Swedish mile

British  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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