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Sentences starting with distance

Distance from Zermatt to Riffelberg Hotel, 7 days. [5]
Distance has little to do with understanding or affection. [11]
Distance clothed him in a purple gloom, and added a veil of shimmering mist that so softened his rugged features that we seemed to see him through a web of silver gauze. [5]
Distance from Riffelberg Hotel to the Gorner Grat, one hour and a half. [5]

Sentences ending with distance

And I saw you growing away from me all the time, Hugh, growing away from the friends who were fond of you, as though you were fading in the distance. [9]
Barbara's voice reached Wolf from a considerable distance. [10]
The firm "Yes" with which she answered, and her indignant exclamation as she repulsed Hanno's premature attempt at tenderness, might have been heard by the hawk even at a greater distance. [10]
They watched her with respectful admiration from a decent distance. [11]
We are surfeited with Italian cities for the present, and much prefer to walk the familiar quarterdeck and view this one from a distance. [5]
The spot was wilder than it looked from a distance. [4]
To the right, where the Kaluga road turns near Neskuchny, endless rows of troops and carts stretched away into the distance. [2]
Large school of whales in the distance. [5]
At one, when we had luncheon, Mohair was still in the distance. [9]
Chapter 9 It was wonderful, the mastery Satan had over time and distance. [5]

Short sentences using distance

He was looking into distance. [11]
He measured his distance. [11]
The distance narrowed again. [5]
Distance, sixty miles. [4]

Sentences containing distance two or more times

But he knew what a distance their ages seemed just now to put between them,--a distance which would grow practically less and less with every year, and he did not wish to risk anything so long as there was no danger of interference. [6]
On the map the distance looked small; but that is a trouble with all divisions of distance in such a vast country as Australia. [5]
Several men have given their opinion as to the distance of the steamboat Carson, and I suppose if one should go and measure that distance you would believe him in preference to all of them. [7]
In the far distance was the Maydoum Pyramid, "the Imperfect One," unexplored by man these thousands of years, and all round it the soft yellowish desert, with a mirage quivering over it in the distance, a mirage of trees and water and green hills. [11]
From distance to distance only, have appeared some memoirs useful to science or practice, which appear as so many green oases in the midst of this literary desert. [3]
He had the distance from her own life which provoked interest, and in that distance was the mother whom perhaps it was her duty to forget, yet for whom she had a longing which grew greater as the years went on. [11]
By the time Achilles has covered the distance that separated him from the tortoise, the tortoise has covered one tenth of that distance ahead of him: when Achilles has covered that tenth, the tortoise has covered another one hundredth, and so on forever. [2]

More example sentences with the word distance in them

The lepers in Zoan, Pha-kos and Phibeseth followed the others at a certain distance, and their tents are pitched outside the camp. [10]
Stand where you would, or change your position as often as you pleased, you were always a centre from which radiated a dozen long archways and colonnades that lost themselves in distance and the sombre twilight of the place. [5]
As the phaeton would make the distance to the station in less time than the car, this seemed the sensible thing to do, and Denzil's spirits fell. [11]
The ferry-boat which would convey them to the gardens of Polybius started from the Agathodaemon Canal, an enlarged branch of the Nile, which connected the lake with the royal harbor and the Mediterranean; they had, therefore, to walk some distance along the shore. [10]
Kitty ceased her work for an instant and, looking away from him into the distance, said: "Three people said those same words to me all in one day a thousand years ago. [11]
Pierre, without a word, began cleaning his rifle, while Macavoy smoked, and sat looking into the distance, surveying the sweet warmth and light. [11]
Here stood a wooden bench on which Wilhelm liked to sit, watching the flight of his doves, gazing dreamily into the distance or, when inclined to artistic creation, listening to the melodies that echoed in his soul. [10]
The weary old woman had wanted to return home long before, but the command of the grand chamberlain compelled her to wait for Barbara and accompany her the short distance to the house. [10]
From a distance without came the shouts of the survivors making for the tavern. [9]
Dicky was riding with the mamour of the district, Fielding was a distance behind with Trousers and the Mudir. [11]
On this day, with the glimmer of land in the far distance, the charges of all the guns were renewed. [11]
Clapping her hands with pleasure and running on before me for a short distance, my little acquaintance stopped at a door and remaining on the step till I came up knocked at it when I joined her. [12]
His feet light with moccasins, he even ran a distance, enjoying the glow from a fast-beating pulse. [11]
She'd run away with him to-morrow if he should come within hailing distance of her. [9]
Paulus obeyed his wish and then went with Hermas to the top of the tower to spy the distance from thence. [10]
It is in width, from Fort Adams on the left bank of the Mississippi to the bank of Rapides Parish, a distance of about sixty miles. [5]
Like a wanderer, who, after a long journey, sees his home in the distance, he quickened his pace. [10]
The distance at which the action took place [the letter was left on a shelf twenty-four feet from the place where I was sitting] shows this charge to have been of notable intensity. [6]
At Beit Jin, where nobody had interfered with him, he crept out of his tent at dead of night and shot at what he took to be an Arab lying on a rock, some distance away, planning evil. [5]
Resentment was easier when the distance between Mohair and Asquith separated us,--impossible on a yachting excursion. [9]
You see, Ulrich, when a man becomes famous like you, he is known for a long distance, everything he does makes a great hue and cry, and echo repeats it in every alley. [10]
All tidings the west wind blew from distance and age he found deep in those dark-blue depths, and found them mysteries solved. [13]
The Sparrow Hills were visible in the distance, with the village, the church, and the large white house. [2]
The two nearest were half a mile from each other, and half that distance from my residence. [3]
Though the two were generally at a distance, their existence made itself felt again and again either through letters or presents or by their coming to Berlin, which always brought holidays for us. [10]
She saw the wedding in the distance, and very foolishly thought to herself that she could not and would not go to it. [6]
Still wandering along, we were at last pointed to a hill in the distance, a part of the summit of which was covered with Indian corn. [6]
At the Hill we have a force of 8000, under General Sherman, and about an equal force of rebels is a very short distance south, under General Buckner. [7]
The spectacle presented was worth coming double the distance to see. [5]
So, perhaps, it was with the old man who watched the sleigh in the distance coming nearer, but that in his nature on which any one could feed was not so easily reached as the fresh young grass under the protecting snow. [11]
Beyond Shamshevo, Dolokhov was to observe the road in the same way, to find out at what distance there were other French troops. [2]
What distance that was to Cottonwoods he did not know; he calculated, however, that it was in the neighborhood of fifty miles. [13]
Behind the chief was the champion, then, a little distance away, on either side, the Indian councillors. [11]
In the distance was the ancient, but still almost perfect Temple of Theseus, and close by, looking to the west, was the Bema, from whence Demosthenes thundered his philippics and fired the wavering patriotism of his countrymen. [5]
When the corpse was removed from the house to the tomb, a distance of one chain, the procession was met by a certain man who was ardently attached to the deceased. [5]
The widow Tynan was practical, and she saw none of those things which made her daughter stand for minutes at a time and look into the distance over the prairie towards the sunset light or the grey- blue foothills. [11]
The Kremlin, which was not destroyed, gleamed white in the distance with its towers and the belfry of Ivan the Great. [2]
Just at night,--it was nearly seven o'clock,--we entered one of the most stately forests I have ever seen, and rode for some distance in an alley of rhododendrons that arched overhead and made a bower. [4]
I, whose sight was long trained to darkness, could see a great distance round us, and so could prevent a trap, though once or twice we let our canoe drift with the tide, lest our paddles should be heard. [11]
Already the staff was in his hands and the cross-roads were sinking into the distance behind. [11]
The officer, who was greatly impressed by the gentleman's looks, led him at once to a trestle bridge which spanned the distance from the levee bank over the flood to a house up to its first floor in the backwaters. [9]
Every man present was full-sprung with wine; and a distance away, a gentleman on either side of him, stood the Intendant, smiling detestably, a keen, houndlike look shooting out of his small round eyes. [11]
The distance covered was four hundred yards. [5]
The Ross castle was but a little distance away. [5]
The blonde's captain was bound on a whaling cruise in the North Atlantic and could not go back such a distance or make a port without orders; such being nautical law. [5]
How hard it was at this distance of time to tell the world the tale, and to be forced to prove it by Philip's letters. [11]
Now that she was a long distance from Ingolby, the fact that a man had held her in his arms left no shadow on her face. [11]
The regimental commander walked with his jerky steps to the front of the regiment and examined it from a distance. [2]
At last he walked some distance away from the house, deeply lost in thought, and he did not notice that a man came slowly, heavily, to the door of the hut, and opening it, entered. [11]
Its showy splendour, visible for a long distance, occupied the wide space between the door of the house and the windows of the upper story. [10]
The "city" of Virginia roosted royally midway up the steep side of Mount Davidson, seven thousand two hundred feet above the level of the sea, and in the clear Nevada atmosphere was visible from a distance of fifty miles! [5]
But such a view--rivers, mountains, meadows, and orchards in the distance! [4]
Presently, as the Victoire came nearer to the coast, he could see a bay and a great rock in the distance, and, as they bore in now, the rock seemed to stretch out like a vast wall into the gulf. [11]
He brought his vessel down the coast a little distance, put a rope about him and in the wild surf made for the shore. [11]
They looked like very young kids, but they annihilated distance like an express train. [5]
It is a very pretty little object as we see it in the distance. [6]
And meanwhile, the very next morning after the battle, the French army advanced of itself upon the Russians, carried forward by the force of its own momentum now seemingly increased in inverse proportion to the square of the distance from its aim. [2]
Some people think very little of these refinements; they have not studied magnetism and the law of the square of the distance. [6]
It is a very intelligent tree and will detect the presence of hidden water at a distance of fifty feet, and send out slender long root-fibres to prospect it. [5]
Its waters are very clear, and it has a pebbly bottom and is shallow for some distance out from the shores. [5]
There were the Van Kortlandts, posted at a distance, like the Locrian archers of yore, and plying it most potently with the long-bow, for which they were so justly renowned. [4]
Its great practical use in this fast age is to give one an idea of distance and of monotony. [4]
It would land us there some time Sunday morning; distance, eighty miles. [4]
A fig-tree concealed us from the fugitives, but we could distinctly see them, as they passed us at a distance of not more than four steps. [10]
Assuming that you, upon the ground, could better judge of the necessities of your position than I could at this distance, on seeing your proclamation of August 30 I perceived no general objection to it. [7]
That other thing up there is the sun, but I didn't get enough distance on it. [5]
Maude was seated under the lamp at the end of the big room reading from "Don Quixote"; Matthew and Biddy were at her feet, and Moreton, less attentive, at a little distance was taking apart a mechanical toy. [9]
These little settlements under the cliff, called marinas, are worlds in themselves, picturesque at a distance, but squalid seen close at hand. [4]
The distance was two hundred miles. [5]
Distance, by guide-book, twelve miles; by pedometer seventy-two. [5]
At night he turned to the chain-man to ascertain what distance they had come, and found that by some mistake he had merely dragged the chain over the ground, without keeping any record. [7]
If the twins turned their heads, they broke and fled in every direction, but stopped at a safe distance and faced about; and then formed and came on again as soon as the strangers showed them their back. [5]
Besides, her cough troubled her very seriously, and it seemed as though she could not travel that long distance alone. [10]
I had infinite trouble to persuade those people to venture back within explaining distance. [5]
A few folk tried to engage Barouche in talk, but he responded casually; yet he smiled the smile which had done so much for him in public life, and the distance lessened to the station. [11]
If the distance traversed by a locomotive in an hour is represented by one tenth of an inch, it would need a line nine feet long to indicate the corresponding advance of the earth in the same time. [4]
We quitted the train at Oos, and walked the entire remaining distance to Baden-Baden, with the exception of a lift of less than an hour which we got on a passing wagon, the weather being exhaustingly warm. [5]
Then she turned towards the row of pillars which stood by the right-hand wall of the hall, and which were at some distance from her couch, calling out "Verus. [10]
Crozier looked out towards the northwestern horizon, and in the distance was a woman riding as hard as her horse could go, with a man galloping hard after her. [11]
Then he turned towards me, and as they walked off a little distance I could see that he was curious concerning me. [11]
It was looking toward the verge of the landscape, yet looking at nothing--nothing but distance and vacancy. [5]
He had found, too, in the past that when he seemed to be really speaking to his uncle, when it seemed as though the distance between them had been annihilated, that soon afterwards there came a letter from him. [11]
They could see too the seats of the grandees, and the barriers which kept the people at a distance from the Regent, the priests, and the nobles. [10]
It seemed almost too steep to climb, but a practised eye could see from a distance the zigzag lines of the sheep-paths which scaled it like miniature Alpine roads. [6]
They sat silent too long for Wassef's pleasure, for he took pride in what he was pleased to call his friendship with Donovan Pasha, and he could see his watchful neighbours gathering at a little distance. [11]
The distance was too great, the wind too strong; he only carried away an epaulet. [11]
At $10 per ton, or $100 per car, which would be a fair price for the distance by rail, the freight bill would amount to $180,000, or $162,000 more by rail than by river. [5]
They walked out together, and for some distance in silence. [9]
Slowly she walked to the window and looked out across the green grounds where the wind was shaking the wet trees, past the unfinished monument to the Father of her country, and across the broad Potomac to Alexandria in the hazy distance. [9]
The Duke withdrew to the window again, and seated himself in the embrasure, at some little distance from the Englishman, who at once got up and brought his chair closer. [11]
From the peak to the Widow Patten's, where we proposed to pass the night, is twelve miles, a distance we rode or scrambled down, every step of the road bad, in five and a half hours. [4]
He listened anxiously to the sounds in the distance, and fancied at first that he heard the Alexandrian's footstep, and then that he heard loud words and suppressed groans coming from his cave. [10]
And yet, next to the necessity of waiting at Memphis for the return of her messenger, nothing tied her to the place so strongly as her interest in watching the future course of his life, at any rate from a distance. [10]
My eyes shifted to the lights of the 'Porcupine' in the distance, and from them again to the figures passing and repassing me on the deck. [11]
When we came to the base of the rock, we found a way cut, a narrow path, most of the distance hewn out of the rock, winding upward along the face of the precipice. [4]
When I came to take the Seigneur's hand, Doltaire was a distance off, talking to Madame. [11]
Little Scherau tried to support her, but he was too weak; she sank down on the sand, and looked out into the distance. [10]
Although it was to start early in the morning, she was in the square in ample time, partly because she hoped to see the Emperor in the distance. [10]
I was prepared to see him keep a decorous distance from her. [11]
I rode up to my Lord March, and finding there was a minute yet to run I went up the Row a distance and back again amidst more huzzaing, Pollux prancing and quivering, and frothing his bit, but never once attempting to break. [9]

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