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Example sentences for "quarter mile"

  • The trail leaves the road at the right just beyond the bridge, or we may take the footpath through ~Happy Isles~, crossing the river on a foot-log and joining the main trail a quarter mile above.

  • With the glasses, vague motion a quarter mile away in the meadow leaped shockingly into precision.

  • The boats were clustering a quarter mile away.

  • Even now at low tide there was barely a quarter mile of gray sand between water and cliffs.

  • Here we made the longest portage of the journey down the George River, carrying the stuff one and a quarter mile.

  • Went 4 1/2 miles through it all in good river with six short portages first three- quarter mile, and stopped about 1 P.

  • Most men have shot occasional beasts at a quarter mile or so, but not airily nor as a matter of fact: rather with thanksgiving and a certain amount of surprise.

  • After a quarter mile we began to pick up the game herds.

  • At that time she was on the Floodwood Plains a quarter mile (0.

  • In the Skanee area, which the pack of three first visited after leaving the release area, deer were abundant, and 7 to 10 were seen within a quarter mile (0.

  • I saw wolf tracks myself within a quarter mile of the Post, for the animals were so bold they ventured almost to the door.

  • The day we reached the lower end of the lake I summed up briefly its characteristics in my field book as follows: "Indian House Lake has a varying width of from a quarter mile to three miles.

  • This done, the portage was made, and then we found to our disappointment that the still water was less than a quarter mile in length, when rapids occurred again.

  • No sign of Indians was seen, and four miles up the lake we stopped upon a narrow, sandy point that jutted out into the water for a distance of a quarter mile, to pitch camp and scout for the trail.

  • In a moment I was standing with him under the tall spruce trees, looking over the river to the dark forest, a quarter mile away, and listening intently to a new and wonderful sound.

  • There, on a bare point a quarter mile away, we saw a large Lynx walking quietly along.

  • It was about one-quarter mile long, several miles from mainland, at least half a mile from any other island, apparently all rock, and yet it was swarming with mosquitoes.

  • Across the road about a quarter mile up in a field there was an old chestnut tree that was killed by blight that eventually killed all the chestnut trees in the East.

  • By putting half on each side of the street we could stretch it across and when a car came down it would stretch the rubber about a quarter mile.

  • The first time we shot it there were several officers there and the target was on a hillside about a quarter mile away.

  • Some P-51s came over and started shooting at the line of men about a quarter mile ahead of me.

  • Along the valley are outcrops of schist, and granite rock is present on both sides of the valley for a distance of about one-quarter mile.

  • Two and a half miles south of Lanesville on the west side of the lowland, a wooded esker extends for about one-quarter mile parallel to the valley axis and then merges into the rocky hillside.

  • The divide which separates the present headwaters of the Umpog from those of the Saugatuck is a till-covered swampy flat about one-quarter mile east of Todd Pond.

  • At Lanesville near the mouth of the Still, the river has cut a gorge 30 feet deep and one-quarter mile long in the limestone.

  • At last they reached a mass of boulders sticking up out of the snow which was within a quarter mile of the distance on the map.

  • A quarter mile of steady climbing, covered by helping the dogs with the supply sledge, and they found themselves about a hundred feet above the tundra.

  • The floe which had separated the umiacks had passed on and Dick and Sandy could see Toma and Constable Sloan coming along safely a quarter mile behind.

  • Corporal McCarthy was waving his paddle to them a quarter mile to the left, and, now that the fog no longer deadened sound, his shout was borne to the ears of the happy boys.

  • A quarter mile up they built their first deadfall for martens.

  • They found some old beaver signs but none new; and they left their deadfalls every quarter mile or less.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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