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
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
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
A long & tedious ride, one & a quarter Swedish mile from town.
From Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
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