the Indians are therefore obliged to have recorce to strategem when they discover a herd of the Antelope they seperate and scatter themselves to the distance of five or six miles in different directions arround them generally scelecting some commanding eminence for a stand; some one or two now pursue the herd at full speed over the hills values gullies and the sides of precipices that are tremendious to view.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

During two or three days they slowly careered round and round in an immense ellipse, at least five or six miles in diameter, and at night alighted on the taller trees, which were completely coated with them.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

We have, each of us in his pocket, five or six millions in diamonds; you are more clever than I; you must go and bring Miss Cunegonde from Buenos Ayres.
— from Candide by Voltaire

Here Lamb speaks as Coleridge, who came all the way from Ottery St. Mary, in Devonshire (not Calne, in Wiltshire), and had no London friends.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

These guerilla combats always took the form of so many independent duels, each individual acting upon his own responsibility and without direction.
— from Daniel Boone, Backwoodsman by C. H. Forbes-Lindsay

Yes, sir; about, oh, I guess about six—about six more besides his, five or six more, I disremember.
— from Warren Commission (13 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIII (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Crates were stacked up in an orderly untidiness, and at the far end a fire was burning and five or six men in Darkovan clothing—loose sleeved shirts, tight wrapped breeches, low boots—were squatting around it, talking.
— from The Planet Savers by Marion Zimmer Bradley

According to Hals, John Coke, attorney-at-law, came into these parts of Cornwall in the reign of Queen Elizabeth from Ottery S. Mary, in Devon, "without money or goods, and placed himself a servant or steward under Sir Francis Godolphin, Knight, where he began from, and with, his ink-horn and pen, to turn all things that he touched into gold, and that by indirect art and practices as tradition saith."
— from Cornish Characters and Strange Events by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

The whole ground, over a space five or six miles in diameter, is covered with heaps of ruins, which at first view, make no impression, so complete is their dilapidation."
— from The Prehistoric World; Or, Vanished Races by Emory Adams Allen

And loudly he sang this funny old song: "'Money is dross, Loving is loss, There's never a crown that is worth its cross!
— from The Long Lane's Turning by Hallie Erminie Rives