Numbered marker along a road or boundary.
1Every mile post took them farther from the gypsies, and nearer the hotel.
2They are passing the mile post now, and Prothero is twelve or fourteen lengths ahead.
3The mile post flashed by, but Eugene could barely sit erect, much less note the time.
4It had been a hard run, and the Chelton lawyer had only turned back at the last mile post.
5A mile post a little further along told him that he had covered just twenty miles of his journey.
6When he stopped under the bank opposite the half- mile post he dismounted more spryly than one would have expected.
7Before the mile post was reached it became evident that Telegraph had taken the game entirely out of his master's hands.
8We hold this end of the Charleston Railroad, and have destroyed it from the three- mile post back to the bridge (about twelve miles).
9Now, Graham, I will bet a couple of baskets of Heidseick that my royal Telegraph will make the first mile post in 2.30.
10It's all one river, and the mile posts are calendar pages.
11One by one the mile posts whizzed past and finally we came into Melun.
12Ira M. Schoemaker and Company-Lawrenceto Mile Post one hundred and forty- adistanceof one hundred miles.
13Schoemaker and Miller-MilePost one hundred and forty to Mile Post four hundred and five-twohundred and sixty miles.
14"I have not observed the quarter- mile posts," said I.
15"At the bottom of a railroad embankment, about five miles back, according to the mile posts."
16Even then he kept close under the bank until they had passed two of the quarter- mile posts that had been planted in the hard sand.
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