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Sentences starting with mile

Mile upon mile, and yet they could not ride these monsters down! [11]
Mile heat; time 2:22. [5]

Sentences ending with mile

Take any road you please, you may depend upon it you will not stay in it half a mile. [5]
Europe has 3,800,000, with a population averaging 73 persons to the square mile. [7]
I took out when the pistols went off, and I didn't stop for three mile. [5]
So when it was good and dark I slid out from shore before moonrise and paddled over to the Illinois bank--about a quarter of a mile. [5]
But still the village seemed noisy, and, although it was dusk, I could make out much stir in the one street along which the cottages and huts ambled for nearly a mile. [11]
The gap closed to a distance to half a mile. [13]
It was clear that something like half the distance, four lengths, as nearly as could be estimated, had been made up in rowing the first three quarters of a mile. [6]
These being all rejected, I reflected awhile, and sarcastically suggested brickbats at three-quarters of a mile. [5]
And in the morning I got up and rode on, seein' no house nor human being for manny and manny a mile. [11]
Washington is a microcosm, and one can suit himself with any sort of society within a radius of a mile. [5]

Short sentences using mile

In Hookerville, seven mile below. [5]
It cuts off fifty mile. [11]

Sentences containing mile two or more times

It is about three-quarters of a mile long, and in places is as much as half a mile wide. [5]
Peace brooded in the silent and comforting forest, and Jim and Arrowhead, the Indian ever ahead, swung along, mile after mile, on their snow-shoes, emerging at last upon the wide white prairie. [11]
Lifeless lakes filled the depressions, and through them we waded mile after mile ankle-deep. [9]
This was the snuggest little croquet-ground imaginable; it was perfectly level, and not more than a mile long by half a mile wide. [5]
There was her real home, in a balconied chamber that overlooked mile upon mile of rustling forest in the valley; and when the wind blew, the sound of it was like the sea. [9]
But she trotted on, mile after mile, the dog-trot of the Indian, head bent forwards, toeing in, breathing steadily but sharply. [11]
I made two mile and a half, and then struck out a quarter of a mile or more towards the middle of the river, because pretty soon I would be passing the ferry landing, and people might see me and hail me. [5]
There is the lake, in the first place,--Cedar Lake,--about five miles long, and from half a mile to a mile and a half wide, stretching from north to south. [6]
Where the scenery is monotonous and repeats itself mile after mile and hour after hour, an intolerable weariness falls upon the company. [4]
Probably the distance I traveled was short, and the time consumed not long; but I seemed to be adding mile to mile, and hour to hour. [4]

More example sentences with the word mile in them

At about ten years of age I began going to what we always called the "Port School," because it was kept at Cambridgeport, a mile from the College. [6]
He said he would watch out, and if they tried to come any such game on him he knowed of a place six or seven mile off to stow me in, where they might hunt till they dropped and they couldn't find me. [5]
The Redan was within rifle-shot of the Malakoff; Inkerman was a mile away; and Balaklava removed but an hour's ride. [5]
We dropped anchor within half a mile of the village. [5]
He told me when the roads forked I must take the right hand, and five mile would fetch me to Goshen. [5]
But at last, when over half a mile of rope had slidden away, it stopped gliding and stood absolutely still--one minute--two minutes--three--while we held our breath and watched. [5]
One night we were overtaken by a snow-storm while still a mile from the village we were making for. [5]
The two nearest were half a mile from each other, and half that distance from my residence. [3]
Don't you know we're as much as a mile up in the air, and that that string of crawlers is two or three miles away? [5]
We tied the week's washing astern of our boat, and sailed a quarter of a mile, and the job was complete, all to the wringing out. [5]
We see that we was making trouble, so we went up again about a mile, to the cool weather, and watched them from there. [5]
This second night we run between seven and eight hours, with a current that was making over four mile an hour. [5]
In the morning we rode a mile and a half through the woods and followed up a small stream to see the celebrated pools, one of which the Judge said was two hundred feet deep, and another bottomless. [4]
By and by we passed through Marysville, and over the Big Blue and Little Sandy; thence about a mile, and entered Nebraska. [5]
When we judged we had gone half a mile, we momently expected to see the guide; but no, he was not visible anywhere; neither was he waiting, for the rope was still moving, consequently he was doing the same. [5]
In the night we anchored a mile from shore. [5]
On one hand was the enemy, on the other the water, with the shore half a mile distant. [11]
The Dudley mansion was not a mile from the Doctor's; but it never occurred to him to think of walking to see any of his patients' families, if he had any professional object in his visit. [6]
Whenever her mind was irrevocably made up, the automobile whirled away on all four cylinders for a half a mile or so, until they were out of reach of the railroad. [9]
When the boat was gone the king made me paddle up another mile to a lonesome place, and then he got ashore and says: "Now hustle back, right off, and fetch the duke up here, and the new carpet-bags. [5]
Only these: I want the well and the surroundings for the space of half a mile, entirely to myself from sunset to-day until I remove the ban--and nobody allowed to cross the ground but by my authority. [5]
A bold headland--precipitous wall, 150 feet high, very strong, red color, stretching a mile or so. [5]
Turned homeward, she walked for about a quarter of a mile, retreading the path by which she had come. [11]
Sometimes the plank walk runs for a mile or two, on its piles, between rows of these shops and booths, and again it drops off down by the waves. [4]
There was a village a mile away, and a horse-doctor lived there, but there was no surgeon. [5]
There was a village a mile away, and a horse doctor lived there, but there was no surgeon. [5]
So in one vast space--say a third of a mile wide and two miles long--were collected two thousand gondolas, and every one of them had from two to ten, twenty and even thirty colored lanterns suspended about it, and from four to a dozen occupants. [5]
There were excursions up the valley, and picnics on the hill-sides, and occasional lunches and evening parties at the summer hotel, a mile from us farther down the valley, at which tourists were beginning to assemble. [11]
Yet it was undeniable that the artist and Marion had a common taste for hunting out picturesque places in the wood-paths, among the rocks, and on the edges of precipices, and they dragged the rest of the party many a mile through wildernesses of beauty. [4]
A day or two later the cut-off was three-quarters of a mile wide, and boats passed up through it without much difficulty, and so saved ten miles. [5]
A mile or two behind was another horse and another rider. [11]
This trip he turned to the left and wended his skulking way southward a mile or more to the opening of the valley, where lay the strange scrawled rocks. [13]
He did not try to draw the canoe up, but began this journey of a mile back to the tent he had left so recently. [11]
Many horses have trotted their mile under 2.30; none that I remember in public as low down as 2.20. [6]
On this up trip I saw a little towhead (infant island) half a mile long, which had been formed during the past nineteen years. [5]
But then he took an advantage--he left out the mile, and only did the three quarters. [5]
If you wish to visit one of those mines, you may walk through a tunnel about half a mile long if you prefer it, or you may take the quicker plan of shooting like a dart down a shaft, on a small platform. [5]
Then came reference to the well known fact that an experienced mariner can look at the compass of a new iron vessel, thousands of mile from her birthplace, and tell which way her head was pointing when she was in process of building. [5]
I paddled over to the Illinois shore, and drifted down most a half a mile doing it. [5]
From the lodge to the house, a full mile, branches had been pruned to let the sunshine sift through in splotches, but the wild nature of the place had been skilfully retained. [9]
That warn't enough to take us fourteen hundred mile, deck passage nor no other way. [5]
The beach used to be lined with carriages at that hour, and the surf, for a quarter of a mile, presented the appearance of a line of picturesquely clad skirmishers going out to battle with the surf. [4]
The bay narrowed to a mile in width where we came upon it, and ran several miles inland to a swamp, round the head of which we must go. [4]
But after a tiresome march of almost half a mile, we came to a hill covered thick with a crumbly rubbish of stones, and so steep that no man of us all was now in a condition to climb it. [5]
All this took time, for the Mississippi is not a French brook, like the Seine, the Loire, and those other rivulets, but is a real river nearly a mile wide. [5]
Well, about this time he was found in the river drownded, about twelve mile above town, so people said. [5]
The great ravine, three quarters of a mile long, the ancient boundary which now cuts the town in two, is bridged where the main street, the Corso, crosses, the bridge resting on old Roman substructions, as everything else about here does. [4]
The stems stood three or four feet apart all over a great hill-slope that was a mile long, and make one think of what the Place de la Concorde would be if its myriad lights were red instead of white and yellow. [5]
The island was three mile long. [5]
Away down yonder, they have driven two rows of piles straight through the middle of a dry bar half a mile long, which is forty foot out of the water when the river is low. [5]
Still another of these young ladies I saw for the first time in an open boat, tossing on the ocean ground-swell, a mile or two from shore, off a lonely island. [6]
What we saw there was simply a circular crater--a circular ditch, if you please--about two hundred feet deep, and four or five hundred feet wide, whose inner wall was about half a mile in circumference. [5]
In five minutes there was not a spectator within half a mile of my place; but all the high houses about that distance away were full, windows, roof, and all. [5]
Hosea had met them a mile from this spot and advised them to turn back, that they might not bring their misfortune upon their fugitive brethren. [10]
After going through the wood for about a mile and a half they came out on a glade where troops of Tuchkov's corps were stationed to defend the left flank. [2]
As we approached the top, Big Tom pointed out the direction, a half mile away, of a small pond, a little mountain tarn, overlooked by a ledge of rock, where Professor Mitchell lost his life. [4]
Above it on the steep hillside are vineyards; and a winding path goes up to the Philosopher's Walk, which runs along for a mile or more, giving delightful views of the castle and the glorious woods and hills back of it. [4]
Then I carried the sack about a hundred yards across the grass and through the willows east of the house, to a shallow lake that was five mile wide and full of rushes--and ducks too, you might say, in the season. [5]
I'll go up the river to an aisy p'int a mile above, get in, and drift down to a p'int below there, thin climb up and loose the stuff. [11]
A mile below, the raft was brought to shore, and again the people said that Felion had saved the little city from disaster. [11]
It would ha'nt the place where he died--away out at the mouth of the cave--five mile from here. [5]
Why, Washington, in the Oriental countries people swarm like the sands of the desert; every square mile of ground upholds its thousands upon thousands of struggling human creatures--and every separate and individual devil of them's got the ophthalmia! [5]
The Palace faced the Nile, which showed like a tortuous band of blue and silver a mile or so away. [11]
Heidelberg lies at the mouth of a narrow gorge--a gorge the shape of a shepherd's crook; if one looks up it he perceives that it is about straight, for a mile and a half, then makes a sharp curve to the right and disappears. [5]
The pilot left the men with the boat and walked back to us, a mile and a half. [5]
The distance between the lodge and the post was no more than a mile, but Mitiahwe made a detour, and approached it from behind, where she could not be seen. [11]
I stayed until the last minute for a word with her,--which I never got, by the way,--and paid near a guinea a mile for a chaise to Portsmouth as a consequence. [9]
They discovered that the island was about three miles long and a quarter of a mile wide, and that the shore it lay closest to was only separated from it by a narrow channel hardly two hundred yards wide. [5]
The idea of the Indians is to drop softly and secretly from the arched sapling to the dwelling as the ark creeps along under it at the rate of a mile an hour, and butcher the family. [5]
We drove to the Grand Duke Michael's, a mile away, in response to his invitation, previously given. [5]
When appealed to, the Government Agent suggested that we go and leave him to be picked up by the ship's boat, a quarter mile distant at the time! [5]
He came to the Glass house in the woods a mile from Jamestown, which was the rendezvous for all their villainy. [4]
Slowly Wrangle closed the gap down to a quarter of a mile, and crept closer and closer. [13]
Follow me to the canyon, a mile above here. [5]
By and by the boat's lantern disappeared, and after an interval a wee spark glimmered upon the face of the water a mile away. [5]
Lured on by the apparently short distance to the backbone of the ridge, she had climbed the rocks a mile or more above the hotel, and come to meet me. [4]
It's a caravan, that's what it is, and it's a mile long. [5]
We walked home that way, sixteen blocks, with a retinue a mile long: Every time we passed a lamp-post, death gripped one at the throat. [5]
Then it seemed that the herd moved in a great curve, a huge half-moon with the points of head and tail almost opposite, and a mile apart But Lassiter relentlessly crowded the leaders, sheering them to the left, turning them little by little. [13]
The colonel said that the commander of the division was a mile and a quarter away and would receive Balashev and conduct him to his destination. [2]
Everybody had shunned that locality from the day of my proclamation, but on the morning of the fourteenth I thought best to warn the people, through the heralds, to keep clear away--a quarter of a mile away. [5]
Make a dot; that is, draw your man, a mile off, if that is far enough. [6]
I would move surreptitiously by night to a point about a quarter of a mile from the Boer camp, and there I would build up a pyramid of biltong and Bibles fifty feet high, and then conceal my men all about. [5]
The French were supposed to be a mile and a half away, but had suddenly and unexpectedly appeared just in front of us. [2]
Where would you suppose, with a free printers' library containing more than 4,000 volumes within a quarter of a mile of me, and nobody at home to talk to? [5]
I saw Lady Suffolk trot a mile in 2.26. [6]
Yet slowly, surely, steadily, in the course of my fifteen visits, the proportions adjusted themselves to the facts, and I came at last to realize that a waterfall a hundred and sixty-five feet high and a quarter of a mile wide was an impressive thing. [5]
Three miles below St. Petersburg, at a point where the Mississippi River was a trifle over a mile wide, there was a long, narrow, wooded island, with a shallow bar at the head of it, and this offered well as a rendezvous. [5]
Half a dozen sound-asleep steamboats where I used to see a solid mile of wide-awake ones! [5]
A deep coughing sound troubled the stillness, way toward a wooded cape that jetted into the stream a mile distant. [5]
The tender was small, holding but two beside the man at the oars, and owing to the rocks and shallow water of which I have spoken, the Maria lay considerably over a quarter of a mile out. [9]
We come in sight of the little bunch of lights by and by--that was the town, you know--and slid by, about a half a mile out, all right. [5]
I fetched the shore a half a mile above the village, and then went scooting along the bluff bank in the easy water. [5]
But not to see her, and to feel that she was scarce quarter of a mile away, was beyond endurance. [9]
Now the Postmaster-General says he cannot give to this company more than two hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents per railroad mile of transportation, and twelve and a half per cent. [7]
I closed by saying we had plenty of provisions to maintain us for quite a siege--and did they suppose Zermatt would allow half a mile of men and mules to mysteriously disappear during any considerable time, right above their noses, and make no inquiries? [5]
Looking backward, Jane saw Tull's white horse not a mile distant, with riders strung out in a long line behind him. [13]
It said he run away from St. Jacques' plantation, forty mile below New Orleans, last winter, and likely went north, and whoever would catch him and send him back he could have the reward and expenses. [5]
The surface of Roan is uneven, and has no one culminating peak that commands the country, like the peak of Mount Washington, but several eminences within its range of probably a mile and a half, where various views can be had. [4]
The nearest public road is half a mile away, so there is nobody to look in, and I don't have to wear clothes if I don't want to. [5]

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