1 For a league they had to creep from rock to rock, until at length they discovered an extensive plain, bounded by inaccessible mountains.
2 A quarter of a league further on, he arrived at the bottom of a little valley, where there is water which passes beneath an arch made through the embankment of the road.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES 3 They formed a front a quarter of a league in extent.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE UNEXPECTED 4 Napoleon three-quarters of a league; Wellington, half a league; seventy-two thousand combatants on each side.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? 5 Waterloo took no part, and lay half a league from the scene of action.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT 6 At a quarter of a league from the city.
7 It was time; for they had scarcely sailed half a league, when d'Artagnan saw a flash and heard a detonation.
8 An envoy of the Duke of Buckingham, named Montague, was taken, and proof was obtained of a league between the German Empire, Spain, England, and Lorraine.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 43 THE SIGN OF THE RED DOVECOT 9 This league was directed against France.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 43 THE SIGN OF THE RED DOVECOT 10 If the league which threatened France triumphed, all his influence would be lost.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 43 THE SIGN OF THE RED DOVECOT 11 He immediately ran in the direction of Portsmouth, which he saw at nearly half a league before him, standing out in the haze of the morning, with its houses and towers.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 59 WHAT TOOK PLACE AT PORTSMOUTH AUGUST 23, 1628 12 At the end of three-quarters of a league, within fifty paces of Festubert, a larger bloodstain appeared; the ground was trampled by horses.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 64 THE MAN IN THE RED CLOAK 13 The grandmother lived out in the wood, half a league from the village, and just as Little Red-Cap entered the wood, a wolf met her.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In LITTLE RED-CAP [LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD] 14 'A good quarter of a league farther on in the wood; her house stands under the three large oak-trees, the nut-trees are just below; you surely must know it,' replied Little Red-Cap.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In LITTLE RED-CAP [LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD] 15 The islands of Tiboulen and Lemaire are a league from the Chateau d'If; Dantes, nevertheless, determined to make for them.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.