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Example sentences for "four miles"

  • Four miles a day working from morning till night is heart-breaking.

  • They were still three or four miles away, but in twenty minutes they reached the party advancing to meet them.

  • Changed our course to 122 degrees, and at four miles crossed a mulga creek running to the east.

  • Twenty-four miles to Mr. Gibson's station, where we were received and treated with great kindness, for which we were very thankful.

  • At four miles halted at a gum creek, with plenty of green feed.

  • Four miles further it was not so good; the soil became a little lighter, with more salt bush, and a little scrub.

  • The remainder retreated in disorder to their camp at Athneasy, a ford on the Morning Star River, four miles east of Kilmallock.

  • The same number of dogs will drag a sled, with about fifteen hundred pounds of load, at the rate of three or four miles an hour over the smooth salt-water ice and snow.

  • This smaller lake is probably twelve miles long and from two to four miles wide.

  • But we learned that twelve thousand of our fellow-soldiers were beleaguered in the mountain town of Knoxville, eighty-four miles distant; that they needed relief, and must have it in three days.

  • On the 18th General Ord encountered the enemy about four miles out of Iuka.

  • I ride or walk three or four miles out on the Longmount trail two or three times a day to look for him.

  • Mountain Jim's" cabin is in the entrance gulch, four miles off, and there is not another cabin for eighteen miles toward the Plains.

  • Through Jerischow to Misorcen, four miles and a half.

  • To Leipnik, four miles, in a deep snow, and with empty stomachs.

  • From Trubau, to Zwittau, in Moravia, four miles.

  • We marched thirty-four miles, steering due west for a distant hill, which in the morning had been a faint blue streak upon the horizon.

  • The day's journey should be about twenty-four miles.

  • Third--Four miles square on Gull River, near Lake Nipigon, on both sides of said river, for the Chief Mishimuckqua and tribe.

  • Twelfth--Keokouse and his band, four miles front from Thessalon River eastward, by four miles inland.

  • But the fiord into which this glacier flows was, like the last, utterly inaccessible on account of ice, and we had to be content with a general view and sketch of it, gained as we rowed slowly past at a distance of three or four miles.

  • After thus tracing the margin of the glacier for three or four miles, I chopped steps and climbed to the top, and as far as the eye could reach, the nearly level glacier stretched indefinitely away in the gray cloudy sky, a prairie of ice.

  • At sunset we encamped in a small bay at the head of a beautiful harbor three or four miles south of Berner's Bay, and the next day, being Sunday, we remained in camp as usual, though the wind was fair and it is not a sin to go home.

  • In the Masika season, Lake Musunya must extend to three or four miles in length by two in breadth.

  • The Champlain Canal, which connects the river that flows from Whitehall into the lake with the Hudson River, is sixty-four miles long, ending at the Erie Canal at Junction Lock, near Troy.

  • This lake is about thirty-four miles long, and varies in width from one to four miles.

  • It is four miles by road between the two lakes.

  • Roundout, on the right bank of the Hudson, is the terminus of the Delaware and Hudson Canal, which connects it with Port Jervis on the Delaware, a distance of fifty-four miles.

  • The plateau in general outline may be considered a parallelogram, four miles in length from north to south, and two and a half miles in width inside the bends of the river.

  • It had already been learned that 'Stonewall' Jackson was with infantry as well as cavalry at Manassas, and that the Bull Run bridge had been burned, our troops being driven back three or four miles from it.

  • July 2nd that he reached Buckhannon, which is twenty-four miles west of Beverly, on the Parkersburg branch of the turnpike.

  • Schenck was sent forward to support him, and reached McDowell after marching thirty-four miles in twenty-four hours.

  • Wise reported that he met men with their subordinate officers flying at four miles' distance from the place of the action, and so panic-stricken that they could not be rallied or led back.

  • The first night we camped on the South fork of Big Creek, four miles west of Hays City.

  • Crossing the Missouri river at the Rialto Ferry, we landed in Kansas and passed along to Fort Leavenworth, four miles distant.

  • The road, for a distance of four miles, gradually rose to the top of a hill, and all the way up this ascent, Bob held the impatient team in check.

  • Brigham now exerted himself more than ever, and for the next three or four miles he got "right down to business," and did some of the prettiest running I ever saw.

  • On the fourth day this conversation was continued in the presence of the girl; on the fifth day the three walked to Parson Davies' house, four miles away, where Ira and Sue were married.

  • He asked no further questions, but, when school was dismissed, mounted his horse and started for the dwelling of the nearest culprit, Jackson Tribbs, four miles distant.

  • We took carriages at nine o'clock to Resina, a drive of four miles, and one of exceeding interest, if you wish to see Naples life.

  • The waves of the Adriatic once brought the commerce of the East to its wharves; but the deposits of the Po and the tides have, in process of time, made it an inland town, and the sea is four miles away.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    four acres; four boys; four days; four divisions; four drachms; four drops; four fathoms; four feet; four gallons; four hundred; four kings; four nights; four parts; four persons; four seconds; four small; four syllables; four tablespoonfuls; four times; foure dayes; fourteen feet; fourteen guns; fourteen hours; fourth part; high level; wandered lonely