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furlong
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    But they had not gone more than a furlong when the storm returned with fresh fury.†  (source)
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    How many furlongs it is.†  (source)
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    His tormented body rolled not in brine but in blood, which bubbled and seethed for furlongs behind in their wake.†  (source)
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    We are now within a furlong of the castle.†  (source)
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    That the mother and father, unknown to one another, were dwelling within so many miles, furlongs, yards if you like, of one another.†  (source)
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    We followed him out to the tap, which was about a furlong away.†  (source)
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    A ray of light, beginning at a height immeasurably beyond the nearest stars, and dropping obliquely to the earth; at its top, a diminishing point; at its base, many furlongs in width; its sides blending softly with the darkness of the night, its core a roseate electrical splendor.†  (source)
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    Miss Furlong, may I get you a partner, Mr. Bergin.†  (source)
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    Had he been less, had he reached only the common measure of great authors, of Bacon, Milton, Tasso,[652] Cervantes,[653] we might leave the fact in the twilight of human fate: but, that this man of men, he who gave to the science of mind a new and larger subject than had ever existed, and planted the standard of humanity some furlongs forward into Chaos,—that he should not be wise for himself,—it must even go into the world's history, that the best poet led an obscure and profane life, using his genius for the public amusement.†  (source)
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    We looked down the whole vista, and saw it closed by iron gates, and it could not have been more than a furlong in length.†  (source)
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    At first King of Pain was far in the lead and I Got the Hungries was some twelve furlongs back.†  (source)
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    The Young Man's Best Companion, The Farrier's Sure Guide, The Veterinary Surgeon, Paradise Lost, The Pilgrim's Progress, Robinson Crusoe, Ash's Dictionary, and Walkingame's Arithmetic, constituted his library; and though a limited series, it was one from which he had acquired more sound information by diligent perusal than many a man of opportunities has done from a furlong of laden shelves.†  (source)
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    A vast pulpy mass, furlongs in length and breadth, of a glancing cream-colour, lay floating on the water, innumerable long arms radiating from its centre, and curling and twisting like a nest of anacondas, as if blindly to clutch at any hapless object within reach.†  (source)
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