Both Uses of
furlong
in
The Horse and His Boy
- And so, in a day's riding or a little more, he shall come to the head of a stony valley, which is so narrow that a man might be within a furlong of it a thousand times and never know that it was there.†
Chpt 5 *
- We are now within a furlong of the castle.†
Chpt 11
Definition:
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(furlong) a unit of length equal to 220 yards (1/8 of a mile)