Distant

Examples

• My attention was quickly riveted by a large red star close to the distant horizon. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• If a gas jet is turned on and not lighted, an odor of gas soon becomes perceptible, not only throughout the room, but in adjacent halls and even in distant rooms. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The times were full of stir and intellectual intereSt. The distant murmur of the Reformation was beginning to be heard. Plato. The Republic.
• The distant smoke very black and heavy. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• A man riding in hot haste was now dimly descried at the top of a distant hill. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The ideas and methods of Murdoch and Lebon soon took definite shape, and coal smoke was piped from its place of origin to distant points of consumption. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I will not dwell on a scene, which even at this distant period I cannot remember without shuddering. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• His marriage must still be a distant good;at least, I am afraid it cannot take place very soon. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• But the productions of the most distant metallic mines frequently may, and in fact commonly are. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Bedroom candlesticks bristle on the distant table by the door, and cousins yawn on ottomans. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Here and there, some early lamps were seen to twinkle in the distant city; and in the eastern quarter of the sky the lurid light still hovered. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• These shores are yet distant; they look so blue, soft, gentle, we long to reach them. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The window, placed at the side of the oblong, looked to the blank wall of a similar projection, not above ten feet distant. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The myriad noises of the jungle seemed far distant and hushed to a mere echo of blurred sounds, rising and falling like the surf upon a remote shore. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The professor declares that he heard the distant cry, but that he knows nothing more. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• This island of Luggnagg stands south-eastward of Japan, about a hundred leagues distant. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• So we all did: Traddles evidently lost in wondering at what distant time Mr. Micawber and I could have been comrades in the battle of the world. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The manufacturers first supply the neighbourhood, and afterwards, as their work improves and refines, more distant markets. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The distant light which Eustacia had cursorily observed in leaving the house came, as she had divined, from the cottage window of Susan Nunsuch. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I called her a distant relation; but I am well aware that I have in general been suspected of a much nearer connection with her. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• I also had the pleasure of his genial company at the boarding-house about a mile distant, but at the sacrifice of some apparatus. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• At the place where I planned to do this, I was (as nearly as I could calculate it) some three days distant, journeying on foot, from the sacred city. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• She must be used to the consideration of his being in love with her, and then a return of affection might not be very distant. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• It may be near, it may be distant; while the road lasts, nothing turns me. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• From every narrow lane opening out on Marlborough Street came up a low distant roar, as of myriads of fierce indignant voices. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• What assurance that I might not as well be hurtled to some far-distant star of another solar system, as to Mars? Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• They would never suspect that we would try for that distant waterway, I answered, and that is why I think that it is the best route for our escape. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The more distant the fountain, the weaker the flow. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• A distant supercilious air makes a cold atmosphere about her, and there is nothing in her bearing, as there was before, to encourage openness. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• His far-distant goal was to construct a machine that would carry, not the dots and dashes of the telegraph, but the complex vibrations of the human voice. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.

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