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milestone

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milestone
a stone pillar that shows the distance in miles to or from a place


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Golden Milestone was the beautiful name the Awkward Man had given his home; and there was a mystery about it, as readers of the first volume of these chronicles will recall.
Each gave a start at the notes, and, walking onward yet a few steps, they reached the first milestone, standing whitely on the green margin of the grass, and backed by the down, which here was open to the road.
As she was looking at the milestone she felt some drops falling on her face--it was beginning to rain.
 
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