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...This is about a three-hundred mile trip across the Rocky Mountains on horseback with Howard Eaton. It is about fishing, and cool nights around a camp-fire, and long days on the trail. It is about a party of all sorts, from everywhere, of men and women, ol...

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...e traveller from the coast, who, after plod ding northward for a score of miles over calcareous downs and corn lands, sud denly reaches the verge of... ...ay thither lying by bad roads over a distance of between twenty and thirty miles, and the horse and waggon being of the slowest. At half past one Mrs.... ...g sunlight, 24 Phase the First — The Maiden he retraced the eight or nine miles to Marlott. Tess had gone back earlier. How to break the news was mor... ...that day. The van travelled only so far as Shaston, and there were several miles of pedes trian descent from that mountain town into the vale to Marl... ...cline down which the road stretched in a long straight descent of nearly a mile. Ever since the accident with her father’s horse Tess Durbeyfield, cour... ... ‘What — you won’t get up beside me?’ ‘No; I shall walk.’ ‘’Tis five or six miles yet to Trantridge.’ ‘I don’t care if ’tis dozens. Besides, the cart i... ...t, when work was done, to Chaseborough, a decayed market town two or three miles distant; and, returning in the small hours of the next morning, to sp... ...g along the lane which led up the hill towards their homes. It was a three mile walk, along a dry white road, made whiter to night by the light of the... ...he whole of each day, and on this evening had in addition walked the three miles to Chaseborough, waited three hours for her neighbours without eating...

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...or. And I am a lover of Hounds; I have followed many a pack of dogs many a mile, and heard many merry Huntsmen make sport and scoff at Anglers. Auceps... ...Venator. Pray, Sir, speak of them what you think fit, for we have yet five miles to the Thatched House; during which walk, I dare promise you, my pati... ... us of a river in Surrey, it is called Mole, that after it has run several miles, being opposed by hills, finds or makes itself a way under ground, an... ...akes the way seem short“; for trust me, Sir, I thought we had wanted three miles of this house, till you showed it to me. But now we are at it, we’ll ... ...Huntsman, where found you this Otter? Huntsman. Marry, Sir, we found her a mile from this place, a fishing She has this morning eaten the great est p... ...sh will walk upon land: for an Otter does so sometimes, five or six or ten miles in a night, to catch for her young ones, or to glut herself with fish... ... to glut herself with fish. And I can tell you that Pigeons will fly forty miles for a breakfast: but, Sir, I am sure the Otter de vours much fish, a... ...n to fish ? Piscator. We are not yet come to a likely place; I must walk a mile further yet before I beam. Venator. Well then, I pray, as we walk, tel... ...be at it, and indeed to rest myself too; for though I have walked but four miles this morn ing, yet I begin to be weary; yesterday’s hunting hangs st...

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...of us on the! We’re Here, an’ ef we went back naow-it’ s more’n a thousand mile-we’ d lose the season. The men they wouldn’t hev it, allowin’ I was ag... ...ry here. Manuel ‘ll give us the water.” The “Portugee” was rocking fully a mile away, but when Dan up-ended an oar he waved his left arm three times. ... ...just ready to flirt the dory over the still sea, when sounds of woe half a mile off led them to Penn, who was careering around a fixed point for all t... ...er go!’’, There were scores of verses, for he worked the Dreadnought every mile of the way between Liverpool and New Y ork as conscientiously as thoug... ... his eye rove till it caught the tiny black buoy-flag on the shoulder of a mile-away swell. “She’ s all right,” he hailed. “Sail 0! Dead to the no’th’... ... tell you! Look!” She sailed into a patch of watery sunshine three or four miles dis- tant. The patch dulled and faded out, and even as the light pass... ...rd. But Disko’ s board was the Grand Bank-a triangle two hundred and fifty miles on each side-a waste of wal- lowing sea, cloaked with dank fog, vexed... ... alter another interesting interview , when they had been chased for three miles by a big lumbering old cattle-boat, all boarded over on the upper dec... ...in’ good)- ’Sufferin’ Christianity!’ he sez, ‘where am I at?’ ‘Thirty-five mile west-sou’west o’ Cape Clear,’ sez the tramp, ‘if that’ s any consolati...

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...ery manifest crust. Though he puts up in the country, he has to go sixteen miles to the meet, and has no means of knowing whether or no the hounds wil... ...a farmer whom he passes on the road. Boxall Springs is only a quarter of a mile before him, but he wonders how the farmer has come to know all about i... ....” “Ah, that’s where I lost them,” says one unfortunate. “ I was with them miles beyond that,” says another. “There were five or six men rode the broo... ... couldn’t have been there and be here too at this moment. Morley Hall is a mile and a half to our right, and now they’re coming round to the Linney. H... ...selves on their deeds, he sits by listen- ing in sardonic silence. “Twelve miles of ground !” he says to himself, repeating the words of some valiant ... ...them, keeping your distance, but losing no yard, and can do this for seven miles over a grass country in forty-five minutes, then you can ride to houn...

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... and what The object of his journey; he replied That he was going many miles to take A last leave of his son, a mariner, Who from a sea fight ... ...ous moan, As if her very life would fail. There’s not a house within a mile, No hand to help them in distress; Old Susan lies a bed in pain, ... ...or old Susan Gale. And now she’s high upon the down, And she can see a mile of road, “Oh cruel! I’m almost three score; Such night as this was... ..., 92 LyricalBallads I LINES LINES LINES LINES LINES W W W W Written a few miles above TINTERN ABBEY ritten a few miles above TINTERN ABBEY ritten a f... ...es above TINTERN ABBEY ritten a few miles above TINTERN ABBEY ritten a few miles above TINTERN ABBEY ritten a few miles above TINTERN ABBEY ritten a f... ...es above TINTERN ABBEY ritten a few miles above TINTERN ABBEY ritten a few miles above TINTERN ABBEY , an , an , an , an , an revisiting the banks of ... ...ections gently lead us on, 6 The river is not affacted by the tides a few miles above Tintern. 93 Wordsworth Until, the breath of this corporeal f...

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...me, unless my aunt sends me a remittance, I shall have to go three or four miles out of town to get over the way.’ ‘There’s no fear of failing, in the... ...ollowers of the camp of wealth pitch their tents round about it for many a mile—but its character was still the same. Damp rotten houses, many to let,... ...n country; the houses were very few and scattered at long intervals, often miles apart. Occasionally they came upon a cluster of poor cottages, some w... ... to any town or village?’ she asked of the husband. ‘A matter of good five mile, my dear,’ was the reply, ‘but you’re not going on to night?’ ‘Yes, ye... ...ged forward, more slowly and painfully than they had done yet, for another mile or thereabouts, when they heard the sound of wheels behind them, and l... ... we are going the longest way, because then we could stop for the night, a mile and a half on. But three or four mile gained to night is so many save... ...hem to popu lar admiration, ‘rough or smooth, I won’t go further than the mile and a half to night. I put up at the Jolly Sandboys and nowhere else. ... ...was dark before they reached the town itself, and long indeed the few last miles had been. Here all was tumult and confusion; the streets were filled ... ...race course, which was upon an open heath, situated on an eminence, a full mile distant from its furthest bounds. Although there were many people here...

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...ile lying out on the spacious open downs without a soul within a couple of miles of him, as he thought, and almost dozing, heard close to him the soun... ...s feet in a ditch by the roadside over the down towards Adderdean, about a mile and a half out of Iping. His feet, save for socks of irregular open-wo... ...g! Most remarkable!—And there I can see a rabbit clean through you, ‘arf a mile away! Not a bit of you visible—except—” He scrutinised the apparently ... ...toe. It’s all so unreasonable. Empty downs, empty sky. Nothing visible for miles except the bosom of Nature. And then comes a voice. A voice out of he... ...ods traffic was almost entirely suspended. And in a great circle of twenty miles round Port Burdock, men armed with guns and bludgeons were pres- entl... ...his strange being, that before nightfall an area of several hundred square miles was in a stringent state of siege. And before nightfall, too, a thril... ... the air. Without any thought of the Invisible Man—for Port Burdock is ten miles away—he may have pursued it. It is quite conceivable that he may not ... ...window was amazed to see him come pelting towards the house at a good nine miles an hour. There was a slamming of doors, a ringing of bells, and the v...

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... a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani... ...ew can understand; they will either be al- ways lounging or always at five miles an hour; they do not play off the one against the other, prepare all ... ...e after another of these wayfarers, some summer morning, for the first few miles upon the road. This one, who walks fast, with a keen look in his eyes... ... He is none of your athletic men in purple stockings, who walk their fifty miles a day: three hours’ march is his ideal. And then he must have a windi... ... still content. Nor must I forget to say a word on bivouacs. You come to a milestone on a hill, or some place where deep ways meet under trees; and of... ...tride. Mankind and its supper parties were no longer at the mercy of a few miles of sea-fog; sundown no longer emptied the promenade; and the day was ... ...e monstrous city flashes into vision – a glittering hieroglyph many square miles in extent; and when, to borrow and debase an image, all the evening s...

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...pension given him as a reward. He had come home and bought a house about a mile out of town, and built up a high room from which to look at the stars ...

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...od upon a low hill, above the river—the river being the Thames at some forty miles from London. A long gabled front of red brick, with the complexion ... ...wing room. Lord Warburton, who had ridden over from his own house, some ten miles distant, remounted and took his departure before dinner; and an hou... ...f you think it’s damp or anything of that sort—you need never go within fifty miles of it. It’s not damp, by the way; I’ve had the house thoroughly exa... ...’s nothing new to me. The best way to help me will be to put as many hundred miles of sea between us as possible.” “One would think you were going to ... ...anced stone walls. His park’s enclosed by a gigantic iron fence, some thirty miles round,” Henrietta announced for the information of Mr. Osmond. “I s... ...tel. He never asked her a question about Isabel: hadn’t he come five thousand miles to see for himself? He was thus not in the least authorized to thin...

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...achusetts. More than three years later, he returned to Newport, Rhode Island, on June 27, 1898 having circumnavigated the world, a distance of 46,000 miles (74,000 km). In 1899 he described the voyage in Sailing Alone Around the World now considered a classic of travel literature. It is a wonderful adventure story from the Age of Sail and a book of which Arthur Ransome dec...

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...nts to kill him. Large, strong and smart, Buck toughens to his new life. But even the toughest dog can be worn down by constant work, and after 3,000 miles of pulling sleds, Buck nears the end of his rope. Cast away as no longer useful, Buck is acquired by greenhorns whose inexperience nearly kills him, but after being saved by John Thornton, he at last finds a man he can ...

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...ld be on the back of a hunter or bicycle. Leslie writes of one of his favorite cruising grounds about 1850: No railway in my time came within fifteen miles of Sidmouth, and the few enterprising visitors who reached there by coach from Exeter called it dull. It was certainly not a gay place, but most of those who resided there in that happy valley did so rather with a view ...

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...fellow was likewise forced in by the storm; for he had orders to go twenty miles farther that evening, and luckily on the same road which Joseph himse... ...he contrary, proceeded on his jour- ney on foot. He had not gone above two miles, charmed with the hope of shortly seeing his beloved Fanny, when he w... ... taken in unless some- body would pay a shilling for his carriage the four miles.” Which the two gentlemen refused to do. But the lawyer, who was afra... ...ord,” cries the doctor, “there are few men, though I say it, within twelve miles of the place, that handle a fever better. Veniente accurrite morbo: t... ... ioners, and whose master, the owner of the coach, then lived within three miles of him; for so good was the credit of Mr Adams, that even Mr Peter, t... ...contemplation on a passage in Aeschylus, which en- tertained him for three miles together, without suffering him once to reflect on his fellow-travell... ...ding the former. 111 Fielding held for that county in a town about twenty miles’ distance from that which is the scene of our story. It seems, it is ... ...oung fellow’s leg was so bad as he pretended; and if it was, within twenty miles he would find a surgeon to cut it off. Upon these words, Adams fetche... ...asionally, so that he had never been much more or less than a quarter of a mile distant from it. Mrs Slipslop desired the coachman to overtake him, wh...

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...a tures, making honey down there? They can’t be bees — nobody ever saw bees a mile off, you know — ’ and for some time she stood silent, watching one... ...y waves, And scrambling to the shore. The Walrus and the Carpenter Walked on a mile or so, And then they rested on a rock Conveniently low: And all th...

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...This 224-page book was compiled by five of Peace's friends after her death in 1981. It tells her experiences as she walked more than 25,000 miles across America as a penniless pilgrim, walking until given shelter and fasting until given food. She spoke to thousands of individuals and groups, sharing with them her message that the way to peace is to overcome evil ...

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...This book is about the voyage to deliver a double-hulled sailing canoe thousands of miles as a gift to renowned wayfinding navigator Mau Piailug of Satawal, Micronesia. Native Hawaiians delivered the canoe to express their gratitude to Mau for sharing his knowledge of non- instrument navigation 30 years ago,...

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...So here we are in the 13 century standing on a muddy cart track, it rained last night and we are in the middle of a village ten miles North of Nottingham called Wellow. It is the first of May and everyone is celebrating the May festival, the end of winter and the start of a new farming season. There is drinking, dancing, eating what food was left from...

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... siiuads: the long distance runners took a cross-country run of about four miles, and the sprinters ran about two miles. Definite plans will not be ma... ...l<f|i»(r. iiij;. All work siiicllv litbt .lass. Storing Si, WiLUMMSTO¥m II Mile's Now Stands "Pat The Williams Billiard Parlors PAT KEEFE, Proprielor ... ...r, Stookillg '07; Hopkins 'OD; Henton, Crawford, Kvaii, Tiuniip- SOIl "10. Mile run-M. I'. Allen. \hw- nieister '08; Kuricli, \V. \V. Siiiith O'.l; (i... ... nieister '08; Kuricli, \V. \V. Siiiith O'.l; (iriinniH. Van Woert 'UV Two-mile run—A. .1. Allen, .M. lirowii, Davis '07;; Walker 'OS; lioiiner '()'.)... ... distance men also ilid a little fast work and then covered two and a half miles on the track. Spring Football Practice Spring football practice, whic... ...ay. If the weather per- mits, Mr. Wefers will have the trials for the half-mile on Thurs- day in order to have men fresh for the quarter-mile on Satur... ...t '10. HSO-yard run—Chapman, Con- over, S. B. Stocking '07, Hop- kins '09. Mile and two-mile runs—A. J. Allen, Davis, Lesser, Wilder '07, B. P. Allen ... ...the track trials today and Satur- day is larger than ever before. The half-mile was run this af- ternoon at 6 o'clock and the other thirteen events wi... ...he entries and the events in their order follow : Thursday, 5 p. m. — Half-mile run : Chapman. Con- over, Stocking '07, Bullard, My- gatt, A. G. Beed....