no two milestones of English history so near together, and yet measuring such a space of the nation's life and manners between them, as this hall and that of Chatsworth.
As we make the backward run of one hundred years we have passed by manymilestones of progress.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "milestones" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
