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She seized the lead in the final furlong and never looked back.furlong = 220 yards (1/8 of a mile)
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Today the term furlong is used most in horse racing.
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And then, as they reached the final furlong, my yelling began to die away.† (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)furlongs = a unit of length equal to 220 yards (1/8 of a mile)
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How many furlongs it is.† (source)
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It is no more than a furlong off, I guess.† (source)
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First, jockeys must have an exquisitely fine sense of pace over each furlong, or eighth of a mile.† (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)furlongs = a unit of length equal to 220 yards (1/8 of a mile)
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We followed him out to the tap, which was about a furlong away.† (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 are now within a furlong of the castle.† (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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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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A delicate spire of an ancient building rose up from out of the trees in the middle distance, with a few grey houses clustered about it; while nearer to us, in fact not half a furlong from the water, was a quite modern stone house—a wide quadrangle of one story, the buildings that made it being quite low.† (source)
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24:13 And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs.† (source)
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