He had ridden twenty-three miles out of his way to catch a glimpse of the newly arrived mistress of the Lazy D, the report of whose good looks and adventures had traveled hand in hand through many canons even to the heart of the Tetons.
The luminous part traced on the sea an immense oval, much elongated, the centre of which condensed a burning heat, whose overpowering brilliancy died out by successive gradations.
And the Babiroussa would have been installed in its cage in the Jardin des Plantes, and have drawn all the curious people of the capital!
Large quantities of bacon were trailed in the wake of the ship, to the great satisfaction (I must say) of the sharks.
Three miles to the south the dim outline of Pelusium was to be seen.
I saw, three miles off, Martin's peak in Nouka-Hiva, the largest of the group that belongs to France.
Then it moved away two or three miles, leaving a phosphorescent track, like those volumes of steam that the express trains leave behind.
Striking out for a distance of three miles, we came up close to another herd.
We made rapid progress on our journey, and nothing worthy of note happened until one afternoon, along the banks of the Little Blue River, we spied a band of Indians hunting on the opposite side of the stream, three miles away.
He succeeded, however, in killing twenty-three, but they were scattered over a distance of three miles, while mine lay close together.
We continued the chase for two or three miles, overtaking a couple who were mounted upon one horse.
We never saw the Comet again till the 13th, in the morning, three miles away.
Lewis was still down town, three miles away, with his two-horse wagon, to get a load of manure.
On the second day we started to go by land to the lower camp, a distance of three miles, over the mountains, each carrying an axe.
That day we went twenty-three miles in thick fog, and saw nothing of the land.
However, we missed the mark owing to thick fog, but after two or three miles' march we found the place again.
We had now extended our daily march to twenty-three miles; in this way we should do a degree in three days.
I missed it, and had to push on for twenty-three miles to a rich and very pretty valley, under a grassy range, lightly wooded with casuarinae.
Moving away long before daylight, we pushed steadily on, and about dusk arrived, after a stage of twenty-three miles, at the place where our stores were.
The pier was to be three miles long, and the Berkeley hills were denuded of whole groves of mature eucalyptus for the piling.
Three miles an hour was the best they could make, but Daylight celebrated the passing of the Fifty Mile by traveling late.
In the course of the three following days they made about sixty-three miles, generally in a northwest direction.
The river is again compressed into a channel from fifty to a hundred feet wide, worn through a rough bed of hard black rock, along which it boils and roars with great fury for the distance of three miles.
Twenty-three miles south of Byblus was Berytus, which disputed with Byblus the palm of antiquity.
Renan with the modern Carnoun, on the coast, three miles north of Tortosa (Mission, p.
We resolved to walk to his place through the forest, a distance of three miles, although the road was said to be scarcely passable at this season of the year, and the Una much more easily accessible by boat.
The coast is precipitous for two or three miles hence to the west.
The breadth of the river varies hereabout from two and a half to three miles, but neither coast is the true terra firma.
The distance from Para was about twenty-three miles, round by the northern end of the Ilha das oncas (Isle of Tigers), which faces the city.
The column was halted for a rest, and a number of officers, myself among them, rode out two or three miles to the right to see the extent of the herd.
All commanding points two or three miles to the south, south-east and south-west were strongly fortified.
Our camps at Walnut Springs, three miles away, were guarded by a company from each regiment.
With that exception, will all the people within two or three miles of Mossbank be fishing for Pole, Hoseason, & Co.
It is instructive to compare the price at Grutness with a note of the prices charged by Mr. Gavin Henderson at Scousbrough, three miles distant, where no fishermen are bound to the shopkeeper or engaged by him.
When we had followed this for two or three miles we turned to the left again and pressed as softly as we could into a low tangled ground where the air seemed stagnant and mosquitoes stung savagely.
If I give you a good fresh horse can you go twenty-three miles more by midnight?
In four years the island grew into a large cone, 3000 feet above the sea-level, and two or three miles in circumference.
I observed on my way to Naples, which was in less than two hours after I had left the mountain, that the lava had actually covered three miles of the very road through which we had retreated.
These fiery currents ran through the snow to a distance of three miles, melting it as they flowed.
This crater was two or three miles in diameter, while the highest part of its walls rose only a few hundred feet above the sea.
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