Bereaved man's hired girl told the agent that the bereaved man was splitting fence rails "over in pastur, about two MILDS."
"The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, Part 1"
Charles Farrar Browne
The road is thirty MILDS long, and if we tried it we shouldn't git here till they had done blowin'."
"Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife"
Marietta Holley
Do jest see them great waves and fields of lava, MILDS and MILDS of 'em, once jest melted fire, rollin' on and rollin' on-what a sight!"
"Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife"
Marietta Holley