land mile

Having sailed about one and a half land miles, you return to shore.

'What is the difference between a sea and a land mile, tell?'

Eventually, when they sighted a dim lump of land miles away, she was sure there were cows upon it.

That's three hundred and thirty-five land miles from Nairobi.

Such creatures as the shark dash through the water at approximately sixty land miles an hour."

But, again, he was careful, and made his landing miles away and his approach on foot.

In reality, the early bombing effort was a complete failure, with the majority of bombs landing miles away from their intended targets.

We could land miles from it."

That's about one hundred land miles.

"Forty land miles," the skipper told him.

In one incident, a balloon carrying White escaped and carried her across the Hudson River into a storm, before landing miles away.

Stephano is swaggering as usual, claiming that he swam "five-and-thirty leagues" (around 120 land miles) to reach the shore.

While the Dark Elves fought on the beaches another force of High Elves had landed miles away.

We skirted the mountains and the edge of the ancient forest all that day, and by the late afternoon, we had left the settled farming lands miles behind.

While Hercules and a few feathered friends will be doing air miles, taking the shortest route home, exactly 246.3 miles, we'll be doing 300 land miles on windy roads.

The Supreme Court ruled 5 to 3 today that coastal states own or may have some rights to all the lands affected by the ebb and flow of the tides, including land miles from the ocean.

Alitalia Flight 023 took off to the northeast and flew out over twenty or so land miles of the arid Syrian plain before banking with an avian grace and turning back toward the Mediterranean.

The exact length of the land mile varied slightly among English-speaking countries until the international yard and pound agreement in 1959 established the yard as exactly 0.9144 metres, giving a mile of exactly 1,609.344 metres.

As the descent began, Armstrong and Aldrin found that they were passing landmarks on the surface 4 seconds early and reported that they were "long"; they would land miles west of their target point.

The pirate boats are typically equipped with several outboard motors on the back, allowing them to go up to three times as fast as the tankers, which lumber along at 11 knots, the equivalent of 13 land miles an hour.

David Ray Griffin and Alex Jones say that large parts of the plane including the main body of the engine landed miles away from the main wreckage site, too far away for an ordinary plane crash.

But the proposal has drawn unusual attention because it raises a host of regional issues: traffic congestion, water quality, property values, business viability, the effects of Interstate 287 and even the development of land miles from here in New York State.

It wandered across the wide, rich, silty plain like a piece of dropped string, but sometimes a flash flood or even a big fallen tree would cause it to crack like a whip, throwing coils of river round areas of land miles from its previous bed.

Each coastal state along the Atlantic coast owns the territory extending three nautical miles (3.45 statute, or land miles) from the shore at mean low tide, and has jurisdiction to decide whether or not, and under what terms, to lease the territory for oil and gas.

Unlike pre-metric Old Earth, Safehold's sea miles and land miles were the same length, which meant that if bothDawn and the square-rigger were traveling at speeds of six knots,Dawn would make the sixty miles dead to windward in fifteen hours, while the square-rigger would require thirty.