On the road leading north from Manchester, in eastern Kentucky, to Booneville, twenty miles away, stood, in 1862, a wooden plantation house of a somewhat better quality than most of the dwellings in that region.
I had been found lying in the road several miles away from the house; but how I had escaped from it to get there I never knew.
Present At A Hanging And Other Ghost Stories
A hundred moonlit
miles away the Chiang crept to sea; O keeper of my heart, I came by Chiang's ford to thee.
Lute of Jade
Two of them were young students from a medical college a few
miles away; the third was a gigantic negro known as Jess.
Can Such Things Be
There was a slough or a creek leading out of it on the other side that went
miles away, I don't know where, but it didn't go to the river.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Miles away a church spire stuck like a spike out of the hollow, and the smoke of a village dimmed the trees behind.
Dead Men Tell No Tales
David's Hall alone, for the nearest village was two
miles away. The station-master, on his return from escorting the young lady to her car, stared at this other passenger in some surprise.
The Vanished Messenger
The country boys came in from farms eight and ten
miles away, and all the country girls were on the floor--Antonia and Lena and Tiny, and the Danish laundry girls and their friends.
My Antonia
There are no features to this land, no conspicuous, far-famed landmarks for the eye; there is nothing so far down to tell you of the greatest agglomeration of mankind on earth dwelling no more than five and twenty
miles away, where the sun sets in a blaze of colour flaming on a gold background, and the dark, low shores trend towards each other.
Mirror of the Sea
Ten
miles away the island of Murea, like some high fastness of the Holy Grail, guarded its mystery.
Moon and Sixpence
Both of Mars' moons are vastly nearer her than is our moon to Earth; the nearer moon being but about five thousand miles distant, while the further is but little more than fourteen thousand
miles away, against the nearly one-quarter million miles which separate us from our moon.
Princess of Mars
In the middle of a cyclone the air is generally still, but the great pressure of the wind on every side of the house raised it up higher and higher, until it was at the very top of the cyclone; and there it remained and was carried miles and
miles away as easily as you could carry a feather.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The place is more than ten
miles away from here, out in the country, and she says if she takes the train she should still have four miles to walk; and so weak as she is, and the baby only four weeks old, of course that would be impossible; and she wants to know if you would take her in your cab, and she promises to pay you faithfully, as she can get the money."
Black Beauty
Due to the closure of the dementia units at Dolgellau and Pwllheli hospitals, my husband had to be sent to Llangefni hospital 65
miles away from home.
Downright cruel way to treat elderly; LETTERS
The 18-month row came to a head last month when it emerged that an ambulance travelled 10 miles to a boy choking to death while another crew was on a break three
miles away.
Boy's death highlighted dispute