Swedish mile

noun

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

Example Sentences

Despite the lack of official financial and moral support, small shoots of revival are emerging from Älvdalen in the forested hills, 40 Swedish miles – 400km – northwest of Stockholm.

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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.

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

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We made two Swedish miles by noon, and then took a breakfast of fried reindeer meat and pancakes, of which we ate enormously, to keep up a good supply of fuel.

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The isle of Œland is near the continent, extending itself in length by the shore eighteen Swedish miles, but hath not in breadth in any place above two Swedish miles.

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