marine league
Americannoun
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In Spain people never count by miles; the land league equals three miles, and the marine league four miles.
From De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera by MacNutt, Francis Augustus
Steaming beyond the marine league, I hauled the transport alongside, and we got on board from her the remainder of our armament, and stores.
From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael
It has been said that the Proserpine, when this incident occurred, was off the point of the Campanella, distance about half a marine league.
From The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet by Cooper, James Fenimore
She was steering for Flores, and probably, like the Starlight, had her eye on the marine league.
From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael
All this time the two mates came steadily on, until the whole of the little fleet of boats was, by this time, not less than a marine league distant from the schooners.
From The Sea Lions The Lost Sealers by Cooper, James Fenimore
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