Swedish mile

British  

noun

1. a unit of length used in Sweden, equal to 10 kilometres

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Example Sentences

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

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

We had nearly a Swedish mile, and it was just dark when we descended to the Umeå River, across whose solid surface we drove, and up a steep bank into the town.

From Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland by Taylor, Bayard

A long & tedious ride, one & a quarter Swedish mile from town.

From Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Higginson, Thomas Wentworth