There is no more famous classifications of the epochs of life that mark off the milestones of the individual's evolution than Shakespeare's Seven Ages.

Then Publius Valerius commanded Titus Herminius, with a small force, to lie in ambush at the second milestone on the road to Gabii, and Spurius Larcius, with a party of light-armed youths, to post himself at the Colline gate while the enemy was passing by, and then to throw himself in their way to cut off their return to the river.

As I say, he was born at the sixteenth milestone from Vienne, a native Gaul.

The face which he saw was a milestone in his life.

Her life during all this time was singularly uneventful, and the chief milestones along the road mark the publication of her successive novels.

The moon rose as they passed the fourth milestone out of Calne; another five minutes and they drew up, the horses panting and hanging their heads, in the main street of Chippenham.

Such graves mark all the line of the first years of Mormon traveldispiriting milestones to failing stragglers in the rear.