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Meanings of whole mile in English

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Usage of whole mile in English
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In three minutes, a whole mile of shoreless ocean was between Pip and Stubb.
Moby Dick
2
Rodney's face lit straight up; but for a whole mile he made no answer.
The Other Girls
3
It must be a whole mile long, Daddy!
Martian V.F.W.
4
The Swami ran after them for a whole mile, giving it hot to everyone in his way.
From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan
5
They combed its waters over every rod of the whole mile where the fresh-water clams seemed to exist.
With Trapper Jim in the North Woods
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From the summit of the rock is descried a sheet of foam, extending the length of a whole mile.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...
7
That's nearly a whole mile.
Serena
8
After dinner on Sunday we again went forward with a whole mile of paddling to cheer us on our way.
A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador
9
From these results Mr. Dobson amused himself in discovering just how long it took those two donkeys to run the whole mile.
Amusements in Mathematics
10
Arriving at length at a shoulder of the hill round which the road turned, a whole mile of the brook lay before them.
What's Mine's Mine — Volume 1
11
But to dig up all the places where treasure might be buried along a whole mile of coast was not to be thought of.
Our Pirate Hoard / 1891
12
For a whole mile we followed the windings of the Central Sea, when suddenly an important change took place in the aspect of the soil.
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
13
Beyond them was a ragged gap of a whole mile without a man, left bare by the chase of Sickles' division now ten miles away.
The Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln
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What disgust to find our periphery thus three whole miles smaller than it need have been!
Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885
15
Streets ran whole miles, on their sides stand ruined palaces, and marble pillars lie on the ground.
From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan
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"It is two whole miles; and we can't lay my leg up in the gig: besides its being so cold."
The Crofton Boys
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