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a unit of length equal to 220 yards (1/8 of a mile)

She seized the lead in the final furlong and never looked back.

That the mother and father, unknown to one another, were dwelling within so many miles, furlongs, yards if you like, of one another.
Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations
We followed him out to the tap, which was about a furlong away.
Kamala Markandaya -- Nectar in a Sieve
So long a space As a swift walker on a measured way Would pace a furlong's course in, there she lay Speechless, with veiled lids.
Euripides -- Medea
Miss Furlong, may I get you a partner, Mr. Bergin.
James Joyce -- Dubliners
His tormented body rolled not in brine but in blood, which bubbled and seethed for furlongs behind in their wake.
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
The gallery now began to trend downwards in a horizontal direction, with about two inches of fall in every furlong.
Jules Verne -- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
And then, as they reached the final furlong, my yelling began to die away.
Jojo Moyes -- Me Before You
They galloped their ponies over the last furlongs, and halted under the long shadows of the trees.
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Fellowship of the Ring
Now the main retreat was scarcely two furlongs distant.
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Return of the King
First, jockeys must have an exquisitely fine sense of pace over each furlong, or eighth of a mile.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Seabiscuit
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.
Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park
Thus leisurely I hastened on my road; Much thought extends a furlong to a league.
Sophocles -- Antigone
—Tomorrow, sir, said Tom Furlong's voice.
James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The eaves of the forest were very near, probably no more than three furlongs away, but they could go no further.
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Two Towers
At first King of Pain was far in the lead and I Got the Hungries was some twelve furlongs back.
Stephen King -- Misery
Our praises are our wages; you may ride 's With one soft kiss a thousand furlongs ere With spur we heat an acre.
William Shakespeare -- The Winter's Tale
Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground; long heath, brown furze, any thing.
William Shakespeare -- The Tempest
How many furlongs it is.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
Alas, said King Arthur, this is a great mischief, I had liefer than the best realm that I have that I had been a furlong way to-fore him for to have rescued that lady.
Thomas Malory -- Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume I

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