2. Verb. (third-person singular of league) ¹
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Definition of Leagues
1. league [v] - See also: league
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leagues
Literary usage of Leagues
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1811)
"It is an ifland about three leagues long, uninhabited, ... without mountains,
and may be feen nine or ten leagues off. ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1910)
"... leagues more or less; thence the same course, in a direct line to the Crab
Tree Plains, about seventeen leagues more or less; thence the same course, ..."
3. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"The Grisons or Graubünden, the Grey leagues, was a federation of three ...
The various communes of each of the leagues enjoyed their own municipal laws and ..."
4. Collections by New-York Historical Society, Malone Society (1849)
"the command of M. de Troyes,* a veteran officer, now captain of one of the
companies stationed in this country. We advanced thirteen leagues this day, ..."
5. Southwestern Historical Quarterly by Texas State Historical Association, Herbert Eugene Bolton, Eugene Campbell Barker (1907)
"Over iron mountain or west to beautiful river, 1 day, 7 leagues. ... Fifty leagues
of arid mountains, across a big river and then over to some plains ..."
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