Rite of passage

Usage examples of milestone.

Year 2 the Kayles had taken up a sixty-four-acre Town grant farm out Milestone Road, about halfway to Sconset, a little south of Gibbs Pond.

Anio Novus, like the Vetus, was at first derived from the river of the same name at the forty-second milestone of the road to Subiaco, great precautions being taken for purifying the water.

And yet it may be pardonable arrogance on our part to say that at this first milestone in our educational career we pause here long enough to take an inventory of what the Negro teacher has done and is still doing in the matter of uplifting his people.

So long-drawn and inconsequential a thing is history--the anamorphous shadow of a milestone reaching down the road between us and the setting sun.

Now this latest milestone: Eight current or former Miami policemen busted in the past week for a smorgasbord of drug crimes, including the ever-popular trafficking of cocaine.

The road from Eastthorpe running westerly and parallel with the river at a distance of about a mile from it sends out at the fourth milestone a byroad to the south, which crosses the river by a stone bridge, and there is no doubt that before the bridge existed there was a ford, and that there was also a chapel hard by where people probably commended their souls to God before taking the water.

All the others had passed by this milestone decades, or centuries, or, in the case of the ancient Dancer Indo, millennia prior.

But it will serve to indicate the four quadrants and a handful of their milestones up to the present.

Persons McDermidhad a certain alliterative charm, but the alliteration seemed strained inMcDermid Reaches a Milestone.

To these milestones of fantastic literature, it is our privilege to add one more masterpiece, Merlin’s Ring.

Figure 4-1 lists some of the milestones in the evolution of the outward forms of individual holons, and alongside them some of the corresponding milestones in the emergent forms of consciousness that I suggest are correlated with them.

Every step we've taken in our evolution is a milestone inscribed with organic memories--from the enzymes controlling the carbon dioxide cycle to the organisation of the brachial plexus and the nerve pathways of the Pyramid cells in the mid-brain, each is a record of a thousand decisions taken in the face of a sudden physico-chemical crisis.

The timer still floating over Antarctica decremented toward the next mission milestone.

An incarnating soul is born with the broad outlines in his life that he must eventually pass, but the time that he spends between these milestones is his own, and he must use these experiences to learn as much as he can, and do as much good as he can.

He discovered he had started now with the statement that this was another milestone in newscasting history—the first direct report from pseudospace or Space Three.