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Usage examples of distant.

Sergeant Aarhus found a clear pair of booted tracks leading back in a straight line toward the distant walls.

Hannah Dustan and the nurse fell to the share of a family consisting of two warriors, three squaws, and seven children, who separated from the rest, and, hunting as they went, moved northward towards an Abenaki village, two hundred and fifty miles distant, probably that of the mission on the Chaudiere.

And all day long they appeased the god with song, raising a ringing hymn to the distant archer god who drives away the plague, those young Achaean warriors singing out his power, and Apollo listened, his great heart warm with joy.

For a man of such strong feelings and great inner tensions, these were days of extreme stress, during which he remained uncharacteristically silent, as Benjamin Waterhouse would recall in a telling description of Adams the morning he set off for The Hague, nine miles distant.

But much that Rush wrote was exactly the medicine Adams needed, as if the old physician in Philadelphia understood his distant patient perfectly.

It occurred to her quite suddenly that she might have felt more comfortable with the idea that Adonis was from some alien race because it seemed less threatening to imagine some distant race of beings like him than someone next door.

Without looking away from the agave, Ixidor created a distant lake-large and deep.

The berserker made a dark, irregular blot against giant swirls of bright nebula that were far too distant to provide a hiding place, the stuff of the galaxy in an agelong expulsion from the galactic heart.

So for Aira shall we seek, though it were well to visit distant and lute-blessed oonai across the Karthianhills, which may indeed be Aira, though i think not.

As he moved, so into that framed distant view moved Akha himself, high above the heads of the crowd.

Stout was in shock, feeling cold and numb and distant, and scarcely reacted at all, when the dog spoke to him, a big Akita, the jade-colored parakeet perched on its shoulder nodding in agreement.

UIA reports arrived month after month, endlessly piling confusion upon confusion as his three distant enemies across the sea laughed and joked and dealt the cards that spun out their game over the years in the eternal city, as Nubar brooded over hearsay and hints and shadowy allegations in his castle tower in Albania, safe and far away as he wanted to be, as indeed he had to be so great was his fear of the conflicting clues of the Old City that rose above time and the desert, at home in his castle tower safely handling charts and numbers to his satisfaction, safely arranging concepts.

Fial replied, ignoring Allel, his eyes going distant as he answered the question.

They remained locked together, apart from the world, until a distant plea for alms brought them back to their plight.

When they stand for the Silent Amidah they never know whether to focus on the prayerbook or upon a distant point, looking thoughtful.