Read full poem →'Twill take your thoughts and sink them far,
Leagues beyond the sunset bar.
Dictionary Entry
A group or association of cooperating members.
In a Sentence
“the League of Nations”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. leaguesdistant leaguesaway leaguesoff leaguesunder leaguesleagues twoleagues threeleagues hundred
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Poetry examples for “leagues”
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Read full poem →We never crossed before;
Such leagues apart the world's ends are,
We're like to meet no more;
Read full poem →Of the river of air
Leagues deep, leagues wide, where
I am like a fish that lives
Read full poem →By the whirlwind of your wisdom
Leagues are lifted as leaves are;
But a king without a kingdom
Read full poem →Though the road be smooth and the path be straight,
There are two long leagues to Tilbury Town.
Come in by the fire, old man, and wait!
Read full poem →Line or Demarcarion (1494) seventy leagues west of the Cape
Verde Islands.
Read full poem →Who did not love her better:--in her home,
A thousand leagues from his,--her native home,
She dwelt, begirt with growing Infancy, 130
Read full poem →tmde^ the fhade ot m>unt Jtl^^ SindMidM
three leagues beyond it^ on the oth^r iide of
that mountain ; and there is reafon |o briteve
Read full poem →Wi' wicked speed;
And in kirk-yards renew their leagues
Owre howkit dead.