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Sentences starting with miles

Miles sprang forward, with a happy confidence, to meet her, but she checked him with a hardly perceptible gesture, and he stopped where he was. [5]
Miles Standish's sword was as far back as New England collections of armor carried us at that day. [6]
Miles Hendon and Tom Canty were favourites of the King, all through his brief reign, and his sincere mourners when he died. [5]
Miles reflected during some moments, then said to himself, "Yes, that is the thing to do--by any other means it were impossible to get at it--and certes, this hour's experience has taught me 'twould be most wearing and inconvenient to continue it as it is. [5]
Miles Calhoun had said some hard things to him, and Dyck had replied that he would cut out his own course, trim his own path, walk his own way. [11]
Miles Hendon was picturesque enough before he got into the riot on London Bridge--he was more so when he got out of it. [5]
Miles Hendon sank into a chair and covered his face with his hands. [5]
Miles Hendon stepped in the way and said-- "Not too fast, friend. [5]
Miles Hendon sprang forward, crying out-- "Oh, my Edith, my darling--" But Hugh waved him back, gravely, and said to the lady-- "Look upon him. [5]
Miles Hendon was entirely bewildered. [5]

Sentences ending with miles

They said we would not go ten miles, and I most solemnly believe that no one but "Uncle Billy" and an army organized and equipped by him could have gone ten miles. [9]
A good horse will walk three miles an hour over nearly any kind of a road; therefore, an hour, here, always stands for three miles. [5]
It is in width, from Fort Adams on the left bank of the Mississippi to the bank of Rapides Parish, a distance of about sixty miles. [5]
During the afternoon watch the next day, Mr. Bixby asked me if I knew how to run the next few miles. [5]
What distance that was to Cottonwoods he did not know; he calculated, however, that it was in the neighborhood of fifty miles. [13]
But this defect was not due to any fault of the regimental commander, for in spite of repeated demands boots had not been issued by the Austrian commissariat, and the regiment had marched some seven hundred miles. [2]
Why, that dervish was hunting in that little hill for the treasures of the earth, and didn't know he was walking over the real ones for a thousand miles. [5]
The next longest was from here to Sidon--say about sixty or seventy miles. [5]
The "city" of Virginia roosted royally midway up the steep side of Mount Davidson, seven thousand two hundred feet above the level of the sea, and in the clear Nevada atmosphere was visible from a distance of fifty miles! [5]
I live not very far from the Four Corners--that is, about eight miles. [9]

Short sentences using miles

We have 2,963,000 square miles. [7]
Only a few more miles! [13]
Only three hundred miles? [5]
It is seventy miles long. [5]
I landed 5 miles below. [5]
It was 45 miles away. [5]
Sterlin' is a hundred miles. [13]
Twenty miles an hour. [5]
Am I Miles Hendon? [5]
Sydney 50 miles distant. [5]

Sentences containing miles two or more times

The cattle trail wound for miles and miles down the slope. [13]
The cattlemen's stations were scattered over that profound wilderness miles and miles apart--at each station half a dozen persons. [5]
And then we went to Mr. Moseley's, two miles, and all of them were gone to the camp meeting over on Stony Fork; and then we came all the way back, two miles, and then here, another mile--and Providence has provided. [5]
We estimate that we are within seven hundred miles of the Sandwich Islands, and that our average, daily, is somewhat over a hundred miles, so that our hopes have some foundation in reason. [5]
She had rode two hundred miles from the south-west, and was making for Fort Micah, sixty miles farther north. [11]
A hundred and twenty miles lay between him and his old home, between him and Kathleen and Billy and Jean Jolicoeur's saloon, but between him and his past life the unending miles of eternity intervened. [11]
Last year I traveled twenty thousand miles, almost entirely by rail; the year before, I traveled over twenty-five thousand miles, half by sea and half by rail; and the year before that I traveled in the neighborhood of ten thousand miles, exclusively by rail. [5]
Tom never listened to this one at all, but set there thinking and thinking, miles and miles away. [5]
From this point to the Mississippi River, fifteen miles, there is not a spot of earth above water, and to the westward for thirty-five miles there is nothing but the river's flood. [5]
To be able to go a thousand miles he must imagine that something good awaits him at the end of those thousand miles. [2]

More example sentences with the word miles in them

You can run your car sixty miles an hour in exciting passages, everything will work into it. [4]
I suppose what you have heard a rumor of was not a general battle, but an "affair" at Bristow Station on the railroad, a few miles beyond Manassas Junction toward the Rappahannock, on Wednesday, the 14th. [7]
And Mr. Charles Wrexell Allen, treasurer of the widely known Miles Standish Bicycle Company, was said to have led the cotillon in a manner that left nothing to be desired. [9]
Then Miles Hendon would cripple some of those people, and carry off his little ward, and comfort and cheer him with loving words, and the two would never be separated any more. [5]
The service was worth coming seven miles to participate in!--it was about two hours long, and one might well feel as if he had performed a work of long-suffering to sit through it. [4]
No rowing or work of any kind to do--we merely float with the current--we glide noiseless and swift--as fast as a London cab-horse rips along--8 miles an hour--the swiftest current I've ever boated in. [5]
After supper a woman got in, who lived about fifty miles further on, and we three had to take turns at sitting outside with the driver and conductor. [5]
This town ain't within ten miles of the railroad. [9]
You, there, Muroc, with your charcoal face, who was it walk thirty miles in the dead of winter to bring a doctor to your wife, eh? [11]
The railroad began with the same schedule it has now: two expresses a week-time, twenty miles an hour. [5]
Bear Island is, with the exception of the cove into which we had put, as nearly round as an island can be, and perhaps three miles in diameter. [9]
Were his thoughts with his heart, ten thousand miles away, beyond the billowy wastes of the Pacific? [5]
Some one conversing with her once objected, in my presence, to that part of "Jane Eyre" in which she hears Rochester's voice crying out to her in a great crisis of her life, he being many, many miles distant at the time. [14]
Between Salisbury and Wilton, three miles and a half distant, is the little village of Bemerton, where "holy George Herbert" lived and died, and where he lies buried. [6]
It was a wild and rocky upland where our great pasture was, many miles from home, the road to it running by a brawling river, and up a dashing brook-side among great hills. [4]
Miss Cynthia, to whom Myrtle made a generous allowance, had gone to live in a town not many miles distant, where she had a kind of home on sufferance, as well as at The Poplars. [6]
Taken as a whole, the underground city had some thirty miles of streets and a population of five or six thousand. [5]
I reckon the whole herd has moved a few miles this way since I was here. [13]
They were gentlemen who would go home to England or Germany and tell how many miles they had beaten the guide-book every day. [5]
Our Venetian, Busino, who went to Oxford in the coach with the ambassador in 1617, was six days in going one hundred and fifty miles, as the coach often stuck in the mud, and once broke down. [4]
Captain Basil Hall, who saw it at flood-stage, says-- 'Sometimes we passed along distances of twenty or thirty miles without seeing a single habitation. [5]
Two only escaped, who fled to the desert, and were followed one hundred and fifty miles before they were overtaken and slaughtered. [5]
He began to whittle again, and remarked: "It is only seventeen miles or so across these hills to Far Harbor, old chap, and you can get a train there for Asquith. [9]
She caught it while I was up country trapping on the North Shore of the Erie; caught it in the timber a couple of miles from our dug-out--or it might have been four, she isn't certain which. [5]
In a little while all interest was taken up in stretching our necks and watching for the "pony-rider"--the fleet messenger who sped across the continent from St. Joe to Sacramento, carrying letters nineteen hundred miles in eight days! [5]
Presently land appeared, which they took to be the continent, and coasted along to the northward a hundred and thirty miles before finding a harbor. [4]
The hut in which he lived with his wife on another hill, ten miles from Shaknon, had but two rooms, and their little farm and the garden gave them only enough to live--no more. [11]
My uncle's Oregon-echo, which he called the Great Pitt Echo, was a twenty-two carat gem, and cost two hundred and sixteen thousand dollars--they threw the land in, for it was four hundred miles from a settlement. [5]
Austen merely inquired whether this was not when they had left the station at North Mercer, two miles away. [9]
Half the time, when it is packed as full as it can stick, you will see that New England weather sticking out beyond the edges and projecting around hundreds and hundreds of miles over the neighboring states. [5]
And I knew what hour the clocks must have told when my brother shouted louder than ever the old chorus: "Bibit heres, bibit herus Bibit miles, bibit clerus Bibit ille, bibit illa Bibit servus cum ancilla. [10]
Before joining the Western Army which was then, in May, encamped at Drissa, Prince Andrew visited Bald Hills which was directly on his way, being only two miles off the Smolensk highroad. [2]
Off to the west from this point is the long sand line to Cape Henlopen, fourteen miles away, and the Delaware shore. [4]
And miles farther west a faint green spot marked the location of Stone Bridge. [13]
His only companions were the Indians, who in summer-time came and went, getting stores of him, which he in turn got from a post of the Hudson's Bay Company, seventy miles up the coast. [11]
These extraordinary towns were ten miles apart, a few months ago, but were growing so fast that they may possibly be joined now, and getting along under a single mayor. [5]
At dark we were riding slowly, very slowly, for miles through a country overflowed with water, out of which trees and houses loomed up in a ghastly show. [4]
Ah, if I were only a habitant of the Campagna five and twenty miles from Rome! [5]
In undertaking there were many miles to trudge with coffins in a week, and the fixed, sad, sympathetic look long custom had stereotyped was wearisome to the face as a cast of plaster-of-paris. [11]
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]
I knew they were after us, though I saw them but once on the crest of a Divide about three miles behind. [11]
On land there were a thousand miles of open country, with woods and houses, caves and cliffs, to which men could flee for hiding; and the danger of rebellion was less dominant. [11]
I might as well be twenty miles off. [12]
Well, one day we were lying in the open sea, about two hundred and fifty miles from Port Darwin. [11]
For fifty miles we travelled under it, towards the Gap, our eyes drawn to it by a resistless fascination. [9]
Harris told them we had made thirty English miles, too. [5]
For some hours we had been making three and a half or four miles an hour and we were still making that. [5]
From the time we first struck the Bras d'Or for thirty miles we rode in constant sight of its magnificent water. [4]
We found the way without any trouble, reached there before sundown, played three games of cribbage, borrowed a dug-out and pulled back six miles to the upper camp. [5]
Ill as she was, I could have laughed, for, as we went in the Earl's carriage to the hospital-thirty miles it was--she said she felt at home with me, my dress being so like a nun's. [11]
However, Eagle Bend was two miles wide at this bank-full stage, and correspondingly long and deep; and the boat was steering herself straight down the middle and taking no chances. [5]
Their first stage was twenty-five miles, and it led through the ravine where Parpon and his comrades had once sought to frighten George Fournel. [11]
His only excitement was to trudge ten miles to Dorset and listen to a three hour sermon on everlasting fire and brimstone by a man who was supposed to know. [9]
If no boat was there, then we must circle the lake three or four miles farther through a cedar-swamp, with no trail in particular. [4]
This faithful man was so ill and weak that it was thought he could not recover, yet notwithstanding the stormy weather, the factions on board, and although his home was almost in sight, only twelve miles across the Downs, he refused to quit the ship. [4]
Then the herd was seven or eight miles south, an' if they ain't bolted yet--" "Lassiter!...Bolted? [13]
In truth, she was seeing things millions of miles away; she was seeing a Promised Land. [11]
A ranch man was reading aloud an article from a newspaper printed two hundred miles away. [11]
Barclay de Tolly was quartered nearly three miles from the Emperor. [2]
The engineers' camp was only two or three miles distant. [5]
I heard they was only thirty miles north this afternoon. [11]
Little Miss Dolly was often at the Hall after that happy week we spent together; and her home, Wilmot House, was scarce three miles across wood and field by our plantation roads. [9]
The white herd was now strung out in a line two miles long. [13]
The nearest doctor was miles away at Pontiac, and for any man to face the journey was to connive with death. [11]
This morning singer was just that age; and if you had looked at the golden carpet of wheat stretching for scores of miles, before you looked at her, you would have thought her curiously in tone with the scene. [11]
As the sun was going down, we saw the first specimen of an animal known familiarly over two thousand miles of mountain and desert--from Kansas clear to the Pacific Ocean--as the "jackass rabbit. [5]
But the mystery was explained when we got under way again; for these people were evidently bound for a large town which lay shut in behind a tow-head (i.e., new island) a couple of miles below this landing. [5]
When the animal was at length ready to go, Davie took him by the bridle, ran by his side, coaxed him into a gallop, and then, leaping in behind, lashed him into a run, which had little respite for ten miles, uphill or down. [4]
The nearest garrison was at Kerbat, sixty miles away, where five hundred men were stationed. [11]
The next night was appointed for a visit to the bottom of the crater, for we desired to traverse its floor and see the "North Lake" (of fire) which lay two miles away, toward the further wall. [5]
Three miles away was a saw-mill and some workmen, but there were not fifteen other human beings throughout the wide circumference of the lake. [5]
Now, if there was a man in Ireland who had a narrow view and kept his toes pointed to the front, it was Miles Calhoun. [11]
Hearing that there was a basket of corn at Powhatan's, fifty miles away, they would have exchanged all their property for it. [4]
Jack and I walked three or four miles, over the hills, and led the horses. [5]
Philip had to walk some five miles before he reached a little station, where he could wait for a train, and he had ample time for reflection. [5]
As the train waited, John heard from miles of marshes round about the evening song of millions of frogs, louder and more melancholy and entreating than the vesper call of the bells. [4]
The crater of Vesuvius, as I have before remarked, is a modest pit about a thousand feet deep and three thousand in circumference; that of Kilauea is somewhat deeper, and ten miles in circumference. [5]
Three of the verses I give here: "The 'Lovely Jane' went sailing down To anchor at the Spicy Isles; And the wind was fair as ever was blown, For the matter of a thousand miles. [11]
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]
It was a vast oval, and one would have to use up eighty or a hundred good miles in traveling around it. [5]
The walk, as usually taken, is two or three miles along the bold, rocky shore, but an ambitious pedestrian may continue it to the light on Point Judith. [4]
It would land us there some time Sunday morning; distance, eighty miles. [4]
A few miles up this river, the depth of water on the banks was fully eight feet, and on all sides could be seen, still holding against the strong current, the tops of cabins. [5]
Three hundred miles up they met New England, Empire, Keystone, and Jersey, hewing their way right and left. [7]
As we progress up the river habitations become more frequent, but are yet still miles apart. [5]
The railway journey up the mountain is forty miles, and it takes eight hours to make it. [5]
He had been up nor'west a hundred and fifty miles, and he had come down-stream alone with his raft- which in the usual course should take two men to guide it--through slides, over rapids, and in strong currents. [11]
Yet it seems unreasonable that a series of successes, extending through half a year, and clearing more than 100,000 square miles of country, should help us so little, while a single half-defeat should hurt us so much. [7]
They timed them under various circumstances and they found the current five miles an hour and no more. [7]
The brig is two miles to three astern, and just stays there. [5]
For the next two miles the road was a mixture--sometimes the ascent was abrupt and sometimes it was not: but one characteristic it possessed all the time, without failure--without modification--it was all uncompromisingly and unspeakably infamous. [5]
We rode our two miles in silence, and wide apart. [5]
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]
The distance was two hundred miles. [5]
Having changed horses twice and galloped twenty miles in an hour and a half over a sticky, muddy road, Bolkhovitinov reached Litashevka after one o'clock at night. [2]
It was a twenty-mile drive, and the last eight miles wound down the boiling Washita, still high with the melting snows of the pine lands. [9]
A ride of twenty miles next day carried us to Union. [4]
Echo Canyon is twenty miles long. [5]
Alderbank was about twenty miles down the river by the road. [6]
When I was twenty I killed two men with my own sword at a blow; when I was thirty, to serve the King I rode a hundred and forty miles in one day--from Paris to Dracourt it was. [11]

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