Swedish mile
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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We had gone about a Swedish mile when the postilions stopped to feed the horses before a house on the Russian side.
From Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland by Taylor, Bayard
For the distance of a quarter of a Swedish mile it is surrounded with fertile corn-fields, which are bounded by hills, and the view is terminated by spacious forests.
From Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 by Linn?, Carl von
Now a Swedish mile is nearly equal to seven English, so that the station was at least twenty miles long.
From The Junior Classics — Volume 7 Stories of Courage and Heroism by Patten, William
Accordingly he descended the river in great force and fume, and erected a rival fortress just one Swedish mile below Fort Casimir, to which he gave the name of Helsenburg.
From Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete by Irving, Washington
The expense, including the postillions and other incidental things, does not amount to more than a shilling the Swedish mile.
From Letters on Sweden, Norway, and Denmark by Wollstonecraft, Mary
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