No man in a gig could have such interest in the milestones.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
At first I was helped-you'd never guess by what-milestones.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
To-day I walked past the milestones-ten, seven, four, three, one-and then into Bapaume, and did not die, though to tell the truth death missed me only a yard or two.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs