The new headmaster was an old schoolmate of Billy’s, and Dragon’s Head was within easy driving distance to London, so Joseph could visit Albert on holidays. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The Baudelaire children, alone in the kitchen, found themselves breathing heavily, as if they had just run a long distance. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

It came from a distance, from the south and, as I listened, grew louder. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was aware of alarms ringing, guards running toward him, and two cars, still some distance away, tearing up the main drive, heading for the house. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

They spread her mouth open as if she were screaming a name out over a great distance. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Something droned in the distance, and our shambling column—so much smaller now than when we had begun our journey—slowed to look up. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Using a map, he had calculated the distance he had to cover each day, how long it would take, and how much freeze-dried food he would need. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Keep your distance from August if you can,” he says. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The place they found some distance down the road was an abandoned prospector’s cabin. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Uncle said we could all watch from a distance if we wanted. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Things seem more when you’re little. They seem bigger, and distances seem farther. The first time I came here through Forest? The journey seemed forever.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

In the distance I saw a little harbor bobbing with colorful fishing boats, and beyond it a town set into a green bowl of land. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He was gazing out over the water, perhaps at some seagulls in the far distance, and so it was not at all clear that he had been talking to me. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The tops of the striped tents are visible through the trees some distance away, a bright punch of white against grey sky and brown trees. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In the distance, City College was lit up on the hill, looking like an ancient castle complete with turrets. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

A bell started clanging from a distance, jarring me out of my thoughts. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

After they had covered a short distance, he looked up at the girl and asked her if she was comfortable on the ox. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I just want the pleasure of noticing these things at a safe distance—I don't want to have to acknowledge that I am noticing. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

It’s a slight movement, but suddenly the distance between us is as wide as the ocean that usually separates us. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

So different from my father, who had always kept his distance from the world. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

But Hitler now introduced two more laws, and it was these second and third laws for which the 1935 rally would forever be remembered, and from which Riefenstahl would later try to distance herself. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Out in the distance, the clippers were sailing. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He hoped she would hug him, but she kept her distance. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

We followed along the High Street at a reasonable distance, giggling, dodging past people, separating and coming together again. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A strong walker, pre-acclimatized to the altitude, could cover the distance from the Lukla airstrip to Everest Base Camp in two or three long days. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I could see the crossing place clearly, though I was some distance away. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

To one side of her in the distance, standing out against the flat landscape, Minli saw the silhouette of a man cutting down a lone tree, his axe making a thumping rhythm. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Out the window, beyond the curtains, the flame atop the waste stack, high in the distance, flaps and shivers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Instead, time will pass and the distance will seem farther every day. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

She watches the shadows that the passing traffic throws onto their ceiling, listens to a truck wailing in the distance like a solitary, nocturnal beast. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Leading the way, wearing special bright orange jackets, were the three hundred mostly young marchers who had walked the entire distance from Selma. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The empty desert stretched into the distance, shimmering in the heat. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They have a file on us,” I said, watching my brother shrink in the distance. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“The words reach you from a distance, and you can barely glimpse the meaning.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

From a distance came the lonely baying of hounds. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Lili and the boy stood watching from a distance as Guy tried to push his hand deeper, beyond the chain link fence that separated him from the balloon. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t make out much else of his expression from the distance, but there were men sitting all around him, lounging about and smoking. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The hucksters cried above the traffic sounds and I seemed to hear them from a distance, unsure of what they said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in Shaker Heights, things were peaceful, and riots and bombs and earthquakes were quiet thumps, muffled by distance. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

However, the distances to the galaxies are not very well known because we can only measure them indirectly. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was the same gentle old man I remembered, but I was overwhelmed by the distance between us. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He wore half-glasses and since he looked at everything through them, he had to tilt his head back to see in the distance. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

His brilliant eyes were looking into the distance as if he were already thinking about the great revolutionary task that lay ahead of him. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance, the constant hum of the interstate reminded Toby that he had a purpose. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The other thing that sprang to mind was that the moon was beautiful at night from a distance, but it surely was a lonely place up close. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Then I am out of the car and walking to the chapel, and I can hear my heart and, somewhere in the distance, the sounds of birds in the trees. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He couldn't bear the smell and even carried the things he wanted to eat a little distance away. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in the distance, I could hear motorcycle engines roaring just like in a Tupac Shakur video I had seen online. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

In the distance I can hear bangs and shouts and yelling. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

"No. Tess was down there because she likes seeing the action and she's a little nearsighted. I like watching from a distance." Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

And there in the distance, like a snow-covered mountain erupting from the sea, she saw the fortress of ice, its windows glinting in the light of the rising sun. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

As the mage stood by the spring looking out over the falling lands and the harbor and the grey distances of the sea, wings beat above him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The Princess Andromeda faded to the size of a white toy boat in the distance, and then it was gone. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

A young Canadian in a medic’s helmet shines a penlight into Werner’s eyes and loads him into a truck, and he is driven some distance and set in a tent full of dying men. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

And to observe these few coming from the distance of Pluto would require a larger gamma ray detector than any that have been constructed so far. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A Jesuit mathematician did the geometry calculations to determine the distance to a stockpile of gunpowder the Dutch had brought ashore and the angle of elevation at which the cannon should be set. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In late 1997 astronomers announced that they had used these supernovas to measure the distance to some very dim and ancient galaxies. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

If the Commandant is sick enough to use the slaves’ friendships against them, then it’s no wonder Izzi and Cook keep their distance. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Not bad. But I think if you hold it on the bend, you might get a little more distance.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I fainted and awoke many times, and each time I opened my eyes, it seemed as if the voices of those who carried me were fading into the distance. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

A sniper is cowardly, sneaky; he kills from a distance, unseen. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Use farther when referring to physical distance; use further to refer to abstract ideas or to indicate a greater extent or degree. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Time and distance melted together in a blur of silver, and when they stopped, she felt as if they had arrived in another world. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The Shack had been a stupid detour, one that had only reinvigorated my quest for Trazon and the necessity of putting as much distance between me and myself as possible. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

But if, while she is inside inspecting, you move the caterpillar a short distance, she has a less sensible second thought about the matter. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is the tiniest bit of boy fun at a safe distance, same as wondering about a cute movie star in a People magazine. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I could make out about fourteen beehives tucked under the trees in the distance, the tops of them postage stamps of white shine. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Keep close, keep constant distance between you and your opponent as you advance, retreat. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The next day, when Annie and I went out to our old backboard to shoot a few foul shots, we saw from a distance that somebody had spray painted graffiti on the backboard. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

From there, he could see Africa in the distance. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heat from the fire pit was palpable even at a distance; for the wildlings, it had to be blistering. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was extraordinarily challenging to put a crew on the water that could prevail at both distances. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I turned and jogged the short distance back to Miles. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Sound of troops at route step, shuffle in the dust, dull clink of mess kits, a band in the distance, tinny, forlorn, raw call of a cow in the sunlight. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He does some talking, and Mama nods and points off to somewhere in the distance. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

But because the light travels such a long distance, the magic in it is fragile and diffused, stretched into the most delicate of threads. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

In the distance, the Pleiades ship’s gravity stabilizer starts to hum, louder and louder. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then he kind of rolls a little distance away, crouches on a big rock, and stands up facing the wind with his arms stretched out to either side. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Every time our shoulders so much as touch, she moves an obnoxious distance away from me, like she’s been electrocuted. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

From a distance I noticed old Salamano standing on the doorstep. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Driving home, she spots the snowy ridge of the Cascade Mountains in the distance. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She searched the distance anxiously for the shadow that would surely connect the trees, the rocks, and the abundant animal life to the north shore. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were all over each other, chasing after breath and fumbling with our hands and peeling back some of our clothes while the sun sank behind the low rolling Berkshires in the distance. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes you could see an expanse of farmland, the fields stretching into the distance, separated from any houses. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The open French windows framed a greenish sky, and against that, in silhouette at some distance, the familiar head and shoulders of her brother. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Besides, those little shorthand symbols in the book my mother showed me seemed just as bad as let t equal time and let s equal the total distance. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Meggie couldn't see him at this distance, but she was sure he was still there. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In the distance a brook burbled happily along, and a great tree beyond it spread its branches wide. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“In the distance, I could hear the voices of thousands of people. They were all shouting at me and running toward me: ‘Coward! Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

A cutting had been made, at some distance from the Hedge, and went sloping gently down into the ground. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

We have no need to whisper, because at this distance, all we need is thought. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Other researchers distanced themselves, criticizing him for being unscientific, but much of white America embraced his ideas and saw him as a spiritual adviser and a genius. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

They kept their distance from me, which was fine by me. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

At a distance, and condensed by the curved space of the mirror, there are three small figures, dressed in the winter clothing of the girls of forty years ago. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was no night, no day, no distance. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yossarian waited until the last faint bark of the motor had died away in the distance. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

That night as I lay in the middle slot of my three tiered bunk, I heard voices in the distance singing. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s too young to travel all that distance alone.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Even at the cemetery, they stood apart from each other, a huge distance between them even though they were side by side. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Mr. King cannot distance himself from the fact—the cold, hard fact—that a man is dead because of him. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

Words too soft for me to hear at this distance. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I closed what little distance was left between us, one hand sliding through his soft hair, the other gathering the back of his shirt into my fist. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

In this manner they covered the distance to the pylon line, halfway to the foot of the down. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

All he did was try to maintain a certain distance, on the pretext of being a hopeless bachelor when it came to matters of the heart. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the little column had dwindled in the distance, the eastern sky had gone from black to grey and the snow was falling heavily. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She stared longingly into the boundless gray distance as if far, far on the other side of Lake Michigan lay China. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

You have to decide where you want the vanishing point and/or the distance points to be. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

His wife answers, her hands shaking so intensely that it's obvious even from a distance. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Kelly jokes she might have to make his usual the Creature-of-Habit special and send it to him long distance. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

My dirty servant’s garb would rule out identification at a distance, and he’d never be close enough to see my face. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The last thing I see is the silhouette of a girl off in the distance. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She thought maybe, just maybe, she had gained some distance on it. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Redtooth would have flown a record distance had there not been a stout sycamore tree several yards away…. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

In the distance, its crown rose over the others like a mother standing over her children. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The oars extended with a sound like machine-gun fire, and the Argo II turned from the dock, heading for the island in the distance. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

After that I’m looking at a lot of overshoes, and the floorboards, stretching into the distance, at eye level. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It gazed at him from a vast distance, full of deep knowledge he couldn’t begin to understand. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance, beyond the rocks to the right of the beach, I heard a short, sharp bark. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Putting as much distance between each other as possible, leaving me straddling the in-between. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

You could watch both wind and rain coming at you from the distance, marking the water. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Now each day I stepped farther and farther away from Frightful to make her fly greater and greater distances. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked toward him and dropped to my knees at what felt to be a proper distance. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Once—God knows how long ago—I had worried that I was keeping too much distance between myself and this alien time. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

As the only black student at Carroll College in tiny Waukesha, Wisconsin, Fuller struggled to talk and act in ways that minimized the distance between himself and his classmates. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I tried four times; finally an exasperated central told me the wire was being kept open for long distance from Detroit. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Off in the distance, there was a noise. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

They listened to the night sounds they had grown used to—the rumble of artillery, stray shots in the distance, a booming far-off explosion—probably sappers blowing a bridge in the retreat. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Three vultures circled something in the distance, soaring on updrafts. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

"The intercept distance was going to be way too big. So they're using the attitude adjusters to close the gap." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time they saw the stone walls of Cathair in the distance, Kaede had almost convinced herself that this new existence was normal. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

With Owen he had sailed to Catalina and anchored and they had covered a fair distance—perhaps fifty miles—of sailing to get there. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had not gone any great distance—that is, what would have been a great distance for an experienced swimmer. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment she looks off in the middle distance, somewhere above the bookcase. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He routinely stood a great distance from us while we worked and did not appear to care what we did as long as we were orderly. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unprepared for a two-and-a-half-mile trek across campus in the rain, I decided to walk the short distance to Schuyler Place, where I could call my mother and wait out of the rain. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So many times I tried to walk to my father’s palace ” She pointed to a large black castle in the distance. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Mr. Singh held his hand over his brow to make a sunshade and looked into the distance. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the far end of the next block two men, small from the distance and motionless, stood arm in arm together. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Kim stands up straight and sees that the other children are out of hearing distance from us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blue sky arched there in the distance, but above her head the sun was blocked by clouds. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

To quiet the doubters, he gave his word that the public would be able to see Seabiscuit work a full ten furlongs—the race distance—at three-thirty on the afternoon of May 24. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Farmer smiles and points to a hilltop in the distance. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The birds hopped before her, or flew a short distance. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

We thought there was a great distance between the future and us, and now here we are, falling through it. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Until all she could see was water and distance. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Leon’s breath filled in the gaps between the words as if he’d been running a long distance. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance I hear the growl of The Beast. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond, through the swirl of what he now, somehow, perceived was the thing the old man had spoken of— snow—he could look out and down a great distance. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

He thought Little Hangleton must be their final destination and wondered, as he had done on the night they had found Slughorn, why they had to approach it from such a distance. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

In the distance, I can hear the sound of kids yelling and laughing. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

On Tuesday afternoons—Tuesday being Mrs. Pontellier’s reception day—there was a constant stream of callers—women who came in carriages or in the streetcars, or walked when the air was soft and distance permitted. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sight of pristine lines of marching soldiers going back and forth in the distance calmed my nerves. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Distances of seventy- five light-years or less are very small compared to other distances in astronomy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mind became unnaturally calm, as if part of me had lifted right up out of my body and was sitting on a tree limb watching the spectacle from a safe distance. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was entirely deserted and silent, except that when she listened carefully she could hear a faint humming in the distance, as if something were running—another motor? Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, every time Turner pitched her a stone within shouting distance, she hit it dead center—no matter how high the arch, no matter how straight the descent. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The hullabaloo faded into the distance, and there was silence in the chamber with the women. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Werner has been reading the popular science magazines in the drugstore; he’s interested in wave turbulence, tunnels to the center of the earth, the Nigerian method of relaying news over distances with drums. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I squint into the distance at what appears to be a long something hanging from a branch of a tree up on one of the hills. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were still quite capable of wiping the floor up with me, so I kept my distance and recommended that the other rocket boys not tease them either. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I could see fine off in the distance, but up close I flunked—just barely. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Grin had just come out of one of the buildings and was standing some distance away, talking into a mobile telephone. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

And there was Robbie, who exasperated her with his affectation of distance, and his grand plans which he would only discuss with her father. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

With a tingle of horror, Harry saw in the distance a huge, batlike shape flying through the darkness toward the perimeter wall. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

They disappeared round a bend in the distance, and, preoccupied with tree problems, he did not give them a second thought. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled back from the mirror so I was no longer within zit-squeezing distance, but I didn’t turn around. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The Ajo Mountains still glowed purple-brown in the distance, and the poppy fields were tipped with a gold that faded even as Matt watched. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked off into the distance, considering this. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“It’s an incredible gas smell, and you can almost feel the heat from the distance. It’s just unbelievable. It’s like that movie, Apocalypse Now.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in remote distance a rocket bomb thundered. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

A streetlight in the distance caught several horses leaping out of the shadows. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“The earth moves two thousand miles, the distance from Chicago to Burnt Mill Creek, in one minute and forty seconds,” I said. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

That unit of length, the distance light goes in a year, is called a light-year. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A little distance away she glimpsed Goodwife Cruff, surrounded by a close huddle of whispering women, all darting venomous glances in Kit’s direction. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Jinny looked back up, and out, into the endless sea, the distance. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

From such a distance, the river looked like a thin band of silver or a sparkling snake that slithered its way across the land. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I wanted to distance myself from what had happened back at the slaughterhouse. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He thought there were two eyes, very cold though lit with a pale light that seemed to come from some remote distance. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

At first I thought she was still staring at the boat, but then I saw her gaze was on the vapour trail of a plane in the far distance, climbing slowly into the sky. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was family everywhere within walking distance, so many cousins, so much history. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The distance awoke a longing in her like a cord pulled suddenly taut: She wanted so much to go back. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was difficult to make out from this distance, but there seemed to be something atop each one. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I swear I hear a cheer somewhere in the distance, rallying in agreement with her. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

We had plenty of freeboard, the distance between the water and the gunnel; it would take a mean sea to swamp us. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The air was gleaming and sunlit, but hazy; and they could not see to any great distance. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

In the distance, I could see the manicured lawns of Pickett’s golf course, and beyond that the glass-and-steel Pickett mansion, which had been designed by some famous architect. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He was in the middle of a great empty plain, a flat desert drenched with sunlight, across which all sounds came to him out of immense distances. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Soon the voices were many and could be heard from a distance. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Her hair was wrapped in black too, and from a distance, all they could really see beneath her face was the bright orange she was peeling. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a very short distance to the Sanchez place. Why did we stop so near?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

First I thought nothing was going to happen, because I could see big blobs of fuel coming out of the engine and disappearing in the distance, like a string of snowballs. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her mother’s tone, Dedd can already hear the distance that will come between her parents. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Man evolved to feel strongly about few people, short distances, and relatively brief intervals of time; and these are still the dimensions of life that are important to him. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the other Gypsies retreated to a safe distance and began to set up camp, pitching tents and starting cookfires. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The task that faced me was to push it down the rocky shore and into the water, a distance four or five times its length. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they worked, they kept their distance from each other. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The sky thundered in the distance, so I figured maybe the burgers smelled okay. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The sky was at its bluest and seemed to curve down and join with the ocean in the distance. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I insisted on keeping the door to the trailer open so that I could watch as Mai and Quang-ha receded into the distance. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Then in the distance a thick wall of fog arose. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lightning flashes somewhere off in the distance; thunder rumbling a few seconds later. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I assumed that meant they couldn’t see us either—or hear us over the distance and their own noise. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

A warhom sounded in the far distance, a deep mournful note that chilled the soul. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

As repetitive, as relentless, her mind marched over the same problems: money, food, distance, where to sleep, Momma: step, step, step. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nathan struggled to maintain enough distance so the horned toad couldn’t hear him but so he was close enough to listen in on what it was saying. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I thought I heard people whispering, in the distance, then nearby. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

There was a long line of men waiting; I squatted some distance away. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

On that day he had stood beside the rail, listening to the stroke of the oars and the pounding of the master's drum while he watched Pyke dwindle in the distance. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But he said nothing, and kept his distance, or whatever distance he could manage on a crowded bus. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

They placed themselves a far distance from the rice, yet still within sight, put out the fire, and pretended to go to sleep. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Now, suppose one has two parallel metal plates a short distance apart. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s one of my quirks, like calculating distances rather than time. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Eighteen miles was a heroic distance for us, but we were filthy and trail-weary and more than ready for a town, and so we plodded on. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Surely there wasn’t that much distance between our basement and the empty house. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Moody was speaking again, from a great distance, it seemed to Harry. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She lifted her head so we were looking at each other across the short, dim distance between us. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Seen from a distance, these sway-backed cabins seemed to huddle together as though for protection. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance, perched on a low rise, was an elegant, stately home with long windows and multiple chimneys. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

From the distance came a rumble of thunder. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The force declines inversely as the square of distance. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sat there in the distance, as though it had been waiting for them. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Several dozen warriors lowered their spears and made a ring around them, wisely keeping out of striking distance of Percy’s sword. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Squinting, I could also make out a few tiny nebulae and galaxies in the distance. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“We suddenly appreciated that San Francisco was truly a city of magnificent distances,” wrote one witness. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a grand stone castle in the distance behind her, and she is dashing toward the rustic stables. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The field was the best the track had to offer, including Velociter, the former track record holder for the race’s mile distance, and the terrific mare Uppermost, the only horse to better Velociter’s time. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

After our early chores were done, while Uncle Willie or Momma minded the Store, we were free to play the children’s games as long as we stayed within yelling distance. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

One plane seemed to be right above us, seeding the ground around us with bullets and bombs, and as it trailed off into the distance, it set nearby patches of the darkness afire. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

In the distance, there was a glimpse of the river that bordered the community. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In principle, this provided a way to calculate the distance to the Sun by a variation on the theme of parallax, but these early observations were not accurate enough for the results to be definitive. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

In the distance was a huge door that appeared to lift upward with chain pulleys. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance he could see the abandoned farmhouse that Basil had spoken of. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

In the distance she heard her husband playing his book steadily, his fingers never tired of the old songs. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

From this distance it was nothing more than a squiggle of graffiti in the earth. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I dunno,” she said, and followed, keeping her distance from him. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A streak of light from the front flowed past me, illuminating dusty weeds, debris and outbuildings some distance to the rear. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she could see her grandparents in the distance, and that gave her courage. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was fifteen miles to Newton; to cover that distance with a team, to do the chores and handle money—that was a man’s job. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Streams of people brushed past us, and with the loud bargaining, the laughter, the arguing, and the honking of cars in the distance, everything felt like it was merging into one beating pulse. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I thought I heard dogs baying in the distance, and I remembered I’d heard rumors about Mr. Lyndon owning vicious dogs. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

And all we could think about was putting distance between us and them. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Having been deprived of the company of her own parents upon moving to America, her children’s independence, their need to keep their distance from her, is something she will never understand. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He stopped suddenly and pointed into the distance. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The two men stood at a distance, watching us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His parents are diffident around Maxine, at first keeping their distance, not boisterous as they typically are around their Bengali friends. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nick stares past my shoulder, into the distance. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

It streamed along a shallow gully for some distance before finally spilling over the wall and running downhill. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The castle maids and guards kept their distance from Roza and her ferocious new companion. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I did this now, taking the precaution of backing away from the robot a good distance before shouting “Leopardon!” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the travelers ran after the coaches for a short distance, but the caravan stopped for no one. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He could see the roof of the house in the distance. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in the distance the Republic's pledge has started blaring from the city's speakers. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I touched the cold glass with my fingers, looking off into the distance toward the empty house my parents would come home to. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I recognized the sounds of a carnival in the distance: the arrhythmic wheeze of pipe organs, the dull roar of a crowd. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

But today, I still want to keep my distance. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Always, in the near distance, sacred drums were sounding. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

There need be no relation between the distance through the wormhole and the separation of its ends in the nearly flat background. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cluny sat and watched them from the distance as he talked aloud to himself. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Better yet, in a short distance—less than two miles—the contour lines came closer and closer together and showed two hills, one on either side of the river, just after a sharp S turn. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then, to keep at a distance dogs or men, he took a sharpened lance, and went to rest under a hollow rock where swine were sleeping out of the w ind and rain. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eilonwy had gone no great distance; he could see the glow of the sphere a few paces ahead, where the girl sat on a boulder in a clearing. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

In all of the white women he had met, mosdy on jobs and at relief stations, there was always a certain coldness and reserve; they stood their distance and spoke to him from afar. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Every so often the line would hiss upward, slacken, and then a tremendous splash could be heard in the distance. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I drifted away from her and let time and distance do the rest. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In many cases, the relatively privileged black elite turned against the black urban poor, condemning them and distancing themselves, while at the same time presenting themselves as legitimate spokespeople for the disadvantaged. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He still warned her of all approaching animals or strangers, but he was wary of her ever after she lost her temper, and kept his distance, which made her sad. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“And—” “And when he found Mondragon irrigating that beanfield with the dead sow off in a corner he stopped and ripped off a chamber load 4t our hero from a distance of about thirty yards.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was he keeping a safe distance between us? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Tally and David couldn’t manage even short distances on foot Every inch of the journey had to be over hoverable land and water, no matter how far it took them out of their way. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Then he thought he heard Spurge’s voice in the distance, calling his name. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

By the third week in September, although the sixth graders were still teasing April—from a safe distance—they were beginning to think of her rather proudly, as their own private oddball. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only way to ensure that nobody found out how rotten I was inside, was if I kept my distance. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in the distance, a ferry blasts its horn. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

They’d admired these aspects of her personality from a distance before they actually met her, but now that she was living and working with them in the flesh, she was their ideal leader. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I thought about what Vern’s boat looked like from below, imagining the growing distance between the floor of the bay and the boat’s hull. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Then they drive a few hundred yards, enough to build the base of a triangle, calculating distance all the way, and Werner switches on the primary receiver. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Sun’s high in the sky and there’s a gas station a short distance away, but the lot where the RV is parked is otherwise abandoned. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

She was looking in the far distance, as if she could actually see the city in its frenzy of excessive parties and frenetic couplings and speeding cars. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the distance, they saw the woods continue. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I chased him some distance and got him going fast, away from the bee tree, and then I came back for the wagon.” Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, I decided we’d be better off if we crossed the road outside the terminal, putting as much distance between us as possible. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

A few men joined in our chants and followed us for a short distance. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

He closed the distance between us and took my hand again. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Trotter was winded after having walked the distance, and her skirt was wet from about her knee to her feet. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I start fidgeting with things within fidgeting distance. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

In the distance, near the massive brick gateway, I can see that the train has been emptied. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Then I was looking through the mist at strawberry fields, and the Long Island Sound in the distance. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

With a couple of bounds, I leave the stream, run through the woods for a short distance, and climb an embankment to the dirt road that runs along the bottom of my mountain. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun set in a navy blue sky, and the stars sparkled on and off as they spoke of their vast distances from the earth. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The distance from her firstborn was one of my grandmother's many scarlet letters. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

We saw the three or four automobiles and the crowd when we were still some distance away. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I turned and saw a light in the distance, a searchlight over the sea. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

There were times when she went cold and silent and he felt her distance from him so completely that it seemed impossible to reach her. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Take The Great Gatsby, for instance—the woman’s melancholic face against the city lights in the distance is the perfect representation of the quiet misery of that era. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Hazel covered the distance down the slope in a few seconds. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though I was some distance away, I could still hear snippets of his speech. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance he heard a clanking, mechanical noise. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the Troubled Times, all roads bad been cleared of undergrowth for the distance of a bowshot an either side—but this glade, on account of peculiarities in the terrain, had been overlooked. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were gentle, grassy hills in the distance, their soft contours lit by dim uplights. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then, in the distance, a dove uttered a mournful note that resounded like the call of my own heart. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Inside the gates Tashbaan did not at first seem so splendid as it had looked from a distance. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Lady Constance did resume her former distance toward Penelope and the children, but in fact, she became distant from everyone. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Kendra felt no breeze, but she could hear a shrieking gale in the distance. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He snivels and squints into the distance, searching the stony brown hills. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, they saw the front doors of the castle open in the distance and the rest of the school spilling onto the lawn. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

An army of horsemen stopped at our house; the foot soldiers in the distance were coming closer. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A short distance to my left I saw a vertigo-inducing sea of shacks, rolling out as far as the eye could see. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Beyond him, some distance down the path, Hazel was combing the goose grass out of his coat and evidently listening to Fiver as they sat together under a rhododendron. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we’re a safe distance away, I stop with my hands braced on my knees. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Charleton’s example is a figure walking towards us from a distance: at a certain point it becomes obvious that it is Plato. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In the distance, the Ferris wheel towered over it all. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

In the distance he could hear big diesel trucks rumbling down Highway 66 past Laguna. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She had created the distance, ignoring him, changing her e-mail address and phone number, and yet she felt deeply betrayed by this news. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They view the scene from a brief distance above and no matter who they are or how old, they gain a wisdom from that last vista. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked gorgeous, even from that distance, even separated by a pane of glass and a span of air. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Their straight trunks and dark green canopy seemed to defy distance, being so clearly visible at what must have been many miles away. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Ike deeper they rode into the waste, the smaller the pools became, while the distance between them grew. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In the far distance, sunlight shimmered off deep water. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His airplanes and spaceships have dwarfed distance, placed time in chains, and carved highways through the stratosphere. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Also, a large contingent of out-of-town lawyers, many of whom had journeyed great distances, filled several benches; specifically, they were on hand to hear Green’s final address to the jury. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The younger brother fell behind, then followed at a distance. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

And on top of all that, none of us knew where to go because Whit was gone, probably chasing after Sunny who runs long distance like it's a leisurely walk to his locker. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

The children watched anxiously as the Mellower idly chewed a grass stem and stared into the distance. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Gradually, he snipped away at the distance between them. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A crab creature was staring directly at him from the distance. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I am already disturbed by the ash falling from the blue distance down on these streets. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had less than half the distance left to go. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The heat shimmer and the distance made it impossible to see any details, but the other balloon was larger, and flying higher. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the war, she persistently told herself, it was the prison of camp life, the pressures of the times, their exile from home, that explained his distance. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She said nothing, and her eyes gazed into the distance. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

It looked like patience, but Naomi felt that a distance had opened up between them. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He could identify police outboards at a distance of a quarter mile. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

As if the darkness hears my question, a light glints in the distance. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Lazlo squinted across the distance, gauging the blocks’ position relative to the great seraph overhead. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Lit- de by little, as they approached along Michigan Avenue, he began to be aware of a monolith looming in the distance, a building like a gigantic church organ, pipes running into die sky. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He distrusted the thick mud walls and built a frame house some distance away, and his cows put their heads out the deep recessed windows of the old Sanchez house. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Long enough for the buyer to get a good distance away," the father said, grinning. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

They would race first, for a distance of two miles, followed at hourly intervals by the junior varsity and the varsity, each racing for three miles. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Nor how hard it must have been to come a great distance with no eyes and no guide but a lively boy and a bent-tailed dog. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Virgil was still a fair distance from the bottom when he lowered his foot and discovered there was no longer a rung for him to step onto. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Your mother wants you to go to your grandmother’s. I talked to her long distance.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Soon the Indianapolis skyline loomed up in the distance. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The flag was whipping in the wind, and I could hear the white noise of traffic in the distance, but it was otherwise quiet, the cicadas and crickets silenced by the cold. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

In the distance, the sun was setting behind a city skyline. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The silence hissed in her ears and her vision was faintly distorted—her hands in her lap appeared unusually large and at the same time remote, as though viewed across an immense distance. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Similarly, in Friedmann’s model the speed at which any two galaxies are moving apart is proportional to the distance between them. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The remaining distance it covered with a flicked tongue, mopped sloppily across Sheed’s cheek. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s long distance. But not like that. No more questions.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She took off her sunglasses and looked out past the cattails, to the psychiatric hospital in the near distance. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Even in the distance he could see the two on foot moving slowly along, bent low to the ground. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

There in front of us, glinting in the morning light, we saw the ocean, the rocky shore, and in the distance, winking in the sunshine, the glass towers of Cape Town. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For long moments nothing happened, except the ground getting closer, and Tally wondered again if bungee jackets could handle a fall from this distance. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

On Paul Van Riper’s first tour in Southeast Asia, when he was out in the bush, serving as an advisor to the South Vietnamese, he would often hear gunfire in the distance. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

From a distance, you could see the impression of a woman’s body on the mountain face: her legs formed of huge ravines, her hair a spray of pines fanning over the northern ridge. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

At lunch, Citra—who still found she couldn’t eat—watched from a distance as Rowan stuffed himself just as he had at breakfast, as if he had no care in the world. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Then from the corner of my eye, far in the distance, I think I see him. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How’d it go?” he asked too loudly, and even from a distance I could smell whiskey on his breath. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In the distance were two women, one to the left of the cypress tree and one to the right. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

With an almost comfortable distance from the thing itself as it really was, Colin thought about the dork mantra: sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

These same principles led astronomers to take a new interest in measuring distances in order to establish exactly where certain objects—new stars—were in the heavens. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It is the longest of the corridors we will travel through, but that distance shrinks when I see him. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

But recently he has kept his distance, either because he’s afraid of me or because he has finally given up. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I stop for a second just outside, checking the direction and distance of the patrols. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

On one side of him, Ron rubbed his nose in apparent embarrassment; on the other, Hermione shuffled her feet as though quite keen to put a bit of distance between herself and Harry. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The mom’s piercing wails seem to echo through the camp and into the mountains far in the distance. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

From that point he could see the store itself in the distance. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

And 1955 was the year I made my first trip of any distance. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost immediately the footprints of a pig were discovered in the grass at a little distance from the knoll. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

In the distance I could see the British troops milling around the house. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A short distance beyond the dune, near the cliff, I saw the pack of wild dogs. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance he looked like an old man, his shoulders stooped, but he walked with the swift space-covering gait of a young man. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

After that were the translucent columns, so lustrous Pinmei could see their gleam from the distance. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The boys rode away toward the school building in the distance. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

That morning was quiet, only a couple of guys surfing in the distance. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

From my cell window I could see a line of houses in the distance. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The message was long and reading it made me tired, as if I’d run a great distance. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I had expected to find nothing but trees and air waiting for me as I picked up my run, but there she was, a short distance away. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The man with the horse and cart backed off to a safe distance. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

About midday I saw in the distance what I first thought was an oil derrick. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

They squeeze through Drake’s Passage, the gap between the tip of South America and the end of the Antarctic Peninsula, a distance of only 620 miles. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The main feeling was that inmates were like a contagion—and the more you kept a professional distance, the better off you’d be. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was Salvador, standing a distance away from her, looking at something on the wall of a building. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t stop him when he thinks about asking the tour guide an unanswerable question or when he considers pretending to see a large bird off in the distance. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I lay still a while: the night-wind swept over the hill and over me, and died moaning in the distance; the rain fell fast, wetting me afresh to the skin. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Sarah’s white cloth cap bobbed away in the distance as I looked for a path out of the crowd, but bodies pushed in from all sides to watch the two men arguing. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She finally felt the weight of his absence, after keeping it at a numb distance for many months. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“The rock just creamed him,” says Beidleman, who observed the incident from a short distance above. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The fighting had taken place, for the most part, at a distance from them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d never been there before, only seen it from a distance. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

And with that he raced round the last corner, only to find that by some trick of the tunnel, or of the hearing which the Ring gave him, he had misjudged the distance. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Pippin could see all the Pelennor laid out before him, dotted into the distance with farmsteads and little walls, barns and byres, but nowhere could he see any kine or other beasts. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I would move off a discrete distance, out of sight, but within easy talking distance. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

At last, the train jolted and began to move, and I woke for good to a pale yellow sun rising above the trees in the distance. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

But the real answer is that the height of the stack would approximate the distance to the sun. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had to have awakened everyone as they downshifted loudly, and even at a distance their roaring engines rattled our windows. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Argus followed us outside, but he kept his distance. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Luma lived at a comfortable distance from Amman’s problems, which included poverty and the tensions brought on by the arrival of Palestinian and, later, Iraqi refugees. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The few guards that followed her remained a respectful distance away—a distance that grew greater each day. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The picture is fundamentally like a newspaper wirephoto, made of perhaps a million individual dots, each a different shade of gray, so fine and close together that at a distance the constituent dots are invisible. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vegas, for his part, seemed not too anxious to mix it up with him and they spent most of the first round fighting at a distance. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl took a step away as if to distance herself from him. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Alaric stared off into the distance for a long while, then finally looked back at the Witchlings. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“And what is fifty miles of good road? Little more than half a day’s journey. Yes, I call it a very easy distance.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

He shot toward the island in the distance, but he was still falling much too fast. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And in the distance Hazel could see a small, dark form crouched on one of them, perfectly framed by the window, like a piece of three-dimensional art. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I looked up, confused, as she quickly closed the distance between us. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

In the distance she saw a train whooshing over the fair’s all-electric elevated railway along the park’s perimeter. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I reach for her, but she pulls away a little—like she’s trying to make me want her more by keeping her distance all morning. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

But the academic is brought closer to lower-class culture because of his very distance from it. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you,” he said. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

To communicate with other civilizations, we require a method adequate not merely for interplanetary distances but for interstellar distances. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each man would be allowed to advance half the distance to the woman each time he moved. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know the exact distance or my walking speed. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Inspired at mass meetings by the testimony of elderly people who walked great distances and poor families who donated money for gasoline, protesters kept walking and vowed to do so until justice came. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

On a frostbitten hill in the distance, men on horses. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a distance vast enough to have taken them weeks of walking and at which they must have died, some of them, before it was done. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

At first I thought it was some disturbed rocks sliding down the hill, but no, this didn’t fade into the distance like that would. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Before long we heard a siren in the distance. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

By using the compasses set with this separation to step off distances marked on paper, he could estimate the angular separation of the two objects on the sky at that time. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

People would walk from a great distance to buy spare pumpkins, and later they would tell their friends just how delicious these pumpkins were. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

We agreed to try the glacier between the Volcanoes, though by going west to it we lose at least two days’ mileage towards our goal, one in going west and one in regaining the distance. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Clouds of steam float high in the distance. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

When finally I see their figures in the distance, 1 cannot believe my eyes! First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Way off into the distance, as far as they could see, the land lay in rolling swells, with clumps of shadow in the low places between them. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Bog gases flared up in green pyres in the distance, as if in sympathy with Emma’s light. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I stand behind a tree a distance from the grave. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Keen to put plenty of distance between himself and the skrewts, Harry hurried off again. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

In distance running in the 1930s, it was exceptionally rare for a man to run a last lap in one minute. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

She, herself, felt the distance, but refused to lord it over us. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

On many nights I was convinced I saw a light in the distance. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The ogress had already closed half the distance to the bush. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Even from a distance, all could see the bracelet’s exquisite beauty and were, for a moment, stunned into silence. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

They could be set off from a distance. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden he found himself running and already some distance from the house, and not toward home. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see the familiar boxy Weylin house in the distance, yellow light at one window. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance, the smallest house, holding the biggest love inside. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Frodo looked and saw, still at some distance, a hill of many mighty trees, or a city of green towers: which it was he could not tell. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

This was a wonderful gift, no doubt, and yet of what use was a sword when the creature to be struck by it could turn the swordsman into stone before he was within striking distance? Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crew members hid in the woods at a distance of about fifty yards and filmed him using a telescopic lens. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

When we turned at one of the narrow bends I saw a man walking along the drive a little distance ahead. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The hollow had nearly closed the distance between us. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

In the distance I saw a group of Party officials with their wives. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

But Alberti is perfectly clear that the image in a one-point-perspective painting extends ‘to an almost infinite distance’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He saw some other buildings, and some trees in the distance. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Nancy felt sorry for him, but she felt a distance from him that she could not overcome. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fairies set them down a good distance from the wreckage and the basement. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

She held his face between her hands and looked at it from a distance of six inches. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even in the midst of his fear and strain it occurred to him that Dandelion must be very fast: he had covered the distance in a flash. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He distanced himself from the women and any publicity, believing that diplomacy was the best tactic. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Only the shadows and the strike and rush of waves and the hiss of distance. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

He points at something in the distance and then walks away, leaving the car. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

An identical copy of the planet, Ludus II, was created in the same sector, a short distance away from the original. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I did consider it at one time; from a distance it seemed like a good profession. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Even from a distance, the red lines were visible and plenty. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Nathan’s voice reached me from a distance: “What is the matter with you? Are you not feeling well?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have no idea how many miles we covered, but the mountains faded into the distance and were replaced by miles of flat, dry land. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I’d washed Mother’s china, which had never been used, and I began laying it out, eyeing the distance between each plate and knife. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We continue to share with our remotest ancestors the most tangled and evasive attitudes about death, despite the great distance we have come in understanding some of the profound aspects of biology. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was I supposed to maintain a suitable distance from his royal self? Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance, ahead of us, Papa spotted a white speck and a cloud of thick black smoke. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Even at a distance, Chess could see amazement flow over the boy’s expression. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

In the distance there was a gentle ringing, like two pieces of metal rubbing against each other. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

We sit at a table outside, the ocean just a few hundred feet in the distance. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He kept his distance, not offering to shake my hand. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

In the distance I could hear the sound of drums and gongs. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nok kept her distance so no one could see her scowling. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She turned onto River Road and drove a short distance before coming around a bend to see a wall of flashing blue lights. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The force of the explosion had flung them to distances of hundreds of yards. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

For nearby stars, we can measure their apparent brightness and their distance, and so we can work out their luminosity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Snape was staring at a family of four a short distance away. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It was just a short distance, and her aim was accurate. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I was still kind of keeping my distance from her because of before, so I let Summer answer. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

A good distance down the ravine, about twenty upright logs of increasing height led from the edge of the stream to the wall of the ravine. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The new prisoners kept their distance from us veteran prisoners as we were herded toward the main gate. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

His motivation was simple: Venus was a problem for both the Ptolemaic and Copernican systems because, according to both theories, its distance from the Earth varied greatly. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In the distance, they could hear the guards shouting, their feet stomping on the snow-covered walkway. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

From this new distance, we begin to get the long view, and it's not so pretty. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Westley said, sitting up, staring out at the massed troops in the distance. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Amari could see only bloody water and foam in the distance. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They’re right to keep their distance from us. We are still dangerous.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless by sunset Taran realized they had covered only a little distance and had barely reached the broad moorlands. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance, she heard the caw of a crow, over and over. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He draws the triangle and labels the distances of each segment and passes the paper back. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

From time to time shapes and figures can be seen, amongst the trees, in the distance. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

South, in the distance, he could see one big cottonwood tree, the only bright green in that valley. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Practically no one else sees him, sometimes Sherrie, though even she has begun to distance herself, drop away. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew I was in the right area when I spotted Twin Peaks in the distance. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

What looks like a brute fact—the distance a body falls in a certain period of time—turns out to be in part dependent on language and institutions. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Thunder rumbled in the distance as the heavy rains continued to beat against the classroom windows. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I rotated my orientation so that Leopardon was upright, then cut the engines and dropped the remaining distance to the surface. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He had wandered into an area not previously explored, had apparently slipped on the ice and tumbled and bounced for a distance of 150 meters. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he had gone only a short distance, he realized that, while they were erecting the stall, one of them had spoken Arabic and the other Spanish. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The buzz of the airplane receded in the damp, windy distance. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Some of the distance he walked, and some he rode on the sled. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

While she marveled at this, she was also a little anxious, for their horns looked formidably sharp, and even at this distance she could see intelligence and curiosity in their gaze. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Down the road in the distance, a long column of dust was rising. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

In the distance was a ravine and, at the bottom, a meandering creek. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A special type of star, called a Cepheid variable, had a property that allowed Hubble to measure the distance to faraway objects. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Out in the distance, the outcrop point of an island was visible. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I started jogging, wanting to put even more distance between myself and school. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Believe me,” Poppy said, “it looks better from a distance. Camps are difficult places.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The galactic core, illuminated by older, redder stars, is seen in the distance. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I mended ties with my family and prepared for college, Rocco and I continued to talk, but the distance began to take its toll. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

If they are very far, they must be intrinsically extremely bright to be visible over such distances; some are as bright as a thousand supernovae exploding at once. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Durban is the principal port for the country’s main industrial area, and the highway that leads to Johannesburg runs parallel to the railway line for a great distance. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The car turned around the bend at the end of the long tree-lined drive and the animals heard the sound of the engine receding in the distance. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watch everyone else recover from the memory serum that altered them permanently as if from a great distance. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Radio telescopes generate, in narrow frequency ranges, signals so intense they can be detected over immense interstellar distances. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We shouldn’t have traveled so much today—but y’know, putting some distance between you and the Skiz folks wasn’t such a bad idea.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Only the sea, a flat line in the distance, and the mist above it. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

‘They had your picture in the paper and everything. Man, you are one heck of a distance from where they looked. They finally gave you up for dead, you know that?” The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t see Atlas, but I could hear him groaning in the distance, still laboring under the weight of the sky, just beyond the fortress. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

In the distance, Seven could hear spells being hurled. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I have no answer to that, but still I cast my voice out into the void, hoping to reach something beyond distance and deeper than the depths of my own soul. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

They treated her with respect because of what she had done for Lucas, but otherwise they kept their distance from her. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The horse and rider disappeared into the distance and still Hazel stood. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Part of the distance they rode in the car, and after disembarking, passed the Pontellier mansion, which looked broken and half tom asunder. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Far off, in the distance, a lion roared. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was how I felt toward the whole city: that it should be behind glass, adored from a distance, never touched, never altered. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Most uncharacteristically, the manuscript he had sent to Cambridge had been published before his collaborator, R. B. Corey, could accurately measure the interatomic distances. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

They felt their way along the water’s edge for some distance, until they found a small shallow bay. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Just sat in the dark, listened to the tink-tink of the engine cooling, the wail of a siren in the distance. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The bigger the talk, the farther the distances she travelled. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That there is Pegasus,” he said, pointing to a cluster of stars hovering way up over the top of the mountains in the distance. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He was quite a distance from where he last remembered having it—and in the opposite direction from where the vandal had fled. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was looking now over the top of Harry’s head, into the distance. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Pausing at a distance from them, he pulled out his wand, and took careful aim. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I had seen beautiful girls on book jackets, and even noticed some from a distance when Rain and I had gone into town for supplies. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“But Stella—she points at the pre-op doors, where somewhere in the distance, Stella is lying on a table about to be operated on—“Stella is fighting for her life in there. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The first was George Myers, my biological father, who had left West Virginia and settled in an apartment with his new wife and family in Harlem, a short distance from me. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I waited outside at the curb and just the sight of my mom's car in the distance made it easier to breathe. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

If Cecilia made her peace with her family, he would keep his distance without seeming sour. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

My muscles are tensing, the way they do when I see dogs in the distance and I’m not quite sure if they’re nice or mean. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

An elderly and civil woman waited on me while another woman talked to him some distance away. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pictured herself living there, in Kabul, at the other end of that unimaginable distance, living in a stranger’s house where she would have to concede to his moods and his issued demands. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

But the distance between us was there for a reason. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The sprawl was different: buildings spread farther apart, palm trees and low hills in the distance. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Even from that distance we could see the terrible angle of his neck, the shoe turned the wrong way, the trickle of blood from nose and mouth. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I look out the window, and out in the distance is the valley beneath us, a sprinkling of thousands of lights shimmering in the summer fog. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rate times time equals distance is not a universal law; it doesn’t apply under all conditions. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

If we try to backtrack and put distance between us and the crowd, we'll stand out like neon lights in a dark room, and the cops already have their eyes peeled. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Hubble combined the distance data with Doppler speed data, and found something shocking. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

For a moment he is only conscious of the trees in the distance, across the highway, their green tops swaying. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

At the end of it, in the far distance, a light in the kitchen window gleamed. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember sitting in class and hearing bomb blasts in the distance as rival tribes fought. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“It wouldn’t have worked anyway,” Harley was saying in a loud voice; “between this beer belly of mine and her big belly, there would have been too much distance!” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Friends are better than a boyfriend, girlfriend. So a guy gives you his varsity jacket. How many good-looking guys wear glasses? Understand not seeing distance well?” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Conner stood abruptly and crossed over to his desk, a more comfortable distance away. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Tidbit asked as they peeked at the fort in the distance. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle stage of a grueling distance race, Seabiscuit had broken the half-mile world record by two seconds, the equivalent of more than thirteen lengths. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He eases down next to me, keeping a careful distance between us. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The man paced and prayed and sirens wailed in the distance. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Professor Sprout’s arms were full of bandages, and with another twinge of guilt, Harry spotted the Whomping Willow in the distance, several of its branches now in slings. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“When we hit the zone, keep your distances! Don’t bunch up!” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dimensions of the Cosmos are so large that using familiar units of distance, such as meters or miles, chosen for their utility on Earth, would make little sense. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As usual the water place eliminated time and distance. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

It takes some getting accustomed to the fact that the minuscule times and distances of microphysics as well as the vastness of astronomical phenomena share the dimensions of our human world. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing of note appears in the distance. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

During the night I heard him talking numbers out of his dreams: weights, days, distances.... The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The barb was invisible from this distance, but my stomach flipped. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

When suddenly I notice Peeta, he's about five tributes to my right, quite a fair distance, still I can tell he's looking at me and I think he might be shaking his head. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The dark line of the horizon is far in the distance, the sky above it lighter, like layers of sediment in rock. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Then suddenly I saw him in the distance as he nosed the plane down toward the far end of the runway. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The pounding in the distance was like my heartbeat after running. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

A short distance away, at a week-old grave, some men were stripping the withered flowers from the wire frames of the floral pieces heaped on the grave. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he turned to look behind him, he heard a noise in the distance: horses’ hooves pounding the earth. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could tell right away something must be wrong, because Buddy was the only person I knew in Boston, and he never called me long distance because it was so much more expensive than letters. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Some combination of the mist and the distance had left Jinny stranded in the sea. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Outside in the distance, the mortars and rockets continue to explode through the night. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Juanga and Lorena get up and dust the snow off their clothes, but I lie there for a few seconds, listening to the church bells in the distance. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

When they were again on level ground, the rock in the distance seemed no closer than when they’d set out. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

But just as the peach was almost within arm's distance of the emperor, someone broke through the mesmerized crowd and grabbed it! When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

In the distance three camels were strolling along side by side, and not far away a beaver and an American vulture were deep in conversation. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

The Questing Beast had thrust her head out of the forest before they lost sight of land, looking, so far as they could see at the distance, even more surprised than the lady. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was going to do that. The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

They heard a train whistle in the distance. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He retreated a short distance from the cottage and beckoned Harry toward him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

There was the constant background noise of motorbikes roaring in the near distance and the sound of voices communicating in a language I was desperately trying to learn but had yet to master. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I get up on Dain’s desk to put some distance between us. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A girl walking through the woods, alone, half-naked, as the late afternoon sun plays with the light, twigs and branches cracking in the distance. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

A car alarm goes off in the distance. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Andy’s toupee flew off his head; it sailed into the distance. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My first legally paying gig was at a Baskin-Robbins within rollerblading distance of our house. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

We used to climb it; it is not as steep as it looks from a distance. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She looks so small from this distance, but it doesn’t make her any less frightening. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I do my time quietly but maintain a polite distance from those who would like to profit from my friendship. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s a long way back to the river, and about the same distance to the mountains,” I said. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I follow him the short distance from the front door to where the incense is burning in the kitchen. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

California had won its heat in 6:07.8; Washington had taken 10 full seconds longer, 6:17.8, to cover the same distance. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It is as though the sound had been swept from his lips and up and away, speaking back to us from an immense distance of exhaustion. As I Lay Dying 1930-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Don’t go out of hollerin’ distance and leave the young ones. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daylight streams in the curved windows, and in the distance I see the top of a forest of trees. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance, near the city center, spires of midnight black and dream silver stood proudly next to ivory domes and marble castles. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

In the distance, the Westerkerk clock strikes; it's half past eleven. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The neighbor would give me fare for the streetcar, but instead of riding, I walked the short distance. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

As the vehicle in the distance gets nearer, though, she is starting to understand. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He’s going to pick up on that uncertainty and distance, and that may well make him a little less certain of himself, a little less confident, and a little less friendly. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He scrambled to his feet but kept his distance from Sumac’s large, angry beak. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

It would’ve been a nice place to spend a Saturday morning except for the sulfurous smell and the cries of tortured souls in the distance. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Before Swift’s investment in this groundbreaking innovation, there was no way to keep meat fresh long enough to transport it long distances. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I can see only half of a basement which, I judge from the distance I’ve come, is under the church. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if I answered the call, he would see a live video feed of my avatar, running across a field at top speed, with OPS #0571 shrinking in the distance behind me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He looks worried and helpless, but already withdrawing from me, distancing himself. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in the afternoon Mother took me to Hampstead Heath in a taxi and we sat on the top of a hill and looked at the planes coming into Heathrow Airport in the distance. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I looked out to the horizon, to the white-topped mountains in the distance. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

In the distance, on the floor above, Kira heard a door open. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance below him, but still high above the lower foothills, dark dots were circling in the air. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then he squatted a little distance away and rolled and lit a joint, taking a couple of long lazy tokes. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the walls dissolved into distances of parched weed, mile on mile, and warm endless sky. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took the better part of the morning for them to fashion a sort of sled for Con, for he could not walk long distances, and Kaede refused to leave him behind. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Though the church was almost within walking distance, Papa always hitched Rudie, their mule, to the wagon for the trip to New Hope Church. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A boat, tiny at this distance, moved up the bay, maybe heading back to Crisfield with its day’s catch. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could make out one figure, small in the distance, standing by Mother’s grave. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then I went on, and my feet seemed to be a long way off, and everything seemed to come from a long way off, and I could hear my feet walking a great distance away. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

He is smiling, staring into the middle distance. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

She stood there in the dust, one hand reaching toward Besa, but the distance between them had become so vast that she knew she could never touch him again. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

But after a time the trees began to close in again, just where they had appeared from a distance to be thinner and less tangled. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Because as I watched the school district offices recede into the distance, I was certain that the old dynamic between Dell and Mai and me was over. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Much to the Abbot’s dismay, Jess still held it at a distance. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

They watched a vulture turn lazy circles in the distance, floating on updrafts, gliding. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

This agreement, which to Nicolas had first seemed like a shocking sign of coldness and distance, turned out to be to his advantage. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gauged the distance to the seat and prepared to jump for it. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

From the height of the tanker’s deck, Bright Sands Beach stretched into the distance, a tarred expanse of sand and puddled seawater, littered with the savaged bodies of other oil tankers and freighters. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was standing a good distance from Mr. and Mrs. Weasley, eyeing them suspiciously, and when Mrs. Weasley hugged Harry in greeting, his worst suspicions about them seemed confirmed. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

On hot days, Kendra had seen the air shimmer in the distance. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

On the third day, they were startled when Con left them behind in a cloud of dust, galloping down the trail toward a horse they could not quite make out in the distance. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then he heard a noise in the distance. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He walked forward again, and Faro backed away, keeping the same distance between them. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The Argo II could cover vast distances pretty quickly, thanks to its magical engine, but Leo figured the Romans had magic travel methods of their own. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

People normally had one of two reactions when they found out how often we moved: They got extra curious and asked a whole lot of questions, or they kept their distance. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“Bring that old bag here? Are you nuts? I don’t want a reminder of Levy Pants snoring in my den. She'll wet all over your couch. You can play with her by long distance.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nägeli replied two months later—already signaling distance with his tardiness—sending a courteous but icy note. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Common, bawdy people—at a distance—had always amused him. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Charles and Lucas homes had been standing within shouting distance from each other for more than ninety years. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

For quite a distance—far longer than it seemed it ought to—the road stayed straight. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

This is what my mother told me, over the telephone, long distance. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Looked at from a distance however the hen resolved itself into a bonnet and the countenance of a stout old lady beamed down into the room. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

They walked a short distance eastward from the road and Lucy set the rabbit down. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some distance from the main gate was a smaller one, and to this he pointed. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in the distance, the others began to race toward the disaster. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was a two-day train ride, so I got to see some of the countryside and, even from a distance, some wild animals. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sound travels a great distance across a barren wasteland. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Still enough of a distance between us, a meter perhaps, that he could not make an advantage of his height. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

In the distance the mountain was green with foliage. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Even from this distance I could hear the Ares and Apollo campers fighting again, yelling curses and spouting bad poetry. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

These all seemed likely scenarios, what with the distance to the bottom. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t possibly see her expression at that distance, but I felt when 1 was looking at her that she wras alone. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is because they have no car and the Days Inn is in walking distance of the Hearthside. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning, Saturday morning, awakening, he heard tiny popping sounds in the distance. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

He nods and stretches his arm out, holding up a gloved pinky across the distance. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Reporters had been kept at a distance from the action, but their telephoto lenses had captured almost the entire attack—“the flailing clubs, the stampeding horses, the jeering crowd and the stricken, fleeing blacks.” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Keeping my distance, I stretched in the corner by the windows, listening to Daddy’s last album on my iPod. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He talked Howard into committing to the race, even though it was at the marathon distance of one-and-five-eighths miles, farther than Smith wanted to send Seabiscuit. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The same thing happened over and over: I would catch sight of some flawless man off in the distance, but as soon as he moved closer I immediately saw he wouldn't do at all. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Church bells in the distance roused Joseph out of his memory. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The best thing about the story was the photographs—anglers wading knee-deep in blue Western rivers lined with tall cottonwoods, rows of snowy mountain crags visible in the distance. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The distance, the netting, and the presence of the boy from District 3. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

In the distance Matt heard a dove calling from the garden. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And as they laughed and congratulated each other, another voice called in the distance. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

She could see the midwife coming in the distance, so Alyce spat on her fingers and rubbed a bit of stubborn dirt off Edward’s cheek. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each time he had given those unsettling warnings, he had been airing out his own trauma, distancing himself from it by reducing it to a cautionary tale. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

If they're not at home, you can bet on a stack of pancakes that they are within yoo-hooing distance of somebody who knows them. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Backdrop to the Kilanga pageant, rising up behind the houses, a tall wall of elephant grass obscures our view of anything but the distance. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We saw the tall buildings in the distance before we got to them, long rows of huge white apartment towers against a brilliant blue sky. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He moved away impatiently to the adjacent wall, a distance of seven feet or so, and leaned against it, arms crossed, looking from Briony to Cecilia. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

A coyote howled then, and a second answered from a distance. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

When the women were some distance away, we went inside. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had reached the end of most of the farmland, and now low hills began to rise in the distance. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

When they stopped to eat the bread and tamales Auntie had packed for them, they could hear a low rumble of thunder in the distance, from the direction of Tse-pi’na, Mount Taylor. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I figured all this was icky enough to make Katie want to keep her distance but not so bad that she’d wonder why I wasn’t in the hospital. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew the Special’s conditions would appeal to both owners, as both horses had won at Pimlico at the race’s lXe-mile distance. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I obsessed over the distance between that other sector of space and my own. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Perhaps I will paint this town—from a distance, as if it is on a far hill—and in the foreground, an enclosure of gold, a secret garden, a retreat in which I am safe. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Some distance separated the bulls from each other, for they are bad-tempered, very jealous by nature and quick to fight over anything that displeases them. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Janeway remained in her car, giving me enough distance to feel like I was on my own. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I whisper, watching as Will sits down in a chair beside me, scooting it back to make sure he’s a safe distance away. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

We manage to grab a seat in the corner by the wide glass windows, a comfortable distance away from everyone else. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

In the distance, a bunch of seagulls are dive-bombing the surface of the water—a sure sign that there are fish there. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

He was looking into the middle distance and thinking. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gradually the distances between communities widened, with longer stretches of empty road. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The landing zone, without the excitement, the fear, was a longer distance away. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance a small whirlwind swirled behind a rise, raising dust. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

There is shouting and cheering and even what sounds like a bullhorn in the distance. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I spot the Chrysanthemum Teahouse in the distance, its turrets shining like the wings of bright bayou fireflies in the dark of night. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The tall town of Pylos sank behind them in the distance, as all day long they kept the harness shaking. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other societies illustrate the important point that distance as the crow flies is not an appropriate measure of isolation for humans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She looked about half his size, but the sheriff stayed a respectful distance away from the open door. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He told him that he’d take a match at any distance from a mile to a mile and a quarter, anytime the track was fast. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat down and watched the city in the distance. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It was a good distance, but tomorrow was Saturday again. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

In the distance, fireworks began going off—rockets, scattering fiery balls in the sky. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

I made two advances to close the distance, and matched each of Olena’s advances with a retreat. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

They were visible from a great distance, and although they grew on one bank only, we called them the poplar avenue. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s easy to figure out. Pi. The distance to the sun. Three hundred and sixty-five days. It comes out to twenty miles per second, give or take a bit.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Off in the distance, through eyes squinted against the bright sun on the water, Jinny could see it, the small green boat appearing through the mist, just as she’d pictured it. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

This forest obscures our view of the river, and any other distance. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He blew on the metal key and eyeballed it from a distance. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Geraldine moved up to 147th Street, within walking distance, with her husband, a Navy veteran named Norman, and I got my own room. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

His legs ate up the distance, and he was soon next to her. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He didn’t fire all of his Korean pilots and start again with pilots from a low-power distance culture. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

This wasn’t easy because of the distance and tall buildings between him and the flames. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

I shouted in a desperate attempt to distance myself from Katz’s monstrosity. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

A dozen stout caribou, their white necks gleaming in the sunlight, browsed in the distance; but there was nothing else. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I like her well enough, and she takes my mind off Sophia and the distance between us. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a child, I had many friends who were girls, but somewhere along the way, new expectations had been enforced and I had been taught to keep my distance. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“The early morning sunlight glistened off the white buildings in the distance.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘The answer is the distance from the earth to the sun. That’s how thick it would be.’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

And from a distance was the only way that most of the children of Orchard Avenue cared to see them. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

A school bus moved in the distance beyond the football goalpost. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

The wind was rising, and they could hear the old wooden buildings creaking around them, and in the distance a heavy shutter banging, over and over, forgotten. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I can estimate the distance to my finger from the amount of this apparent motion, or parallax. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We start walking, looking over our shoulders every few minutes and trying to put as much distance between us and the train conductor as possible. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

When the family left the gravesite, followers of Malcolm X would not let the coffin be covered by the white gravediggers who had stood a little distance away, waiting. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are wise, because you observe everything from a distance,” the boy said. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have been trying to think clearly about everything and to use all this distance to advantage. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“But they were really good at distancing themselves from the guy who lit Sasha on fire.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

We now know that Aristarchus’s sun-centered cosmos, with the stars set at a practically infinite distance from the observer, was absolutely correct, yet we have little evidence that anyone else thought his model worth proving. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

“It records my distance and speed, and I can adjust it for degree of difficulty.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

As she matured into her full wild self, I observed her at a distance. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

And from the distance, as if it were answering, one of the cows mooed, a real bellow, long and loud. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

In the distance loomed the massive wall of the Brooks Range, the massive mountains that rimmed the North Slope on the south. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking through the swirling haze of smoke, they all saw dark shapes in the distance. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Before them, but some distance off, there stood a green hill-top, treeless, rising like a bald head out of the encircling wood. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

As we approached behind them, we could see only the clusters of white people that stretched for a distance of two blocks along the entire span of the school building. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sea, hidden by low sand-hills, was about the same distance on their right. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

And for the first time, I distance myself from the personal tragedy that has consumed me since they announced the Quell. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even at speeds approaching those of light, these are fantastically challenging distances for any traveling individual. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

We stopped a distance from it, maybe the distance from home plate to the left field fence in a regular stadium. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was spitting distance from the hole when the forklift came to a stop and the guy came around, reached up, and toppled the first box into the ground. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

We watch the yellow carriage getting smaller and smaller, fading away into the distance, the little boy standing on the steps outside the school, watching his parents vanish. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

As I read the book, it came to me that I could understand Mersault’s distancing himself from the murder and also the lack of understanding on the part of the judges examining him. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

They did not stop me as I descended the stairway and left the castle, but they followed at a distance. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

From a distance, a small person hanging by the neck from a telephone pole. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even the guard at the top of the church tower could at least watch the show from a distance. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He checks in early lots of times when I’m here, but he keeps his distance, usually. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even from a distance, Dr. Philobosian’s medical eye noticed the cut on the young man’s hand and the pallor of malnutrition. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

To test the distance of the spiral nebulae, a class of intrinsically much brighter variable stars was needed to furnish a new standard candle. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sheriff Dean eyed the wheelbarrow but kept a safe distance. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Glancing at the “puddles” Washington’s blades left behind in the water, Saxton was shocked at the distance between them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It was a party of maybe twenty people, and even at a distance I could see that some of them had on blue uniforms which meant that they were Continentals—the Rebel troops. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dust whirls would start in the far distance, very pretty to look at as long as they were far away, and swirl until they coated everything brown. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Sandi called her boyfriend long distance and, with her back turned to us, whispered things like "Me too." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Your Majesty! Your Majesty!” a chorus of voices came through the air toward them, and Minli could see a parade of servants in the distance running across the zigzagged bridge. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Before that time I covered a good distance, pausing only when it was necessary to dip water from the canoe. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above the mist in the distance over the water, the sun was beginning to streak and shine, sending golden snakes writhing out into the rich expanse of the sky and waking up the day. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

There are no tall buildings around or sirens or loud music and voices—just the soothing sound of speeding cars in the distance. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

In the distance they could hear the muted sound of traffic going round Hyde Park Corner. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The observatory was some distance to the north, and Lee Scoresby hired a dog sledge and driver. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

After 31 steps, Achilles is 931 trillionths of a foot away from the target—69 trillionths closer than you needed—while the tortoise, again, is half that distance away. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

In the distance bombs explode like thunder, slashes lighten the sky, gunfire falls like rain. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

There was a lot more traffic than Alex would have expected so early in the morning, and he could still hear sirens in the distance. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Many were his age, but he somehow felt as if there existed a vast distance between them. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

We hadn’t been walking more than three or four minutes when there was a noise in the near distance. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Afraid, listening to Woundwort’s approach, Bigwig could hear the uneven movement of his forepaws, almost within striking distance. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even from that distance, the explosion shook the world. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Such are the distances, in fact, that it isn’t possible, in any practical terms, to draw the solar system to scale. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

There was no answer, but—faintly at first, as if they were reaching his ears from a great distance away—he heard his own barks. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

We passed through homestead and swamp, traversing a distance of perhaps ten miles in all. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I walk past the useless security barrier and stand at a distance, watching them. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Some places had lots of trees, some did not; some fields were green, some were not, and the hills in the distance were like the hills in every distance. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning I found the canoe a short distance away. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stood up, walked out several feet, and looked out into the distance. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been searching for this place for years, and all this time it was within walking distance of my school! I feel like a total moron for not figuring it out on my own.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

An onion-breathed technician in a lab coat measures the distance between Werner’s temples, the circumference of his head, and the thickness and shape of his lips. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The boy turned and left, his feet pattering away in the distance. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There were planes overhead here too, and the rumbles of explosions in the distance. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The men seemed to avoid it as they built a fire and cooked dinner, going out of their way to keep a good distance between it and themselves. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

From the distance came the crack of a gun, followed by a shout. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

What if you challenged me with a distance of one-billionth of a foot? Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I ended up in the foster home years after them.I give myself some distance, as if privacy actually matters, and make sure I stay out of the light coming from the exit sign. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I press into the distance between us until it is gone, crushing the secrets we have kept and the suspicions we have harbored—for good, I hope. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The logo on the left side was unreadable from this distance, but I knew what it said: “Government of Canada: Department of Oneirology.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Stewart, following him down the passageway, was closing the distance between them with every stride. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Think of that distance: fourteen billion times all those hundreds of millions of miles. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

She stepped on the brake, leaned out the window, and called to the spare figure in the distance: “But we only cut respectable capers, don’t we, Uncle Jack?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

In the black distance there was a faint sound of metal clanking, screeching. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I stand in the distance and watch, feeling cold and shaky. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

I listened until his truck was out of hearing distance. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

My motor has stalled, so I get out the oars and try to close the distance. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I listened from a distance for as long as I could stand it, clenching my mind on the words of the dragon, then, helpless as always, I went down. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby didn’t drive, and if he had the need to go someplace beyond walking distance, he took a bus. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I stop a safe distance away from her and follow her eyes to the baby, more tubes and wires than limbs. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

In the distance, Jody could see the legs moving slowly and convulsively. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maria followed, complaining loudly about the distance and at being called an eejit. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then one day it is finally determined that I have become one with the real world once more—or at least am within striking distance—and I’m released into the loving arms of my family. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“No mourners,” Jesper called as he loped off into the twilight, long legs eating up the distance easily. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The voices were muffled by the distance, but the Texan had not come back alone. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I hear less honking in the distance, and fewer lights interfere with the stars. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

He stayed frozen, rooted to the spot as all grew silent, except for the whistling song of a few birds in the distance. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

From the distance of the balcony—it was the third floor—he appeared to be a healthy prepubescent. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

From the upper pasture to the house is a distance of a mile—rocky terrain with steep, unforgiving hills, which Grandpa could not have managed in his condition. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But all at once the red car made a U-turn and returned, stopping a distance ahead of them. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

It also carried Phoebe Anne Moses of Tiffin, Ohio, a young woman with a penchant for guns and an excellent sense of distance. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Far off in the distance, a dog howled. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

"For an overnight test, wouldn't he stay within walking distance?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The more distance he had, the easier it was. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I babbled, taking her by the hand and leading her to the window, where I pointed at the huge tent in the distance. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

We headed back toward the tracks and ended up at a weathered establishment that appeared to be a safe distance from the respectable part of town. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

From a distance came a faint whispering and rustling. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The things Laura had done weren’t easily forgotten by the people, but she could maintain a distance between Rocky, who was her pride, and this other, unwanted child. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Off in the distance there was another rise; he could see the Reb column withdrawing into a blue west. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The distance through the wormhole might be only a few million miles even though earth and Alpha Centauri are twenty million million miles apart in ordinary space. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Everyone is holed up somewhere, keeping their distance. Just to be safe until no one shows any signs of sickness. Maybe another couple of days.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He said that the salt water from the Bay reached into the rivers and streams for long distances. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the forge was a very short distance off, and I went towards it under the sweet green limes, listening for the clink of Joe’s hammer. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Festooned with Cantonese lanterns, the ball in the distance looked like a cruise ship at sea. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The method provided only relative distances, not absolute distances, but even so it was the first time that anyone had come up with a usable way to measure the large-scale universe. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

They did so, while the reeds rustled stiffly in the sun-heated air, and the old donkey chewed patiently on the leaves a little distance away, where he had rolled himself out another nest. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I washed up a little, then moved a discreet distance away and listened to her sing several rather racy songs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As I closed the final distance between us, I glanced behind and saw the fire was growing even faster than I’d expected. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When they had gone a little distance, the old man put his mouth so close to Digory’s ear that it tickled, and whispered: “Now, my boy. Slip on your ring. Let’s be off.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

If Tracy—Mom—hadn’t been there, I probably would have fought with Nadia, who was quite obviously calculating some unspoken communication about Julia and me maintaining our physical and emotional distance from each other. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The view of the woods out my dorm window, the Hudson River in the distance, the smell of pine trees. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

It is a great distance to go to learn such paltry tricks. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then the huntress turned her horse toward the Wood and left Ash with her hand on the gate, watching as the horse and rider were swallowed by the trees in the distance. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They still, however, do not agree on the distance the light has traveled, so they must therefore now also disagree over the time it has taken. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watch from a distance when the flag goes up over the cookhouse at lunchtime. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

We sate inside, and jumped with the reports of guns in the distance. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Silver called from a short distance away and they answered her. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t see anything clearly, and when I look up and out past the fence, I only see waves of a mirage displacing the desert plants and the mountains in the distance. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It was a renegade, almost suffragette thing to do, and the neighbors and would-be women friends surrounded Vera Louise with as polite a distance as they could manage. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I went to track down my father, who had wandered a little distance from the fenced garden and was sitting against a tree trunk. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their length could not be measured in years, just as an ocean could not explain the distance we had traveled, just as the dead can never be counted. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I doffed my hat, stood a respectful distance from the desk, looked as unbookish as possible, and waited for the white patrons to be taken care of. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is the same urge, I realize, that makes me want to kiss her every time I see her, because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He found a taxi and took it the short distance to the American embassy. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her father looked to the distance, out across the pond. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Now that you have the seashell,” he says, “I’m thinking this is about as much distance I can safely be away from you at all times.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Octavian would probably be there, enjoying breakfast at a safe distance from the fighting. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

In this way, Edwin Hubble worked out the distances to nine different galaxies. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was pointing somewhere in the distance, always the same place. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I found that the ship, if it had been at minimum distance, would already be in planetary orbit awaiting some word from me, I had another shock. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Quietly, at a little distance, I followed her down the hall. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Mr. Willie Williams’ Do Drop Inn was bright with furry red lights in the distance and the pond’s fishy smell enveloped us. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most citizens, crowded into the auditorium for the occasion, saw the Singer’s robe only from a distance; they shoved and pushed, trying to nudge closer for a look. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mile was four laps of the track; the 5,0 was more than twelve, what Louie would describe as a “fifteen- minute torture chamber,” well over three times his optimal distance. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

And then one Saturday afternoon I’m doing a long, slow distance run without the wheelchair when a funny thing happens. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Eric spread out his hands, searching for the distance at which the heat was just bearable. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Outside, I kept expecting to hear a cop’s siren wailing away in the distance, racing toward us, flipping on its spotlight and calling for us to “Freeze!” over their loudspeaker. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Are you sick?” called Fidelito s voice from a distance as he rode on the harvester. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As in geometry, the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we walked, I became afraid of the road, the mountains in the distance, and the bushes on either side. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

George squinted out into the distance, hoping to see the iceberg, but the sea faded into darkness. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

In order to win battles, Marines needed to communicate fast at long distances. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shirley hurried to greet her, but just when she was within shouting distance, the bell rang and the door closed. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Her line was marched away toward that plume of smoke in the distance, and she was crying for me...she was saying, 'Lev...help me...don't leave me...” What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In the distance off the starboard bow, a jumble of low, craggy peaks appeared, and my pulse quickened at the sight. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every once in a while, the view out the window changed from woods, thick with pine trees and ferns and moss-covered rocks, to a wide-open view of the mountains stretching on forever in the distance. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

It was a bright, sunny day, and Seattle looked like a beautiful place, with inlets and bridges, wooded islands dotting the bay, and snowcapped mountains rising in the distance. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Mummy and I walk across the island to Windemere, a short distance on a wooden walkway. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

They had cut the corn, and burned the stubble, and the field seemed much bigger, the trees on the edge of the wood looked a long distance away. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Bees hummed lazily in the distance and swallows swooped overhead. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were closed, but the little girl, because of the shadows, her own distance, and her imagination, thought she saw a supplicating and humiliated expression on her sister’s face. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance, somewhere beyond the Gulf of Mexico, the sun was dropping through a coppery and cloudless heaven. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Denna had shared a wagon with Josn the whole of the day, and I, being foolish and proud, had kept my distance. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I looked down at the trees waving in the distance, and the gorgeous brown Alabama soil that seemed to be rising to meet me. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The screen is filled with the dizzying image of the distance from where she’s sitting to the river below, the water underneath her strong enough to overtake anything in its path. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

She refused all limitations: distance, age, even jellyfish stings. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I distanced myself from games in the village and sat behind houses, staring into the open space until my migraines temporarily subsided. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

When the sighting rod was set up, Rondon’s loyal right-hand man, Lieutenant João Salustiano Lyra, used a telemeter, an instrument that measured the distance from his canoe to the sighting rod. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The big guns in the distance kept rumbling. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that meant that the universe could not be static, as everyone previously had thought, but is in fact expanding; the distance between the different galaxies is growing all the time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance now and then I would see dolphins; closer in, flying fish; and still closer, at the stern, sharks waiting for the daily garbage from the galley. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Above me—at some distance—I saw Aycliffe’s torch, and his face peering down. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Even from the distance of the park, I can see the desire on him as he drives in. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Mr. A. H— stands in a shadowy corner, and even with the distance and the shadows Tara can tell that he is arguing with someone she cannot see. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Until we came at last to where, at a decorous distance, the bullock cart waited to take them away. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scientists usually describe the distance between two pitches in terms of the difference between their frequencies35 . Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Sam tried to guess the distances and to decide what way they ought to take. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Using my feet, I measured the distance from the willows to the stream meandering downhill. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

But he did know how to make a tiled floor recede into the distance. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I thought about how people seemed always to keep their distance. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The distance of the galaxy yields its age—and its Doppler shift yields its velocity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

She was running, running toward something in the distance, but she didn’t know what it was she was running toward, and she didn’t know why she was carrying a scrunched-up cardboard box in her hands. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Were the pyramids as tall as this building, did the pharaohs sit on top and take the measure of their kingdoms, to see how diminished the world became when you gained the proper distance? The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He was easy to discern at a distance for the size of him. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He grunted and added, “I do not know how far it is in distance. Perhaps later we can get a ride in an automobile.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Even from this distance, Catelyn could make out the shining silver thread, bright against the dark stone. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Speaking of, Amber says hi. She’s doing a lot better. Some distance did her good.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The low hills in the distance were no longer scenery to him. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I believed in Elijah Muhammad, and he had convinced us that Allah’s chastisement upon Reginald’s mind had taken away Reginald’s ability to gauge distance and time. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ahead, I saw a strip mall wavering in the bright distance. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

There were mountains in the distance covered with snow, and there were flurries falling just outside. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Guns and disfranchisement, therefore, were not enough to make the black neighbor keep his distance. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Having asked the grandfather the distances between Suwon and Seoul and Incheon, Jinjoo knew that it would probably take them three to four days to reach Seoul. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

As it bounced, it made a clinking noise like a small bell, then became a dark dot rolling in the distance. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

In order to prove this, he needed to determine the distances to these other galaxies, which are so far away that, unlike nearby stars, they really do appear fixed. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The movie is still going well, but Maddie being the lead has only led to even more distance between us somehow. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And then, from a great distance, two whistles came in answer. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The eyes of the man directly in front of me moved slowly over my shoulder, and I turned to follow his glance toward el patrin some distance away. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took them thrice as long to cover the distance as it had taken Reek alone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The two sharp groups of noises sounded to my ears like rifles being fired in the distance. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

All places on Earth are, to high precision, the same distance from any star. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Could I just live up here, keeping my distance, and continue to do my chores? Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Only Olive seemed unfazed by it all, perhaps because she was still so young—or part of her was, anyway—and the distance between stories and real life did not yet seem so great. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

They were my way of saying goodbye—from a distance. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I put my hands behind my back and stare into the distance. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

When the estate materialized in the distance, only the second-story windows and balconies were visible from behind the huge brick wall surrounding it. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

My reading had created a vast sense of distance between me and the world in which I lived and tried to make a living, and that sense of distance was increasing each day. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I noticed that the other boys were already some distance away. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lover smiled, admiring the daughter from a distance. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

But we caught one wave at just the right point and it car­ried us a great distance, past the high, collapsing walls of water. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

A tone is a very regular set of waves, all the same size and same distance apart. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

When we get to the bench, Rhiannon lets me sit down first, so she can determine the distance that we’ll sit apart, which is significant. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

It was quite a distance ahead of them, but they were still able to see it in the vast expanse of stillness and ice. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

No traffic came along the dirt road, and it was quiet except for the crickets in the rocks and a few evening insects buzzing past his face; in the distance dogs were barking. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Penikese was a small island a little distance to the west of the other Elizabeths. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

In the far distance the Millennium Wheel perched like a fabulous silver coin, balancing effortlessly on its rim. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

From the back window of the ambulance I could see street after familiar street funneling off into a summery green distance. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

At exactly that point, we heard the school bell ringing in the distance and we had to gallop the rest of the way so as not to be late for prayers. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, for some of them, personal space can stretch the distance between the earth and the moon. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

It looked around frantically, then saw the cabin light in the distance. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

From even that distance she could see the disgusted look on his face. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Another time, a short distance from the boat, two Wilson’s pe­trels skimmed by, feet skipping on the water. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hanako spotted a group of old wooden buildings, a couple of them almost shacks, in the distance, and Papa led them through the weeds toward that. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Some weekends Gavin joins Sherlock and me on my distance run. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

This time Figan chased his rival for some distance before leaving him. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

When Jonathan had covered half the distance to the house, he stopped and looked back. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t breaking any Olympic records, but I was definitely putting some distance between myself and the Coral Queen. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Blythe was in California, but the Arizona border was within spitting distance. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“And to keep everyone at a distance. After I’d been left by my husband and son, I guess I decided I’d do all the leaving from then on.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Florida stared ahead at the river, a long sparkly slithery thing disappearing around a bend in the distance. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke too fast, looking at a point in the distance. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I cant do nothing ” It is as though the sound had been swept from his lips and up and away, speaking back to us from an immense distance of exhaustion. As I Lay Dying 1930-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people gathered on the road as usual, except this time I noticed they were separated into union and company families, each keeping an icy distance. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

In any case, for what little it’s worth, please count on my affection and support, at whatever distance. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

A red exit sign glowed in the distance. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

And they showed bony Vietnamese people older than Big Ma, pointing to the sky and to the hills in the distance. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

They kept the same distance, but it felt good, sent a burst of fresh adrenaline through his body, to be turning toward the left, turning toward Trina and the others again. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes, Jinny looked around and saw that the others were watching from a distance. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

But the burning gaze of El Alacrán keeps them at a distance from us. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

All burst in the air before reaching her coach, the pieces of metal falling harmlessly in the middle distance. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

In the distance, a church clock strikes another hour. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

There is a village in the distance which has 31 visible houses and a church with a square tower and not a spire. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

There are enough cyclists and joggers around that I feel comfortable, especially since Rufus is keeping his distance by staying on the grass, where a young golden retriever is chasing its owner around. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They circled the fire at a distance, the boy holding on to his hand. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Whatever she's looking at is far in the distance, out of the frame of the shot. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

While thus engaged I heard a rumble of trucks in the distance. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even at this far distance, she could see a blur of anxiety swirling around Glerk’s head like a cloud. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

As the echo died away in the distance, silence settled over the bottoms. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Partridge was born in Norwich in 1785 and was a demon walker—possibly the first person on the whole planet who walked long distances for the simple pleasure of it. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

After a good distance, the grumbling in Yishan’s stomach became so loud he had to admit he was hungry. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

During the day, I kept my distance from Michael as it would have seemed exceedingly curious if a white professional man and an African houseboy were having regular conversations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had this sensation that America was suddenly far away not only in distance but in time as well. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“You will find the climate delightful and beautiful. You will have no distance to go for winter sport.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

This fixed distance between a note and its higher self is something that occurs in nature - we humans didn’t invent it, we just found it to be lurking behind all musical sounds. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

They only allow the wearer to travel great distances in an instant, doubling the measure of her movements with each successive step. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Any point on the graph is represented by two numbers, corresponding to the distances along the x axis and up the y axis. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The outline of the palace shines in the distance, stretching out in so many directions it has no beginning or end. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The sun was steadily on the rise and the living birds were beginning to chirp in the distance. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I wanted to put as much distance as possible between me and this soul-crushing experience. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He believed they were circling now, for it seemed to him that this was the third time he had seen that double-humped rock in the distance. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can hear the sound from the beach at a distance, before you see the people. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance the airstrip was lit up and there were figures—more guards and technicians—everywhere. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

In the distance, Dallas and Florida were digging along the creek bank. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Fields of tall corn stretched into the distance wherever you looked. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Each time I planted one of my ice axes, that distance shrank by another twenty inches. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance, I heard a carriage escaping from Philadelphia. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her brother’s marriage plunged her into uncertainty, because she feared that this would be yet another reason for Esteban to keep his distance, and he was her only comfort and support. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched from a short distance as the shaman studied the koka plant intently, examining the leaf patterns and listening to their inner wisdom. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

At night we could see fires in the distance, so we knew that we were not alone. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

A short distance below the South Summit, as the climbers descended into thick clouds and falling snow, Pittman collapsed again and asked Fox to give her an injection of a powerful steroid called dexamethasone. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I made the days we had spent there seem like years, and the showgirls I’d seen from a distance seem like close friends and neighbors. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had seen more marsh birds and had heard, far in the distance, the weird and lonely voice of a loon. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

But what has come between me and my father is more than time or distance. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

At the distance of a long bowshot from the village, the scene was terrifying. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

When at last she surfaced and looked back, she’d put a good distance between herself and the shore, and saw to her relief that she wasn’t being pursued. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I just want to make sure I put plenty of distance behind me. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ran the short distance to the thorn trees. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father kept a careful distance between us. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

As Newt leaned over to get a better look into the Box, the faint bleating of a goat in the distance echoed across the courtyard. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I push every bit of' air in my body into her lungs, collapsing on top of her, no idea if it was enough, hearing the sirens of the ambulance I called blare in the distance. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The dull thuds of thunder falling in the distance now felt comforting, and before the sounds entirely faded, Omakayas was asleep. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

From this distance, she was barely more than a silhouette in the shadows of the porch. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

We trudge on through the snow, the lights beckoning to us in the distance, the park border coming slowly closer and closer. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He closed his eyes and he could see fields of snow, miles and miles of Wyoming snow, and white mountains in the distance, all clean and incredibly still, and no man anywhere and no motion. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance, muffled by a classroom wall, comes a familiar voice. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He was facing her at several paces’ distance. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I had always felt a vast distance separating me from the boss, and now I felt closer to him, though still distant. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can't take my eyes off the blue stripe of water in the distance. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Once, in the distance, they saw a lion chasing a topi. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is smiling, looking kindly off into the distance. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

From this distance the Institute blended so thoroughly into Nomansan’s stony crags it seemed a part of the island itself. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The thermometer on the back porch stood at ninety-two, the carhouse shimmered faintly in the distance, and the giant twin chinaberry trees were deadly still. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

But after our dinner I found myself keeping a distance from Paul Farmer, mainly, I came to realize, because his uneasy. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Day was opening in the sky, and they saw that the mountains were now much further off, receding eastward in a long curve that was lost in the distance. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“You didn’t know? They used to shoot each other in the streets and blow up houses. It hasn’t happened in a while, though. See?” she says, pointing to a charred house in the distance. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

And the more he heard about the school district distancing themselves from what had happened, the more certain he was that nothing would ever be fixed. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Though I was often consulted and was able to influence the direction of events, I did so at a distance and only when expressly asked. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even his face was different around animals, with the expression of polite distance he always wore for humans replaced by something concentrated and alive. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any man within visiting distance would have been neutralized as a lover—“brother,” “younger brother,” “older brother”—one hundred and fifteen relationship titles. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d pull over on the highway and watch her from a distance, too far for her to come over, but not so far that she wouldn’t see him. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A good distance separated Rontu from his attacker and I could end the battle before he was wounded further or the pack fell upon him. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trainer Conway stood on the sideline and watched his horse from afar as he circled around the course, legging up for the stout mile-and-three-sixteenths distance of the match. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This much I know. She is starting out by going southeast for a short distance,” I say. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to get detail at this distance so I can’t see individual men and I don’t think I can see horses. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

When the horses were moving, I stayed at a distance, watching, wishing. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

At this distance it would still be very difficult to detect the steady emission of a black hole, even if it was ten thousand megawatts. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lupita looked about for Lucky and saw him a distance away, lifting the hood of another truck. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“In low-power distance index countries,” Hofstede wrote in his classic text Culture’s Consequences: power is something of which power holders are almost ashamed and they will try to underplay. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

She folded her arms and gazed into the distance. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

But we were only a few blocks from the piazza when I thought I saw the German again, walking behind us at quite a distance. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The distance from the Earth to the most remote quasars is eight or ten billion light- years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The redbrick armory stood in the distance on Bedford and Atlantic Avenues like a fortress, or as Uncle Darnell would tell us, like a princess’s castle. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I looked over my shoulder to see the diviner holding up a hand in farewell as she, the Ridgefolk, and the mountain they lived inside dwindled in the distance. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

As the day ended, I hazily remember hearing Richard Parker roaring in the distance, but sleep overcame me. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nita looked out at the ships against their floating docks in the distance. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance could be dimly seen a line of bare cliffs, and in their midst, taller than the rest, one great grey wall. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He had met her several years earlier during a stay in Boston and had considered acquiring her even then, but the distance was too great, the timing awkward. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Anya paused a decent distance from the tree, watchful for the water spirits. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Humpbacks and killer whales spouted in the distance, and the water was dotted with ice floes on which fat, blinking seals basked in the sun. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Harriet, who was standing at some distance, and with face turned from her, did not immediately say any thing; and when she did speak, it was in a voice nearly as agitated as Emma’s. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

A gray haze in the rosy distance that suddenly coalesced and blackened over the house before it plummeted through the History-hole like smoke in a film running backwards. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a few miles of walking, we began to hear a familiar screech in the distance. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

To celebrate his new life on the wagon, and to put some distance between himself and his drinking haunts, he decided that the Walls clan should take a long camping trip to the Grand Canyon. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I knew I might have a baby, but that thought hung far and dim in the distance and didn't trouble me at all. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The words floated into Kaede’s mind as if from a great distance. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He looked at them from an immense distance, seeming to weigh truth, justice, evil and the affairs of men. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the harsh weather, the protesters walked around the block in front of the White House four times, a distance of about four miles. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

At this distance he was not able to tell whether it faced away or toward him. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Followed by a long, contemplative gaze fixed somewhere in the middle distance. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

But I see the garden in the distance. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“And, Hazel Levesque...you will not believe me, but I am proud of your strength. Sometimes...sometimes the only way I can care for my children is to keep my distance.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Almost on cue, a train whistle sounded in the distance. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t have been more than the distance from home plate to the pitcher’s mound. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

For six hours we rode on and on along the dusty road, passing several villages on the way to ours, which was a good distance away. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She made her journeys to see me in the night, travelling the whole distance on foot, after the performance of her day’s work. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

While they were singing, she heard Calpurnia calling in the dim distance. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

From a distance it had looked as if he was smiling, but as he drew closer, Alex gasped. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He turned and, although it was rapidly becoming too dark to see any distance, made as though he were still looking out across the combe. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s ten or fifteen buildings this time but even from a distance it looks scrubby and run-down. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

She could hear the clamor of the fish market even at this distance. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They crossed the main road and walked a short distance to the university quadrangle, where bells in a stone tower chimed on the hour. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I can see the dark stretch of water greeting me in the distance. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The sun hangs low in the distance, casting their snowcapped peaks in light shades of pink, and their wide, bare slopes in deep blue. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The gravitational force between two bodies would decrease more rapidly with distance than it does in three dimensions. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

After we all have our hats and gloves firmly on and scarves wrapped tightly, we walk the short distance to the village hall, where people are gathered around, talking and wishing one another happy Thanksgivings. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“C’mon down and listen to Hope on the radio, hey,” Clay said, keeping his distance but trying to be friendly over it. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Ben and Mary Anne sprinted the remaining distance to where their mother stood with Matthew and Karen. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I circled the wreck twice before I spied Dad’s hunched silhouette on a hillock in the distance. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In the distance, she turns back to look at me, frowning, and nodding for Barb to follow her while the attending nurse keeps rolling Stella through into her surgery. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The curves were smooth only when seen from a distance. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today our big brains pay off nicely, because we can produce cars and guns that enable us to move much faster than chimps, and shoot them from a safe distance instead of wrestling. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pax bounded the short distance through the trees to the ridgeline above the encampment. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The first few times I saw her, I kept my distance—but right now, that feeling of being a chunk of pineapple congealed in Jell-O isn’t as strong as other times. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

It was dusk when I got my first glimpse of it off in the distance, beyond a ridge. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The same mountain range rising in the distance beyond the Golden Crescent. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Who have I become, Lord, that I can find distance enough to pray for such tragedy? How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He passed three Englishmen who were watching the excrement festival from a distance. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I saw was principally field upon field rolling off into the far distance. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The only fountainhead which had once been near and which had once sung loudly within him, now murmured softly in the distance. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watch other planes taking off in the distance, and I can feel sweat forming on my eyebrows again. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

As the years went on, her aunt seemed to gauge in a look the icy distances that Elizabeth had put between them, and that would certainly never be conquered now. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Ma and Ba stood and watched him until he looked like a twinkling star in the distance. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance she saw the twinkling of lights and mistakenly thought that it marked a villager’s house — but it marked the edge of a fairy ring. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance, she heard a church clock striking. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they stood up and went swimming with Nurse Duckett, Nurse Cramer stood up and went swimming, too, maintaining the same ten-yard distance between them, and maintaining her silence, snubbing them even in the water. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The view was slightly spoiled by the massive offshore oil rigs you could see in the distance, but if you could make yourself forget about them, you'd think you were in paradise. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Twelve times he clicked the Put-Outer, until the only lights left on the whole street were two tiny pinpricks in the distance, which were the eyes of the cat watching him. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

It was another long day's march before they glimpsed the towers of Harrenhal in the distance, hard beside the blue waters of the lake. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I wanted to erase the anguish and the distance, the remorse and the blame, and replace it with something new. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I could recognize him, even from that distance. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The school was far across town and the walking distance alone consumed my breakfast of mush and lard gravy. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saw brown bears, too, but they kept their distance. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

There was a storm in the air, and as I hurried down the sidewalk, the first patter of rain came, and in the distance, I saw lightning. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He spit the shells into the snow below the trail and tried to see into the distance below the mesa, over the edge of the steep trail where her house was. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She would not allow him to walk beside her as she strolled the pavements soliciting other servicemen, and she was infuriated when she spied him trailing her from a distance. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Off in the distance, the Hindenburg, trailing an Olympic flag, droned over central Berlin in a lazy loop, then turned and slowly began to approach the stadium. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She waits until Mina has gone back in the nursery and checks to make sure the other attendants are not within hearing distance. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

In February on the night of the full moon we could hear the sound of drums in the distance. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

There is no one but would do anything for Sister Libertine, this marvelous sister, who spreads good cheer through the whole wing even when she can only be seen in the distance. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in the distance a child was crying shrill and high. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Digges and Benedetti had not read Bruno, so they had not encountered his theory that, from a distance, the Earth would be indistinguishable from a star. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

As you drove along it, you would see in the distance a plume of dust growing larger, coming toward you: an automobile. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They used every ounce of leg strength to put some distance between them and the galloping beast. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

We've been running obstacle courses, and have to swim long distances on the lake. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

She didn’t know where the closest urgent care was, but she was sure it wasn’t within walking distance. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

From this step they could look out over the sun-beaten desert to the blue Gulf in the distance. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had gone past the tourists and beachgoers, and the water was flat so there weren’t many surfers, just a boy and a girl on their boards way out in the distance. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

But we live on a moving platform, the Earth, which every six months has progressed from one end of its orbit to the other, a distance of 300,000,000 kilometers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance, lit by the rising sun, was the skyline of New York. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The distance from Rhode Island to New York was the same as the tip of my little finger to the first knuckle under it. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

When my father finally appeared in the distance, I hopped my way along the gravel toward him. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

In the distance, a man with a rainbow headdress of feathers approaches. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

From the difference in the apparent position of the North Star in Egypt and Greece, Aristotle even quoted an estimate that the distance around the earth was 400,000 stadia. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stare off to a dark pinpoint in the distance, high above the lake from the direction we came. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It lay at the outskirts of the town, on low ground, like a rubbish dump, and as I walked up and down the gravel paths, I could smell the stagnant salt marshes in the distance. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The cake trembles and then tilts forward, as if contemplating the distance to the ground. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

If done properly, it would barely miss the moon as it passed a mere eighty miles in front of it, at a distance of 230,000 miles from earth. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Darkness ahead, drowned sunflowers circling in, and far in the distance, something broad and white, swaying upon the flooded field. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

As they left one dark tenement and headed toward another, they spotted a group of about forty boys standing a short distance away. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

A soft star in the distance, it glimmered faintly through the fog, beckoning them on. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Keeping out of sight, Victor followed them at a safe distance. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then he walks the rest of the distance, some twenty-two miles, trudging “rather painfully.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

At a distance he looked like a French king, all curls and feathers. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cluny sized it up: exactly what he wanted, the perfect distance from the wall. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The cocktail parties to which we were assigned were all in easy walking distance. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their dorsal fins, some as tall as a man, cut the glassy surface within spitting distance of the rail. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the car door opened and shut, and the motor went broom-broom and, edging off with a crunch of gravel, faded into the distance. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“The Order’s got one thing right, then, eh?” said a squat man sitting a short distance from Yaxley; he gave a wheezy giggle that was echoed here and there along the table. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

We had hiked twenty-two miles in two days—a highly respectable distance for us—but a distinct listlessness and sense of anticlimax, a kind of midmountain lassitude, had set in. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She had seen the smoke in the distance as she sat with the body. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A short distance away, a clear spring trickled from a cleft rock, and the grass was full of game. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Give me a tiny distance, no matter how small, and I will tell you when both Achilles and the tortoise are less than that tiny distance away from the limit. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The dog, who had sounded so ferocious in the winter distances, was a female German shepherd. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tea Cake and Janie were some distance from the house before they struck serious water. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Even from this distance, the lake’s spray is visible skirting off its surface from the gusts. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“That depends on your objective. Are you going for distance or aeronautical acrobatics?” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Periodically, they scanned the horizon for signs of a ship or plane, but there was nothing but those same darkening clouds in the distance. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“She was looking for her husband at the Vast Wall. She traveled a great distance, all on foot, with only a bundle of cloth...” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Now those specks in the distance, almost too small to be seen, were coming inexorably toward them to attempt to dismantle their world, and what tatters remained of Sarai’s belief deserted her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

You observed peasants from the comfortable distance of your artistic nook but you wouldn’t want to be one. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The distance is only about eight miles—yet he seems to have stopped halfway and camped. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Behind her at some distance she heard whistling. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many people had seen the bright glow in the distance, but the true degree of disaster was not known until burned-out friends and relatives began knocking on their doors. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Still, he slowed his canoe to keep a safe distance, trying to figure out a way to get to his office without passing directly by them. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She wanted as much distance from Jeff and Rick as possible. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Even from a distance we could see that the open side faced into the wind and that the drifting snow was nearly up to the lip of the sleeping platform. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Grateful for the moonlight, Jonathan walked a short distance from the house, holding the boy as best he could. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

The woman’s magic surrounded her like a whirlwind, but Luna could see even from a distance that it was empty at its center. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The outside world was just that—a long distance away. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

From time to time I would see her at a distance in the playground of the Early Childhood Center as I walked to class. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

When he was down the road a little distance, he turned to look back; she was standing where he’d left her with the rainy wind whipping at her skirt and the ends of her scarf. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not until they had dwindled into the distance, north and west, and the sky was again clear would Aragorn rise. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

When the minders call their blocks and march the short distance from the Hub to the Mess, hundreds of us follow in stunned silence. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

"The distance between a lord and a grace is a small one, my lady," Catelyn said. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Chamberlain said, “Listen, another one a bit closer and it will be a hard day for Mother. You get back to the rear and watch for stragglers. Keep your distance from me.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once more, from a distance, he heard Jack's whisper. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

In the distance, beyond the shacks, I saw spruce and pine trees interspersed with farmlands. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“They measure the distance when they throw the javelin, don’t they?” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

In the distance I saw Danny standing in the hallway, facing the door of the auditorium. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a classic profile, and even in the distance I could see that he wore a beard that tied into his sideburns and so found his hair. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance, the Purina Tower, our tallest building, is lit up, and beyond it the bell tower of the high school. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

From a distance it had looked like my own open-air market. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Kids in the school parking lot, American flag fluttering atop a metal pole, cornfields in the distance, blue skies. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

My mother appears behind them, but keeps her distance. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I watched as he looked back and then walked toward the men to put more distance from the cabin. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Do long distance relationships work? she asks every few days. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Other church members, however, stayed a good distance back. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And to be visible at such a great distance, the object must be very bright, must, in other words, be emitting a huge amount of energy. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if it isn’t the same with all this distance between us? Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The most important benefit of fiber, though, derives from the dramatically higher bandwidth of the signals it can transport over long distances. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

They both curse about “Decker kids these days” but keep their distance. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He looked for playmates, but found no one and saw nothing but a large grey dog, which prowled the gravestones, always keeping its distance from him, slipping between gravestones and through shadows. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Jeering laughter came to him again, from a distance. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

In the distance, Nhamo heard voices and saw lights moving among the trees. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moreover, the idea of action at a distance–that one particle could instantaneously influence another trillions of miles away–was a stark violation of the special theory of relativity. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Turner wanted to put more distance between himself and that bombed cottage. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He’s trying to keep a distance from the gas while steering us toward the water that surrounds the Cornucopia. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The act made thunder explode in the distance and lightning flash all around us as sinister black clouds began to swirl directly overhead. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Harry could hear the men who had jeered at Hermione earlier, yelling at another girl in the distance. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Outside my window, the moon shines in the distance. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The afternoon sun shone directly into the dark opening, but she couldn’t make out anything from that distance. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A misty rain had begun to fall and dark gray clouds hovered over the tops of the mountains in the distance. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

It showed the Empire State Building with lightning all around it In the distance a dark storm was brewing, with a huge hand coming out of the clouds. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The seabirds still cried around her, but in the distance. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

And as Lee turned the telescope on it again, he saw darker, smaller shapes behind it in the shimmering distance. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance Matt heard music and the sputter of fireworks. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Barges and boats dot the water, and just beyond the eastern banks sits the city of Serra, its dun-colored walls imposing even from a distance of miles. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Tally followed at what she guessed was a safe distance, hoping her tricked-up board was still reluctant to crash into the darkness-cloaked rocks and tree branches. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

As for Morrie? but it was always in the distance, as if from another life. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stonesnake turned, his eyes scanning the black distance for any spark of light. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“And to answer yer asking, there’s shallow crossings a couple days’ traveling upstream but there ain’t no bridges for a good distance more either way.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Until the next train whistle in the distance pierces the stillness. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

If the red shift is due to the expansion of the universe, very different red shifts imply very different distances. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She found one of him gazing into the distance, leaning on his staff. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

A couple of white sails skimmed along in the distance, bellied out in the wind. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The jungle was no longer something he could just distance himself from—he was within it, entirely consumed. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I went a few times, though I tried to keep my distance, for the most part. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

One of the major goals of the second Five-Year Plan was to multiply the number of civil air routes across the USSR, covering extreme distances and connecting the far-flung corners of the huge country. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Southwards to their left they could see the forest falling away down into the grey distance. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I was mindful of the fact that the most senior ANC people would be watching my release from abroad, and attempting to gauge my fidelity from a distance. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we reach the end, I look out at the distance between us and the mainland. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Gertrude stood a short distance away, her back turned to them. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The instant his unprepossessing head emerged into daylight, sunlight, Franny took him under the shoulders and lifted him up into intimate greeting distance. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

From there, we could see a couple of kettle ponds in the distance and a row of buildings on a wind-scoured bluff overlooking Buzzards Bay. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The lines were all coming together, like something in the distance moving into focus. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Flinging open the kitchen door, I rushed into the backyard, past the workers in the sugarcane fields, past the tractors, their noise blurring into the distance. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The first represented clouds low and livid, rolling over a swollen sea: all the distance was in eclipse; so, too, was the foreground; or rather, the nearest billows, for there was no land. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Before she began to snip off squash again, she watched Señor Fidencio and Aunt Consuelo help the staggering Elena to the old truck parked a distance away under the lacy pepper trees. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Still barreling at highway speeds, it closed in on the smaller car coming the other way, the distance narrowing by the instant. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The distance doesn’t trouble me—the bullet will travel straight, just like it would if I was closer. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Now imagine a source of light at a constant distance from us, such as a star, emitting waves of light at a constant wavelength. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

This sedentary lifestyle was made possible by the diversity of resource-rich habitats available to Jomon people within a short distance of one central site: inland forests, rivers, seashores, bays, and open oceans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But Roosevelt insisted, as they heard an ominous roar in the distance. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

At one river that had a bridge across it, we heard a passenger vehicle in the distance and decided to get out of the water and see if we could catch a free ride. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Still, he kept his door cracked on the faint hope that she’d want to bridge the distance. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Rubbing her hand, her pursuer followed again, keeping her distance now, as they moved deeper into the deserted labyrinth of brick houses. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The lady in black, with her Sunday prayerbook, velvet and gold-clasped, and her Sunday silver beads, was following them at no great distance. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brutus is within shooting distance and somewhere, certainly, Cashmere is nearby, too. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then, as the crowd dispersed, I caught a glimpse of a sinister figure standing at a distance, looking out over the river as before. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The river was a long, dizzying distance below. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

You watch all that noise and business, then look past them to the rolling green hills in the distance, with antelopes grazing under flat-topped trees, and it doesn’t fit together. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lack of physical distance between our bodies as we stood on an unimportant sidewalk in the middle of an unimportant town. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The whole time, I looked coolly into the distance, as if I did this sort of thing every day. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The Midgard serpent’s head was almost within striking distance. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

So they kept their distance from both of us. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was glad to see that he was off some distance by himself. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” she said, looking off into the distance, toward the Black Mountains in the south. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly I crawled on, stopping to listen, to glance back, to measure the distance between me and the spring. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

When your points are zero distance away from each other, your approximation is perfect: you have found the tangent. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

In the distance are the lights of town. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

From somewhere off in the distance came the sound of Hazel’s whistle blowing—once, twice, three times. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

In the distance, from another campground, I hear somebody belting out “The Star-Spangled Banner.” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The Ratignolles lived at no great distance from Edna’s home, on the corner of a side street, where Monsieur Ratignolle owned and conducted a drug store which enjoyed a steady and prosperous trade. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

The boys had to be willing to walk long distances if necessary, and to wake themselves up and get ready for games early on weekend mornings. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Whenever I met a person whom I suspected of being a Communist, I talked to him affably but from an emotional distance. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wouldn’t see it, anyway Not from that distance. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Looking across the roof, I’m relieved to see he’s moved a safe distance away from the edge and hasn’t fallen to his death. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Shaking the hide, he danced, barked, and then ran over the tundra until he was but a speck in the distance. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The distance had been covered in an instant, as in a dream. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I follow her outside and sit on the metal platform watching as she recedes into the distance. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Even from a distance, I could tell that he'd already lost some weight. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

But scientific experimentation is manual labor, from which the slaveholders are preferentially distanced; while it is only the slaveholders—politely called “gentle-men” in some societies—who have the leisure to do science. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked back toward the carousel, which was now quite a distance away. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Sweet Jimmy’s voice was, at the same time, bouncing around his head and coming from a distance. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of the four large windows facing the water she can see the sine curve of the coastline, the serrated firs in the distance, the glittery amethyst sea. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I listen to the swish, swish of Mother’s handheld fan, the whispers among adults, the bombs in the ever greater distance. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It is a distance of only ninety miles—a journey of about four hours in Mendel’s time. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Even from their distance she could see two silhouettes inside it. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

We must’ve been on the north shore of Long Island, because on this side of the house, the valley inarched all the way up to the water, which glittered about a mile in the distance. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The whining creature skimmed the ceiling the entire distance to the wall, where it impacted with a revolting crunch. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Furrowing his brow, he stared into the distance. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then a pair of headlights appeared way in the distance behind us. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

When she moved from public housing to a three-bedroom home in a suburban area in the Northwood section of town, she was trying to create more distance between her and the city’s imploding center. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Minli’s thoughts bubbled faster and faster like boiling rice; every step she took seemed to throb and Minli wasn’t sure if the pounding was her heart or Wu Kang’s axe in the distance. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Overhead but in the distance, toward town, where Vonetta must have ridden that bicycle, half of the sky was bright, and pushing against the bright was a darker blue. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I realized that Mother had been four years old in 1955, and with that realization, the distance between me and Emmett Till collapsed. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In the center of the glade, on the grass some distance from them, was an ornate golden crown, which glittered in the afternoon sunlight. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Almost as soon as she took notice of his sense of peace and leisure, his eyes focused on something in the distance. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Why bother?” said the Senses Taker, pointing into the distance. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even from a distance, Stella thought their church was the prettiest in the county. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Lieutenant Carroll turned back to make sure we had kept our distances. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

From their kitchen window, they could look into the distance over rolling farmland where armies had marched during the Civil War. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance she could see the city on fire, the orange-red flames reaching toward the sky. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I—” The Gran paused and stared off into the distance. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“She just has short hair. People think I look like Immie, too, from a distance.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The rats, looking enormous by comparison, remained a respectful distance away from her. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

In two minutes Werner has a vector and a distance: two and a half kilometers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They had dropped some distance behind the others when a purposeful hand grasped her own elbow. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

You think you’re okay with this, because you still watch it all from a distance, until it’s time for your parents to head for the door, and you realize there is no distance at all. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Thunder boomed in the distance as a summer storm approached. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance I hear Mrs. Walton’s signature click-clack strut as she makes her way toward the counter. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

As we passed through the forest we heard gunfire in the distance, but none of the women spoke of it, so we didn’t either. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night when I was about to go home I saw a girl who lived in my direction and I fell in beside her to walk part of the distance together. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She suspects he takes his hearing aids out on purpose, to get a little needed distance from the sound of her just being and breathing. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Now it was quiet in the grove and the clink of the wagons was sharp in the distance. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was afraid he would ask me to take off my own clothes, that he would then turn me this way and that, looking at me from a distance. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The distance between who they were and who they are is so wide, we have no hope of getting them back.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The waves were so rough on this overcast day that, even from this distance, she could see the breakers. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I heard a mournful whistle off in the distance. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Who at last had drifted the final distance to her reward. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The River of Doubt was still nearly four hundred miles away—about the distance from New York City to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

In the distance, I see the lights of another district. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Eratosthenes knew that the distance between Alexandria and Syene was approximately 800 kilometers, because he hired a man to pace it out. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Silver and Bigwig led the way, with Hazel and Buckthorn a short distance behind. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took two long strides, turned back, judged the distance, and took half a step forward. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

If so, to an observer at a distance it would appear to be a particle emitted by the black hole. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance, in the flickering heat, in the immense distance, a herd of zebras graze. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had read somewhere that white sharks were solitary creatures, crossing great distances alone, but that sometimes they swam in pairs. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they were standing, looking out at flame-colored hills in the distance. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A door opened and shut in the distance. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

In the distance, a triangular volcano spewed green pixels of lava. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

And then I spotted Old Mr. Chou and my mother off in the distance, their busy movements swirling the fog around them. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kelton reaches down and picks up one of the cans, holding it at a safe distance. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Amari could see seabirds flying overhead, and she looked with the rest of the women at the faint hint of green in the distance. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance what looked to be a pine wood, raw and black. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Fizz thought she was too intense, so we kept our distance. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Henry walked at a distance from the palms and the shade because he was too young to keep himself out of the sun. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

In the distance the airplanes come and go. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“So close, Kathy!” he said, pointing to the rock in the distance, which looked no closer than before. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

In the distance, the conch horn sounded, signaling curfew. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was still a distance away, and before I got close he had returned to his car and driven away. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The male, on the contrary, is a strong flier and is attracted even from considerable distances by a scent released by the female from special glands. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

There, twinkling in the distance, was the North Star, the permanent light that had guided the Eskimos for thousands of years. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned a corner and ran along the parallel street and then back, and he judged time and distance so that he turned in front of her as she strolled along. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was talk in the clearing now, and I began to distinguish words over the distance and through the unfamiliar accents. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Holly paused to stare off into the distance for a second. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“Not the voyage, but the distance: and then the sea is a barrier—” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The gwythaints, which, at a distance, had seemed no more than dry leaves in the wind, grew larger and larger, as they plunged toward horse and riders. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

There’s a journalist reporting from the fringes of Riverside, at a safe distance, peering inside the fishbowl of chaos—afraid to travel too deep. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Or he might be unable to give the letter to Cecilia at all because she would be keeping her distance. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

From a distance, I film my father speaking to the window repairman. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

In the distance, I saw someone—I assumed it was Ema—flashing the light on her cell phone. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I simply fix my eyes on a point far in the distance and pretend, there is no audience, no hysteria. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I take a deep breath of pine and eucalyptus, hear mockingbirds and seagulls and the rumbling surf in the distance. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

A distance easily covered by an engine-powered boat of any size. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

By the time the sun started setting over the Manhattan skyline in the distance, Magdalys and Two Step were covered in soot, but they’d gotten the whole process down to a smooth, step-by-step rhythm. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The knife was good for cutting between worlds, but it couldn’t abolish distance within them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The clinic treated hundreds of people every day, who came sometimes from great distances, by foot, on donkey, or on the overcrowded passenger trucks on Highway 3. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He looked out the window and at the mobile home in the distance. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Bull calculated the distance between himself and Ben, then lobbed the shot putt in the air. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Listening Rock was close—the distance to cross was four large skips on a dry day. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They can see the bridge in the distance, and the two dirt forts defending it. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was Newton who realized that the pull of any two objects is, to quote Feynman again, "proportional to the mass of each and varies inversely as the square of the distance between them." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

And then there was his family, looking on from the distance, with expressions that ranged from disapproval to fury but held no hint of concern for their brother’s safety. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Gum Baby pointed to a smoky white line in the distance, barely visible beyond the flames on the water. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The masters in Virginia kept their distance those festival days. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Ten other Sixer avatars emerged from the castle and positioned themselves behind Sorrento, each of them standing a good distance apart. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t work, and we divorce, finally, by long distance. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to keep at a distance, but as soon as the new group spied us, they came over to investigate. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Soon my dogs were out of hearing distance. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A short distance from the bottom, the path curved around a large potted cactus. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

She had been walking for just over an hour when she heard the music in the distance: pipes and lutes and high, clear voices singing. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe David feels a little of that distance between us, too. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

In the distance was a dark mansion and he was pleased to see a rosebush near the fence bursting with red blooms. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Strict separation of the races would have threatened slaveholders’ immediate interests and was, in any event, wholly unnecessary as a means of creating social distance or establishing the inferior status of slaves. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Dangling a short distance away was a giant, heavy, and very sharp chandelier. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“The rats fight well in close range. But if we attack from afar, they have no recourse but to run. Of all things, they wish a way to kill us at a distance,” said Luxa. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was Tendai’s turn to stare into the distance and think. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Nel and Sula stood some distance away from the grave, the space that had sat between them in the pews had dissolved. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Halfway through the movies we heard the sounds of big guns being fired in the distance. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Weeds pushing up through a crack in the sidewalk are in the distance somewhere. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The white dog reappeared in the distance, heading in his direction, followed closely by Frankie. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She was a little lighter in complexion, a little broader in the jaw and shoulders, but from a distance, Sefia might have mistaken her for her mother. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The fastest object ever launched by the human species, it will still take tens of thousands of years to go the distance to the nearest star. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was one of the underpass kids, the scroungy runaways I kept my distance from. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The city walls rose in the distance, high and strong. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun came to the I-10/Claiborne overpass again, and even from a distance he could see that the people who he had seen awaiting rescue there a few days ago had been taken away. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Dorothy’s mother-in-law tried to dig in her heels against the growing distance between her son and daughter-in-law that she must have surmised for some time to be inevitable. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I jogged across the gymnasium, and as I got closer to the two of them, I stopped running and hovered at a respectable distance. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He wanted to stand on the porch and shoot the snakes from a distance. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

They sat in a circle, lesser officers at a distance, almost in files, by rank. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A topological map is a very simplified map, not to scale, so with no relation to the real distances. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Queried at long distance by Sproul, the loyal Swann declared that his protege was destined to become one of the world’s ten leading physicists before the end of the decade. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I follow, and Izzi trails us, discreetly and at a distance. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

"Come on then-" "Come on-" Truculently they squared up to each other but kept just out of fighting distance. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Lizzie also grew up on the reservation in Kansas, where she helped to provide for her family, harvesting corn and hauling wood over distances. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It took them three days to carry it to Cannery Row, a distance of five miles, and they camped beside it at night. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Strains of music, a Sunday air, drifted from a distance. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks off in the distance at a white house at the end of our lane. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

No step takes them farther away or even keeps them at the same distance; each moment brings them closer to that mark. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

We hadn’t been walking long when Bronwyn noticed a cloud of dust rising on the road behind us, way in the distance. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

But no such path offered itself, though I went some distance up the hill, a good way past my gate. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

When he’d put some distance behind him, he angled toward a brick restroom building, hoping to duck behind it and hide. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Now it was Magdalys’s turn to sit perfectly still and gaze off into the distance. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Dicey watched it go into the distance, back to the barn, then around it and out of sight. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I recalled Bear saying people would come a great distance for the market day. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

She could see flickering lights in the distance, indicating settlements or garrisons of soldiers or, maybe, Fort Mose. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

A plane rumbled past him, whining overhead, explosions and an ambulance bell ringing in the distance. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Jule and Paolo could see some big rocks in the distance as they drove up, but from the visitors’ center, nothing. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Pong kept a good distance behind, thankful that Yai's hulking body was easy to track in a crowd. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I had reached it and was debating which way to go when I heard the tractor engine, faint in the distance. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Her eyes had distance in them; when he looked at her he saw miles spreading into canyons and hills. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Power distance is concerned with attitudes toward hierarchy, specifically with how much a particular culture values and respects authority. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

If she told him not to go out of hollering distance from Ralph she wouldn’t ever find him shooting marbles with kids two or three blocks away. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He could tell by the distance it traveled how much time had passed. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Nowadays we use just this method to measure distances precisely, because we can measure time more accurately than length. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even with this distance between us, you're still my closest friend. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Perhaps his father noticed his good intentions, for he did not disrupt Gregor in this motion, but with the tip of the cane from a distance he even directed here and there Gregor's rotating movement. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young soldier was standing on the porch, staring into the distance beyond the shed. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

I can imagine him trying to distance himself from the event. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

A piece of extraordinary news traveled a long distance in a very short time, mobilizing an entire region to arms. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few seconds later, Shoto logged back into his account, and his avatar materialized a short distance in front of me, in the exact spot where he’d been killed a few hours earlier. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

They waited until Redbeard had gained a little distance on them, and then they struck out after him. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

So we conversed, and grimly, at a distance, with my long sword between, guarding the blood, while the faint image of the lad spoke on. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a while she heard the sound of an automobile in the distance and soon she could see one headlight. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I knew that The Ancestors did not change habits easily, so if they were already here, they would be at the motel where they always stayed, which was walking distance from the Behavioral Center. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance spiky, chocolate-brown mountains floated on eerie pools of mirage. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Time be­came distance for me in the way it is for all mortals—I travelled down the road of life—and I did other things with my fingers than try to measure latitude. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

And I didn’t wake until I heard the lighthouse siren singing in the distance and saw the flash of a rocket shot off from Lookout Station, and knew a ship was going down. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

She pointed to a flush of purple in the distance. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

On the moonrise when the coat was finished and she was trying to slip it on Tornait, she heard in the distance the crackle of feet on the ice. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hushpuppy continued to bark frantically in the distance. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben kept his distance and just stared at the scythe. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Invisibility cap on, I followed Thorn from a distance. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

She pointed to the water's edge, and there was Gramps in the distance, walking alone. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Because of the sun's glare and the distance, it's impossible to tell if the driver is looking at us. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

As if from a distance, she heard her aunt say, “I can see that you are. Go to bed then. I’ll wake you when Hermilio comes home.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Would the distance between Thomas and me grow so large that I’d forget him completely? Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He's still coming after me, but the distance between us is growing. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But instead of heading for the castle, he banked and flew straight at Sorrento, closing the distance between them in the space of a few seconds. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

From that distance, the figure is serpent-y, with wavy anemones on its top half. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Zu followed him out, bounding across the distance with a pink duffel bag in hand. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Even from a distance, it was clear something was wrong. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

There were movie theaters within an easy cab ride, even walking distance. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It ran only a short distance before Duchess struck and carried it to a tall spruce behind the barn. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

In contrast, crop diffusion from Indonesia south to southwestern Australia was completely impossible, and diffusion over the much shorter distance from Mexico to the U.S. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

We have previously mentioned the possibility of wormholes to get from one place in the universe to another without covering the intervening distance—through a black hole. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They drove the short distance to Mama’s, debating how to break the news to her. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond the crest of the field, some way off in the distance - perhaps a good mile or so as the crow would fly - was a small village. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

As the oceans warm, it is likely that the Irukandji, like other jellies, will continue to migrate over greater distances. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Dang hands!” she hollered from a distance, and I could just imagine her pitching a fit. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

His whole body hurt, but he was alive and his father was in the distance and whatever lay ahead, it had to be better than what lay behind. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I kept my distance, but a large crowd of people had already gathered up ahead of me, standing as close to the blaze as they dared. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Thunder growled and rumbled in the distance, and the rain was still falling heavily. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The hellish whistle could be heard gradually disappearing in the distance. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mystical reverence that he felt for her was somehow mixed up with the aspect of the pale, cloudless sky, stretching away behind the chimney pots into interminable distances. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

You kept your distance, because that was the only way to save yourself. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Reed came up to Archer then, walking softly, keeping his distance. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I retreat, keeping distance close enough to escape attack. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Then we type in more phrases—hundreds of them: to the mall, from a distance, in the middle of, as a result, the reason why. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

All I remembered of the last three days was an enormous radio tower in the distance, growing larger and larger as we marched. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

We’re on a broader street now, it runs straight into the distance, and you can see a few of the lights of Manhattan. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Human dots in the distance travel up and down glass elevators on each corner. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Three glowing signs hovered in the distance, but Aru couldn’t read what they said. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Everyone I pass stares at me from a distance and then, as we grow closer, looks down at their feet and mumbles buenas tardes, senorita in heavily accented Spanish. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance the ocean was azure blue beneath the ice floes, reflecting the great arc of the sky above. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In the distance I heard the barking of dogs. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

At this moment Armistead seemed to be looking down a long way away, from a long, sleepy, hazy distance. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trying to answer that question by measuring angles and distances would be much more complicated than simply holding up a mirror. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

From a distance of a hundred yards, Ben saw her speaking to Karen and Matthew. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m glad that the two of us are sitting a good distance apart. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t see the details of her long tunic dress from this distance, but I could tell it was old and graying. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

South from Kostor one peak after another stood out white against a colorless sky; I counted thirteen, the last an undefined glimmer in the mist of distance in the south. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He stood a safe distance away, legs apart and obviously ready to run, holding a stick of sugar cane nearly as tall as himself, which he had bought instead of fireworks. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there was no one in the street and it was quieter than it was during the day, even though you could hear traffic in the distance and sirens, so it made me feel calmer. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The fare wouldn’t be much for such a short distance, maybe a few hundred credits. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The distance between us was short and his back was turned squarely toward me. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The high hedge curved with them, running off into the distance beyond the pair of impressive wrought-iron gates barring the men’s way. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I saw them through the mist; I saw them on the clouds; I saw them big on the mountain- top when distance had shrunk the pines. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took a step toward her, closing the distance between them. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

When I heard the motor fade in the distance and finally sputter and die, I stood up and came out from behind my bush, not forgetting my milk and fish. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

In the near distance, beyond the fields, he could see a cluster of houses. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

In the near distance the grey city wall arose. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Andrews waves to us from beneath a tree a short distance away. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“The distance can be tough, but we work around it with phone calls, emails, and visits. Didn’t your best friend just move?” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Iron Emmett called forth his charges, and as the rest of the company watched from a respectful distance, they knelt before the weirwoods. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Vermeer places us at an intimate distance within the relatively shallow space, which has been molded around the figure. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were skirting the well in the middle of the square, trying to give the cow monsters some distance, when Hazel stumbled on a loose piece of cobblestone. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In the distance rose the coliseum and the horse racing arena. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I guess we all thought that, because Mom had been calling every private school within driving distance. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And even as I was struggling to escape their cruelty, I was at the same time more terrified by the sound of the angry crowd in the distance. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frodo crawled to the edge of the road and watched the rider, until he dwindled into the distance. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

From the start, I liked those microphones better, I didn’t have to keep constantly aware of my distance from a microphone on the table. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He chooses wisely, with a nice distance between us. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I was sitting in a deck chair on a huge porch, gazing across a meadow at green hills in the distance. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance from where the drones headed, the praying-mantis ship comes into view. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Instead, he determined the companions would travel some distance from the edges of the swamp, keeping to solid ground and following a path half-circling the bog until they reached the moors. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

If Jupiter were a meter across, our comet would be smaller than a speck of dust, but when fully developed, its tail would be as great as the distances between the worlds. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The actual speed can be determined at any point in the earth's orbit by using the distance to the sun and the specific orbital energy. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The girls could see the river in the distance and smell its earthy, wet shoreline as they hid in the darkness of the trees. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hear Noise now and again in the distance, probably from woodland creachers but always outta sight, always gone when we get near. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

"You can't understand most of the important things from a distance, Bryan. You have to get close," she told me all the time. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He screeched to a halt a distance away from the group. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I was closing the distance between myself and the lounging pair too quickly. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

In relief I clutched the cover, which looked just like the red book from a distance, and waved my hand three times. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before Jody had been dead a month, she noticed how often men who had never been intimates of Joe, drove considerable distances to ask after her welfare and offer their services as advisor. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

And it was a wonderful chance for Marina to use her new navigation skills over the enormous distances of the Soviet Union. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Her eyes study my face, moving up and down, then side to side like she’s checking the distance between my ears. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

In the distance, a crowd had formed beyond the back gate. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Just then they heard the sound of thunder booming in the distance. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

It took Evan half an hour to drag his loaded wagon to the town center—a distance he usually traveled in less than five minutes by bike. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

The widow and her son rushed after it, but only saw it fluttering in the distance. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was conveniently close to the governing hub of the Common- wealth, while being a comfortable distance from the smell of rotten fish, hot tar, and the vomit of drunken sailors. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I began seeking ways of distancing myself from my father’s rituals. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was rising, shedding gray light over the golden forest, and in the shadows she thought she saw something moving in the distance. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I pretended not to see Annabeth wipe a tear from her cheek as she listened to the mournful keening of Cerberus in the distance, longing for his new friend. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s nothing personal, really. Enough girls leave you for dudes, and you learn to keep your distance,” she goes on. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

There was a last growl of desperate bravado from the bush and a whimpering cry; then the sounds of the bears’ escape receded in the distance. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kepler’s third law described the time it takes for planets to complete an orbit: r3/t2 = k for time t, distance r; and a constant k. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

A third advantage of the Fertile Crescent’s Mediterranean zone is that it provides a wide range of altitudes and topographies within a short distance. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance, the sky was dark, furious clouds stampeding across the sky, and the wind tore at the threadbare dress Ophie wore. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The mourners kept their distance from the coffin. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have left each other, and there is an impossible distance between us. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

That’s because the links connected to any idea in our web of knowledge run upwards, downwards, and sideways to other ideas, often spanning long distances. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“From a distance it looks okay,” she said. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

From that distance, it looked as though it were small, but it was actually one of the largest ships ever built. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Off in the distance Sam heard a car door slam. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Only a short distance from her house were stores. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

But even when farmers try, it is often little use: modern hybrids are so productive that despite the distances involved U.S. corporations can sell maize for less in Oaxaca than can Diaz Castellano. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Well, it would take me too much time to name all the places, because we took our car and drove fairly great distances.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He tugs his hand out of mine, moves a small distance away, studies the terminal. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I looked down the road and saw a house far in the distance. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The subsidiary robots broke formation, waited a moment, then clattered off into the distance—very rapidly. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Lupita stared after Salvador, who was a good distance away by now. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Bridge had assumed that the moon was always the same distance from Earth. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Neumann One watches the odometer and calls out distances. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

While I was not a Communist or a member of the party, I did not want to be seen as distancing myself from my Communist allies. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet the distance between them was abruptly charged with her, and her smell was in his nostrils. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

By the time we emerged into the evening gloom to the uproar and bustle of the striking workers, the distance between us had grown even greater. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

A coyote howls in the distance, a sound both lonely and familiar, and I sigh, allowing my eyes to close. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

His head was shaved except for a tuft that ran the distance from his forehead to his neck. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The willow’s unharmed branches snaked toward Sigurd, keeping a distance from him but ready to whip at him if needed. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

She held her breath and judged the distance between the doorway and where she stood. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“This only feels like an ending,” Jinny said to the wind and the distance. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I close the distance between us in two strides, tearing off what remains of my shirt, wadding it and pressing down on the wound. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Henry Winter,” said my friends when I pointed him out, at a distance, making a wide circle to avoid a group of bongo players on the lawn. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I could see Og hovering in his bubble, just a short distance above us. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The distance the Bureau has kept from the rest of the world is an evil separate from the war they intend to wage against our memories—more subtle, but, in its way, just as sinister. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He was standing motionless on the top of a small ridge, and he seemed from a distance to be a scarecrow left over from the growing season. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

From this vantage point he could see through the ridgeline trees to the encampment and the river in the distance. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Holmes is one of the tough black officers who have been here forever, a big man who seems to enjoy his distance from the rank and file. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, they would hide in a heavily wooded pine thicket some distance away. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’re standing at the edge of a steep cliff, and in the distance is an erupting volcano! Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

In the distance, a grip of seals were scattered around the wooden crates, barking every once in a while and nosing each other in the stomach. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

It looks like they still sell the same old fare—popcorn, candy, and balloons—but the children also carry flashing swords, and other moving, blinking toys I can’t make out at this distance. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

It took us a while to locate the other bundle of treasure, since the storm had dragged it some distance and torn away the buoy that had marked where we’d left it. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

In the distance, the Bonecruel Mountains rose up, green with pines but so far away. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

And then we both heard it in the distance. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

But this was not quite the brilliant solution it might have seemed, since F# and Q> were still - to stringed instruments, singers and some brass players - separate notes, albeit just a short distance apart. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

This inverse proportionality between apparent size and distance is the basis of perspective in art and photography. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw that a vast distance separated the agitators from the masses, a distance so vast that the agitators did not know how to appeal to the people they sought to lead. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The distance I experienced in my first year of law school made me feel lost. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The most important property of a line is its slope, and to measure this, mathematicians look at how high a line rises in a certain amount of distance. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

In the distance I could hear my brother screaming. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Celia and Isobel chat about the weather and Prague and books, not purposely avoiding the topic of the circus, but keeping the distance from it alive. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And he had continued to run in front, letting the distance between them become greater. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had turned towards home and, at the top of a rise, I saw the gables of Monmouth House, bleak in the distance. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A few hours later we heard a cockcrow in the distance. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Butte is a hardy, historic copper-mining town set down in the brushy southwestern corner of Montana, with the dark ridgeline of the Rocky Mountains visible in the distance. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In the distance I could see the first grey roofs of Kerrith, while to the right, in a hollow, lay the deep woods of Manderley and the sea beyond. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He had spent years maintaining distance from his origins; his parents, in bridging that distance as best they could. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We were close—somehow related—while also distanced by careful reserve. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance when it is a fine day and my sight is not too dim, I can see the building where my son works. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the children watched from outside the door, keeping their distance in case whatever these people suffered from was contagious. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Woundwort, hearing the squealing from behind him, covered the distance in a few moments and set upon the veteran stoat with slashing teeth and great kicks from his needle-clawed back paws. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My husband ran to make sure, but I think that’s them gathered down the road there,” Mrs. Hawkins replied, pointing to a huddled cluster in the distance. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A peal of thunder rumbled in the distance. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The seagulls chirping, the sandy beach in the distance, the shirtless surfers—and then, despite myself, I think of Will. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

In the distance, more breaks in the walls led to other paths, and farther down, maybe a hundred yards or so away, the straight passage came to a dead end. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It was so strange to see him from a distance. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

As Lighthouse receded into the distance, the rim of Hamelin crater came into view. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did; whereupon began a heaving, stamping, clattering process, accompanied by a barking and baying which removed me effectually some yards’ distance; but I would not be driven quite away till I saw the event. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The lesser monsters kept a respectful distance from the Titans, so there was enough empty space to maneuver around the Doors; but Percy was keenly aware of the snarling mob at his back. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Only a little distance up the hill, on the side where she stood, was a wreath of blue smoke winding into the air. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was situated somewhere up in the sky, a little distance beyond the clouds, Moses said. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Ralph found he was able to measure the distance coldly and take aim. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

That would be to take a straighter route, across the farmyard between the barn and the chicken house, going not too close to the house but cutting the distance home by half. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

A pair of guards was rushing toward the helicopter with crates in hand, and in the distance I heard commotion, heated complaints in Lingala. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

At this distance they sounded like balloons popping. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

As an example, let’s take the famous equation we all learned in high school: rate times time equals distance. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when I saw him at a distance—fists in pockets, whistling, bobbing along with his springy old walk—I would have a strong pang of affection mixed with regret. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Running wide around turns offers the best chance of clear sailing but exacts a high price in extra distance the horse has to cover. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their faces were perfectly composed—but their eyes kept drifting to the children in the cart and then snapping off into the middle distance again as they recovered their discipline. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Shocked, he ran away, but continued to watch from a distance. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

In the distance, my eyes focus on a lone bicyclist. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were interrupted by horns blowing in the distance. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He had walked all the distance and was quite pleased to be riding once again. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

He woke repeatedly, panicky, convinced that somebody had called out to him in the distance, imagining that the wind whipping around the tent was footsteps or voices. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

They drove back by another route, a much greater distance, to avoid passing the dead soldiers. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He heard Frodo’s voice, but it seemed to come from a great distance, or from under the earth, crying out strange words. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Fencing is physical—balancing form, distance, and precise moves. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

From the hospital, I could see the blue ocean in the distance, the same ocean that my brother and I used to play in. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

In the distance they heard a mewling sound. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

So for a while he forgot, and sought out the southern peaks that were thin blue and skeletal in the great distance. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then at last I spotted a few trees in the distance, not far from the roadside, so I drove up to them, stopped and got out. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her body was surprisingly light, and though it was not a comfortable position, Kaede thought she could manage to carry her some distance this way. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

If we could do this for a number of stars in the same galaxy, and our calculations always gave the same distance, we could be fairly confident of our estimate. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when the town approached, and traffic lights loomed on wires in the distance, she went even slower. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

They came down, and here and there a shock and a scream, but the masses of men lay in rows in the grass, and in the distance a band was playing. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He watched as it receded into the distance, growing smaller and smaller until it seemed to just float there, frozen in place, like a model plane hanging from a wire. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

The engines started up, and I watched as Eugene Field Memorial Middle School got smaller and smaller, its bricks and cement gradually disappearing into the distance. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I have seen many from a distance, but I know only two. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was only a short distance now to the river, but among the sodden patches of rushes, the bushes and sedge and deep puddles, they found it next to impossible to tell their direction. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He covers his face as he hits the ice, skidding a great distance. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe you only ever notice the distance when it’s you who’s being left behind. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Bright red neon light shone hazily on top of a building in the distance. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they halted or stumbled, they were seized and dragged for some distance. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The fox had quickened its pace and was now some distance away from them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rocket bombs crashed oftener than ever, and sometimes in the far distance there were enormous explosions which no one could explain and about which there were wild rumors. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

As the light grew a little he saw to his surprise that what from a distance had seemed wide and featureless flats were in fact all broken and tumbled. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

His light-brown eyes look off into the distance, then snap back to us. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I wisht him not to touch me & told him to remain at a distance. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Not even the Sapa Inca’s guards were allowed to look upon him from such a close distance. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

This force Newton called gravity, and believed that it acted at a distance. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before long they saw in the distance the towers and flags of Dictionopolis sparkling in the sunshine, and in a few moments they reached the great wall and stood at the gateway to the city. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then I heard one of the older girls laughing at a TV show in the distance. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

During the first of his three years in prison, Perry had observed Willie-Jay from a distance, with interest but with apprehension; if one wished to be thought a tough specimen, intimacy with Willie-Jay seemed unwise. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as though my discovery of Rinehart had opened a gulf between us over which, though we sat within touching distance, our voices barely carried and then fell flat, without an echo. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since I was at a safe distance from their troubles, I’d never see them fall in. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

A short distance in, the garden opens into a circular grassy area with a hewn-log bench at its center. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The farm, they said, was right in back of the Butler place, but knowing how different their concept of distance was, he thought he’d better get moving. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dallas leaned far out of the window, his eyes fixed on a bird flying lazily in the distance. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance, down the hill and across the road, lay Lake St. Clair, where my grandfather Jimmy Zizmo had faked his death. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She is being spiteful, Eleanor thought remotely; from a great distance, it seemed, she could watch these people and listen to them. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance, she heard the radio and the loud voices of the drinkers. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

At a distance I can’t tell the difference, though they themselves probably can. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

After Cathy had fully recovered from her shock, boys and girls watched her from a distance and then moved closer, fascinated by her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Off in the distance, she could hear Oz and Jak shouting about something, but there was nobody who needed her, nobody she had to take care of or think about. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was the distance that separated the two schools and the fact that Permian, at a cost of $20,000 to the school district, had chartered a 737 jet to get to Marshall. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance, we can hear the tramp of feet. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

And anyway, he could hear the sound of children in the distance, which would be the little white kids at the New London school, hollering through their first recess of the year. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I left at six or seven in the morning and returned at eight or nine in the evening, depending on the distance to water and grass. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then there’s a large rumbling sound in the not-too-far distance. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He stared off in the distance, shaking his head again. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

As the limo receded into the distance, he felt the heavy, drugged sleepiness go away. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then at a great distance, as if it came out of memories of the Shire, some sunlit early morning, when the day called and doors were opening, he heard Sam’s voice speaking. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

My parents would kill me if they knew I was calling long distance, but hopefully they wouldn’t notice if I kept the call under fifteen minutes. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

And if you folded it over one more time, the stack would be as high as the distance to the sun and back. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The cook told me it is too dangerous. He said that we should travel on the city streets, keeping the freeway in sight or in hearing distance all the time.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

She was just thinking how odd it was that there was no one else in the woods when she felt a shaking on the ground and heard hoofbeats in the distance. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

It had metal bars covering it, of a size that would have kept any unwanted giants at a respectable distance. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He towered over me, but he kept his distance so I wouldn’t have to crane my neck to look him in the eye. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Even though Beefy’s room was just at the end of the hall, the distance seemed to stretch out infinitely. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was some distance back, on the edge of the wood. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He points to a spot far into the distance. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He wanted to sit with them on curbstones and compare the sharpness of jackknives, the distance and arcs of spitting. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He steadied me, holding me a careful distance away for a few seconds before suddenly pulling me closer. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Her arms were thin and it was difficult for her to walk long distances. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Though everyone was dying for an explanation, we had elected to give the girls a moment to themselves, and stared in amazement from a respectful distance. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Following her finger and squinting into the distance I could barely pick out the pulse of a red LED bobbing on the waves. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I stand by the car, the soapy sponge still in my hand, and gaze off at the street, empty and long, stretching far into the distance. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z