"Long distance" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... doubt that their wonder was genuine. The weather had for some time been too wet and the night itself had been too wet to admit of any tracing by footsteps. Hedge and ditch, and wall, and rick and stack, were examined by our men for a long distance round, lest the boy should be lying in such a place insensible or dead; but nothing was seen to indicate that he had ever been near. From the time when he was left in the loft-room, ...
— Bleak House • Charles Dickens
... To the heads of the Consolidated group. Now will you please give me the news for which I have come a long distance?" ...
— Destiny • Charles Neville Buck
... some old lady, I think he said. It's a Colonial mansion, too, and stood here before the Revolution. There wasn't any town of Rockridge, you know, till just recently,—only the turnpike road off there where Warrington Avenue is now. This house was the only one around, for a long distance." ...
— The Boarded-Up House • Augusta Huiell Seaman
... camped within this redoubt, where they could escape attracting attention. The country about them, for a long distance, was ...
— The Nameless Castle • Maurus Jokai
... become very proficient in this class of experiments, you may begin to try experiments at "long distance," that is where the projector is out of your physical presence. It makes no difference whether the distance be merely that between two adjoining rooms, or else of miles of space. At first, however, ...
— Clairvoyance and Occult Powers • Swami Panchadasi
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