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Sentences starting with distant

Distant mutterings of thunder aroused her; the evening sky had darkened, and angry-looking clouds of purple were gathering over the hills. [9]
Distant and a little bleak and cheerless the half-circle was looking now. [11]

Sentences ending with distant

By and by we took boat and went ashore at Kailua, designing to ride horseback through the pleasant orange and coffee region of Kona, and rejoin the vessel at a point some leagues distant. [5]
On one hand was the enemy, on the other the water, with the shore half a mile distant. [11]
The engineers' camp was only two or three miles distant. [5]
His voice, too, was desolate and distant. [11]
He, at least, was a good friend; but as I glanced at him, I saw his face was troubled and his manner distant. [11]
I remember being told, and I suppose this to have been the true solution, that it was the sound of the waves, after a high wind, breaking on the long beaches many miles distant. [6]
Mr.------, to walk to the Talcott Tower, ten miles distant. [5]
Hoarse shouts answered the question, but they seemed distant--too distant. [9]
So bad were the main thoroughfares, even, that markets were sometimes inaccessible for months together, and the fruits of the earth rotted in one place, while there was scarcity not many miles distant. [4]
The Grieb, where the latter lived as wife of the keeper of the house, was only a few steps distant. [10]

Short sentences using distant

That distant door opens again. [5]
Sydney 50 miles distant. [5]

Sentences containing distant two or more times

They listened; evidently the distant shoutings were growing more distant! [5]
Curses, hands that battered and tore at him, the doorway reached, and then a blow on the head and--falling, falling, falling, and distant noises growing more distant, and suddenly and sweetly--absolute silence. [11]

More example sentences with the word distant in them

Post-horses took the young couple in the most magnificent weather to the distant Prussian capital. [10]
Henceforth, whenever the yearning for the distant John seized upon her with special power, she thought of that night, and loaded the little sons near her with tokens of the tenderest love. [10]
How often they would see Pollux returning from the distant city whither he had probably fled-from Rome, or even from Athens--crowned with laurels and rich in treasure. [10]
Here is the world of the press and of letters; here are institutions, an army, a navy, commerce, glimpses of great ships going to and fro on distant seas, of India, of Australia. [4]
Without uttering a word in reply, Ledscha stepped back into the boat, but Hanno plied the oars with the utmost caution and guided the skiff without the slightest sound away from the island to an open part of the water far distant from any shore. [10]
Naturally, the distant witness supposed they were now looking upon three corpses; so they could hardly believe their eyes when they presently saw two of the men rise to their feet and bend over the third. [5]
They turned, as with one consent, down the path toward the distant water. [9]
He was reserved with his equals, and distant with others. [9]
Some one conversing with her once objected, in my presence, to that part of "Jane Eyre" in which she hears Rochester's voice crying out to her in a great crisis of her life, he being many, many miles distant at the time. [14]
She watched him with an unwonted tugging at her heart as he stood for a long time by the edge of the railing, gazing over the tree-tops of the valley towards the distant hazy hills. [9]
It is octagonal, with a peaked roof, each octagon filled with a spacious window, and it sits perched in complete isolation on top of an elevation that commands leagues of valley and city and retreating ranges of distant blue hills. [5]
He was living with a past which had been everlasting distant, and had now become a vivid and buffeting present. [11]
Between Salisbury and Wilton, three miles and a half distant, is the little village of Bemerton, where "holy George Herbert" lived and died, and where he lies buried. [6]
Miss Cynthia, to whom Myrtle made a generous allowance, had gone to live in a town not many miles distant, where she had a kind of home on sufferance, as well as at The Poplars. [6]
It is I who have called this man from his distant home. [11]
He gazed a while through a piece of smoked glass at the penciled line lying on the distant water, and then said: "Land be hanged,--it's a raft! [5]
And for a while there was no sound save that of the singing of the frogs in the distant marsh. [9]
Their world is what they can see, and Naples is distant and almost foreign. [4]
It was just what he knew she could and would do; and he foresaw for Byng, if he wanted it, a peerage in the not distant future. [11]
As the words were spoken a sigh broke from her, and there came to Philip's mind that distant day in the council chamber at Bercy when for one moment he was upon his trial; but he did not turn and look at her now. [11]
Warm, still days were interspersed between the windy ones, when the sky was turquoise blue, when the very river banks were steeped in new colours, when the distant, shadowy mountains became real. [9]
Life and Love were growing distant though he loved her as few love and live. [11]
But the eyes were clear, resolute, and strong, never wavering--and I never saw them waver--yet in them something distant and inscrutable. [11]
The distant prospects were Anne's delight, and when I look round, she is in the blue tints, the pale mists, the waves and shadows of the horizon. [14]
Thus, Quedlinburg was well suited to arouse poetic feelings in young hearts, steep the soul with love for the beautiful, time-honoured region, and yet fill it with the desire to make distant lands its own. [10]
The quaint cottages we glimpsed, the sight of distant, stately mansions on green slopes caused Maude to cry out with rapture:--"Oh, Hugh, there's a manor-house! [9]
Through mullioned windows we caught glimpses of gardens and geometrical parterres, lakes, fountains, statuary, fantastic topiary and distant stretches of park. [9]
We pursued our way slowly, from time to time catching a glimpse of a dwelling almost hid in the distant foliage, until at length we came to a place a little more pretentious than those which we had seen. [9]
All that he was, which was different from the people she had known, she magnified, so that to her he had a distant, overwhelming sort of grandeur. [11]
In his eyes was the same half-rapt, intense, distant look which came into them when, at Vilray, he saw that red reflection in the sky over against St. Saviour's, and urged his horses onward. [11]
Fosters Opera House was some six squares distant, and by a liberal estimate Mr. Duncan and his advance guard ought to get back within twenty minutes of the time he left. [9]
Sometimes, when all was quiet, and the clock from the distant cathedral of Granada struck the midnight hour, I have sallied out on another tour and wandered over the whole building; but how different from my first tour! [4]
I wondered what was passing behind his sad face, and what distant scene his vacant eye was dreaming of. [5]
Now the raft was passing before the distant town. [5]
How distant Ruth was now from him, now, when she might need him most. [5]
The day too was not far distant, when, by his father's wish, he was to marry Artystone, the daughter of Gobryas. [10]
Mrs. Schuyler Blunt was in the unaccustomed position of having to maintain a not too familiar and not too distant line of deportment. [4]
A September stillness was in the air, a September purple clothed the distant hills, but to Hilary the glories of the day were as things non-existent. [9]
Of course it was her imagination, but it was like a voice which came from some desolate place, distant, arid and alien. [11]
His distant home was also hers, and he even knew her uncle--her father's brother--and her father's sad history. [10]
A wan glimmer was already beginning to brighten the distant east when the Epicurus approached the vessel with the light, but it seemed to wish to avoid the Alexandrian, and turned suddenly towards the northeast. [10]
He did not want to know what lay hidden in the dim and distant future. [13]
He met her walking, and thought she seemed a little more distant than common. [6]
Down the winding walk from the hill, touched by a distant electric light, the loitering people, in couples and in groups, seemed no more in real life than the supernumeraries in a scene at the opera. [4]
For a while voices came up to him from the street, but at length the groups dispersed, one by one; and a distant clock boomed out eleven solemn strokes. [9]
In this remote village there are no sights to see, there is no newspaper to intrude the worries of the distant world, there is nothing going on, it is always Sunday. [5]
To those remaining veteran patriots whose footsteps we followed to this distant desert, and who by their blood and toil have converted it into a smiling country, we now look. [9]
It is looming vast and ominous on that distant horizon. [5]
In the distant valley of the Mississippi he had only heard of the President very conflicting things. [9]
Presently dreams came-kind, vague, distant dreams. [11]
You'll agree with us, that to give him even the most distant chance of escape, if we could help it, would be monstrous. [12]
Occasionally, intruding faintly upon the countryside peace, she was aware of a distant humming sound that grew louder and louder until there shot roaring past her an automobile filled with noisy folk, leaving behind it a suffocating cloud of dust. [9]
As he advanced up the mid-aisle the interest was so intense that the low murmur of conversation in the great assemblage died out and was succeeded by a profound hush, a breathless stillness, through which his footfalls pulsed with a dull and distant sound. [5]
The birds get up from the water, and fly to a distant land. [5]
It was not until they had seen him gradually diminish into a mere speck upon the distant road, that they turned to each other, and ventured to laugh aloud. [12]
So we hired two sleighs to convey us to a village distant about an hour's ride, from which we were to send them back in one, while my friend and I pursued our journey in the other. [10]
How many are trying to save others--others except the distant and foreign sinners? [4]
Some distant nobleness trembled in him, while yet the arid humour of the situation flashed into his eyes, and, getting to his feet, he said to David: "Where is Nahoum? [11]
Ye are fighting to-day, not for me alone, but for the freedom of your own distant homes. [10]
She silently resolved to undertake the pilgrimage to Compostella, at the World's End,--[Cape Finisterre]--in distant Spain, though she did not know how it would be possible to accomplish this with her mutilated foot. [10]
It was big to those who lived, but in the long movement of time it was small, distant, and subordinate. [11]
He drove up to the store this evening to the not inappropriate rumble of distant thunder, and he stood up in his wagon in front of the gathering and shook his fist in Jake Wheeler's face. [9]
She listened breathlessly to the sounds from the city, and now a distant blare of trumpets drowned the dull roar of the ordnance and the sharp rattle of the culverins. [10]
The nearest land, to the northwest, is the larger island of Ischia, distant nearly as far as Naples; yet Capri has the effect of being anchored off the bay to guard the entrance. [4]
We often went to the most distant parts of the globe with him, and stayed weeks and months, and yet were gone only a fraction of a second, as a rule. [5]
He listened intently to the distant rumble of the lions. [11]
It rejoiced him to see with his own eyes the distant shimmer of the white snow-capped peaks, of which he had often heard warriors talk. [10]
But I wished to see the harbour of the great commercial city, and the ships which ploughed the ocean to those distant lands for which I had often longed. [10]
He was about to put his arms round her, when he heard the distant sound of a horse's hoofs. [11]
I fell asleep to pleasant music that night--the patter of rain upon the panes and the dull growling of distant thunder. [5]
Nitetis soon began to look upon the blind queen as a beloved and loving mother, and the merry, spirited Atossa nearly made up to her for the loss of her sister Tachot, so far away on the distant Nile. [10]
It is customary to hand a large sure in bank bills to a man you have just been introduced to (if he asks you to do it,) to be conveyed to a distant town and delivered to another party. [5]
It is important to bear in mind that the statesmen of our Revolution were inaugurating a political and not a social revolution, and that the gravamen of their protest was against the authority of a distant crown. [4]
And all the time she imagined she heard distant music and was being rocked up and down by unseen hands. [10]
It had led through the midst of the bare rocky landscape, and their eyes, accustomed to distant horizons and luxuriant green foliage, met narrow boundaries and a barren wilderness. [10]
A wide gap through miles of woods had opened this distant view, and showed more, perhaps, than all the labors of the architect and the landscape-gardener the large style of the early Dudleys. [6]
He gazed awhile through a piece of smoked glass at the penciled line lying on the distant water, and then said: "Land be hanged--it's a raft! [5]
And the distant throb of the machinery she felt when her typewriter was silent meant something to her now--she could not say what. [9]
The coming storm threatening more and more, with now and then a little shiver of wind, a faint show of lightning, and dull grumblings of distant thunder. [5]
It was as though he was looking at something distant that both troubled and pleased him. [11]
And suddenly, at this thought of death, a whole series of most distant, most intimate, memories rose in his imagination: he remembered his last parting from his father and his wife; he remembered the days when he first loved her. [2]
Among other noticeable things, there is a dazzling, intense whiteness about the distant Alpine snow, when the sun is on it, which one recognizes as peculiar, and not familiar to the eye. [5]
And, more than these, the Victoria of the blissful excursions he had known was changed as she had spoken to him--constrained, distant, apart; although still dispensing kindness, going out of her way to bring Hilary home, and to tell him of Hilary's accident. [9]
And it was there, I think, that the growing day and the early sun exposed the distant range called the Blue Mountains. [5]
Nothing was visible there save a faint red glow on the distant northern horizon, and two mailed soldiers who were riding into the city at a rapid trot. [10]
There is nothing there but the sun, an occasional sail, and quiet, petrified Capri, three miles distant across the strait. [4]
He had been there about an hour this morning when a clerk brought him a small box, which, he said, had been found inside another box belonging to the Belward-Staplings, a distant branch of the family. [11]
But now and then, in the stillness through which the river flowed on, murmuring and rhythmic, there rose the distant sounds of disorderly voices. [11]
Only now and then did the thought of Caesar trouble for a moment the rapture of that hour, like a hideous form appearing out of distant clouds. [10]
He looked at them one by one with distant kindness. [11]
Both stood straining their eyes and ears to pierce the darkness; but instead of gazing upward the star-reader's eye was bent upon the city, the distant sea, and the level plain. [10]
Merely to see the world from some remote sphere, like the distant spectator of a play which passes in dumb show, would not suffice. [4]
He waited until the white smoke of the last gun had drifted away on the breeze, until the snapping of the flag and the distant village sounds alone broke the stillness. [9]
Ray had found the water falling from an oozy bank, and there we dozed fitfully until we were startled by a distant boom. [9]
If wanting in the variety of surface which many other towns can boast of, it has at least a vision of the distant summits of Monadnock and Wachusett. [6]
Wolf suspected that the time was not far distant when yonder monarch at the window, who had won so many victories, would have a reckoning with the Smalcalds, the allied Protestants of Germany, and his vivid imagination surrounded him with an almost mystical power. [10]
To this day the tiger's head is the lonely part of Jersey; a hundred years ago it was as distant from the Vier Marchi as is Penzance from Covent Garden. [11]
Power--power, that is the thing of all," she said, her eyes shining and her small fingers interlacing with eager vitality: "power to set waves of influence in motion which stir the waters on distant shores. [11]
We paused on the summit of a distant hill and took a final look and made a final farewell to the venerable city which had been such a good home to us. [5]
The force of the storm was broken, the wind had subsided, distant flashes of lightning still illumined the northern horizon, and the night air was stiflingly sultry. [10]

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