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Swedish mile

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noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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

From Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

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

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

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

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