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Example sentences for "eighty leagues"

  • The distance from the city of Cuzco to the city of La Paz is eighty leagues, a little more or less.

  • The distance from the city of Truxillo to that of the Kings is eighty leagues, over sandy deserts and intervening valleys.

  • From this mine to the mouth of the above rivers is a distance of some sixty or eighty leagues overland.

  • Advancing still farther, you find a river [228] extending some sixty or eighty leagues inland, and nearly to the Lake of the Iroquois, along which the savages of the coast of La Cadie go to make war upon the latter.

  • About a league from its entrance, and on the south side, is a river [167] of considerable size and extending into the interior some sixty or eighty leagues.

  • Muchas yllas, that is, from the Hudson to the west end of the peninsula of Cape Cod, the distance appears to be eighty leagues, or nearly double its true length; while the width of the great bay between the C.

  • The distance which they thus ran easterly, of eighty leagues, would have carried them more than an hundred miles into the ocean beyond Cape Cod.

  • The country rises continually from the beginning of the wilderness until Cibola is reached, which is eighty leagues, going north.

  • He was so far ahead of the friars that, when these reached Chichilticalli, which is on the edge of the wilderness, he was already at Cibola, which is eighty leagues beyond.

  • From Trinidad they travelled a distance of eighty leagues without a town, and arrived at Havana in the end of March.

  • After the five years they resumed their journey eastward for eighteen days or eighty leagues to Toxpan, discovered by Mezotzin, where they lived for five years also.

  • The next halting-place was Zacatlan, distant eighteen days or eighty leagues in a direction not stated.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    also have; desire them; different bodies; different heights; direct proportion; dramatic poem; eighty acres; eighty days; eighty feet; eighty leagues; eighty miles; eighty pounds; eighty thousand; eighty yards; eighty years; equal value; find himself; further enacted; future period; haue done; horse artillery; looking towards; other power; she laughed; sweet water; white shirt