Distance
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"One that leads the Nautilus on a cloudy night within a short
distance
of some European coast."
The waters were profoundly dark, but Captain Nemo pointed to a reddish spot in the distance, a sort of wide glow shimmering about two miles from the Nautilus.
When I turned around, I could still see the Nautilus's whitish beacon, which was starting to grow pale in the
distance.
My eyes scanned the
distance
and took in a vast area lit by intense flashes of light.
In the
distance
is a mountainous horizon, a wondrously undulating line that makes up the background of this landscape.
Yes, open sea!Barely a few sparse floes, some moving icebergs; a sea stretching into the distance; hosts of birds in the air and myriads of fish under the waters, which varied from intense blue to olive green depending on the depth.
Its coastline looked flat, but high mountains rose in the
distance.
On April 16 we raised Martinique and Guadalupe from a
distance
of about thirty miles.
Its eight arms (or more accurately, feet) were rooted in its head, which has earned these animals the name cephalopod; its arms stretched a
distance
twice the length of its body and were writhing like the serpentine hair of the Furies.
But it was inconceivable to me that it had discovered the Nautilus at such a distance, still less that it knew what this underwater machine really was.
Its
distance
still kept us from distinguishing the colors of its pennant, which was fluttering like a thin ribbon.
But the chase continued, and Captain Nemo was content to keep his
distance.
They form a whirlpool aptly called "the ocean's navel," whose attracting power extends a
distance
of fifteen kilometers.
The night was covered with stars, a warm wind blowing in the distance; the dogs were barking.
Some came from a
distance
of thirty miles, from Goderville, from Normanville, and from Cany.
At the end of some indefinite
distance
there was always a confused spot, into which her dream died.
Then he wrote to the chemist of the place to ask the number of the population, the
distance
from the nearest doctor, what his predecessor had made a year, and so forth; and the answer being satisfactory, he made up his mind to move towards the spring, if Emma's health did not improve.
Why, they'll tear my cloth for me," she went on, looking at them from a distance, her strainer in her hand.
In the
distance
cattle moved about; neither their steps nor their lowing could be heard; and the bell, still ringing through the air, kept up its peaceful lamentation.
Its light from a
distance
looked like a white stain trembling in the oil.
Then the difficulties of love-making seen in the
distance
made him by contrast think of his mistress.
The fields were empty, and around him Rodolphe only heard the regular beating of the grass striking against his boots, with a cry of the grasshopper hidden at a
distance
among the oats.
But in making this movement, as she leant back in her chair, she saw in the distance, right on the line of the horizon, the old diligence, the "Hirondelle," that was slowly descending the hill of Leux, dragging after it a long trail of dust.
His coachman, who was drunk, suddenly dozed off, and one could see from the distance, above the hood, between the two lanterns, the mass of his body, that swayed from right to left with the giving of the traces.
Ah! how pretty she would be later on when she was fifteen, when, resembling her mother, she would, like her, wear large straw hats in the summer-time; from a
distance
they would be taken for two sisters.
Emma seemed to him to have receded into a far-off past, as if the resolution he had taken had suddenly placed a
distance
between them.
On leaving the Bovarys the night before, Leon had followed them through the streets at a distance; then having seen them stop at the "Croix-Rouge," he turned on his heel, and spent the night meditating a plan.
Sometimes even, in the hope of getting some surprise, she shut her eyes, but she never lost the clear perception of the
distance
to be traversed.
Then the open country spread away with a monotonous movement till it touched in the
distance
the vague line of the pale sky.
A continual barking was heard in the
distance.
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