milestoned

Updated: June 18, 2025

At all events Le ffaçasé's parsimony made a very inconvenient and unpleasant trip back for me, milestoned by my few valuable possessions pawned with suspicious and grasping servicestation owners. When I left, a map of the downtown district would have resembled the profile of a bowl. Now it was a bottle with only a narrow neck still clear.

Ward Moore - Greener Than You Think

For the first time in her life Miss Brentwood found herself looking, with a little shudder of withdrawal and dismay, down the possible vista possible to every unmarried woman of twenty-four milestoned by unbroken years of spinsterhood and self-helpings.

Francis Lynde - The Grafters