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Example sentences for "thirty leagues"

  • On the east it has, from Cape Nassau, a shore of thirty leagues to the mouth of the Orinoco; thence along that river to the Rio Portuguesa, an extent of more than 400 leagues.

  • Great quantities of canes are brought down by these rivers, insomuch that we have seen abundance of them twenty or thirty leagues out at sea.

  • Our depth in the straits was from eight to eleven fathoms, and the distance from Aden to the straits is thirty leagues.

  • This Lake, which is about twenty-five or thirty leagues in circumference, contains several beautiful islands, and is the place where our Iroquois enemies catch their fish, which are there in great abundance.

  • The retreat was very tedious, being from twenty-five to thirty leagues, and greatly fatigued the wounded, and those who carried them, though they relieved each other from time to time.

  • The text says they, continued their course about twenty-five or thirty leagues.

  • After reaching the end of this, they pass five other falls, [200] the distance from the first to the last being about twenty-five or thirty leagues.

  • The next day, on the 10th of October, they reached the great fortress of the Iroquois, after a journey of four days from their landing, a distance loosely estimated at from twenty-five to thirty leagues.

  • I then remembered that the Professor, before starting, had estimated the length of this underground sea at thirty leagues.

  • By the 7th of August our successive descents had brought us to a depth of thirty leagues; that is, that for a space of thirty leagues there were over our heads solid beds of rock, ocean, continents, and towns.

  • Thirty leagues of rock seemed to weigh upon my shoulders with a dreadful pressure.

  • I supposed we were running at the rate of thirty leagues an hour.

  • The coast of Trinidada between those two points was thirty leagues in length from E.

  • Most of the island is flat, and full of woods and forests; but from the eastern point of Mayci, there are exceedingly high mountains for thirty leagues.

  • Thirty leagues up the river there is a fort of the Micmacs,[30] at a place called Naxouak, and at thirty leagues further up there is one of the Maliseets.

  • Twelve leagues further on is another place they call Madeha; it is a small place, of few inhabitants, inside the mouth of the Sea of Persia, thirty leagues to the south-west.

  • Their retreat was very long, being from twenty-five to thirty leagues, which caused the wounded much fatigue, as also those who carried them, although the latter relieved each other from time to time.

  • We continued our course by land for about twenty-five or thirty leagues.

  • All the country where I went contains some twenty to thirty leagues, is very fine, and situated in latitude 44° 30'.

  • A good horse in the desert ought to accomplish for five or six days, one after the other, distances of twenty-five to thirty leagues.

  • They endure hunger and thirst with ease, and without being knocked up will cover for several consecutive days distances of twenty-five to thirty leagues.

  • A Saharene will go twenty or thirty leagues to couple a handsome greyhound bitch with a dog of established reputation; for one that is really famous will run down a gazelle.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bare rock; considerable elevation; esteemed friend; government control; living waters; national defence; not one; quotation from; straw color; thirty cents; thirty cubits; thirty days; thirty dollars; thirty drops; thirty grains; thirty inches; thirty miles; thirty minutes; thirty pounds; thirty shillings; thirty thousand; thirty yards; thirty years; usually supposed; whatever comes; young couple