Gloves and mittens, lined with squirrel skin, are made at Ghijiga, and worn in all the region within a thousand miles.
We had apples from European Russia, three thousand miles westward, and grapes from Pekin, a thousand miles to the south.
It was the first bridge he had been able to take advantage of in over a thousand miles of travel, and to-day he spurned the cattle ford as though he had never crossed at one.
As to calling me a cow thief, that's altogether too common a name to offend any one; and from what I can gather, the name wouldn't miss you or your outfit over a thousand miles.
I've got nearly a thousand miles yet to make, and have just got to get over.
After spending two years in these labors, he obtained an appointment to connect himself with a mission established nearly a thousand miles west, far away upon the shores of Lake Superior.
The other three kept their eyes glued to the deadlight; and their mystification was only equaled by their uneasiness as that motionless, bleary glaze failed absolutely to show anything they had not seen a thousand miles higher.
The lady who had undertaken to ride on one horse a thousand miles in a thousand hours, has completed her journey in little more than two-thirds of the time stipulated, and was conducted through the last mile with triumphal honours.
But common rules are made only for common life, and some deviation from general policy may be allowed in favour of a lady that rode a thousand miles in a thousand hours.
They talked again about the North, about Fort MacPherson--where it was, what it was, and how one got to it through a thousand miles or so of wilderness.
With tensely gripped hands and eyes that shone with a strange light he stared straight at the blank surface of the log wall--through it--and a thousand miles away.
The entire distance to the farthest fort and back was about a thousand miles.
The country stretched away west for more than a thousand miles, with nothing in it but wild beasts and Indians.
The Athabasca ends and is replaced by the Slave, and the Slave empties into Great Slave Lake, and from the narrow tip of that Lake the Mackenzie carries on for more than a thousand miles to the sea.
He could fancy Pierre's big red throat swelling in mighty song, for Pierre's wife was waiting for him a thousand miles away.
He had never heard of a place called the Valley of Silent Men, but it was a big country, and Fort Simpson with its Hudson Bay Company's post and its half-dozen shacks was a thousand miles away.
He had worshiped that mother, and the spirit of his dreams did not let him look down into the valley where she lay dead, under a little white stone in the country cemetery a thousand miles away, with his father close beside her.
It runs from Amacasfe for a thousand milesin one straight line direct as that of a Roman road, and with but half-a-dozen changes of level in the whole distance.
This would whirl me round and round the Earth at the rate of a thousand miles an hour; of this I must, of course, get rid as soon as possible.
One can not but sympathize with the poor abused Rocky Mountains, tormented and misrepresented for a thousand miles by this French geologist.
Were you ever within a thousand miles of the proper positions for making such observations?
I was not yet twelve years old, but I had to walk with the rest the full thousand miles, and we made nearly thirty miles a day.
He and I shared the pleasure of walking a thousand miles to the Missouri River, after the bull-train in which we both were employed had been burned by Lot Smith, the Mormon raider.
A thousand miles to the west the Mormons were running things in Utah with a high hand.
By this emigration the Russian name, its manners, its institutions, were extended through a sweep of a thousand miles.
Here they embarked in boats and drifted down the wild stream for a thousand miles to the mouth of the river Kama, where they established a colony.
With this object in view, in 1694 he set out on a journey of nearly a thousand milesto Archangel, on the shores of the White Sea.
Some hundreds of thousands of Mogols had marched to the heart of Russia, leaving behind them a path of flame and blood nearly a thousand miles in length, that they might compel the Russians to pay them tribute.
The navigation of the river, which poured its flood through a channel nearly a thousand miles in length from Kief to the Euxine, was difficult and perilous.
Black Cloud had come a thousand milesto ask him this question, and he had a far, sweet vision of a life utterly wild and free.
Then he would wander far out on the vast plains, which they say lay beyond the thousand miles of forest, and see the buffalo in millions go thundering by.
They might travel a thousand miles, should strength last them for so great a journey, and never see a single human being.
The waves ran out to the Sandwich Islands, six [Page 145] thousand miles, at the rate of five hundred miles an hour, and arrived there thirty feet high.
That is probably correct to within a thousand miles.
It was accompanied by terrific explosions, and was seen along a path of not less than a thousand miles.
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