Everywhere else it had been ploughed under when the highways were surveyed; this
half-mile or so within the pasture fence was all that was left of that old road which used to run like a wild thing across the open prairie, clinging to the high places and circling and doubling like a rabbit before the hounds.
I tried several times more in the course of that long
half-mile. Then, astounded by the quantity of beer that was lacking, and remembering having seen stale beer made to foam afresh, I took a stick and stirred what was left till it foamed to the brim.
Whether the man was partly blind or only very careless I can't say, but he drove me with that stone in my foot for a good
half-mile before he saw anything.
Within a
half-mile of it he met Bushrod Albro, a former playfellow and schoolmate, who greeted him warmly.
- is doubtless a great man; in his large gardens and that
half-mile of greenhouses, where he has probably ripened his intellect and temper, he may say what he will to his hired vassals, but (as the Scotch say) - here
The
half-mile course lay the length of the village, through its heart, from the beach where the Arangi had been burned to the beach at the other end of the sea-wall.
"It's a good
half-mile," said Charles, stepping into the garden.
As the sun rose on the second day of our flight it disclosed the pursuing horde not a
half-mile in our rear.
Most likely he had gone for a glass of beer Martin decided, but the
half-mile walk down to the village to find out seemed a long journey to him.
on the Solar Lit Trails at Pleasant Valley in Woodstock (
half-mile beginner loop) or Hickory Grove Highlands in Cary (one mile intermediate loop).