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Example sentences for "ninety miles"

  • Lake Michikamau, next to Lake Mistasinni, is the larg- est lake in the Labrador peninsula, and approximately from eighty to ninety miles in length.

  • She could save us a long and disagreeable trip in an open boat, ninety miles up Groswater Bay, and I bad hoped that we might reach Rigolet in time to secure a passage for myself and party from that point.

  • The nearest mainland (in vicinity of Cape Washington) is ninety miles distant, as also is Coulman Island.

  • The blizzard which sprang up the day that we landed at Cape Wild lasted for a fortnight, often blowing at the rate of seventy to ninety miles an hour, and occasionally reaching even higher figures.

  • Weather still the same; force of wind at times about seventy to ninety miles an hour; really surprising how this can keep on so long.

  • About the middle of May a terrific blizzard sprang up, blowing from sixty to ninety miles an hour, and Wild entertained grave fears for their hut.

  • The top speed attained was about ninety miles an hour.

  • Richard Trevethick, afterwards to become famous as a railroad engineer, built a steam motor in 1802, and actually drove it from Cambourne to Plymouth, a distance of ninety miles.

  • Illustration: Grand Rapids on the Athabasca River] Now begin the rapids, ninety miles of which we are to run.

  • There is a single wire laid to Quetta, a distance, roughly speaking, of ninety miles.

  • The latter track we were to follow as far as Noundra, ninety miles distant.

  • It is composed throughout of a series of circular assemblages of islets, all formed of coral, the larger groups being from forty to ninety miles in their longest diameter.

  • But the country between the Boeuf and Pleasant Hill, ninety miles, was utterly barren, and depots of forage, etc.

  • To Albany, ninety miles south of Macon, there was a railway, and some forty miles farther south, across the country, Thomasville was reached.

  • From Mobile to Meridian, and after some days to Selma, ninety miles east.

  • Mount Kenia, eighty or ninety miles north, was clear and bright with its snow-capped peaks sparkling in the early sunlight.

  • Between Sergoi and Londiani, on the railroad, ninety miles south, there is one little store where caravans may buy food for porters and some of the simpler necessities that white men may require.

  • From Hong Kong one can go daily to Canton (ninety miles) in about eight hours; and by no means should a tourist omit seeing this most interesting of the cities of China.

  • Suppose a man wishes to go from New York to Philadelphia, a distance of ninety miles; at thirty miles a day he will be three days on the road if he uses his feet, and three hours if he takes the railway.

  • The China Merchants' Company has a weekly line to Tien-Tsin, whence one may go overland to Pekin, a distance of ninety miles.

  • The balloon is always standing still to the person in it, while the earth rushes madly along, forty, sixty, ninety miles an hour.

  • It was every bit of ninety miles an hour.

  • I don't know what I could do with this new train, only three cars, and going eighty or ninety miles an hour.


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