Distance
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Already he was again blowing his horn, the band was lost in the distance, and the cry grew fainter:"Bread!
A few of those in the distance, beneath the veil which hid her face, mistook her for Madame Hennebeau; others said she was a friend of the manager's wife, the young wife of a neighbouring manufacturer who was execrated by his men.
Above the north gallery of Mirou the ground sank in to such an extent, that the Joiselle road, for the
distance
of a hundred metres, had been swallowed up as though by the shock of an earthquake; and the Company, disturbed at the rumours raised by these accidents, paid the owners for their vanished fields without bargaining.
At first the band of miners from the settlement kept at a
distance.
In the midst of one group, at some distance, Zacharie and Philoméne were looking on as at a theatre so peacefully that they had brought their two children, Achille and Désirée.
All seemed to be over, and the hurricane of balls was lost in the
distance
as far as the frontages of the settlement, when the last shot, isolated and delayed, was fired.
The white road of the canal unrolled to the far distance, and they both walked with the same quiet step as though each had fallen back into his isolation.
At a
distance
the tears and cuts in the wood had surprised him.
The coal transmits the sound with crystalline limpidity for a very great
distance.
Nothing was to be seen; but they remained there all the same, and had to be kept at a
distance.
Consequently, this extraordinary cetacean could transfer itself from one locality to another with startling swiftness, since within an interval of just three days, the Governor Higginson and the Christopher Columbus had observed it at two positions on the charts separated by a
distance
of more than 700 nautical leagues.
Made in America, this valuable instrument could fire a four-kilogram conical projectile an average
distance
of sixteen kilometers without the least bother.
Commander Farragut felt, and with good reason, that it was best to stay in deep waters and keep his
distance
from continents or islands, whose neighborhoods the animal always seemed to avoid--"No doubt," our bosun said, "because there isn't enough water for him!"
Despite the distance, despite the noise of wind and sea, we could distinctly hear the fearsome thrashings of the animal's tail, and even its panting breath.
Unconcerned, the latter let us come within half a cable length; then, not bothering to dive, it got up a little speed, retreated, and was content to keep its
distance.
I estimate that we covered a
distance
of at least 500 kilometers during this ill-fated day of November 6.
I glimpsed a black mass disappearing eastward, where its running lights were fading out in the
distance.
What was the use at such a
distance!
What a look--as if he could magnify objects shrinking into the distance; as if he could probe your very soul; as if he could pierce those sheets of water so opaque to our eyes and scan the deepest seas . . .
"Fair enough, captain, but if we're going to see, we need light to drive away the dark, and in the midst of the murky waters, I wonder how your helmsman can--""Set astern of the pilothouse is a powerful electric reflector whose rays light up the sea for a
distance
of half a mile."
"A man would go an even greater
distance
just to stare at such a sight!""Ah!"
Farther on, the bottom was tinted with fine shades of ultramarine; then, off in the distance, it turned blue and faded in the midst of a hazy darkness.
Soon, scarcely blurred by their
distance
from us, the forms of some objects took shape before my eyes.
He waited until I joined him, then he pointed a finger at some dark masses outlined in the shadows a short
distance
away.
I say 150 meters, although I had no instruments for estimating this
distance.
But if they did approach us, at least they kept at a
distance
regrettable from the hunter's standpoint.
Near evening Reao Island melted into the distance, and the Nautilus noticeably changed course.
Nothing good, because at first they kept it at a respectful
distance.
The Nautilus cruised along a short
distance
off the shore of this desert island.
Then our ship went along at a
distance
of six miles from the Arabic coasts of Mahra and Hadhramaut, their undulating lines of mountains relieved by a few ancient ruins.
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