A few miles out of town, the bus began to list to one side as the slashed tires went flat. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Streams fill and merge to join the Nile River system that drains into the Mediterranean Sea more than 4,000 miles to the north. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

It was bewildering to find them so many miles and centuries out of Egypt, and so far from the fiery furnace. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Two days after Hickey was hanged, British troops landed on Staten Island, in New York Bay, a few miles from Washington’s headquarters. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Darren drove at 127 miles an hour with one finger on the wheel, his head bouncing to the rhythm of some internal song, while Donna twirled in her seat to talk to us. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Shouldn’t have to drive six miles out of the way when we got fresh milk over the creek,” Ma Charles said. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The needle is hovering at seven miles per hour. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

They had also seen him lock his car as soon as he got out of it in a place where there couldn’t be more than two keys twenty-five miles around. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, it is dawning on me belatedly that Minneapolis is far vaster than Key West or Pordand, Maine, and that my two live job possibilities—Wal-Mart and Menards—are separated by about thirty miles. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Word about this cure spread far and wide, and sometimes patients would walk for miles to get treatment from the wonderful white woman-doctor. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Thirty miles to sell the fish and then everything will be good again. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He regrets not having brought his running shoes along; he could have done a few miles on the treadmill before preparing himself for the event. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Stella said her good-byes and started strolling back to Carolyn’s when she noticed a strange glow about half a mile ahead. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The speed of sound, about 761 miles per hour at sea level in dry air at 59 degrees Fahrenheit, varied depending on temperature, altitude, and humidity. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

This lower stretch of the river, from Hoover Dam to the gulf, has little in common with the unbridled torrent that explodes through the Grand Canyon, some 250 miles upstream from Topock. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A half mile away, two boys with sticks slouch behind a drove of bony cattle. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Still, my unhappiness and worry soon melted into wonder as miles of green fields rushed by, and small villages, and once a large city. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I needed something else, something other than the stupid mile. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

There are exact miles of arteries; there is the exact force of its beat. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

A few miles up the valley the river cuts in under a high cliff from which vines and ferns hang down. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shortly after daylight on Sunday morning, January 15, dead fish appeared in the new Town Lake in Austin and in the river for a distance of about 5 miles below the lake. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

So the entire story came to my father because a dead horse fell one hundred sideways miles and broke my back. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

So many days and nights and miles in the RV, just the two of them. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

They entered the final mile dead even and rowed thus, stroke for stroke, for the next three-quarters of a mile. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And later she also dropped the bags of wheat flour and rice and kept walking like this for many miles, singing songs to her little girls, until she was delirious with pain and fever. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked the Freedom Trail for miles, searching for their bodies to say goodbye. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Running more than 2,100 miles along America’s eastern seaboard, through the serene and beckoning Appalachian Mountains, the AT is the granddaddy of long hikes. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Located twenty-five miles down a winding road from Charlotte, Monroe, population seven thousand, was typical small-town South. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“About fifteen miles...If you keep to the road you may get a lift,” he added good-naturedly, seeing our crestfallen faces. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bloomin’ ’eck, that leaves us only about fifteen hours for a ten mile push-bike ride! Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Their flight, instead of going out 4,000 miles, was now scheduled to fly all the way to the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was stuck in traffic a few miles outside the city. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

A haze of fire that stretched for miles. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

We walked for miles, slowly, guns up and ready to throw shot at a drumming flight. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there were long, cold miles to go before they were home. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept thinking, everyone is in such a festive mood, and Leah is just not that far away, in miles. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

That mile and a half to town never seemed so far away. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It had not occurred to Mrs. Frisby until now that a bird, flying freely over miles of countryside, would look down on many gardens. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was wearing shirt and trousers of coarse cotton jean—the kind of cloth the Lowell mills spit out by the mile. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

They stood at the western end of the valley, where the high road crested the last pass and began its winding descent to the bottomlands two miles below. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

If his calculations were correct, they were only eighty miles from South Georgia Island. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

For three- quarters of a mile, the two crews rowed in lockstep, both furiously hacking at the choppy water. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It was still hot and the down was so quiet that they could hear the horses tearing the grass in the paddock of Cannon Heath Farm, more than half a mile away. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sits on top of an enormous hot spot, a reservoir of molten rock that rises from at least 125 miles down in the Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Her family was wealthy then, but that didn’t stop her from stitching entire quilts before breakfast, or spinning miles of wool before tea. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of a cutbank, about a mile along, I smelled it. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Five thousand miles—America was five thousand miles away now. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

We passed mile after mile of green fields overflowing with tomatoes and onions and watermelons. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

White men squabbled before judges over claims to this or that tract hundreds of miles away that had been carved up on a map. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He imagined that a call would come to him, a voice of Command, the voice of a subaltern of God, hashmarks running down his arm for a thousand miles. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Heth’s Division had formed on a front about a mile, had obviously been repulsed. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every few miles the states provided places of rest off the roads, sheltered places sometimes near dark streams. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another family—the Wayburns, who lived about two miles away and grew peaches—sat huddled in the bed of the truck. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There are almost 700 miles of gorgeously mountainous Appalachian Trail in New England—about a third of the AT’s total trail length—enough to keep me occupied till August. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

A quarter mile from Fry, a couple of human-shaped silhouettes were visible at the forest border. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

A mile and a quarter was War Admiral’s optimal distance. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few miles away it was joined to the ocean, so that its movements were governed by unimaginable factors like the Gulf Stream, the Polar Ice Cap, and the moon. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tayo hated this unending rain as if it were the jungle green rain and not the miles of marching or the Japanese grenade that was killing Rocky. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t believe it; we’d come a long way, as far back over the hills as I could see, and that was a couple of miles. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said, ”The enemy, he’s sitting, guess a half mile from where we is. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

It looked to be about one mile from Brooklyn Heights. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

At the two- mile mark, Morry barked out, “Way ’nuffi” and now two full lengths ahead of both other boats, the freshmen pulled up, let their oars ride the water, and coasted to a stop. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I decide not to run my mile, so I'm here when Quang-ha comes in. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Nothing, sir,” I answered, looking suddenly miles deep into the blank wall of the room. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was about forty miles from our old house, which meant I had to start at a new school. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Surely the miles had multiplied, even as the trees had done, and this path led but to a labyrinth, some choked wilderness, and not to the house at all. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Even if he had somehow failed to notice these things, he knew that Cloud Pond was only a mile from Barren Mountain. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

There at the bottom of a sharp incline they saw before them a long flat mile, and beyond that the Ford of Rivendell. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I could see a few tents set up, the first rows of black barracks, and beyond them, blurred by sand, rows of barracks that seemed to spread for miles across this plain. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, I drove forty miles to the nearest bookstore and bought a glossy ACT study guide. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Momma always said the car couldn’t run more than ten miles at a stretch. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Must we go mile after mile in absolute darkness? The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“And how much would it be to take us twenty miles?” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

"How many miles to Babylon," recited Tristran, to himself, as they walked through the grey wood. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The ghost of me is saying, Three thousand miles. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

At eighty miles per hour, the engine was only idling. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

At a mile and a half, Washington was out in front by open water and stretching its lead. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The hotel’s fourth floor, where garden rooms with French balconies open directly onto the ramparts, has become home to an aging high-velocity anti-air gun called an 88 that can fire twenty-one-and-a-half-pound shells nine miles. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Hey, you went a half mile,” she says over her shoulder. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It has been calculated that a baseball thrown at a hundred miles an hour will pick up 0.000000000002 grams of mass on its way to home plate. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Each and every fan, those who have willingly traveled the 530 miles, those listening at home over the radio, can feeVit in his soul. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just a right at the first stop sign, and maybe a quarter mile from there.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Despite all this, I made my limping way the long miles across the river to Imre, hoping against hope that I might still find Denna waiting. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We walked for miles, out past the business park, Mica- Tronics, the golf course, into the desert. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

But here, so many miles from home, I have to wonder if the place even exists. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

At dawn on Thanksgiving Day, Papa, Roberto, and I drove in our Carcachita for miles, looking for cotton fields that were being picked. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

We were now in a slow climb up to 475 miles, and we had a chance to grab our first meal and some sleep. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She heard her aunt’s voice singing the “Dayenu” as if from miles away. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys now had open water between them and the California Clipper, and in the last half mile they accelerated in a way that no shell had ever accelerated on Lake Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It made me a little sad, too, as if my own family were two thousand miles, and not a twenty-minute drive, away. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He might be in a cell, in a ditch, a thousand miles away. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They carried their catch to their base, which was about five miles from the shore. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They stuffed their shirts into the gaps and paddled by hand, for miles, until they reached the Egyptian shore. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

And the location of the camp, thirty miles southeast of Farmville, meant that she lived in worker housing during the week and got back home only on weekends. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Zipping over the rapids at twenty or thirty miles per hour, I hear an involuntary bark of fright leap from my throat before I realize that I'm in no danger and regain my composure. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Luke was younger, sometimes they’d go on little day trips—Doreen called them vacations—to state parks that had waterfalls, malls that seemed to last for miles, and even a zoo once or twice. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“So we were in PE, you know, and we had to go to the outside track and run a mile. And I have PE sixth period, right?” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Sick and weak, he had walked almost three hundred miles to come to this clinic, and was barely alive by the time he finally arrived. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plus he’s driving me two hundred miles back home. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Twenty miles through the jungle is a very long trip. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another is why I am writing in this composition book, which I got from Klein’s store a mile up the road. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“When I was a kid, I made many a mile on stick horses,” the man behind me said in my general direction. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The view extended for perhaps fifty miles, but people said you would never again be able to see for a hundred miles. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would increase our speed from 18,000 to 25,000 miles per hour, and we would have broken the bonds of earth’s gravity. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is five miles to the vuvv launch site where the shuttle is coming down. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Thirty miles to where the big fish live. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

About a mile away, over the mountains, a black cloud was swirling—a whole flock of gryphons, dozens at least. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

At Gym on Monday, Coach Quatrini had us run three miles, all at tempo. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The shortcut shaved off nearly eight thousand miles for ships traveling from New York to California. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The women shouted at each other over the wooden railings on the front porch and their voices could be heard for half a mile. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the course of his life, Wesley traveled ceaselessly among these groups, covering as much as four thousand miles a year by horseback, reinforcing the tenets of Methodist belief. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I sent Speedy to the nearest, naturally. Seventeen miles away. But what difference does that make?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The empty coal cars shrieked as the locomotive, perhaps a mile down the track, began to push them toward the waiting tipple. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“McLaws. About six miles. He is beyond Johnson’s train of wagons.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Say it was a hundred miles by river. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

I heard them, too, from a quarter mile away. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I tried to keep up my pace for the second mile, but I developed a stitch in my side, right under my ribs, and I was panting so hard, I thought I would faint. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Though the blast was two miles away, Werfel was terrified that it would continue to swallow the world, league by league, until nothing was left. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The city was five hundred miles away, almost directly south. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Whilst we were walking for the first mile or so, Mr. Leroy would grunt and nod his head every once in the while, like he was paying some mind to what I was saying. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Clear Lake lies in mountainous country some 90 miles north of San Francisco and has long been popular with anglers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Frodo reckoned they had eighteen miles to go in a straight line. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The first reason was that Alabama was about two million miles from Flint and By knew Momma wouldn’t let him ride the bus that far alone. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked nine miles to a small mountain town called Maengsan, where traders told him that a truck would show up near the central market. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The horse finished the mile sparkling and galloped out an eighth of a mile farther, still burning Pollard’s arms in his eagerness to continue. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here was the longest stretch of straight road in the district, nearly a mile of asphalt. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

A mile on foot from the park and she was feeling calmer. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Zero was the first to spot the Mary Lou, maybe a quarter mile away, and just a little off to the right. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“We have to go at least a hundred forty-three more miles in order to keep it down to four stops, which means about one hour and fifty-eight-point-five minutes if Q keeps pace.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

At fifty-one she was still slender and pretty, with curly black hair, dark eyes, a large nose, a sparkling smile, and a bowlegged walk you could see a mile off. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

German companies plant flags miles from Moscow; Russia will be theirs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

‘We must be getting off at once. We slept late; and there are a good many miles to go.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The big difference between these numbers matters less than one might expect: a few thousand square miles of farmland was enough to feed the millions in the Maya heartland. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A week later, another operative from the team—No. 46—was sent to locate Brown in Ponca City, twenty-five miles northwest of Gray Horse. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In a line stretching back nearly a mile, marchers kneel on the highway to pray. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

About the size of a three- bedroom house, this space station, called Skylab, orbited the earth for six years on a journey that covered nearly one billion miles. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain came when they were sixteen miles north of an Iowa settlement called Tenville Junction. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thousands of miles across the Atlantic, the United States was still trying hard to stay out of the war. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Two miles along the road they came to a winding cart track leading uphill to a farm. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We? I was coming out here, you were half a mile behind.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

By February he’d run out of food and starved, apparently without making any attempt to save himself, despite the fact that there was another cabin stocked with meat just three miles downstream. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jethro regretted the melting of that glacier; if it could have hung on another hundred miles, life might have been very different for him and his family. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked the last six miles together, but we didn’t talk much after that. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Then they headed to another hell joint, several miles north of Fairfax. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The two sides of the river might well be a thousand miles apart. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

There they stayed until spring, when they flew back to their other home, an island hundreds of miles to the north. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

It’s the rocky summit of a mountain that looks over miles and miles of bushland. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

On July 21, in the Culper Ring’s quickest agent-to-spymaster delivery, the intelligence gathered by Townsend reached Washington at Dobbs Ferry on the Hudson River, about 20 miles north of New York City. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here we were, over six thousand miles from the anger and the noise, and that didn’t save us. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They are kept behind bars, typically more than a hundred miles from home. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

They stayed with us for about ten miles and then another escort took over. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

From a hundred miles an hour to asleep in a nanosecond. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He drove two miles down the riverbed to the south shore of the lake. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, I drove to Mount Moosilauke, fifty miles from my home on the southern edge of the White Mountains. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

They would race first, for a distance of two miles, followed at hourly intervals by the junior varsity and the varsity, each racing for three miles. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“If I could push the world back all those miles with my bare hands and make it change direction, I would do that, Julia.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

My heart’s beating a thousand miles a hour. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He was twenty miles away at that time. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gazes at the man-made pond, which, his father had told Gogol during a phone conversation, he walked around twenty times each evening before eating his dinner, that it equaled a distance of two miles. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Not all the people walking are Black—not by a mile—but it’s still the biggest group of Black people I’ve ever been with, even counting our big family reunion in Atlanta last summer. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

It’s a machine that stretches over thousands of miles. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Some of the time a car would come by and I’d have to duck into the bushes and wait till it had passed, so I don’t think I was doing any five miles a hour. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

But, mile after mile, there was nothing but level sand. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

He has offered to drive you down to that spot I wrote you from so often—three miles north and west of Vida, Montana. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“And who goes with you? You don’t travel a hundred miles alone.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Mother, did you hear? You’ll be two miles up in the air.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I was thousands of miles from my wife, sitting in a room that felt like a holding cell, waiting for a man I had seen murder two people that same day. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

You’d walk the miles back and make the boy walk because you want a pint, wouldn’t you? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He was eager to go faster, probably sensing my own impatience, and that would have been fine if I’d only needed to go a mile or three. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They had always been within sight of land, and Catalina itself was only twenty-six miles from the city of Los Angeles. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben and Alex got home first, and Will rode the last quarter mile by himself. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Flames twist, lick the air, stretching miles high. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

We stand on a hill seeing a huge ridge that extends miles south of us, rising in the mist. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Rocky had reasoned it out with him; it was impossible for the dead man to be Josiah, because Josiah was an old Laguna man, thousands of miles from the Philippine jungles and Japanese armies. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

François called to him a quarter of a mile away and he doubled back, still one leap ahead, gasping painfully for air and putting all his faith in that François would save him. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the early 1990s Folan's team had learned that this long-ignored place covered as much as twenty-five square miles and had thousands of buildings and dozens of reservoirs and canals. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Aru had established a “record” time—for her—of taking fourteen minutes to run a mile lap around the track. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

One mile behind him were macadam and the reassuring sounds of an automobile or two—one of which was Reverend Cooper’s car, driven by his thirteen-year-old nephew. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could identify police outboards at a distance of a quarter mile. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Farmers several miles from the plant began to report unexplained sickness among livestock; they complained of extensive crop damage. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Instead, I decide to kill time by walking the three miles to the lawyer’s office. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Cletus opened up the Spiritualist handout and stared at the page mile after mile. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

I could smell her hangover from a mile away. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Festus and I calculated the landing as best we could. What do you expect to find at the mile marker?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

So, too, has much of southern Africa; a portion of it a thousand miles across has risen nearly a mile in 100 million years without any known associated tectonic activity. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

No one knew how many more miles they would have to travel down the River of Doubt. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

I went on along like this for around fifteen minutes covering a good mile and maybe more, when I saw a patch of hemlocks bordering the left-hand side of the road. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the road it was thirty-two miles away, but as the crow flies, it was only twenty miles. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over a glass of burgundy, the winemaker suggests that Friedrick might enjoy the circus that is in town, set up in a field a few miles away. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

One guy makes a basketball shot from a thousand miles away. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Besides, our music teacher, Miss Brown, was ancient, and her decrepit horse had to pull her gig three miles from Prairie Lea. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He could not rest now, when only twenty-nine miles separated him from rescue for his men. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

It being market morning at a neighbouring town some ten miles off, Mr. Pumblechook was not at home. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The French Congo and the newly independent Republic of Congo are separated by one mere river and about a million miles of contemporaneous modern thinking. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reminded her that I was five thousand miles away. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

As the Washington boat swept under the black skeleton of the railroad bridge at the three-mile mark, it was still nearly three lengths back with a mile to go. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Unless they wanted to splash back upstream for a mile and find another route, they would have to climb down the waterfall. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Nothing around for miles, apart from the occasional farmhouse in the distance. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The chaplain lived in a clearing in the woods about four miles away between the officers’ club and the first of the four squadron areas that stretched away from Group Headquarters in a distant line. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The road now led eastward straight across the valley, which was at that point little more than half a mile in width. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Where Manson now stands became in an instant a hole three miles deep and more than twenty miles across. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“That’s...something like three hundred miles out of our way to get to Venice. Then we’d have to backtrack down the Adriatic. And you said something about baloney dwarfs?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Poplar Springs Middle is one mile from my house. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

A week after his passing, Garfield was peacefully laid to rest in a vault a few miles from his birthplace. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

In the atmospheric disturbances that followed Lord Asriel’s escape from his exile on Svalbard, she and her companions were blown far from the island and many miles out over the frozen sea. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

For someone so small, she had a huge voice and a stubborn streak a mile wide. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Her vague idea was to go along the river a couple of miles and then head off to the left, which should be south. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Stick and I both jumped about a mile. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Mile after mile after mile after mile he drove, and now, gradually, the car went slower and slower, until it was hardly moving at all. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

But to the north, two miles up—he stood to see it—there was a break in the surf line almost half a mile long. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police then decided that he be taken to an interrogation center in Johannesburg, a distance of about two hundred miles. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

An airliner some thirty miles away reported being pelted with rocks. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

All I cared about now was putting miles between me and National City and getting played like how I did. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He asserted that Greenland is drifting west by about a mile a year, which is clearly nonsense. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The causeway extended for about three-quarters of a mile. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

By 1984, the whole central region of the park–several dozen square miles–was more than three feet higher than it had been in 1924, when the park was last formally surveyed. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

No other people remotely resembling Borneans live within thousands of miles of Madagascar. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning, I drove to Pennsylvania, thirty miles or so to the north. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

They chased me for about half a mile as I looked for a tree to climb. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was about 45 miles north-northwest of Key West and heading west. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Half a mile away lay the town, white board buildings, dirt roads. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The village was half a mile away, and the people were coming toward them, close together in the middle of the road. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

His parents had grown up in neighborhoods less than five miles from their current home. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The good-bye I said to Julia was not nearly as devastating as the first time I’d said it, because I knew the miles between us had been rendered inconsequential. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

It's hard to apologize when the miles steal every last bit of affection. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

And when we pulled off, two and a half miles later, my dad expertly brought the gears down to first, to idle at a red light. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

A gale set in on the fifteenth, and winds of more than seventy miles per hour drove them north for six days. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

It didn’t take many miles to see his favorite thing to talk about was how smart he was and how he was better’n anybody else. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

So I drove to a completely different mall two miles in the opposite direction from the mall that was presently on fire. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Scattered thunderstorms pummeled Florida’s east coast, with wind gusts up to fifty miles per hour. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

And then, too soon, it’s time to run a mile. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Hey, if you want to walk, it’s no skin off my nose. Two miles, that way. And—What do you think you’re doing?” Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

A good cop, after all, wasn’t the one who ticketed you for doing thirty- three miles an hour in a thirty-mile-an-hour zone. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was said you could walk a mile in any direction and still not set foot onshore. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It’s a journey of seventy-five miles, and it’s a quest, and a pilgrimage. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When Amil and I walk the mile to our schools, we pass lots of things. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The full moon shone on miles and miles of glistening blue sands. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The ice pack, with Ocean Camp piggybacking along, made a steady three miles north every day. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

After a mile, he left her to scout. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

According to the atlas map, he probably had another twenty miles to go before hitting the highway. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She reached out, through the miles and the storm that wetted and shook her window; she reached out with her heart to her friend, wandering wherever he was. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun had traveled five, six miles already that day, and he wasn’t tired. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Although Lincoln does not know this, 120 miles south of Washington, at the important railroad and communications center of Petersburg, Virginia, a siege that started in June 1864 is nearing its end. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

And if he wanted to make a break at five miles an hour, nothing Matt said was going to talk him out of it. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Rowdy and I walked the three miles to the powwow grounds. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Four arms spring from its summit: the nearest town to which these point is, according to the inscription, distant ten miles; the farthest, above twenty. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was on Main Street, about ten miles east of the center of town. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of it all, sixty thousand people were dead and virtually every building for miles reduced to rubble. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

From where we were at the base the action looked like it was just a few miles away. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could hear it from a mile away over the din of the city. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I was two hundred miles offshore last summer. I had a signal the whole time.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is the best solution he can come up with, knowing that in a few weeks the circus will be hundreds of miles away, leaving him alone in London. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We hauled eleven miles today, difficult work: all rock. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Better yet, there are rations waiting just a few miles away, in Farmville. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was a Georgian house, not unlike the Mount, in a small village called Down, about sixteen miles from London Bridge. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I jump about a mile and turn around. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I found out later the wind that night was forty miles an hour with gusts up to fifty. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Honeywell, a teacher and a grown woman, was escorted to the principal’s office like a bad boy walking the “paddle mile,” while a hallway aide watched her classroom. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

She recognized him a mile and a half away, although a mere speck. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Caviedes says, “Show me the runway,” but the runway is sixteen miles away. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Near the town of Ludwigshafen a road sign read “Drive carefully! Sharp curve! Jews 75 miles per hour.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And the mill was probably four or five miles south of where he was right now. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Some miles farther on, they took a road running inland, away from the sea. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

There was a wooden hall on a hill, a mile or so from them. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

In Du Bois's story, a young black man in coastal Georgia is sent off hundreds of miles to a school that trains black teachers. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

We saw Kostor, which is four miles high, from foot to crest; the huge slant of its western slope hid the peaks north of it, some of which go up to thirty thousand feet. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

And the river was downhill from the stables, a lot farther away than I’d realized, almost half a mile. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

At just the time that Henry Cavendish was completing his experiments in London, four hundred miles away in Edinburgh another kind of concluding moment was about to take place with the death of James Hutton. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It traveled a half mile speedily and then gathered beneath the Islander so that Kabuo felt it, too. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

But after our first summer at Nantucket, the Whitneys had their house jacked up, placed on rollers, and moved a mile away to a vacant lot near the tip of Brant Point. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I never knew a wolf to run up a streambed for miles," said Reek. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He wondered aloud how he was supposed to report on a story from twenty miles away. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt like we’d come a hundred miles from the High Street. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, it was the only important body of water within forty miles, a source of pride, nice to look at on bright summer days, and later that evening it would color up with fireworks. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was nearly two miles away from the bridge. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

She asked me why he looked like he had just run a mile in his business suit. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

They were talking a mile a minute about the match, detailing every move they remembered. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The rain was heavy, and traffic into Santurce was backed up for miles because of floods. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then I knocked on her door and asked if I could walk over and pick the chickens up myself, since it was only a mile away. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

They stopped at their assigned spot, Compana Hill, a rise in the desert twenty miles from the blast tower. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A textbook example occurred after the eruption in 1980 of Mount St. Helens, in southern Washington State, which inundated more than two hundred square miles with magma, volcanic ash, and mud. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Night's Watch permitted the forest to come no closer than half a mile of the north face of the Wall. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He drove eastward for miles on end, the road running relentlessly arrow straight, undulating over rolling jade-green fields of wheat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Tom joined his company at a campsite sixty-five miles west of Abilene. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Their progress down the Amazon was slow, and after paddling less than two miles that day, steep hills covered with lush green trees appeared before them. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Along the road for perhaps a quarter of a mile she had been passing and admiring a row of splendid tended oleanders, blooming pink and white in a steady row. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I feel like I could run twenty miles,” he said. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

If he could get into the current and move with it and stay with it, a hundred miles would take thirty-five or forty hours. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

The shrews are multiplying and are spreading out over the island, some marked individuals having been recovered as much as ten miles from the point of release. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Each day Brannon ran three miles, worked out on the punching bag in the gym, and boxed a few rounds with anyone he could insult or entice into the ring with him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shenandoah is said to have the highest density of black bears anywhere in the world—slightly over one per square mile. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

A mile later the sand smoothed out, combed clean and white. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even from a mile away, you could smell the chicken grilling as soon as you got out of the car. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

We returned to the ship to find a strange envoy from a man of wealth but two miles down the river. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“There’s s’pose to be a park with a statue ’bout half a mile from here. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Black smoke rose for miles across the valley. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Because extensive fields of maize, beans, and squash surrounded every home, these settlements sprawled along the Connecticut, Charles, and other river valleys for miles, one town bumping up against the other. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

How can we leave all that we've known— me on Daddy's lap in the early evening, listening to Hope and Dell tell stories about their lives at the small school a mile down the road. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

This did not prepare me for the unique sort of heat that one encounters fifteen miles south of Birmingham, Alabama, at Culver Creek Preparatory School. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The practical range of cannon fire was about a mile, so in a battle on land that was the crucial range for improving vision. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He remembered Soldier Island as a boy...Smelly sort of rock covered with gulls—stood about a mile from the coast. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

It was probably best to assume the worst, at least seventy miles. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The reply, we soon were to discover, was invariable: "Only two mile more, Sah’b...." Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The quake devastated 24,000 square miles of wilderness, much of it glaciated. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

"Because you and Ghost owe me a mile." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

I was really looking forward to stepping out of a spacecraft traveling 18,000 miles an hour. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In stark contrast to two nights ago, when I felt Peeta was a million miles away, I'm struck by his immediacy now. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

After about another mile, I can see an end to the tree line and assume we’re reaching the crest of the hill. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to believe that barely a hundred miles away was a military disaster. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

After a mile, I’m wishing I could just wheel my bike into a shadow in the lee of some house and disappear. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Sierra,” Bennie said, from what seemed like miles away. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Cudn Rachel was almost as big and fat as Mrs. Jones, and said she could spot hungry boys a mile away. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Herold led them to a quicksand pit about a mile away, shot them, and then sank their bodies. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still far away, forty miles at least, they saw Mount Doom, its feet founded in ashen ruin, its huge cone rising to a great height, where its reeking head was swathed in cloud. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It was miles back to my secret place, and my limping progress was slow. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The river left the lake at the south end, a good half mile away. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

But the land was flat for miles and there was no telling which way the sergeant might be looking, and they didn’t like to turn around to check. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

All day, mile after mile, he let himself imagine they would be greeted with food. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She runs another mile or so away from that awful place, and when it is no longer visible behind her, she slows, and then stops. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

An aerial shot shows that the meadow stretches for miles. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

As he fastened it around her throat, Nina met his eyes over her shoulder, and the look they exchanged could have melted miles of northern ice. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“When I walked to the village up ahead, I saw a good place, an old hut. It’s not far, maybe a half a mile.” The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Up north, near San Jose. It’s only about 250 miles, so you’ll get a chance to come home on holidays,” he said. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The island, although only 8 miles above Conowingo Dam and about half a mile out from the Lancaster County shore, retains its primitive wildness. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

However, they are fragmented by geography and by ecology: the Isthmus of Panama, only 40 miles wide, virtually transects the Americas geographically, as do the isthmus’s Darien rain forests and the northern Mexican desert ecologically. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of Chairback Mountain, four miles farther on, there was a dirt logging road. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The river is two miles wide at this point and patrolled by Union warships. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

We lived on a Sea Island called Wadmalaw, about twenty miles from Charleston, the biggest city in South Carolina, and our house was right on the water, next to the salt marsh. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Martin Luther King III were among those who traveled hundreds of miles to participate in what was heralded as “the beginnings of a new civil rights movement.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

There to the left of us was the silver streak of the river, widening to the estuary at Kerrith six miles away. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They kept to the coast for several miles, sometimes struggling over ice and snow, sometimes trudging through deep sand and around rocks. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I am hungry, he thought, but I am hungry while I am becalmed over three hundred miles out to sea with no assistance available and one heck of a walk to a McDonald’s. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like all the people migrated to these pockets of lights and noise, and they left all these miles and miles of nature completely untouched. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Stuck in war-torn France, four thousand miles from home, he missed Elizebeth terribly. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Bakersfield is 1 30 miles from the Pacific Ocean, but twice I drove to the beach, just outside of Santa Maria, with my parents. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

It would have been futile to tell him of my mastering his car and driving it nearly fifty miles. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They walk half a mile to the nearby town of Ang Snur and return an hour later. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five miles beyond Osgiliath they halted, ending their first day’s march. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

These were vast, airy marshes, some of them thirty miles wide, as splendid as fields of ripened wheat, yet as desolate in some ways as the dark side of the moon. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Eighty-two degrees. Moderate humidity. Decent barometric pressure, which is good. Winds out of the east at only about six miles per hour. Quiet day,” I say. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

If he played the balance of diabetes management and reducing wrong, he could faint in the saddle while moving at forty miles per hour. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, that translates into an average expansion of only 8 miles per year, a trivial feat for a hunter-gatherer likely to cover that distance even within a single day’s normal foraging. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They were about a mile away when he first saw them, so he would try to find a deep grove of pine where he could stay until they passed. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Not very. The nearest big transmitter would be in Kuhumey, about four hundred miles south of here.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

A few miles outside Iranduba, on a bluff above the Amazon, stood the papaya orchard. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I wonder if, right this minute, all those hundreds of miles away, Philbert’s fingers might be tingling. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then he heard about a restaurant in the “Inland Empire,” sixty miles east of Los Angeles, that was selling high-quality hamburgers for 15 cents each — 20 cents less than what Carl charged. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

After a fast if reckless three miles to McDonald’s, we ordered seven large french fries to share and then went outside and sat on the lawn. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

At the Pittsburgh airport he discovered that Danville was 240 miles northeast, and not accessible by any public transportation other than a Greyhound bus. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reckoned I must have covered two, three miles, but once me and Pa got walking toward the road I saw I hadn’t gone no more than two, three hundred feet! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Two successive Octobers the boy had started, walking the eight miles morning and evening. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s no cowbane for miles. I always check where they graze.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

As I have my arms across my chest and I feel my heart going a thousand miles an hour inside of me, I start drifting into a memory that I have tried to forget. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

That was only a few miles away but it was hot out and she said that she wasn't up to walking anywhere. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

A quarter mile off to our left there was a wooded area that ran halfway up a small hill. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Annabelle runs Highway 12, alongside miles of ranch fencing, and the occasional cattle barn and farmhouse, she tries to envision it. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Our apartment on Euclid Avenue was about nine miles south of the Chicago Loop, which with its glittering skyscrapers and crowded sidewalks felt otherworldly to me. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A few miles downriver would be the next group of Indians, and the next attack. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Tyler and Stefanie lived a hundred miles north of Buck’s Peak, in Idaho Falls. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It is unfathomable to me that he was able to move, let alone drag himself a quarter mile through fields and over ditches. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Jethro was seeing in his mind’s eye gray-clad men standing side by side, forming a single line across miles of fields, hills, and rivers; grim, forbidding men except for one familiar face. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten miles From town, and they crossed A river, blue with the Rush of water. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ruth had discovered that summer a lovely old church about half a mile from the Cottages, which had behind it rambling grounds with very old gravestones leaning in the grass. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was a lost young man, he would walk for miles and miles without money or food, the rain pouring down on him. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Everything a human could want was there, from the grand lobby on the ground floor to the elegant Starlight Room one mile up. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Lying round Bree-hill and the villages was a small country of fields and tamed woodland only a few miles broad. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He’s done seventy miles in the past six days, killing five rattlers along the way. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She had never been to a Broadway show, or even to New York, which is but seventy miles north, an hour by train from Levittown. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Yes, and folks come from miles to drink, even bathe in it. Burton will make a fortune.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Before he left the house to walk the single mile to the high school, Lillian handed him a letter and told him to read it when he found the time. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They make a trip together, to a museum in Montpellier, about fifty miles to the west of Arles. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

We are in a world very different from Phnom Penh, yet we have traveled only ten miles or so. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The city sprawls across seventy-eight square miles, stretching from the shallow, salty estuary at the edge of San Francisco Bay to the undulating green-and-gold hills where bobcats and coyotes roam. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

They waited for miles and miles of time before they came out of hiding. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been admitted to Stanford, one hundred miles away. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I have a mile of Wall to guard. Will you walk with me?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The sand, trembling beneath the heat haze, concealed many figures in its miles of length; boys were making their way toward the platform through the hot, dumb sand. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

She made such a fuss that Mrs. Prentice, the driver, ordered Jesse off the bus, and he had to walk the three miles home. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Professor Kylmer had a research grant from the government and worked part of the time at a special laboratory they had built for him, not at Cornell but in the mountains about twenty miles away. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She could see smoke rising from its wind-carved summit, miles away. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

On the day before, we had moved from our apartment in Los Angeles to a house of our own a few miles away in Altadena. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

‘If Saruman had heard it, he would be a hundred miles away by now, even if he had had to run on his own legs,’ said Pippin. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It was seventy-some miles from Lansing, about an hour and a half on the bus. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She aces it, a perfect serve at about ninety miles an hour that kisses the court just inside the line before I can move. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

But the satellite stayed in orbit for more than five months after that—a lonely and most certainly dead dog circling and circling overhead while the earth traveled about 240 million miles through space. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

They had come out of the forest at last, many miles to the west, had found a thinly populated valley, had started their farm. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

We did fourteen miles, an exceedingly worthy distance in the circumstances, and might have gone farther, but at half past six we came to a broad ford called Wilber Brook and stopped. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

And they are nuclear explosions billions of miles away. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was about a quarter mile back to Toby’s trailer, and it wouldn’t take him two minutes on foot. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Manhattan was only a few miles west, but each of the boroughs had its own unique identity, and none more so than Steinway Street in Queens. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

From Norwich it is about a mile to the Connecticut River and a pleasant, unassuming 1930s bridge leading to the state of New Hampshire and the town of Hanover on the opposite bank. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She had forgotten in the excitement that she had already walked above ten miles that day, but her feet remembered. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s at least a hundred miles to the border.” The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Quentyn would have preferred to walk, but they were miles from their inn. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Looking, looking, gotta keep looking, miles to go on this railroad track. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Still two miles out, the two crews began, on an impulse, to race for home. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

How could they have imagined that a silent, determined team of Americans, thousands of miles away in the peaceful countryside near Washington, might pick up on this simple error? Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Jackson Park was one square mile of desolation, mostly treeless, save for pockets of various kinds of oak—burr, pin, black, and scarlet—rising from a tangled undergrowth of elder, wild plum, and willow. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“You just seem a million miles away. You have, since we left the dorm.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

In the last mile, the Washington boat lengthened its lead a bit more with each stroke. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Hence, in a very short time they’d have a pretty complete aerial report on what amounted to about a three-square - mile area. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not want it to be true that his wife and children were fifteen hundred miles away and might by now presume him to be dead. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Being stuck in a metal bullet hurtling alongside other metal bullets at eighty miles per hour is not my idea of fun.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Love, H As I drove the couple miles to the gas station, I woke up enough to wonder why Gus had left the house in the middle of the night. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

She came back home for Thanksgiving and Joseph walked seven miles to see her on the stormy, icy Friday afterward. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

It was muddy, it was dark, we were in the middle of nowhere, and right then we had cows that were miles away. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sixty some miles later they were back in Nebraska. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

They could take their shoes and watches off and walk and walk for miles. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“There are people just under a hundred miles from here.” The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

He could swim thirty miles at a stretch, and faster than anyone else. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He guessed they were twenty-five miles from Dunkirk. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

If we traveled more than twenty miles ahead and we hadn’t found the exit, we’d most certainly passed it. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Shadow wondered about the other trains he’d seen, blank windowless metal cars which went on for mile after mile hooting their lonely way through the night. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The way I figured, we couldn’t be very far—somewhere between twenty or twenty-five miles off. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Or maybe it was another town a hundred miles away that looked exactly the same. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

By the time the moon rose they had traveled several miles, and they had come to the edge of a small lake which the track skirted. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, it let me know Trebon was somewhere between fifty and eighty miles to the north. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It’s maybe only a quarter mile below us! Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Skuas kept up a screeching clamor, and penguins on the move honked and brayed from the ice for miles around. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

If it hadn’t been for the show, I would have been really bewildered by the huge fuss everybody was making over driving one little school bus less than five miles. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

She had been born and raised in a city six hundred miles away, a gloomy city where on ghostly nights the coaches of the viceroys still rattled through the cobbled streets. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

There seemed to be miles of dark wood. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

This road they followed but they did not ride upon it; for the ground beside it was firm and level, covered for many miles about with short springing turf. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Zu was darting around the cabin, collecting her things, as Hina’s mouth ran a mile a minute. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The cornfield stretched out for miles, but standing here, on a hazy back road in Illinois, you wouldn’t know it. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Thirty miles to the end of the rainbow and the pot of gold. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“A man on a horse, in front of that line. George, he’ll be the only rider in a line a mile wide. They’ll have every gun on that hill on him.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex tried to crawl back to the living room, but it was miles away. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

It was getting on toward sundown, and town was about five miles. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the signal from an earpiece can stretch only a quarter of a mile at most. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

‘But it lies many miles away. Let us hasten!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She’ll be on it for forty-two of its nearly three hundred miles. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Passing through, they kept on along the Road for some miles. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got to push a hundred pounds ten miles on Sunday!” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

In the late afternoon, after everything has settled down, I put away my garden clothes and I run the mile loop. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know what’s worse—some moron stealing my shark or hauling that thing twenty miles to shore only to have it fall in the harbor.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Worst of all, it was by far the fastest mile the horse had worked since coming to Belmont. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we were about a mile from home, my dad noticed that the fuel light on the dashboard was blinking, so we stopped to get gas. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The biggest Marine force ever assembled was going to assault the Japanese stronghold of Iwo Jima, only 600 miles south of Tokyo. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cloud necessitated the hasty evacuation of nearby Marshall Islands residents to Kwajalein Island, four hundred miles distant, where they were treated for radiation sickness. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

In my young days in Monterey County, a hundred miles south of San Francisco, everyone was a Republican. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three years is less than two billion miles. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Walking for hours and miles becomes as automatic, as unremarkable, as breathing. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It had to be carried a mile and a half, and boiled. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was within sixty-seven miles of there once this afternoon.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Guam was only thirty miles long and seven miles wide. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden, Mama’s face went from looking like nine miles of bad road to like somebody had left her a million dollars. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The head office was only about a quarter of a mile away and was a simple stone structure that resembled our own section. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The River of Doubt was still nearly four hundred miles away—about the distance from New York City to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

I’m not as creative as you, but this is me going the extra mile. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

On this bluff geographers and archaeologists in the 1990s found an area more than three miles long that was thickly covered with broken ceramics, much like Ibibate. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She walked more than one hundred miles collecting two thousand signatures in an effort to help end slavery and give meaning to her family’s sacrifice. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The field stretches on for miles and miles. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

One of my greatest faults was that of letting his horse run away, and go down to his father-in-law’s farm, which was about five miles from St. Michael’s. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

His motel was a good two miles away, but after spending three years in prison he was relishing the idea that he could simply walk and walk, forever if need be. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

But 346 miles is more than the distance between Boston and New York City, almost as far as from Los Angeles to San Francisco, about the entire width of Iowa. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Once a fine-looking manor, and easily the largest and grandest building for miles around, the Riddle House was now damp, derelict, and unoccupied. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Raised in Kingston, New York, a hundred miles up the Hudson River from Manhattan, he practiced law for several years in a New York City suburb. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

His mind was a million miles away, in the devastated zone inside the building. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Monte Verde, in southern Chile, is ten thousand miles from the Bering Strait. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He thought often of the miles of ridge after ridge until at last there was the sea. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The slob was pigging out on Big Macs and fries for forty miles.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

In a year, it crosses nearly ten trillion kilometers, about six trillion miles, of intervening space. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was nearly a quarter of a mile to the next bend and there was no raft. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

From there it’s still a long walk to Zundert, about nine miles. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

To the north across the charred landscape, twenty-five miles away, he could see Mount Elgon. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I head out on foot and after a couple of miles find myself in a residential area. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Dad’s new car gets over ten miles to the gallon. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cows already had big Mexican brands on their sides, extending across their ribs, a brand so big you could see it for a half mile, Josiah said. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even at fifty-five miles an hour, time played a trick on Kaiserman. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

And then I told him I quit running the mile. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Moreover, the idea of action at a distance–that one particle could instantaneously influence another trillions of miles away–was a stark violation of the special theory of relativity. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Off to the southwest, barely two miles away, Trebon was full of firelight. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I missed the stupid post by a mile. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

As the Russians advanced, his Hitler Youth battalion was sent to dig trenches at the front line, now just thirty miles east of Berlin. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But there was no road whatsoever across the two thousand miles of jagged mountains and thick rainforest between Mesoamerica and the Andes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The next morning, Dad drove me the twenty-two miles to Reardan. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Radar drives no faster than five miles an hour. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Now we were heading straight toward the Atlantic Ocean at a thousand miles an hour, the New England coastline off to our right. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

A quarter of a mile beyond the woods stretch, the road led past the Burdow place. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Late that night, we walked for several miles away from town. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

‘There was a door south-west of Caradhras, some fifteen miles as the crow flies, and maybe twenty as the wolf runs,’ answered Gandalf grimly. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The city of Reston, Virginia, is a prosperous community about ten miles west of Washington, D.C., just beyond the Beltway. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This rule held even in the comparatively short hop of a mile: In the three fastest miles ever run, the winner’s final lap had been clocked at 61.2, 58.9, and 59.1 seconds, respectively. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

But the Italians had crossed and spread out a little way on the far side to hold about a mile and a half on the Austrian side of the river. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Then I remembered: the big dairy farm a mile north of Buck’s Peak, that was Jim’s. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Kathy drove for a mile before she could even wrap her mind around what had just happened. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

One summer in the late 1970s, long before Roy Eberhardt was born, a small but powerful tropical storm boiled out of the Gulf of Mexico and came ashore a few miles south of Coconut Cove. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brave Orchid gave her sister last-minute advice for five hundred miles. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day when she had been attending Sacred Heart about a month, she was followed by a car on her mile walk home from the bus stop. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“And Charity’s there—about thirty miles away. But look at this.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

On the other end, three thousand miles away in New York City, a phone was ringing and ringing but no one was answering. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Though the track was somewhat soggy that day, Seabiscuit had been capable of ticking off miles in 1:36 throughout his career with Smith. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

That day, I read that macaroni can swim up to twenty miles an hour. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Before they went another mile, they passed a boat bearing two men dressed in work clothes. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally my mother points out a sign on the side of the road that says university house, 2 miles. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Noon finds them picking their way through deadlocked traffic on a new motorway near Vaucresson, a full ten miles west of their apartment, as far from home as Marie-Laure has ever been. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It had happened thirty miles downstate, and the victims supposedly worked for the railroad, but nothing specific on top of that. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She had been rowed for miles up the Choptank River by a man she had never seen before. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The royal stables are, of course, elaborate and well-kept and about a million miles from the old ranches he’s seen out in the Texas panhandle. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

So he kept the men and sleds and boats close together, relaying forward one agonizing quarter mile at a time. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He knew how far they were from the nearest land; he knew when they had crossed the Antarctic Circle; he knew how many miles of forbidding ocean still lay between the crew and their home. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Seventeen years is almost eleven billion miles traveled together. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The bargeman said he couldn’t go all the way back there, it was every bit of two miles. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He knew they had come at least three miles. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Let me assure you, terror is half the fun. You should hear the ladies squeal! But don’t worry. After the first quarter mile, the ground becomes a blur.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

We went in and found that every hiker for twenty miles was already there, several of them sitting around a wood stove eating chili or ice cream and looking rosy cheeked and warm and clean. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

You could swim miles in this quiet water. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was about a quarter mile square, with earthen ramparts on all four sides, the tops lined with sharpened spikes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The INS uses them at its second checkpoint, some eighty miles north, near Cotulla. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“He can smell a city official a mile off. You watch—he’ll have the mayor eating out of his hand by noon.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

At two miles Penn had begun to fade, falling behind Columbia. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Had she allowed reason to rule, she would have realized that Herbert Jemson was Methodist of the whole cloth: he was notoriously short on theology and a mile long on good works. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

We had gone maybe a mile or two when I spotted a flash of something in the distance along the side of the road, something larger than the usual Keys critters. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Says that time and miles of distance will be the true test of our friendship. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I threw the garage door open and darted out, running as fast as I could toward a storage shed that was about half a mile away. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The only suitable place they had found was seven miles to the west. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

We got a call ’bout a jackknifed truck, and I s only about a mile away, so I headed over, and I’d just pulled up. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

They had covered more than three quarters of a mile before Bigwig and Hazel halted to rest and to make sure that no one had fallen behind. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dialed her number in New Chicago, one hundred miles over the dead sea. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The speedometer read a hundred and five miles an hour. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

There was one woman at Chambers Street who was talking to herself a mile a minute, and I know now it was another omen. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

We don’t dare use Fina’s flashlight or even our phones, because if my pen pal does come, they’d be able to spot the light from a mile off. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

‘A lot of miles to cover before we get to Athens.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

How could they drag their bodies over a hundred miles, even to plenty? The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

It wouldn’t hydroplane unless it was going one hundred miles an hour. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

At the opposite extreme was its slow spread along north-south axes: at less than 0.5 miles per year, from Mexico northward to the U.S. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The kitchen’s a million miles away from the family room, Milt. Every time you want a snack you have to traipse all the way across the house.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Atlanta has virtually miles and miles of splendid Negro homes. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went out the back way and walked a quarter of a mile to the railroad tracks. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cutie sounded grim, “Globes of energy millions of miles across! Worlds with three billion humans on them! Infinite emptiness! Sorry, Powell, but I don’t believe it. I’ll puzzle this thing out for myself. Good-by.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

She and Loretta have planned a shorter run today, twelve miles. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

This farm was living and thriving today just 150 miles from Washington, D.C. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I liked it and I did not like it; I longed to be among them, yet when with them I looked at them as if I were a million miles away. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imre’s population griped about unnatural arts being practiced two miles away, but when an aqueduct collapsed or someone fell suddenly sick, they were quick to call on engineers and doctors trained at the University. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was as the inheritor of a view which covered a dozen miles of rollers, and hundreds of miW of cumulus. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a half mile to go, Pollard positioned Seabiscuit in the clear and readied for his move. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw some setting out to walk the forty miles. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked down the road, a long way this time—half a mile at least, watching one counter, listening to the other. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Carrying plenty of drinking water, Marie and I set off at noon on a hike of a few miles to the paintings. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

About half a mile to the west, where the horns were blowing, a Roman fort stood on a hill. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The kraals of my father’s wives were separated by many miles and he commuted among them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

These covered an area of 200,000 square miles and probably contributed to the demise of the dinosaurs–they certainly didn’t help–with their noxious outgassings. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I’m up to at least eight miles a day, five of them with the wheelchair—a wheelchair that my dad’s made much easier to push. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

They were now two hundred miles north of their next destination, Mexico City. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m taking a victory lap sixty miles from where I five. I came to find you, you idiot! And don’t think I don’t already regret it.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“Just see how many times you can hit him going a quarter of a mile.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the second mile they pulled even with the leading JV boat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They were both twelve, and after school he used to carry her book satchel the mile separating the Holcomb school- house from her father’s farm ranch. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She also makes this horrible yowling sound. I’m sure you can hear her for miles around.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Saying this was miles more difficult than running across people's back gardens. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He, David, and Pesza had been ordered to report immediately to the Płaszów labor camp, about two and a half miles from the ghetto. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I’d read that in the Pacific, patches of this stuff stretch out for hundreds of miles. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people inside congratulate me on my victory/near-death experience on this wild little bus driving a hundred miles an hour through the Puerto Rican countryside. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“About ten miles up, look for a dirt road off to our left. Drive slow, because it’s easy to miss.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I also remembered the page that said, “Adam is your oldest brother. He is married and lives one hundred miles away.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her husband and three of her children were hundreds of miles away in Da Nang, with the entire North Vietnamese Army between them. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

At the mile- and-a-half mark, Clark called for another big ten, but by now Cal’s boys had given everything they had to give, and Washington’s boys hadn’t. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But of course, Chief Mwase’s warriors had spotted them from miles away. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The map showed he’d come about five miles and there were five more to go. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out from their feet were flung huge buttresses and broken hills that were now at the nearest scarce a dozen miles away. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The rapids stretched on for a mile and included two waterfalls. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

But he walked seven miles and knocked at her door. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Several miles farther south, on an isolated farm near Bryantown, Maryland, Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, his wife, and their four young children were also in bed. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kiel was nearly three hundred nautical miles away, at the northern tip of Germany. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The train is rolling at nearly 40 miles per hour. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Instead, most German beer is consumed within 30 miles of the factory where it is brewed. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I got to have my first ambulance ride—Jeffrey squeezed my hand with all his might for about forty miles. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

On their journey from Winterfell to the Wall, Bran and his companions had made the miles shorter by talking and telling tales, but it was different here. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The pulpit seemed to be about, a thousand miles away. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

These walks extended for miles in every direction and covered the whole of the town. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“It’s four and a half square miles,” James said. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walk to the drive-in because it’s only a mile from my house. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The next day he tried them at three miles. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The island, which was about nine square miles, had a thick belt of quite dense bush around the edge. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The drive home was only a mile; it felt like a hundred. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I thought of the Underdowns’ home in Léopoldville with its Persian rugs and silver tea service and chocolate cookies, surrounded by miles of tin shanties and hunger. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his father’s grudging approval, Mohammed crewed on local fishing boats in the afternoons and evenings, and even at fourteen, after a full day of fishing miles from land, Mohammed insisted on swimming to shore. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He decided that until the danger was past, his wife and children must go stay with his father, who lived in a small town three hundred miles away. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

He must have smelled it for the past mile, the old fox. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

What were nine miles to a young man?—An hour’s ride. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Carmine is quiet, gaping at the buildings and wires and people outside the window, after hundreds of miles of fields and trees. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Now the fighting was in the next mountains beyond and was not a mile away. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Those two corners of Australia are now the continent’s breadbaskets, but they lie more than 2,000 miles south of the equator. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the end, it went nowhere near Mount Mitchell, though it did take in Mount Washington and then carried on another 350 miles to Mount Katahdin in Maine. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Behind them, a mile or so away, mountains rose up to a sharp blue sky. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Then the beach parking lot was full, so they had to park half a mile away and walk. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Meteorologists at Los Alamos scanned their weather reports, searching for a period of clear skies under which to stage the test at Alamogordo, some 250 miles to the south. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

They would have a radius of only ten miles or so and a density of hundreds of millions of tons per cubic inch. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our neighborhood in Upper Manhattan wasn't destroyed, but the Towers were only a few miles away. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her father was quiet for the first few miles, and Stella did not disturb his pensive mood. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Even at a distance of miles, it was clearly massive, but how to properly gauge its height, in light of the fact that...it didn’t stand upon the ground? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They walked upstream for half a mile and entered woods again. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

When she had put forty miles between herself and her first home, she was over the upper Hudson River. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

‘If you go forward, peril will grow with every mile, even if you find a path.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The first path they traveled was the long road that led from their village to the big river several miles away. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Western Canada was not, because it was buried beneath two massive, conjoined ice sheets, each thousands of feet deep and two thousand miles long. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

We would have been less hungry if we had stayed at the village instead of walking the miles to Mattru Jong and back. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Chicago isn’t a thousand miles away from Gainesville,” Mom replied. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“What is the hardest part of running sixteen miles a day?” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Before long the hobbits could make out the shape of the land for some miles about them. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Maybe I like those three or four miles.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

There was no way that many people from Dallas would come to a football game 350 miles away in Odessa, and he did not want to tie up such a large number of tickets. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

You wouldn’t think a cricket’s tiny chirp could carry so far, but when all is silence, the piercing notes can be heard for miles. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was thirteen miles from downtown Atlanta, a city with a growing economy and a need for low-skilled workers. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Aberdeen Lake State Penitentiary was shut down in 1981 after a riot that lasted for three weeks.Three weeks is about thirty-six million miles. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The moon can't hear someone say good night; it is two hundred thirty-five thousand miles away. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Hitting a forty-mile target from a distance of 238,000 miles is about like trying to split a human hair with a razor blade thrown from a distance of twenty feet. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have averaged about ten and a half miles a day; eleven and a half omitting the two days spent waiting out the blizzard. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The splinters took to the wind and scattered for hundreds of miles. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Their purpose was to hold this course west of the Mountains for many miles and days. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

College teams from five states competed in the first indoor track meet of the season, but the big event, the mile run, was won by a high-school senior. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was yakking a mile a minute, saying stuff like “Your momma sure can make a good peanut butter sandwich” and “How come these kids is so darn mean?” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Canyon has been created by the Colorado River flowing through the Arizona desert and digging an ever deepening trench, which is now nearly a mile deep and many miles across. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without a sound, the leaves shone and the grass coruscated along the miles of the escarpment. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here between the volcanoes it is about four miles wide, and should not be hard going farther in towards the center, though it is more crevassed than I had hoped, and the surface rotten. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

From the top, one could see as far as a mile down the path toward the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“You'll get lost. There's nothing outside but wild country for miles! Your father would be furious if he knew what you were planning.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The Nile River, flowing slowly through a shallow valley, is the only thing that interrupts thousands of miles of empty sand. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

They continued another mile, and again the beach was interrupted by a ridge. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

She would stay on the road and in hiding, a balloon floating through the sky, eating up hundreds of miles a day with the help of a perpetual tailwind. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Thirty miles per hour. And since we don’t have much of a runway, we’ll need to accelerate quickly. Once we get down there, you’ll want to turn left.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Four miles from their starting point, they had to rope up for security. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Half a mile ahead and two thousand feet up, Jon judged, and perfectly placed to see anything moving in the pass below. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

At that time, it was close—I’d say about a mile away. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only a few miles out the radio went dead, and they lost all chance of communicating with anyone. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The Dolphin sprang to life, scudded the last few miles, and bumped against the wharf at Wethersfield landing. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Sprinting to the training track, he stayed for the one and a half minutes necessary for Seabiscuit to blaze through a mile workout. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the sky blackened, Zeitoun saw an orange light through the trees, less than a mile away. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He had no real idea of how far ten miles was, but he ought to be able to manage it easily. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The next morning, I do not go up on the roof at dawn because I’m not leaving my bedroom until Brian’s back at boarding school three thousand miles from here. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Her eyes had distance in them; when he looked at her he saw miles spreading into canyons and hills. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Tuti was real quiet but would let out occasional shrieks and wails so loud, the next church three miles away could have heard her. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

They chose a large, unoccupied mansion called Bush Hill, located on a rolling hill about two and a half miles northwest of the city. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I move my hands by day, and by night, when my fever dreams come back and the river is miles below me, I stretch out over the water, making that endless crossing, reaching for balance. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had spent thousands of miles worried that I’d be betrayed by a friend, but these friends would never do that. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The view would be clear for miles around. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of ten feet, Blaze Tower was really ten miles high, I thought. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Me and Pap had rode out miles afore he spotted the maple he said would be perfect for finishing the cabinet we’d been working on for months for Mr. Dalton. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

She found a man who was not as parsimonious as my father and they moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, which is two thousand five hundred miles away. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I’m about six miles from Beaver Corners, and the men won’t be there until dawn. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some were killed, though we, like the rest of the country, were kept ignorant of those bodies that washed ashore just a few miles to the east of us. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

To Mr. Aaa he called, “We traveled sixty million miles. From Earth!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman worked at a sandwich shop and had never traveled more than fifty miles from her home in Greensboro. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

We were going fifteen whole miles per hour. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Cloud Pond was down a steep side trail, about a quarter of a mile off the AT. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I was one-point-seven million miles away, two months, from my seventeenth birthday, and if I weren’t so tall, I could probably pass for a sixth-grader. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

For the first fifteen miles the road climbs through a desert landscape almost devoid of settlement and prone to fog. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The crust beneath the Sierra Nevada Mountains, for instance, is only about nineteen to twenty-five miles thick, and no one knows why. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She had been working in the fields like everybody else, and stayed past picking time to live with a family twenty miles away from her own. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Teenagers are the same all over. Give them an inch and they’ll take a mile.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her father went to work and her mother went out playing bingo in a town eight miles away. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The exact number of miles between Thomas and me. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He was not moving more than a mile an hour and he wished he could read the map in the darkness. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

The Appalachian Trail runs for 230 miles in a northeasterly arc across the state, like the broad end of a slice of pie. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

They headed south for another ten miles, as a comfortable silence descended over them. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Enrique is thirteen miles from the heart of Mexico’s rail system. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He twisted the blade and as the shark slid loose he said, “Go on, galano. Slide down a mile deep. Go see your friend, or maybe it’s your mother.” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the remaining mile and a half, the sophomores settled in and rowed gorgeously—a long, sleek line of perfection—passing under the automobile bridge and finishing a comfortable two lengths ahead of Navy. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I thought of Bunny’s dark room and of the ravine, miles away; of all those layers of silence on silence. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

We would be thousands of miles apart from now on and we would go on with our lives and get older and change and grow, but we would never have to look for each other. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“His drawers are full, and it’s attracting every bug for miles.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the moon, dragged along, trudges around us at a little more than half a mile per second. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“There are ladies here who have come hundreds of miles to attend a business meeting of the Loyal League of the North,” she said. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Farther east, miles away, the stream becomes a river and creates a waterfall.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Glancing over his shoulder he saw the convoy stretching back down the hill for a mile. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

They did not realize that in their hands they held a bomb, a force that would tear a hole in the world a mile wide. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

He is a teacher now in Levittown at an elementary school about two miles from Truman. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Construction began in about 1000 a.d. on an earthen structure that would eventually cover fifteen acres and rise to a height of about a hundred feet, higher than anything around it for miles. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I figured we’d come about thirty miles, and the sun wasn’t even fully at zenith. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In this way they covered almost twenty miles before nightfall, and came to a point where the Road bent right and ran down towards the bottom of the valley, now making straight for the Bruinen. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“We were in this college town called Claremont that was like thirty miles from there.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then, very faintly at first, they heard a low rumbling that sounded miles away. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

To you alone I will confide that on that night I shall be sixty miles north of here, for we must have all our forts sufficiently strengthened so as... Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had gone about a mile when she heard Kapu bark. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost every week, Louie ran the mile, streaking through the season unbeaten and untested. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“No one’s found him because no one’s looking. He’s not half a mile away.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Dad had taught us how to count the seconds between the lightning bolt and thunder—one thousand, two thousand, three thousand—to figure out how many miles away a storm was. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I got maybe ten miles before the boys began to rouse. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He calculated that they had made 444 miles from Elephant Island, more than half the distance. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The sheriff was referring to the lynching of a young African American man named Michael Donald in Mobile, about sixty miles south. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

There were gray slagpools of melted glass in the ditches and the raw lightwires lay in rusting skeins for miles along the edge of the roadway. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

In the end, we have to walk about a million miles through the rain to get to the school, but I guess those cowboy hats are good for something after all. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The barriers were seemingly endless miles of ditches, eighteen feet wide and fifteen feet deep. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

One day, Oshiro watched American planes as they dropped napalm bombs only a mile away from his team. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

On yesterday’s trip, a Sunday afternoon, there were no less than six checkpoints to get through, more than one every 10 miles. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Lucy, that shark was caught twenty miles off Rockport. And do you know what the chances are of being attacked?” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Max,” I say, “I have just made thirty-one thousand screws in twelve hours and walked five miles to find us dinner. This one is your problem.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The mere 700 miles of north—south distance prevented Mexican corn, squash, and beans from reaching the U.S. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

How we all fit together even though Cecile was thousands of miles away. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“You can drive a hundred or two hundred miles outside London and not see a single kestrel,” reported another. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“The mountain’s a thousand miles high and three thousand miles wide, and all a man has to do is wait until the sun warms the mountain and then scoop the gold into big buckets.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

In northern Peru a third range rises between them; the altiplano, a scoop of high plains some five hundred miles long, fills the gap in the south. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Far Western restaurant was about nine miles from downtown Santa Maria. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

But today when I see pictures of the region, known as Minembwe, it looks like the most idyllic place on earth, with lush, leafy mountaintops scraping the clouds and miles and miles of green. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

A vast meadow sloped down for at least a mile before flattening into another mile of wide green floor. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He was making seven knots, about nine miles an hour. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

People came from miles around to look at Wilbur and to read the words on Charlotte’s web. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

The newer, more powerful pumping engines were either a mile away searching for a phantom fire, or still in their stations. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The walls grew larger, the lights dimmed, the floor beneath her feet extended for miles and miles. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

A few miles after Salcedo, my lights single it out, the ancient anacahuita tree, dripping in the rain, most of its pods gone. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I said, “I am seventeen years old. That’s almost eleven billion miles.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Soon after Susanna died, Dr. Darwin sent Charles to a boarding school that was just a mile from the Mount. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had crossed more than half a mile of open pasture without a trace of cover, expecting every moment some attack that did not come. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Who will pay for the journey—is it not one of many hundreds of miles?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It seemed like you were a million miles away today,” she said. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

After getting off the interstate, he drove some ten or fifteen miles before coming upon a wooden sign illuminated only by a single spotlight secured to the ground below it. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

It was black in the car, and black outside the car, which seemed to be going about two miles an hour. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they got to the blacktop they had to turn back along the road to fetch the cart but it was less than a mile. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He had taken the bus across town and walked half a mile to the stadium. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma must have been excited and exhausted, traveling a thousand miles to marry a man she had never met. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My actual birthday, two weeks away, was about twenty-four million miles in front of Julia Bishop and me. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

This was to distinguish her from our mother’s mother, who we called Grandma-over-in-town because she lived fifteen miles south, in the only town in the county, which had a single stoplight and a grocery store. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But by the end of the first mile, they seemed to row as well as the older boys. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Leafie chatted away the miles, so there wasn’t much need for me to talk. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

On market days, traveling merchants and local farmers came from miles around, selling everything from bolts of cloth to scented soaps and balls of twine. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Away to the north, close to two or three miles distant, the swells looked strange. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also because it has this big old madman desk in it that D.B. bought off some lady alcoholic in Philadelphia, and this big, gigantic bed that's about ten miles wide and ten miles long. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Doubt we’re going more than five miles an hour, me and the big fish. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Daldoum was traveling in the left lane of the westbound side of Interstate 24 between mile markers 164 and 165, a gradual left-hand curve. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

There were several miles of silence before the woman tried again: “Miss Ellis seems like a nice person.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

He had sailed twelve hours at almost ten miles an hour before that, in the same direction, south and west. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could be within a mile of me, she could be right on the next block. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The president recognized the mortal danger federal employees faced and urged department heads to move their offices from Philadelphia to Germantown, some five miles away. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

He crashed into it with both feet at about thirty miles per hour. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“I strained my neck last year running against you in the mile.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The distance back to the front of the building seemed miles away, and in his haste Fadi faltered, tripping on loose gravel. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The blast flattened buildings a mile in all directions and killed at least 2,000 people. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This water was taken from a giant underground lake that goes on for miles and miles,” Albert announces. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Russian forces stopped the German advance just short of Moscow, but the two massive armies were still slugging it out along a battlefront stretching 1,500 miles from north to south. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The miles went by quickly, and we passed around the water, vegetables, and chapatis, never stopping to rest. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They converge on a slice of coastline less than thirty miles long. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She half walked, half jogged about a mile, the darkness so thick that it seemed to smother her, when she heard the wagon approaching. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to be walking the paddle mile or bringing home a third detention slip from the office. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

It's a case of run or die, so I cover the half mile to the library in record time. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is hard to believe when she has to tell him a million times how 2,700 miles divided by sixteen equals five months, give or take. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

We ran for more miles a day than most commuters drive. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

But before we sent it, our crack team of wizards imbued it with the power, when activated, to open a hole in the world and destroy everything for a mile around it. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

"He's got a yella streak a mile wide," the other one said. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

At last someone shouted the news; they had hoisted the flag at Gardiner’s Mills, two miles from town. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly Dermer s crew realized they were sailing along the border of a cemetery two hundred miles long and forty miles deep. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And many folk used to dwell away north, a hundred miles or more from here, at the far end of the Greenway: on the North Downs or by Lake Evendim.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It happened quickly: Eleazar, just twenty years old, had recently graduated from Union College and returned to the family estate forty miles northwest of Albany, planning to study law under his father. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Frank Wild, his second-in-command, had been with him on his two previous journeys south and had spent a total of six years in Antarctica, logging more than 5,000 miles of sledging. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“We have the East River, with currents fast enough to kill a man, and the North River, two miles wide. Both are mighty hard to cross.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was angry at being tricked, and the people heard his roars from many miles away. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The third: After two days, police surprised him while he was asleep in an empty house near Chahuites, 190 miles into Mexico. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Tipping the scales at up to 1,450 pounds, he can sustain speeds of forty miles per hour. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

After another half mile or so, we emerged in a cavern the size of a Super Bowl stadium. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I telephoned the Trappist monastery at Conyers, Georgia, about thirty miles away and asked if they would receive me for a short visit. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But why wait until you’re six miles off campus to die?” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The track over the gym in Stuyvesant High School was so small you had to run around it nearly fifteen times to go a mile. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They drifted along for maybe half a mile. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

With each stride, he pivoted on the leg, holding the line of the turn at close to forty miles per hour. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

At one and a half miles above sea level, the train accelerates to 35 miles per hour. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The Midway was to be fun, a great pleasure garden stretching for more than a mile from Jackson Park all the way to the border of Washington Park. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

We hike over land for about twelve miles. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Beneath the surface is a magma chamber that is about forty-five miles across–roughly the same dimensions as the park–and about eight miles thick at its thickest point. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I need to go seventy miles today. Dirt roads.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And most of all, I love it when our lips are touching and our mouths slide open and my heart’s a mile a minute, and breath becomes something we share. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

But, curiously, though we had come a couple of hundred miles north, spring seemed further advanced here. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Of course being a city boy, I didn’t know what a mile was, but it felt like a mile. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Two miles farther on he stopped again to pick up a hitchhiker, a hefty young woman with a broad and sensual face—such blue eyes—and dirty blond hair in pigtails. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not only would they have to convince her to come with them, but they’d have to travel miles west to get her to the Kusonga Plains in time for the Bonding, all while avoiding detection. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“TODD HEWITT!!” we hear from what sounds like a million miles away. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Eighteen miles was a heroic distance for us, but we were filthy and trail-weary and more than ready for a town, and so we plodded on. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

From the train window I watched as miles of flat land went speeding by. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I want to be a thousand miles away from this café. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

It is a hundred and fifty miles to the Orgota shore. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Every question, every stray thought from miles around came wandering into my brain, sniffing about, scratching at my attention. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Six hundred and seventy miles to the south, on the Oakland Estuary—the University of California’s home water—Ky Ebright was facing remarkably similar problems. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The entrance to the straits was still a quarter mile ahead. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“A hooded crane. The only one in Indiana. Maybe the only one in the United States. They winter in Asia, which means he’s about seven thousand miles from home.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

How enormous the world seemed, and we were just traveling a few hundred miles. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

They only wanted to talk about reps and miles, weights and dosages. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He took a bus about 220 miles south to Jinan, a city of five million, and spent five days searching out more Korean churches. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“About halfway down the coast of Baja. Maybe two hundred and fifty miles south of San Diego.” The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

And they had to put in another mile. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

But there was one part in all this that he could not think through, one indistinct shape that the shambles twelve miles outside Dunkirk could not reduce to a simple outline. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Even though Thomas was a light-year, or about six trillion and one miles away, somehow it just felt right to start my fundraising here. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

And, best of all, for boys from the fields, forests, and small towns of the Pacific Northwest, it was just a few miles from all the manifold mysteries and wonders of New York City. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Mount St. Helens lost thirteen hundred feet of peak, and 230 square miles of forest were devastated. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The pressure that such a pool of magma exerts on the crust above has lifted Yellowstone and about three hundred miles of surrounding territory about 1,700 feet higher than they would otherwise be. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Belle Isle, a paramecium-shaped island in the Detroit River, lies less than half a mile from the Canadian shore. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We were practically out of water, but it was less than a mile to Cloud Pond, where we could refill. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I was so afraid he might die in some alien ocean thousands of miles from home. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two hundred miles an hour wind had loosed his chains. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Even if he drove off at one hundred miles an hour, she would hang on. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The women were going to hike ten miles through the wilderness to see some hermit nuns who wouldn’t be hermits anymore once they got there. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The land area of the planet is a little less than two hundred million square miles. The percentage is ... so small as to be negligible.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Later that day, toward midnight in fact, Will was walking out of the city of Oxford, forty miles away. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

With half a mile to the cottage, the skies open up. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The line of them stretched down the road for what seemed like a mile as all fifteen ambled toward the church. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Harpers Ferry itself changed hands eight times during the war, though the record in this regard belongs to Winchester, Virginia, a few miles south, which managed to be captured and recaptured seventy-five times. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Then, tomorrow morning, you will begin the march of the final fifty miles or so to the east. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

She could walk the mile from Wall Street to the north edge of the city. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt lost then, casting about, like a shipwreck survivor, no shore in sight, only miles and miles of water. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He walked the last half a mile into the village. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

There didn’t seem to be another person within fifty miles. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

A satellite closed the miles between us, but no machinery could close the gap between her world and the world for which I had been summoned to speak. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The Illinois Central Railroad runs a thousand miles south to north down the middle of the United States. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A mile or so out to sea, a huge tanker is steaming north. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the long finger of blinding power that plays between two terminals, except that this was a thousand miles high and ten thousand miles long: dipping, soaring, undulating, glowing, a cataract of glory. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting at her desk, many thousands of miles away from the machine itself, she mapped its inner circuits. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“It’s a lodge, and you don’t know that we swam miles.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Although I hadn’t had a seizure since May, the night of the perigee moon—which was now one hundred million miles behind me—I felt disconnected and drained. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Every living creature for miles must know that’s there! Look at all the tracks in the grass, too! Do you think they sing in the morning, like the thrushes?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The desk felt as though it were vibrating across the floor at the Line’s 1.2 miles per hour. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“What kind of”—I didn’t know quite how to put this—“what kind of miles are you doing, John?” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was four miles back to the trail. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I am now more than live hundred miles away, and everything appears to me different from what it was when I was with you last on San Piedro. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

My heart beat like I had run miles. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The army covered twenty-two miles the first day, by the reckoning of the guides Lady Sybelle had given them, trackers and hunters sworn to Deepwood with clan names like Forrester and Woods, Branch and Bole. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Something flying low was peppering the runway with machine gun tire; even buried mostly underground, even a quarter of a mile away, the shelter’s iron walls shuddered. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

It was heading almost directly toward New Orleans, with the brunt of it expected to strike about sixteen miles west of the city. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Faster than Polly thought possible, they jumped over logs and under low-hanging branches, the only thought being to put miles between them and Clay Derby. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miao-Yao speakers live in dozens of small enclaves, all surrounded by speakers of other language families and scattered over an area of half a million square miles, extending from South China to Thailand. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Two kids with barely functioning lungs walking two miles one-way to go look at lights? Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Orgota noblemen drink that precious fire, brought five thousand miles over the foggy seas from Sith, as if it were beer. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Past the edge of our neighborhood, there was nothing to see except corn for about forty miles. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Ideally, they would stay low for a full mile and a half, then take it up to thirty-one until they got to the two-mile mark. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The next day Mrs. Byrne comes into the sewing room and says she needs me to go on an errand into the center of town, a mile’s walk. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The one pointing back the way they had come read: Great Hangleton, 5 miles. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Shenandoah National Park—101 miles from top to bottom—is famously beautiful, and I was eager to see it at last. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I have no idea how many miles we covered, but the mountains faded into the distance and were replaced by miles of flat, dry land. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

But there was nothing like that for thousands of miles. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Southwest; at less than 0.3 miles per year, for corn and beans from Mexico northward to become productive in the eastern United States around A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

By noon, gusts up to seventy-five miles per hour were screaming over Lake Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She always walks with me down the halls chattering a million miles a minute. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a mile and a half or so back,” Annabelle says. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

For the hobbits each day, each mile, was more bitter than the one before, as their strength lessened and the land became more evil. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I indeed perceptibly gained on it, and when, after nearly two days’ journey, I beheld my enemy at no more than a mile distant, my heart bounded within me. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had walked eighty miles in four days through the hottest weather he had ever known and he had gone down with sunstroke. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that if I left the contour of the river that I could save a mile or two, but I was afraid to get lost in the hills. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They haven’t the oomph to escape Earth’s gravity and, even if they did, there are no mechanisms to guide them across tens of millions of miles of space. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Frightful had arrived in the Galapagos Islands, six hundred miles out in the Pacific Ocean, where the birds and reptiles had lived for hundreds of thousands of years, perhaps millions, without predators. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The ceremony took place fifteen miles from Macondo in the shade of a gigantic ceiba tree around which the town of Neerlandia would be founded later. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

To hide the evidence, the bodies were burned in crematoriums, but enormous clouds of smoke poured out of the chimneys, visible for miles, and a horrible stench filled the air. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” Nat drawled, “the closest estimation we have is that the diameter is two thousand, one hundred and sixty miles. Now, shall we go?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, we saw the edge of the junkyard about half a mile ahead of us, the lights of a highway stretching through the desert. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

They had floated not quite half a mile in just over fifteen minutes. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The earth’s orbit is closer to the sun, at approximately 93 million miles. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here she is, merely twenty years old and thousands of miles from the pastures of France, washing out the dressings of lepers and awful miscarriages, yet she’s electrified by my narrow escape. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Iran said, “You look as if you’ve walked a hundred miles.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

First it was dark as a shoal in the blue water that was more than a mile deep. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hair grows about half an inch per month, the same amount of time it takes us to fly fifty million miles through space. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Crows cawed, sundown was near, but his home was not; the lane of Chinese elms had turned into a tunnel of darkening green, and he lived at the end of it, half a mile away. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just about the time you get used to fifty miles an hour you cross a state line and it’s sixty-five. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, to the next problem. Heaven knows how much we can depend on this chart. It’s something over fifteen hundred miles to Manila. And what’s between here and there...” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But if he went two miles high”—that was Martin—“it would be three miles altogether.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Fifty miles away, at King’s College in London, Franklin had little interest in building models with toys. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t the wound, though it hurt at every step, and it wasn’t the dive-bombers circling over the beach some miles to the north. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

At one crossing we could actually see a road sign that said Strap 1/4 mile and East Strap 1/2 mile. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they only had to trek across 346 miles of flat ice field, the journey would have been bearable. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The southernmost Bantu people, the Xhosa, stopped at the Fish River on South Africa’s south coast, 500 miles east of Cape Town. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was miles and miles away from Gregor ever asking me out. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

About sundown we piled in our buggy and drove a few miles downriver. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But still, no more than a few miles.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Now the walls dissolved into distances of parched weed, mile on mile, and warm endless sky. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

At a quarter of a mile down the river, it looked as if the Orange of Syracuse would, as predicted, settle into the lead. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

At thirty miles from my claim, it wasn’t likely I’d be back often. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“It’s not natural for someone to be as stupid as he is tall, and yet there you stand. Did you really swim all those miles just to die in this hut?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t have needed to stretch more than I did through those nine hundred miles—although Vonetta’s legs were growing longer. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Highway 1, and I found it and drove ten miles in the wrong direction, back toward New York. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Repton was up in the Midlands, near Derby, and some 140 miles away to the north. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had gone little more than a mile into the forest when they came upon another stream flowing down swiftly from the tree-clad slopes that climbed back westward towards the mountains. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I near retched when the sheriff said, “All right, boy, what y’all gotta do is keep going due south on this trail ’bout four more mile; you gonna hit a town called River Rouge. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

But twenty-five years later, about forty miles up the road in Odessa at Permian, there was some consolation. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day he heard a chance remark that surprised him so much that he walked half a mile out of his way before he remembered where he was supposed to go. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He asked the plant foreman about the underground river that flowed from the Gulf of California hundreds of miles away. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked five miles over low hills through the woods to the town of Etna, where I sat beside an old cemetery and ate my sandwiches, then packed up and walked home. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

‘And yet they are more important than all the rest of us. And I came to help them; but now they must be hundreds of miles away, if they are still alive.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

An hour later, sustained winds were blowing out of the southwest at fifty miles per hour. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Two hundred miles and one pit stop later, safely removed from Kentucky, they were midway between Nashville and Memphis. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“We want our rocket to go to an altitude of precisely two miles. The equations to make that happen are in that book. Do them!” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He tells me how the peregrine falcon hits speeds of 200 miles per hour in a dive. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Clouds hung dark to north and east and south a mile off all about the island. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

She touched a kitchen door as she passed, and six miles away Mrs. Dudley shuddered in her sleep. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

"You can see the exchange from a mile away. Do they think they're subtle?" How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

With that complete understanding of the principle of motor locomotion, I drove down the mountainside toward Calexico, some fifty miles away. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve never been to a party before, didn’t know it was like being miles and miles underground, where demons walk around with their hair on fire. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Atlantis: Named after a boat that sailed more than a half million miles in more than 30 years of ocean research. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

We traverse fields and forests, walk through barren lands where quails and woodcocks fly up at our feet, and, after twelve miles of bushwhacking, enter the Plattekill State Forest. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He failed the first time, Apparated five miles south of where he meant to, right on top of some poor old dear doing her shopping, remember?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

My house was two blocks away, but it might as well have been ten miles because I had no idea where it was. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Geological Survey maps put the distance at 2,118.3 miles. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The bomb detonated moments later, killing more than 70,000 Japanese people in the explosion and the resulting firestorms, which obliterated an area nearly five miles wide. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I got off the bus and walked the half mile to school, and right when I was about to climb up the steps of the auditorium, Sahil was coming down. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

But as the crow flies—that was only twenty-nine miles across the island. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

When she’s like this for a few miles, I say, “What are you working on?” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She drove all night, through New Jersey and Pennsylvania, miles of highway whipping by in the dark. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Stock Farm, was the track record holder at a mile and a sixteenth. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The journey to Cathair would take a little over a week, and every mile of it was carefully scripted. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He’s worn out and hungry with two miles out and two miles back. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

And they burned every fence and house and barn in sight; the railroads they bent up like hairpins—over two hundred miles of’em.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thirteen miles southeast of Washington, John Lloyd, the proprietor of Surratt’s tavern, went to bed. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’ll have to walk to Mrs. Song’s, an ahjimma we met at church who lives a few miles away, for a ride. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Within two years it had topped out at almost fourteen hundred feet and was more than half a mile across. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m fine. I got cut up a little, but the blood is mostly Nelly’s. It jumped on her. Killed her about two miles outside town, past the Oldstone Bridge.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“There’s an Amtrack station half a mile that way. According to Gladiola, the westbound train leaves at noon.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I agree we should, and within a few miles we break out of the tangled undergrowth into a meadow under the power line. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told Jim: “I’m wired to settle in wherever we move and make a life for you and the family. But I still want a one- mile radius. I’m not going to do another Alpharetta.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Still, the walk to the witness stand seemed to stretch for miles. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

And because these people lived seven thousand miles south of the Bering Strait, a distance that presumably would have taken a long time to traverse, they almost certainly arrived before the ice-free corridor opened up. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was only a few miles to where the faint line of smoke rose from the forest, but we made bad time. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Through a federally funded job training program operated by Goodwill Industries, McNair found a $9-an-hour job at a warehouse twenty miles—two buses and a taxi ride—away. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Cullen was about ten minutes into the job and less than a half mile from the Coast Guard station when he was startled to attention. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

She told me stories about riding her bike miles in the snow just to dig up turnips and about the time that Anne convinced her to spend a night in the attic. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Or maybe they heard these two shouting at each other. They could have been following us for miles.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Haas helped him into a sleeping bag, then stumbled on to the weather observatory a little over two miles away. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

After a quiet conference with Wild, Shackleton announced his plan to the crew: they would march across the frozen sea with two of the three lifeboats to Paulet Island, 346 miles to the northwest. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Dad peeled through Blythe at a hundred miles an hour, ran a red light, cut the wrong way up a one-way street, the other cars honking and pulling over. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was time to make a decision, but the Howards were hundreds of miles away. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Captain Wilder looked off toward a dead city a mile away. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

A car's odometer comes from the factory set at 00000, though by the time the dealer’s done tooling around town, it’s probably got a few more miles on it. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

We danced about a mile apart the whole time, until during "Auld Lang Syne" he suddenly rested his chin on the tip of my head as if he were very tired. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Some miles beyond the Tallises’ land rose the Surrey Hills and their motionless crowds of thick crested oaks, their greens softened by a milky heat haze. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Finally, with a half mile to go, Moch bellowed at Hume to pick it up. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Along with two friends, he headed about ten miles away to Geauga Seminary, a school of 250 students run by the Free Will Baptist religious denomination. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

We’d learn later that nearly two million people had flooded the Mall, arriving from all parts of the country, a sea of diversity, energy, and hope stretching for more than a mile from the U.S. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The marketplace was just across the way, and the village a mile farther on, half a hundred white cottages surrounding a small stone sept. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Located fifty-five miles from the Ouachita site, Poverty Point had as a focus a structure resembling an amphitheater: six concentric, C-shaped ridges, each five feet tall, on a bluff facing the river. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Adams was overwhelmed when they arrived at the 25th Infantry Division at Cu Chi, about twenty miles northwest of Saigon. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Father would ride a mile or two and then ride back to see how I was doing; and then he’d ride out again. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three miles from the village was a big hill. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

So beautiful, we probably wouldn’t have minded hiking another five miles. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Above, the prow soared with authority toward the summit ridge, a vertical half mile above. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

President Eisenhower, for his part, was determined not to let communism get a foothold a mere ninety miles from Florida. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

We drove like that for a few more miles, everyone keeping her thoughts to herself, when suddenly I smelled something humid and foul. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

If I turn back, miles away from being able to save my friends. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

We passed through homestead and swamp, traversing a distance of perhaps ten miles in all. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The trip had lasted a day and a night—Arles is about five hundred miles south of Paris. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They live in a snug green bungalow in Oakland’s Glenview district, about a mile from Oakland High School. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It wasn't too gorgeous, but it was better than having her walk about a mile away from me, like before. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Even some you can’t. Far off, into the forest, land stretches for miles.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Celia went to a small church a mile away through the poppy fields. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

These two, of course, were the only people in the world who have ever shot an arrow the distance of a mile, with the English long-bow. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The distance from the surface of Earth to the center is 3,959 miles, which isn’t so very far. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

My gouache painting of Buddy Gui’s house—about a mile away from our house—shows his garage door open and all his chain-saw sculptures dragged out onto his driveway. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Sit and listen for I will speak of the shining city as it once was, years and miles away....” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A procession of carriages followed the casket to Lake View Cemetery five miles away. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

There it sat, perfect as a fresh-laid egg on the dead sea bottom, the only nucleus of light and warmth in hundreds of miles of lonely wasteland. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fog has rolled even farther back, a clouded gray wall miles off the shore. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

After half a mile, Washington was seventh in a field of seven—almost five lengths behind the leaders. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Give a girl an inch, she’ll take a mile,” murmured Oliver. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He closed his eyes and he could see fields of snow, miles and miles of Wyoming snow, and white mountains in the distance, all clean and incredibly still, and no man anywhere and no motion. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maryland! Three thousand miles away in...in what? A few minutes?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The earth travels about twenty miles every second. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Furious, she turned and gave chase—despite the bear’s lolloping gait, it can move at up to thirty-five miles an hour—and the two boys scrambled up trees. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

There he coined the term physical education and took his appalled young charges on brisk rambles of thirty-five or forty miles over the neighboring mountains. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It is one thing to walk 2,000 miles, quite another to walk 2,000 miles with a wardrobe on your back. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I got out shoes and breeches and my fur lined winter hieb, and dressed, there in the cold, dark country silence, while Siuwensin smoldered half a mile behind me. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

By noon, the sky was streaked with Japanese bombers, buildings were exploding, and a few startled men on less than three square miles of coral found themselves on the front in the Second World War. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I don't think we have more than about eight miles more.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I had never been outside Los Angeles County, never traveled more than ten miles from the coast, had never even ridden on a bus. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gamble’s first scouts rode back to report that the Rebs had gone into camp just down the road, about three miles out of Gettysburg. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They go the extra mile to discourage visitors,” Dad said. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

They drove silently, the only sound coming when a sheriff's deputy pulled out of a gas station and Annie gasped, repeatedly checking the speedometer the entire mile he cruised behind them. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Admiral Nimitz and the Navy were getting ready for the first attack on the Gilbert Islands, about 2,000 miles northeast of the Solomons. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was clinging to a tower miles high, and his fingers were slipping, nails scrabbling at the stone, his legs dragging him down, stupid useless dead legs. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“That’s because I could hear your footsteps a mile away. Anyone ever tell you that you walk hard enough to wake the dead?” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

One old lady screamed that she was going to get off the train, whether it was going ninety miles an hour or not. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Everything was changing; I was afraid to make the wrong decision about choices in the miles ahead of me. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Every Saturday Mrs. E.C.B. walked three miles to town from her farm, which was called Cape Jessamine Copse. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

We could have been twenty miles off the Brooklyn coast for all we knew, or twenty from Boston, or two hundred from nowhere. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

They got back in the truck and drove the few miles to Fort Robinson State Park. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Liberty was reserved for other people, for the citizens of the City of Pennsylvania bustling a thousand miles to the north. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

When at last they gave up, nineteen years later, they had drilled to a depth of 12,262 meters, or about 7.6 miles. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

No one could persuasively explain how it had managed to cross two thousand miles of hostile ocean but then failed to find its way around the corner of a 200-mile-wide island. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

From ’bout a mile off it sounded like one person playing and all you could hear was a steady, regular crack! sound that rolled toward you like it was being carried on the wind. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Shadrack got in and in less than three ho.urs he was back in Medallion, for he had been only twenty-two miles from his window, his river, and his soft voices just outside the door. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

How can we coordinate across all these miles? The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we got to Main Street, Roberto turned left and drove east for about ten miles. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

On June 22, 1941, Hitler broke a peace treaty and invaded the Soviet Union, sending his army storming across the huge nation in a battlefront that stretched for over a thousand miles. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The aisle leading from my seat to the entrance of the auditorium grows to three miles long. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Here, although I was only a couple hundred miles away, everything felt more sterile, like I'd just walked into an office building. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

They crept quietly into the kitchen, Genie finally daring to let his guard down, when he jumped a mile. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

My parents had spent almost their entire lives living within a couple of square miles in Chicago, but they had no illusions that Craig and I would do the same. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

So it was always going to come down to me rowing the last few miles. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I spent the night in the car behind a closed-down gas station a half mile from the border. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We live over in the town, six miles away.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

What was he doing a million miles from nowhere, sitting in a freezing pond beside a bizarre Tlingit Indian with a stick? Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The other complained too much about the physical hardships—demanding that he be allowed to sit in a chair and be carried for the last two hundred miles. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Two jets swept by and started hitting a target less than five miles away. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea, he explained, was to let the navy obliterate the place—it was less than two square miles of coral sand—then wade in and mop up the leftovers. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m about twelve miles down the road,” I said. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A half mile down the road there was a clearing in the trees and a drive—a hint of civilization—before the road curved away invitingly. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Within a millisecond, there was a line at least a mile long. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Each time Worsley calculated the number of miles they had put behind them, the bird seemed to mock their slow progress. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The trinity blast was heard in El Paso, Texas, 150 miles from the explosion. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The finish is about half a mile past Old Town. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Werner can hear the Austrians two floors up scrambling, reloading, and the receding screams of both shells as they hurtle above the ocean, already two or three miles away. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They had left the downs behind them and were crossing a wide plain with a forest about half a mile away on their left. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

A mile thick to start with, the Ice here rises and thickens, trying to flow over the mountains and choke the fire-mouths with silence. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was four hundred square miles of forest, so they said, and enough for all. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is calmed by the valley opening before him—the one it should take an hour to get through before he reaches the house a mile or two this side of Vienna. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because he was the only Negro doctor for two hundred miles, Tony’s father delivered babies, gave tonics and cough medicine for head colds, and patched up scratches, cuts, and burns. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“At night it will be, anyway. I hope we beat it home. I don’t want to travel twenty miles with the oxen slipping and sliding up and down every hill.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The outer shell was the crust, and it was about eighteen miles thick. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

On the television, players in blue rush along a field two thousand miles away. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was barreling straight toward them at a rate of three miles an hour. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The orchard was about a thousand miles up the Amazon, two hours by ferry and bus from Manaus. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The other two sections of train are also stopped, stretched out before us on the track, a half mile between each. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Three hundred miles beyond Cocos Island, Frightful knew there was land to the east. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Those are the kind who play loud music in the woods that can be heard for miles, just to see who it attracts. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

If they had merely glimpsed the statue through a car window at sixty miles per hour, they could only have made a wild guess at its authenticity. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Down the middle of the mid-Atlantic ridge was a canyon–a rift–up to a dozen miles wide for its entire 12,000-mile length. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

In junior high, we run a mile every week and we’re supposed to get faster each time. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Walking down the dirt road that day, I imagined myself being brave and hitchhiking the three miles to my house. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Half a mile below the railroad bridge was a new automobile bridge on which stood dozens of additional officials. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Two hundred and thirty miles of wilderness had been burned, ripped apart, or buried under a hundred feet of mud and debris. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

And the second was just how much I needed food to give me energy, because what Coach meant by long run was run a million miles. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

But the curb seems miles away, and I’m suddenly gripped with fear. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

But beyond that again there was something he had never seen the like of—a great yellowish-grey thing, flat as a calm sea, and stretching for miles. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Less than twenty miles away, in the town of Oranienburg, the first prisoners were being hauled into the Sachsen- hausen concentration camp. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Collecting anything more than that would have required a second trip and when you’re tired and underfed, two miles cross-country feels like more than enough. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

National Park Service, which constantly distinguishes itself in a variety of ways, manages in a single leaflet to give the length of the trail as 2,155 miles and 2,200 miles. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

After the first several miles I ceased to feel the weight on my head at all. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"How many miles to Babylon?" recited the man. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The Sabine’s just a half mile the other way on the county road.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers are taking me down a wide hallway that seems to be a mile long. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

By a mile and a half, Washington had moved back ahead. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Because it’s going to be hard, with the kids and all. I don’t want to get five miles into the woods and have you—” “I’m sure. I’m completely, entirely, one hundred percent sure.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

In less than five months they had travelled twenty-five hundred miles, during the last eighteen hundred of which they had had but five days’ rest. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

Running a mile in PE last year had been way worse than having to clean my room. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

However, he was only a hundred miles from his destination— Omaha, Nebraska, the headquarters of the large meat packing company for which he worked. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed as if the trees shook with the sound exploding from the Toad and every last creature within a mile fled to safety. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It was nearly a mile to the Monterey road. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

First, you could hear sighs of relief from the people whose journals had not been read, and then people started talking a mile a minute. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how long I sat there with my face in my hands—maybe ten thousand miles—until I finally gave up on the idea of hiding away in my bathroom forever. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Mrs. V wears huge, flowing dresses—must be miles of material in those things—all in crazy color combinations. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

A phone call from New York truly sounded as crackly as a thousand miles away ought to. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The race covered ten miles of snow-covered countryside, starting and ending on Main Street right in front of the old church. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a fair wind abaft the beam, the ship could have logged a hundred and fifty miles in a day’s sailing. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lake wasn’t all that big—maybe a quarter mile long, so we didn’t have far to go when I saw it. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

For miles it was either entirely barren or covered in the spindly trunks of dead trees, a few still weakly standing but most toppled. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

We settled in “Tent City,” a labor camp owned by Sheehey Strawberry Farms located about ten miles east of Santa Maria. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

They were miles wide, apparently not breakers or the banked ridges of shallow water. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Only after we were three or four miles out of Imre and we came to a good, straight stretch of flat road did I nudge him up to a gallop. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

After a few more miles, the empousai disappeared over a ridge. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was the one teeny-tiny reason he’d been excited to move precisely nine hundred and one miles away from Florida to Washington, DC. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The industrial food chain that supplies our supermarkets stretches thousands of miles and has dozens of different links. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the scrub lay Barnard’s Forest, which stretched for about seven miles, lying like a dark animal pelt across the back of the land, and reaching out into the next county. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The canopy was ideal for concealing the canoe among vegetation, but against bare rocks it would be visible for miles. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Behind our house one could see miles and miles of the mighty Ozarks. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a few hundred miles the plane ascends to the mountains—and again the historical picture has changed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Besides, there was nothing waiting for me on the outskirts of the city except miles upon miles of harvested farmland. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

All were sent to Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas, a baking-hot group of islands about eighty miles west of the Florida Keys. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The storm was crossing southern Florida with winds around ninety miles an hour. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It seemed a mile away, and those cows didn’t seem to want her to get there. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

On both sides of the road we were surrounded by miles and miles of cotton plants. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her house was only a couple of miles away. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

We: were miles from the things, which I had taken to be almost within arm’s reach. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

And the volcanic island was still miles away. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

She covered only ten miles before she turned back. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

In that time, I had been in four hospitals—first in Mingora, then in Peshawar, then in Rawalpindi, and finally here in Birmingham—and traveled thousands of miles. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Four laps around the track equals a mile. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Turner Station is less than a mile across in any direction, its horizon lined with skyscraper-sized shipping cranes and smokestacks billowing thick clouds from Sparrows Point. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Had to cling to him for dear life for five miles. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The silence became minutes, and the minutes became miles, and everything is over now, I thought, I shall never drive with him again. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He had turned back onto Jefferson for the long miles through the blighted East Side. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t only the miles, it was everything that had come between them. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

The witness, Kaiserman, said they were going fifty-five miles an hour, the speed limit. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

From 4,000 miles, we would be able to see the whole earth, from North Pole to South Pole, something no one had ever been able to do before. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

After our mile warm-up, Coach West explains how we’re going to try a bunch of different things, and she assigns us to groups. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

In his first week on the trail, he managed just five miles a day, but he persevered, and by August, when he reached his home state, he was up to a dozen miles a day. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

In reality I lay many hundred miles away in an alien land, and would wake, before many seconds had passed, in the bare little hotel bedroom, comforting in its very lack of atmosphere. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I rode down the Dan Ryan with friends and beheld, for the first time, the State Street Corridor—a four- mile stretch of dilapidated public housing. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Adam’s attention narrowed to the Bordoni ranch a few miles south of King City, almost equidistant, in fact, between San Lucas and King City. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I could cover three miles in forty-five minutes, so I guessed that I would need a half hour to make it to the Sillington House without a sweat. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

A half a mile away stood Hubbard Glacier. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Home was about ten miles southeast of the old mill. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was an astonishing sight, for the whole valley for 15 or 20 miles was completely filled with Indians. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Behind Tent City was dry wilderness and a mile north of it was the city dump. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I rode about sixty miles yesterday, before I met up with you,” I said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Another voice came over the CB to complain about a red Ferrari that was weaving through traffic at 120 miles per hour. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And outside the walls, for half a mile around in every direction, the air was scented with the heavy rich smell of melting chocolate! Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Word spread, and men for miles around made up a posse. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were many miles yet to go between them and the Ford, and they hobbled forward at the best pace they could manage. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She refused to cross the picket line, so we drove twenty miles out of our way to buy our duct tape. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Despite the harsh weather, the protesters walked around the block in front of the White House four times, a distance of about four miles. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

White’s escape took him four miles outside of the city to an unoccupied cottage his brother owned. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s on the Blue Ridge Road. Eight miles south of Kansas City. A combination night-club- motel. You pay ten bucks for the key to a cabin.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the bird is at least a quarter mile away, most of it uphill, and by the time I reach him, I'm winded. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The boat captain dropped them at the Argo II, anchored a quarter of a mile out to sea. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

A few days later, the biggest tornado ever spotted in the Hudson Valley touched down only fifty miles from Yancy Academy. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Walking along the bank of the river, Rondon was about a mile away from their camp when he heard the sound of spider monkeys, the largest primate in the Amazon rain forest. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

For many miles, she flew oVer the Pacific Ocean with a flock of red-rumped storm petrels. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

They were sailing along about a mile from Fry. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

All five women moved to a secret location 40 miles northeast of Moscow, a walled compound filled with people working on the Soviet space program—scientists, engineers, and cosmonauts. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

My parents were a city girl and a village boy, but they still found each other thousands of miles away in America. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

A half mile away, the man in question rubbed his eyes with infinite weariness, yet still he didn’t close them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The new rulers of Mutal had aggressively thrown their weight around and by Sky Witness’s time controlled as much as eight thousand square miles. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

At the base, it may have been a couple of miles in diameter. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The velocity required for that was 25,500 miles per hour, or approximately seven miles per second, a distance I could visualize easily because seven miles was the distance between Coalwood and Welch. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She sees him in the cornfield several miles past, in Sullivan Township. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The whole complex must have been a couple of miles square. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“I went a couple of hundred miles on the Kerm Ice one autumn, years ago.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

For many miles the red eye seemed to stare at them as they fled, stumbling through a barren stony country. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

After what feels like miles, we round a curve in the road and gasp. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The beacon could be seen from more than thirty miles out at sea. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

We were flying at an altitude of 200 miles above a sphere whose radius is 4,000 miles. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dimensions of the Cosmos are so large that using familiar units of distance, such as meters or miles, chosen for their utility on Earth, would make little sense. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched from the vines and boulders of the giants’ ruin, two miles off. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My radar clocked you going seventy-five miles an hour in a sixty-mile zone,” he said laconically. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

About another mile down the lane a metal fence sprang up. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

After all, it happened more than five billion miles ago. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The winds were thirty-five miles an hour with gales up to fifty. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

To see every mile, every inch that I pass on the way to Toño. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Say three hundred and fifteen miles, at least, southwest of the California coast, to where he sat right now, rolling heavily in a boat half full of water. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A comet,” I replied, “is a snowball one mile across.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a young man, Dorus had once walked forty-five miles and become seriously ill. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A truck had been sent to collect them from a field about two miles away. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Ahead of them the broken ground sloped down toward a grove about a quarter of a mile away. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Every ten miles along the traveled routes a general store and blacksmith shop happened, and these became the nuclei of little towns, Bradley, King City, Greenfield. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s more than three hundred miles, by railroad.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents were a mere five miles away, but it felt like they were on the other side of the world. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Even Shadbush Crossing—the county seat—is almost a hundred miles away. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

According to Pratt’s analysis, quarter mile world record setter Truckle Feature had a peak speed of just under 80 feet per second, or 54 mph. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Interstate Highway Act brought autobahns to the United States and became the largest public works project in the nation’s history, building 46,000 miles of road with more than $130 billion of federal money. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

Everybody in Marly’s school went and all the people who lived for miles in every direction. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The path continued rising and falling for about another quarter of a mile, then dipped down into a hollow. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Nothing in between is allowed, so to get from 30 to 40 miles an hour, you have to make a quantum leap. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It’s a little over two miles to our house, and I arrive just as the last sliver of sun slips beneath the horizon. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I remember but little of the journey; I only know that the day seemed to me of a preternatural length, and that we appeared to travel over hundreds of miles of road. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I felt so stupid, disgusted with myself for making such idiotic assumptions about Julia, about the way things would be in the miles ahead of us. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

They describe the conditions on the ship, the lack of plumbing, how some of the passengers died during the 12,000 mile voyage and were wrapped in plastic and cast into the ocean. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Power Plant No. 1 was only six miles up the canyon from my house. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

They all worked, ate, and slept at the dam site, located about six miles southeast of the center of the camp. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I'm no marathon runner, but I've surely put lots of miles on them today, I think. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And I guess I do, because the next thing I know, I'm driving this dune buggy at about a hundred miles an hour across a burning desert that looks like the surface of the moon. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Baba’s bus, I counted the miles until I’d see her sitting barefoot, arranging cardboard boxes of yellowed encyclopedias, her heels white against the asphalt, silver bracelets jingling around her slender wrists. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She looked over her shoulder and saw miles of soft, gray-white sand. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

If he held it for ten hours he’d be ninety miles out at dawn. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grinning and giddy, they watched as Smith’s charge worked over a mile and an eighth. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eliot’s mother worked in an office fifty miles north, and his father, the last she had heard, lived two thousand miles west. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Me and Jingle Boy waren’t even a mile out of the little logging village when I pulled up the reins and stopped him. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Its base spanned a mile, its dark form swelling out of the earth and rising into a flawless spire. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The ten miles of trail we have already covered—the section between our parked vehicles and the river—were gentle, well marked, and relatively heavily traveled. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first route is over the Georgetown Aqueduct, a mile and a half northwest of the White House. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

For ten miles and more, the three men ride without speaking. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when demigods use cell phones, the signals agitate every monster within a hundred miles. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

They had gone some miles, and the road was at last running down a long slope into the plain, when Frodo’s strength began to give out and his will wavered. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

How fast, how many miles can I go? Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“First,” I said, holding up one finger, “my best friend, Thomas, moved a million and one miles away to DC.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

But I soon find myself staring at the blank columns, my fingertips tapping away at the edge of my laptop instead, my mind a million miles away. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

And a half mile to the south and west of the Islander Carl Heine stood in his cabin door and listened uncertainly to the same whistle blasts now penetrating through the fog. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was some hundred miles by that way from the Cross-roads to the Morannon, and what might befall them before they came so far none knew. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“There are two things I can smell a mile,” the first man said in a loud voice. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“More than a mile and a half of chipped coral runway stretched out before me in the darkness,” he said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fire would continue for the next three days, the flames visible for fifty miles. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But I do see what I wanna see: this bridge is the only place where you can cross the river, from back where we’ve run to miles farther ahead as you look. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

But she would be just as happy if I were three thousand miles away in Boston. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Then walk half a mile to the Red Apple Diner. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Less than a mile away, and a little below them, for they still stood high up on the west side of the dale, there lay a mere. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I was driving myself, pounding out the miles because I was no longer hearing or seeing. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ground was closer now, still far far away, a thousand miles away, but closer than it had been. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

This stream did not seem to have any calm water, and I must have walked a thousand miles before I found a pool by a deep undercut bank in the shade of overhanging bushes. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

People routinely knocked off twenty-five miles a day up there. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

After all, this land, it would take hours of labor again, and as O-lan said, it was far away, more than a li which is a third of a mile. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Who drives six miles off campus to kill herself? Doesn’t make any sense. But ‘straight and fast.’ Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

What is he doing here, in the general store of a town thirty miles from his own? Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The tunnel dropped underneath the bay for nearly a quarter mile before it rose onto the island. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Gradually we picked up speed—75, 100, 12$ miles an hour,” he said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the 19 3 os, track experts were beginning to toss around the idea of a four-minute mile. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

He told Bobby Moch to hold the varsity back behind the JV for the first two miles. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Now, as Atzerodt takes refuge at a cousin’s house in the small community of Germantown, Maryland, twenty miles northwest of Washington, a cavalry detachment knocks at the door. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

At two miles Bobby Moch would tell Don Hume to gun it and start taking down the leaders, who would by now be starting to tire. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Egypt lay only 800 miles west of Sumer, with which Egypt had trade contacts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

‘Trust to luck again! It nearly failed us last time, but it didn’t quite. A steady pace for a few more miles, and then a rest.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Other major parts rained down hundreds of miles east of Perth. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The mare was huggable when not kicking things or careening across the prairie at a hundred miles an hour. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Sandy had a free wife who lived about four miles from Mr. Covey’s; and it being Saturday, he was on his way to see her. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

In front of him was a broad green field at least half a mile wide, spreading eastward. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I can say I’m from six miles away from here, she finishes her question, “Or are you mixed?” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

It looks to be about eight miles or so. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Two days after his arrest, he is driven to a holding pen a few miles outside Strasbourg. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

David drove Henrietta nearly twenty miles to get there, not because they preferred it, but because it was the only major hospital for miles that treated black patients. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He was hiding out in the woods about three miles from Storch’s house. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Before long, they parked in front of a nondescript one-story building about a quarter of a mile from his service station, and everyone got out. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She’d gone out to get firewood with other women in some woods a few miles away from the village. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

The affairs of Europe still seemed a million miles away, and that’s exactly where most people wanted to keep them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Half a mile east, a dark plume of smoke was rising where a tent had been set afire. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“You’re like a million miles away.”Out of the corner of my eye, I see Martin climbing over someone’s chair to join us. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

One day, Hale’s pastures were set on fire, the blaze spreading for miles, the blackened earth strewn with the carcasses of cattle. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“No kidding! Sixteen miles on foot? With those things on your back? Man—ain’t that a kick.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

And the endless, endless miles on the bicycle by night. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The green-and-white road signs kept teasing us along with mentions of Capitol Street so many miles ahead, and we strained our eyes for a glimpse of the gold-leafed dome, like Columbus looking for a continent. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Once we crossed the cement bridge, which went over a dry river bed for a quarter of a mile, I stretched my neck and tried to pinpoint the location of Bonetti Ranch. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

A hundred miles on a wilderness river with a raft, hauling a grown man who would be nothing but dead weight, was impossible. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

I stop to look at the emptiness beyond the Commandant’s window, miles of whispering dunes, rippling like waves in the dawn wind. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

A few hundred miles south of Winthrop Hospital, Alfred Vanderbilt was busy cultivating a passion of his own. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The marchers reached their first night’s campsite at 5:30 p.m., having covered a little more than seven miles. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You brought me out here to see a boy, and it was miles and miles across the fields, and I’m tired and the boy won’t talk. I hate you!” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each morning he would drop the bike at a finishing point ten miles or so down the trail, drive the car back to the start, hike between the two and cycle back to his car. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Evidence of Cleopatra’s time in Rome may be seen in a temple that was located in Palestrina, a town twenty-four miles east of Rome. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

The trail spans two and a half miles—from Wicker Park to Humboldt Park—and it has great views of the skyline and neighborhoods below. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Hour after hour, mile after mile, lurching back and forth in the wagon, Mollie crossed the wild, empty landscape, not yet carved into a country. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They have scraped, scraped against her shoes for miles. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Now, on hot, smoggy summer days, visibility can be as little as two miles and never more than thirty. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She runs at least two miles every morning, and I am already late for the routine. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Driving along a canyon road about two miles from the house, Frankie saw a large rock in his path and swerved to avoid it. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

At home in Chicago, Hadiya lived with her parents and her little brother, about two miles from our house on Greenwood Avenue. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

After a few miles of walking, we began to hear a familiar screech in the distance. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The suborbital flight in the capsule Shepard christened Freedom 7 lasted only fifteen minutes and twenty-two seconds and covered 303 miles, just about the distance between Hampton, Virginia, and Charleston, West Virginia. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Even if I traveled for trillions of miles, I’d barely reach Proxima Centauri, the next closest star after the sun. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Mr. Lucas found parts of the wire chicken run two miles from the house, flattened and wrapped around some trees. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Nothing could shake her confidence, even though there had been no word of her cat since he had left the Nurmis’ so long ago and so many miles away. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had driven 350 miles to get to Pennsylvania, had spent four long days in the state, and walked a net eleven miles of the Appalachian Trail. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I was standing outside the United Nations, about a mile northeast of the Empire State Building. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The weather made it impossible to get a sun sight, but Worsley’s best guess put Clarence and Elephant isles about thirty or forty miles north. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The fog had almost gone and when I came to the cove I could see the ship at once, lying about two miles off-shore with her bows pointed towards the cliffs. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Many black children had to walk miles each day to get to a one-room shack supplied with just a few used books. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Ten or fifteen thousand feet above the ground, it was orange in color and I judge a mile in diameter. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He handed me a flattened tin can that he’d probably been saving in his pocket for a thousand miles. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

What had been a frigid expanse of whale habitat became a flat stretch of countryside more than a thousand miles wide. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“But, my dear sir, the difference of the journey;—only consider how great it would have been.—An hundred miles, perhaps, instead of forty.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Ten miles ahead of them was a towering black mountain spotted with snow. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Less than a mile past Mill Town, I rounded a bend and saw the train trestle up ahead, marching through the air high above the wooded gorge where Blind Tillie Creek ran. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

A door slams somewhere along the block, and I jump about a mile. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Personally, I find that if I run two miles at a time, four times a week, then the doctors who give me physical exams say that I am keeping my heart muscle in good condition. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Torrents of rain, miles of mud and gravel. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Shiloh goes nuts trying to uncover my face, nudging at my. arms with his nose, tail going ninety miles an hour. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

A quarter mile down the road he stopped and looked back. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Bluefield State was only thirty-six miles away, she said, and with my grades, I could probably get a full scholarship. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

As the sign drama played itself out in the Langley cafeteria, an incident that would have national repercussions took place in Gloucester County, just twenty miles away. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

At dawn and according to the strict schedule Colonel Meecham had plotted in Atlanta, they had come within sixty-five miles of the Marine Corps air station at Ravenel. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

What happened in Flint Creek, flowing through 50 miles of Alabama cotton country before emptying into Wheeler Reservoir, was typical of the region. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I follow him up the ladder to the roof, my shoulder still tingling, wishing the ladder went for miles and miles. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

My atoms have been on this Finn trip for almost eleven billion miles. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I realized she had transported homemade food thousands of miles, all the way from Korea, and the stench of overripe kimchee shot up through the cardboard flaps and I nearly dropped the whole thing. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shadow took the hearse up to ten miles per hour, which seemed enough on the slippery roads. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Agricultural terraces like these in Peru’s Colca Valley still cover thousands of square miles in Mesoamerica and the Andes, mute testimony to Native Americans’ enduring success in managing their landscapes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The fortress stood on a high bluff on a sharp curve of the river about 50 miles north of New York City. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t just let it run wild. Trebon’s only about five miles from here. And there’s smaller farms closer than that. Think of the damage it would do.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And when the ball meandered down from about a mile above his head, he flailed at it as if it were a bumblebee. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I headed for the bus stop a quarter mile up the road. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The canoes had traveled only three miles down the river when they were faced with rapids. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Everybody was better and laughing and talking a mile a minute. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s like she know you from five hundred miles away.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The shock wave rattled windows in Silver City, New Mexico, 200 miles from Trinity. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Afterward, I take her out for a Valentine’s Day dinner at my favorite restaurant, Happy Family, which sits at the end of a strip mall about fifteen miles from home. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Must have been a good twenty-five miles as he ran.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They pass through forest and valley in columns a hundred meters across and many miles long, eating their way across Africa. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the previous morning they had journeyed nearly three miles. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tie a piece of meat to a string. Hang it out in front of him. He’ll chase it for miles.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I walked around the corner, and way down this side, which seemed to go on for another mile, was the moose, blocking the path between the brick and a dense thicket of bush. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“They may. Once they’re within a mile, they can torch the parasail with a chemical round.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

There would be a lot of exciting things on the trip—meeting my cousins and seeing the Hudson River which they said was a mile wide, and watching the boats sail up and down it. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, though it be ten thousand miles away, we walked to the palace. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been a dry, uninspiring little kiss, and I remember thinking it was too bad both our mouths were so chapped from walking five miles in that cold wind. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He pushed the car so hard it broke down about every hundred miles or so. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Encanis threw his body tight against the chains again and the sound of his scream shook the earth and shattered stones for half a mile in each direction. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And we didn’t run to Yankee Stadium in seven-minute miles, let me tell you. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

You could see it from miles off, a pale blue line across the northern horizon, stretching away to the east and west and vanishing in the far distance, immense and unbroken. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Abilene was better than six hundred miles north of the Texas hill country we lived in. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

My great-great-grandfather used to graze his cattle as far south as Nakuru, 300 miles from where we live now. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thousands were there. Joy! That’s what you felt....They had come fifty miles but when you’re marching and singing, it doesn’t faze you how far it is.” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chip followed me the first mile, laughing about the awkwardness of saying good-bye and then not actually parting ways, until he turned right at the Safeway and I kept going straight. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it seemed to Vetch that his friend saw, across the waves and miles and grey days yet to come, the thing they followed and the dark end of their voyage. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The vlei people roused themselves and overwhelmed him before he got half a mile. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sleep felt miles away, and he couldn’t shake the despair and hopelessness that coursed through his body and mind—the temporary joy of Chuck’s trick on Gaily had long since faded away. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

But he took off again, this time in the other direction, not stopping until he reached Jonas Apple’s house more than a mile away. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Father walked with me, but sometimes he mounted Grey and rode on ahead a mile or so. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was alone at sea for two days, with sharks below and storms above, clinging to the remnants of the barrel, when he finally washed ashore near Lattakia, fifty miles north of Arwad Island. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Thirteen suffragists or pilgrims walked 250 miles, from New York to Washington, DC, to join the March 3 suffrage procession. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Let me say in advance that in over ten thousand miles, in thirty-four states, I was not recognized even once. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a fleeting second he thought of the knife Sirius had bought him for Christmas — locked in his trunk in the castle a quarter of a mile away, no use to him whatsoever. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He looked back up, wishing he were a thousand miles away. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

And I’d be floating alone three hundred and fifteen miles from shore in a life jacket. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their school was still half a mile away. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I laugh, sinking down into the warm couch, the whirlwind of last night still making my heart float miles above the hospital. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

As darkness fell around us, the road twisted through dense forest for several miles until it came to a short, narrow bridge with room for only one car to pass. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They are out of Laredo and half a mile south of a Border Patrol checkpoint. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Perhaps one of these piled-up blossoms of the sky, these snow-white droppings of a gigantic Pegasus, would lie before them several miles away. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I did need to warm up, we would reach the hut a lot faster than if we went five miles back down the mountain to the car. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

By two in the afternoon they were less than ten miles away. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

A thousand years ago it was the only place for a thousand miles in which one could be completely enveloped in an artificial landscape. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

So the best place to attack was on the western shore, a place called Empress Augusta Bay, forty miles from the nearest large Japanese base on Bougainville’s other side. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

My foot was tapping on the Brown Bomber’s floor a mile a minute and I couldn’t make it stop no matter what I did. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s only about twelve miles and there’s a full moon tonight. I’m on my way.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The electric engines were so quiet that one could hear avalanches grumble down immense blue slopes on the far side of chasms twenty miles across. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Food comes irregularly, carried out from the citadel by the guardian’s wife across the quarter mile of rocks at low tide while shells explode in the city behind her. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A mile southwards along the shore they came upon holly trees. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Located nineteen miles southwest of downtown Los Angeles, it has a fine stretch of beach on Santa Monica Bay, where Shin sometimes went for walks. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Once he said, “This is Simple’s Crossing. Only two miles, Tim.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above was a squadron of fighter jets on their way to an air show miles away in Atlanta. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Weary kicked and shoved Billy for a quarter of a mile. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father's stories had given me a glittering image of the city of Kraków, three hundred fifty miles and light-years removed from the life I knew in Narewka. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Katrina was now a Category 5 storm with winds over 150 miles an hour. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

With an eighth of a mile to go, Richardson felt Ligaroti beginning to weaken. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

After traveling nearly eleven billion miles in my lifetime, my atoms and I had arrived at a place where we could confidently make such determinations about love. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“The hardest part of running sixteen miles a day is dealing with your annoying brother after running sixteen miles a day.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Except this is more than a few miles. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was five miles or more from Maggot’s lane to the Ferry. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

So he rode hard, steadily, willing himself not to tire as the minutes and miles passed. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Lurz had mentioned that any other remaining old records from Crownsville were stored at the Maryland State Archives in Annapolis, about seven miles away. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Now we are protected against lethal ultraviolet rays by a narrow rim of ozone, thirty miles out. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a drive of a few miles, they came to a wide, flat gully. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The human heart shuttles blood through sixty thousand miles of blood vessels. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Some say it begins four hundred miles down, others two thousand miles below us. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She was a social worker who lived in Sallisaw, Oklahoma, which is 160 miles from the state capital. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In photographs it looks serene and beckoning, parklike even, with hundreds of cool, deep lakes and hazy, tranquil miles of undulating mountains. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“There wasn’t another colored family for miles around. And now there ain’t a colored man on this ranch an’ there’s jus’ one family in Soledad.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Admiral Stansfield Turner, who headed the CIA in the late 1970s, said that the Agency "missed by a mile." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Like the fact that a cheetah can run seventy miles per hour. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“I feel somewhat incredulous as to Colonel Roosevelt having actually discovered a new river nearly one thousand miles long,” Markham said. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

I glanced at my mother, but she was a million miles away. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

From the slugs of irradiated uranium, fissile plutonium would be extracted at a second plant ten miles away, eventually to be sent on its way to Los Alamos. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Monday morning, after getting Mama’s blessing, I headed for school, which was only about a mile from the cotton labor camp. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

They had already selected a termite hill about half a mile away. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

By Florida law, gambling boats are supposed to travel at least three miles offshore—beyond the state boundaries— before anyone is allowed to start betting. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

At midmorning, he discovers the heart of the column, perhaps six miles from High Bridge. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, if worse comes to worst, though. It hardly has any miles on it.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

After half a mile, they were two and two-fifths seconds below the track record. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the same two-year period, fifteen hundred miles away, near Buffalo, New York, another man — a kind of Boss Man clone — worked the distressed downtown streets of Jamestown. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Two miles, at least. It was about two hours before we caught him.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

North and west of Tiwanaku, in what is now southern Peru, was the rival state of Wari, which then ran for almost a thousand miles along the spine of the Andes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Well. Forty-two there. Forty-two back. Eighty-two miles. No. Eighty-four. Yes. Eighty-four miles in forty-five hours.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Down the road from Belhaven is white Woodland Hills, then Sherwood Forest, which is miles a big live oaks with the moss hanging down. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I could be back in Holkham, with the screech of gulls in my ears and salt on my tongue and a ghost train passing on the rusted track half a mile away. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember the day before the orphanage opened, Baba took me to Ghargha Lake, a few miles north of Kabul. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They had left the Hogwarts grounds completely; they had obviously traveled miles — perhaps hundreds of miles — for even the mountains surrounding the castle were gone. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

This insect infests about a third of Africa, posing a menace to human health and preventing the keeping of livestock in an area of some 4% million square miles of wooded grasslands. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

By checking the distances on the map, I can tell it’s just ten miles west of us—much closer than going back to Charity. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He watched them appear briefly, crossing a ridge about a half mile ahead; they had already slowed from a dead run to a trot. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

But Angel Dream was the wrong thing, the wrong thing by a mile. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Spaniards gawped like yokels at the wide streets, ornately carved buildings, and markets bright with goods from hundreds of miles away. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He told us he had started in Maine in deep snow and had been endlessly caught in blizzards, but was still averaging twenty-five miles a day. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Body discovered two weeks later—on a hill about a mile from downtown Pawhuska. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The three days’ grace I had would see me, given no mishap, at farthest to Kuseben on the Gulf, eighty-five miles. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

She is crying softly to herself and is miles away. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They get only seven miles before coming to a dead halt at a Union roadblock outside Jetersville. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Joe gave the same alibi Rose did: on the night of May 21, 1921, they had been together in Pawnee, seventeen miles southwest of Gray Horse, and had stopped at a rooming house. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“The peregrine falcon is the world’s fastest animal when it’s in its hunting stoop. It can dive at speeds near two hundred miles per hour.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was two miles along a road totally without shade and so hot I could feel the heat through the soles of my boots. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He wouldn’t run his fastest mile until he was twenty-eight. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

An average-size human being jumping out of an airplane will reach 99 percent of terminal velocity—approximately 122 miles per hour—within about fifteen seconds. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Not you! If the knights are anywhere nearby, they’ll spot you from a mile away. Gwenforte, too. Stay here with her. Jacob and I will find out where the inn is, and be right back.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know if I have a mile left in me, Kelton.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I made it nearly a quarter mile before the darkness and my dazzled vision betrayed me and I ran headlong into a horse tether, crumpling to the ground in a painful heap. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A good tunnel dwarf can pick up the scent of gold through half a mile of granite bedrock. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The meter reads sixteen miles hauled today, but we are not more than eight miles in a straight line from last night’s camp. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I will hunt extra hard so that I can produce miles and miles of web for you!” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

We are at rest five miles behind the front. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thousand miles away, in my house on the hill, I was casually flipping channels. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few miles down the road he came to the small community of Healy, where the Alaska State Troopers maintain a post. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes opened and she looked at me, bleary, like she was somewhere deep inside herself and peering out at me through miles of brain and body. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

A mile farther on, they came upon a second face, carved into a chestnut tree that grew beside an icy stream, where its eyes could watch the old plank bridge that spanned its flow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Every inch of that mile is filled with Christmas lights hanging from trees, mailboxes, and houses. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Kabarak is in Nakuru, in the Great Rift Valley about 90 miles or so from Nairobi. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

We hiked through thick sand the opposite direction of Santa Cruz to lay low for the day, stopped about a mile past where the Mexican cop had asked our names. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The ships were anchored about eight miles from here, off Staten Island. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

My Sunday pants rode up above my ankles while we walked the miles to the train depot. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

A host of the enemy was encamped upon it, three miles west of Amon Dîn, and some strength of men was already thrusting along the road and was no more than three leagues away. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

His extreme endurance also impressed the cowboys, especially when he rode hundreds of miles, spending all day and night in the saddle, without complaint. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

For the first mile or so, I feel high and excited, like I just ran into a burning building and saved lives, like I’m some sort of hero. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The marsh stretched for miles on either side of the road with an ominous symmetry. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was at the edge of the two-lane road leading to Santa Maria, about a quarter of a mile from Bonetti Ranch. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Signal light flashing, they were speeding down the highway at eighty miles an hour when Bruno said, “Wait a minute, you better slow down, look, up ahead—hey! What’s with that guy? Jesus, Granny—STOP!” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Number two lived in New New York, five thousand miles across the blue mountains. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if you’re not near the gym, where you can see the miles of paper links, your phone is always blowing up with notifications that ReelTok has posted another video about it. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

There was a tremendous ripping sound as if two giant hands had torn ten thousand miles of black linen down the seam. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could be seen for many hundreds of miles as we arced across the predawn Pacific sky. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slightly to his right and out ahead about fifteen miles were Anacapa Rocks and Santa Cruz Island, and he wanted to miss them with room to spare. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

We heard the names of islands thousands of miles away where the Japanese were attacking American and Allied bases in the Pacific. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even in the frenzy of the moment, some could still recall that the tide line was a mile away across the sands. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Ged asked after they had gone some miles, seeing no sight of village or farm in any direction, and thinking that they had no food with them. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

He started the engine and drove on another mile or more before stopping again, climbing out, carrying his lunch bucket, and walking to a little promontory where he could look back at that dusty city. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Booth and Herold spurred their horses, riding southeast to their first safe house a few miles away. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

That sore, with its scabbing and yellow pus, looked to have gone from bad to worse and about another mile past that. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Half a mile from the castle, she passed through a large encampment where the scarlet banner of the Blackwoods waved above the lord's tent. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A neutron star has a radius of about ten miles, only a few times the critical radius at which a star becomes a black hole. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was time to be gone: there were many miles to be traveled before the first halt in the warmth of the sun. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally they made it all the way to the port at Saigon, more than five hundred nautical miles south of Da Nang. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“No, indeed. I do not wish to avoid the walk. The distance is nothing, when one has a motive; only three miles. I shall be back by dinner.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

A mile down the road from there was Rainbow Springs Campground, a private campsite with showers and a store. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

They usually travelled back and forth across the same home territory, an area of between several dozen and many hundreds of square miles. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She smiled on him and said: ‘Then it was kindly done, lord, to ride so many miles out of your way to bring tidings to Éowyn, and to speak with her in her exile.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Out there, perhaps a mile away, the white surf flinked on a coral reef, and beyond that the open sea was dark blue. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I guess with three thousand kids spread out over a square mile, it was impossible to watch everyone all the time. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Once, aeons ago, the Appalachians were of a scale and majesty to rival the Himalayas—piercing, snow-peaked, pushing breathtakingly through the clouds to heights of four miles or more. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

‘Many miles lie between,’ said Legolas, gazing thither and shading his eyes with his long hand. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

However, if you wanted to see the atoms in the same drop, you would have to make the drop fifteen miles across. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“It’s miles and miles. I’m going to tell Dada you slapped me.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

From that point on, everything would be run from the control room in Oppenheimer’s bomb shelter, six miles from the blast site. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We follow signs to this long line and my heart starts to beat a thousand miles a minute and I grip my backpack with both hands to keep from falling over. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was David Herold, returning from his overnight stay a few miles south. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tracks were only a half mile around. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, he did so accurately, coming at least to within 10 percent of the modern polar measurement of about 24,860 miles, and perhaps as close as 1 percent. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Malcolm was delighted; he thought he’d be able to paddle for miles without tiring, and camp anywhere, more or less invisibly, and altogether own the water in a quite new way. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Laboratory tests revealed that the obsidian they used was brought from deposits on New Britain, an island 250 miles away. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh! She is thousands of miles away, from me,” said I. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then, under about a mile of bubble wrap, there it is. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Kroeber cut back the tally still further, to 900,000—a population density of less than one person for every six square miles. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The next day, the Welch Daily News said Luna I had missed the moon, but by a mere 3,728 miles. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Pregnant women walked a mile out of their way just to avoid Cleofes and thus ensure that their offspring would not be born missing a nose or a finger or some other priceless appendage. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they moved a mile before they were forced to anchor again; sometimes only half a mile; sometimes it seemed the huge dripping anchors barely broke water before the wind died again. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The President Adams was still a few miles out from land, following the battleships and minesweepers that went ahead of us to enter the bay. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I start to move, it feels like I am trapped twenty miles underwater. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Serena’s house was on Shaker Boulevard, by the middle school, nearly two miles away. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I had a long way, over fifty miles, to get to Conakry, the capital, so I walked fast to take another bus that would get me there. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

A whale passed, long dark shadow two miles out. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like the debris you get on a sea-shore: the wind must have carried some of it for miles and miles before finally coming up against these trees and these two lines of wire. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hobbits had gone a few weary miles when they halted. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Heavy fighting between forces loyal to the Bosnian government and Serbian irregulars was taking place in Eastern Herzogovina, about fifty miles from the playing site. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Couple of miles later—click on the turn signal, check the mirrors—I turn left into the lot of the Gateway Motel. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

It was about eighteen miles to Bywater, and they set off at ten o’clock in the morning. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The lecture evolves into a list of commandments: You will not count all the miles that are left. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

This one made it past the anti-aircraft guns and came in just as planned, easy peasy, about 70 miles north of here, on Mon. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I am falling into the eye of a whirlpool almost seven miles deep. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Burnt forests for miles along the slopes and snow sooner than he would have thought. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“I’m more comf-table being on land when I’m fishing. I live a couple miles downriver and this time of year the fishing’s better up here.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Back home, we couldn’t see a neighbor for miles. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

The troops would be under fire with more than a mile to walk. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The train beat on itself and danced on the shiny steel rails mile after mile. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Like no one really caring that I'm running a mile—1600 meters—faster than they can probably run a block. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I can’t believe that someone I don’t even know, who lives thousands of miles away, could have so much in common with me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

After three or four miles I came to the snow line and there ex-changed crampons for skis. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first American race, run around Evanston, Illinois, had been held only eight years before, with the winning car ripping along at the dizzying average speed of seven and a half miles per hour. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sits in the football stadium while we dribble our five miles. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were students at the University of Michigan, in one of the northernmost states in America, which meant they were sufficiently cosmopolitan to travel hundreds of miles from the south to go to college. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

On rainy days, the room smelled musty and dank from all the coats hanging in the back, soaking wet from their owners having walked miles in the rain to get there. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I wonder if I can smell the smoke of their wood fires, more than thirty miles away, or if it is only our fort’s fires I am smelling. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

All the smells from miles around are filtering past his nose. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But by the end of the first mile of the four-mile varsity course, the two western schools had pulled out well in front of all the easterners. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Instead they may have been made from animal skin, a readily available resource; though soft beneath the foot, fragile-looking hide vessels have been known to traverse hundreds of miles of open water. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Well, we probably just appeared on the smell radar for every monster within five miles. We’d better get moving.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

But the color is still miles away from the rest of my skin. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

A guard tower rose from the fence line about a quarter mile to the north of where the prisoners chopped wood. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

‘Well, we all like walking in the dark,’ he said, ‘so let’s put some miles behind us before bed.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

At 1:00 a.m. on February 20, Lier-Hansen parked his car under a clump of trees about a mile from the ferry dock. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were twenty-five or thirty miles from the bars on the other side of the reservation boundary line. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

But they usually stayed on 66, where there was a bar every ten or fifteen miles, or “every six-pack,” as Harley liked to say. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was in Mason, Michigan, about twelve miles from Lansing. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I could walk a thousand miles, my dear.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Ever since the new mall opened, there’s been no reason to come here except for the bakery, which has the best cupcakes for miles. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

On June 6, Ulbrickson took the varsity and JV out for one final four- mile trial. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Jinny looked out at the water, at the miles of gray-blue that ended at the wall of mist. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

His bark comes next, ready to alert people for miles and miles about the truck approaching. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I have a friend in New York who always runs up stairs a mile a minute. Says it keeps him from getting out of breath. Why don’t you try it?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Once, fifty miles down the valley, my father bored a well. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The gym was at the other end of the school, a quarter of a mile away at least, separated from us by a field of ice. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The colored part of town seems so far away when, evidently, it’s only a few miles from the white part of town. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

We were skimming along approximately sixty miles above the moon’s pockmarked surface. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She, who had never been more than fifty miles from her birthplace, learned to traverse the maze of Spanish-named streets in that enigma that is Los Angeles. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The song of Here still feels like it’s being sung, even if I can’t hear it, even if it’s miles away back on the plain. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

They will find their way into rivers and streams, and even travel for miles out into oceans, where they will choke fish and endanger marine mammals. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The day dawned clear, and although we had to travel only a mile to the other end of town, the whole family, including Granddaddy, piled into the long-bed wagon. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Many miles away the chilly mist that had pressed against the Prime Minister’s windows drifted over a dirty river that wound between overgrown, rubbish-strewn banks. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The path of the cyclone was several miles wide and several miles long. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could pilots navigate these powerful planes—traveling at hundreds of miles an hour—while looking at the cockpit gauges, listening to the radio, evading antiaircraft fire, and dogfighting? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She tracked them through miles of rain forest, over fallen logs and into creeks, past gnarled thickets of thorns and stagnant pools buzzing with mosquitoes. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

At first I thought it was a few miles away, but it was much closer. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could always hear them half a mile off. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

North Vietnamese units were shelling the city from just two miles away. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Coming in at number fourteen in the rankings, I’d missed making the thirteen-woman team by a hair, but it might as well have been a mile. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Twelve billion gallons of water suddenly decided to make a run for the Pacific Ocean, which is about fifty miles from here. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“By all accounts,” said Brother Luke, “this forest goeth for miles, and it may well be that we shall not come out of it by nightfall.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I’d almost forgotten that Annie’s being on the cross country team meant that anything under ten miles was a warm-up for her. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Here’s a tip, Alcyoneus. Next time you choose the biggest state for your home, don’t set up base in the part that’s only ten miles wide. Welcome to Canada, idiot.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He speaks about a hundred miles an hour. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

No, the men could not do 130 miles in the Caird. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The place was miles back from where we were, but cops can spread the word about what happens in different places mad quick through their system. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Many hours, at maybe 160 miles an hour. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Huge ocean rollers swept toward them, and the three boats began clawing up waves whose faces were a quarter of a mile long. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The schoolhouse with the teacher’s log room adjoining it stood almost a mile from the Creighton cabin. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t explain why I wanted to drive one hundred twenty-five miles to ask an old man with memory problems what he and my mom knew about the white sharks coming to Massachusetts. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

When they were still well out from shore, a pilot boat came to meet the Henry, and the pilot conducted them to anchorage a mile off Bourbon. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whereupon a mile and a half of blundering fishermen went berserk, jumping into the stream and charging after the prey with everything except hatchets and hand grenades. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A human noisemaker flooding the woods with laughter and scaring away all fish within a quarter of a mile. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Washington made camp at Whitemarsh, about 12 miles northwest of Philadelphia, and planned his next move. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a fisherman who claims to have seen a German submarine just off Amity Harbor. A periscope—he followed it for half a mile. Do you think that can be true?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

They were about twenty miles from their hometown of Cedar, Washington, rumbling along a winding highway. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

The edge of the Southeast Asian mainland then lay 700 miles east of its present location. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The six survey sites from which the summit had been triangulated were in northern India, more than a hundred miles from the mountain. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Spreading south at a mere one mile per month, those pioneers would have reached the southern tip of South America only 700 years after crossing the Canadian border. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the number five seat, Stub McMillin realized with astonishment that he was still breathing through his nose after three full miles of rowing. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Jesse was nineteen, a graduate of Middleton High, in an even smaller and emptier town a few miles away. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wandering along the grassy flats above shoreline a mile from camp, he came upon a huge driftwood log. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

We sailed along, wrapped wholly and firmly together, flying twenty miles, twenty miles, twenty miles, twenty miles. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Thirty-four years later and thousands of miles west, Abdulrahman Zeitoun was in bed on a Friday morning, slowly leaving the moonless Jableh night, a tattered memory of it caught in a morning dream. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

All he knew was that the French commander was somewhere in the Ohio wilderness, about 300 miles from Williamsburg. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bishop looked just like Father Baraga, the priest who walked miles in his snowshoes to baptize, stealing souls from the other mission and also from the manitous. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Sam viewed the hollow with great dislike, now that he had heard news of their enemies on the Road, only a few miles away. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

At Kabati, we ate, rested a bit, and started the last six miles. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He thought my Observations on Fashion exceeding Seasonable & we retired some miles down the Road and purchased him a Shirt out of some Negro cloth & some Breeches, which we got at a very fine Price. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The town square, and beyond that, their school, were a little more than a mile away. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Friday afternoon, and from right here I could see three miles of land that hadn't even been broken, and every able bodied man in the county in town at that show. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was all you could say that was good about Arabella: terrific air—you could see for miles. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Washburn is within a quarter mile of the bridge, his force largely intact. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

TWenty miles through the jungle is a very long trip. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mile and a half takes no time at all. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He had said they lived hundreds of miles to the south on a different island. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Three days later, his jacket and knapsack were found abandoned, miles into the woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Mile after mile after mile after mile, and everything became grayer and more monotonous. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the time, the ice pack extended two thousand miles south of the Bering Strait and was almost devoid of life. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The earth travels twenty miles per second, and it pulls the moon along through space. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The day before I returned to England, I drove seven miles along the mountain range, then turned onto a narrow dirt road and stopped in front of a powder-blue house. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She can’t go forward, because forward is more miles of self-imposed punishment—flat back-country roads plus the heat of summer, red T-shirts, and the inconceivable and undeserving support of strangers. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Buka lies out of sight of the closest island to the west and could have been reached only by crossing a water gap of about 100 miles. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh my gods, how did the Princess Andromeda travel so far overnight? That’s like—” “Five hundred and thirty nautical miles,” I said. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Cole flung the rock, even though the bear was nearly a quarter mile away. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

We have now followed the initial stages of the Austronesian expansion for 2,500 miles from the South China coast, through Taiwan and the Philippines, to western and central Indonesia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Estraven was not so worried as I by the hundreds of miles that still lay ahead of us. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was perhaps two miles to Hang Wood, which ran up along the ridge. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The walk isn’t that bad— it’s not like she made me hike ten miles through a snowstorm uphill in both directions or anything. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The program for Redwing included the first airborne drop of a thermonuclear device, which created an enormous fireball four miles in diameter when it detonated fifteen thousand feet over Bikini. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

If the number of field agents expected to see that the law was carried out was pitifully small, the resources devoted to patrolling the nation’s 4,993 miles of coastline were pathetic. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He Would not be better now until he had put this entire state somewhere about a thousand miles away from him. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The sophomores seemed to get smoother with every pull of the oar, and they had been closing fast at the end of that third mile. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They had cut across country at one point through several miles of deep spruce and cedar swamp, so that the going was, alternately, soft and dry and strewn with needles, then damp and spongy. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first few miles the Stampede Trail was well graded and led past cabins scattered among weedy stands of spruce and aspen. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten years later, the Maine Appalachian Trail Club rerouted 263 miles of trail—half its total length across the state—removing the trail from logging roads and putting it back in the wilds. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Depending on the wind, a faint echo of massive artillery could be heard occasionally across the mountains near Sarajevo seventy miles to the north. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

By contrast with Monte Alban, these were minuscule entities; most were clusters of rustic villages covering ten to twenty square miles. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He might as well have been a billion miles away with his hangover. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Otherwise, miles of farmland surrounded Hatfield, even though it was less than an hour away from a major American city. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The other crew took off, flew two miles, and crashed, killing the pilot and navigator. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Just twenty-one miles of it—less than 1 percent of the total—are on public roads, mostly on bridges and where it passes through towns. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Far ahead and to their right the Misty Mountains loomed; ever darker and taller they grew as the miles went by. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Now I was drinking sugary tea with Zalabia Bedouins and squatting on a sand drift in Wadi Rum, the Valley of the Moon, less than twenty miles from the Saudi Arabian border. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Constantine lived about a mile from our house, in a small Negro neighborhood called Hotstack, named after the tar plant that used to operate back there. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Were at least ten miles out of the city. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A quarter of a mile farther on the young dog looked carefully around before dropping his rabbit. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

FINN: In eight or nine hours, we will be more than half a million miles away from exactly this spot, no matter which way we go. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Except for the ten miles of Gombe shoreline, the hills along much of the lake have lost all their trees. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

That could put her sixty miles from here. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was perhaps a hundred fifty million miles back, in February, I got into a fight with Blake Grunwald. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Often, my shadow would scare me and cause me to run for miles. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It’s a volcano nearly sixteen miles high, and it takes up more square mileage than the entire state of Oregon. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Her hair is twisted together on both sides, and she is huffing and puffing like we had to run two miles. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Violet lived in a suburb that was a few hundred miles away from my suburb, so while we drove we had a little time to talk before we got to the party. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we could make twenty miles a day. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

And this statement he abruptly followed with, “By gum, Mr. Lavadie, 1 sure have took me a lot of miles in my life!” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Barely three miles into the journey the wreck had broken up during a thunder squall and gone down in twenty-two feet of water. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Cold air masses sliding down the sides of the glaciers speed up until they become winds of close to 200 miles per hour. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

If they took to the sea again, they faced another perilous journey 130 miles around the tip of South Georgia to the whaling stations. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I knew it was near where Tent City used to be, about a mile south of the city dump. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was a small body of water, maybe only a mile around. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had taken notice of a small rock formation in the distance, jutting into the sea a few miles down the shore. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

His mom already moved out and took an apartment a few miles away. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

On May 17, it had taken him a doddering 1:49 to negotiate a mile, a time even slower than Seabiscuit’s. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were still 600 miles from the nearest coastline and hadn’t even crossed the Antarctic Circle. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Olmsted himself had said of Jackson Park: “If a search had been made for the least parklike ground within miles of the city, nothing better meeting the requirement could have been found.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I won’t say we bounded up, but considering that we had almost 4,500 feet of climb in a little over three miles, we walked at a pretty steady clip. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Shirley understood why her father had brought her ten thousand miles to live among strangers. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The driveway ran straight for about half a mile, then curved to the east. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he slung his backpack over his shoulder and nodded down the road and we set off, two miles, and it wasn’t any twenty-one degrees. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

The fastest a human could run a mile, he wrote, was 4:01.6. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

I’d just discovered a whole new continent only a few miles away. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I spent the next mile in deep worry. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luke was distraught and kept asking for me, but luckily, Lake Mag was less than two miles from where they lived, and the staff allowed me to visit him at the Merritts’ home. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He has to deliver them to a neighbor about twenty miles away. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

All those miles and days had been across a houseless, speechless desolation: rock, ice, sky, and silence: nothing else, for eighty-one days, except each other. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10,000 miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

But what does a court-martial a hundred miles behind the front-line know about it? All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plus it's hundreds of miles away from here. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Riding in open country about ten miles south of Washington, John Wilkes Booth and David Herold would soon reach their own safe house. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

At nine in the morning, there was nothing more than a light chop on Lake Washington, a typical gray, late fall day with light winds out of the southeast at perhaps five miles per hour. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

For the first time I wish we had to run the mile in PE. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

It was four miles before he could flag a car down. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They actually have to send a cook to one of their stores a few miles away for ingredients. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were thousands of miles from Long Island, hundreds of miles inland. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

In a hundred miles we passed two oases, the first at Olancha, the second around Lone Pine, a small, tree-filled town where a lot of mountain buffs turn off for the Mount Whitney Portal. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nylon mesh was attached to it, stretching out on either side for miles and miles to keep the tigers inside the reserve. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

And no one knew how many more miles the river ran. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

By the time the sun reached center stage, a punctuation mark in the cloud-lined sky, I was miles into the woods. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

They all lived in a brick house that Elizebeth’s grandfather had built, on the Smith family farm in Union Township, a few miles east of Huntington, Indiana. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I heard that caddies were wanted and I tramped five miles to the golf links. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even so, in a few miles, we turned off and took an older, slower road that would loop hack into the highway before Marshall. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

People up to a thousand miles away would be knocked off their feet and sliced or clobbered by a blizzard of flying projectiles. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

As Easter Sunday dawns, Herold and Booth are camped in a grove of pine trees a quarter mile off the main road. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

After more than 1,100 miles on interstates, it’s finally time to exit. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“There is another village a mile from here. We need to go now. We have to use every bit of strength we have.” The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was at a farm a couple of miles from our development. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

On Sunday Burnham attended a memorial service for Root at Root’s Astor Place house and his burial in Graceland Cemetery, a charming haven for the well-heeled dead a few miles north of the Loop. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He walked three miles a day for exercise. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z