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The train we had so confidently boarded had been speeding at almost 100 miles an hour and it had derailed. Someone, I can't remember who, showed me a newspaper photograph of the carriage we had been sitting in tilted on its side on a station platform next to a large notice that said Welcome to Potters Bar.


Nina Bawden


#bar #been #carriage #confidently #had

Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.


Buffalo Bill


#buffaloes #command #killed #major #miles

So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley.


Buffalo Bill


#became #creek #death #fast #father

Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles - a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.


Buffalo Bill


#average #averaging #beginning #built #close

The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.


Buffalo Bill


#began #better #better time #day #days

You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.


Ellen DeGeneres


#five #grandmother #hell #know #miles

We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio.


Kenneth Blackwell


#miles #ohio #square #square miles

I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a lesson. People forget too often how it was back then.


Bruce Dern


#back #followed #forget #how #hundred

My school was six miles away from where I lived on the farm. I had to walk and run, there and back every day, through gorges and over rivers. If I was late, there was a very big stick waiting for me.


Haile Gebrselassie


#back #big #day #every #every day

My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of town and he died when I was six. He was remarkably curious about the world, and he read lots of books.


Umberto Eco


#books #curious #died #even #grandfather