1 They were within a few miles of their village now.
2 Outside I could hear the wind singing over hundreds of miles of snow.
3 The Widow Steavens rode up from her farm eight miles down the Black Hawk road.
4 The cornfields were far apart in those times, with miles of wild grazing land between.
5 The two girls would wander for miles along the edge of the cornfields, hunting for ground-cherries.
6 Miners came in on snowshoes from their placer claims twenty miles away to buy fresh bread from her, and paid for it in gold.
My Antonia By Willa CatherContextHighlight In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: I 7 She knew every farmer for miles about: how much land he had under cultivation, how many cattle he was feeding, what his liabilities were.
8 I DO NOT REMEMBER our arrival at my grandfather's farm sometime before daybreak, after a drive of nearly twenty miles with heavy work-horses.
9 As far as we could see, the miles of copper-red grass were drenched in sunlight that was stronger and fiercer than at any other time of the day.
10 Our own house looked down over the town, and from our upstairs windows we could see the winding line of the river bluffs, two miles south of us.
11 Within a week all the blooming roads had been despoiled, hundreds of miles of yellow sunflowers had been transformed into brown, rattling, burry stalks.
12 After that Dude and I went twice a week to the post-office, six miles east of us, and I saved the men a good deal of time by riding on errands to our neighbours.
13 When Frances drove out into the country on business, she would go miles out of her way to call on some of the old people, or to see the women who seldom got to town.
14 She was kept there for a few months, then escaped and walked all the way home, nearly two hundred miles, travelling by night and hiding in barns and haystacks by day.
15 He reported that the coroner would reach the Shimerdas' sometime that afternoon, but the missionary priest was at the other end of his parish, a hundred miles away, and the trains were not running.