mile-post

The student of social things sees another mile-post in the triumphant march of union labor; he is sorry that blood and rapine should mark its march,—but, what will you?

DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

After some initial confusion about the precise mile-post, Ridgway told detectives that milepost 34 brought back memories.

The Riverman Robert D. Keppel 2005

After some initial confusion about the precise mile-post, Ridgway told detectives that milepost 34 brought back memories.

The Riverman Robert D. Keppel 2005

After some initial confusion about the precise mile-post, Ridgway told detectives that milepost 34 brought back memories.

The Riverman Robert D. Keppel 2005

Perry gang going to throw No. 17 off track near -- xth mile-post, this division, about nine to-morrow

Stories by American Authors, Volume 6 Various

Or perhaps they would see a dim white speck ahead or the black outlines of a rocky spur where the track disappeared and they would comfort themselves with the thought that around that particular curve or beyond that mile-post they would see buildings.

Every Man for Himself Hopkins Moorhouse

In the end, of course, at some far-off, misty mile-post, he would begin to grow old.

The Hidden Places Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

He said that an old castle like Vittskövle was a mile-post on time's highway.

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils 1922

To the left I caught my first sight of the world - famous locks and dam, and at 3: 30 we descended at the stone station, first mile-post of permanency, for being out of reach of the coming flood it is built to stay and shows what Canal Zone stations will be in the years to come.

Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers Harry Alverson Franck 1921

I made quite an intensive study of her dream life and of her past life history, and I find that had I taken the very first dream which I obtained from her and conducted a thorough analysis with this dream as my first mile-post, I would have arrived at a full genesis of the condition, which was of ten years 'duration.

The Journal of Abnormal Psychology 1916