Sentences with phrase «circle of a few miles»
He told me that, after inviting his particular friends, legislators, members of the bar, and others, from adjoining counties and distant neighborhoods, he had put a negro boy upon a horse and directed him to go to every family, rich and poor, within a circle of a few miles around his home, and invite them all to the wedding.
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Although there are permanent settlements and even a few cities with more than 100,000 citizens located within the Arctic Circle, there are no nations with a capital city located within its boundary area (though the island nation of Iceland comes closest, with its capital city, Reykjavik, sitting just 168 miles / 270 kilometers south of the circle).