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• Is it so very distant? (10)
• One distant bang rumbled out. (8)
• Laxley was distant and unamused. (10)
• Evan sat three chairs distant from her. (10)
• She held it close, she held it distant. (10)
• The meet is at eleven, five miles distant. (10)
• All day she imagined hearing a distant cannonade. (10)
• That explained why my distant relative felt so keenly. (8)
• In a distant corner she saw Mrs. Milray with Mr. Ewins. (9)
• He drew on her, but he was distant, and she waved an arm. (10)
• How very distant, in this mood, were the most recent events! (9)
• The sea was around us, a distant yellow twinkle telling of land. (10)
• Angelo watched all the ways from a distant height till set of sun. (10)
• The vale was too distant for strangers to reach it before nightfall. (10)
• Distant landscapes are most satisfying to the eyes, for they rest them. (17)
• She heard of Italy as of a distant place, known to her in ancient years. (10)
• I could have wrestled with anything abstract and distant, from being certain. (10)
• The hoarse and distant sounds of the Marseillaise float in again from Park Lane.] (8)
• Reality is now before us; teeming modern life awaits us beyond those distant hills. (20)
• And sure enough that was the voice of the woods, cleaving the night air, not distant. (10)
• The only sounds were those of distant barking dogs, and of the bugles at the barracks. (8)
• A sound from far away, as of distant, dull beating on thick metal, is suddenly audible. (8)
• He caught a distant glimpse of the little bit of bare selfishness, and shrank from it. (10)
• A distant flash, a low rumble, and large drops of rain spattered on the thatch above him. (8)
• The distant sounds of a concertina being played with fury drift in through the open door. (8)
• He was about to ask his companion, but with a distant hiccough the small man had vanished. (8)
• These were the words which on that sunny afternoon, in a distant region, had slain a hundred men. (1)
• And he adds: That is a distant period; so prepare To fight the false, O youths, and never spare! (10)
• Castles and churches will keep, but what of that great mysterious land beyond those distant hills? (20)
• She considered she was bound to marry the man at some distant date, and did not feel unhappiness yet. (10)
• Almost from the first moment of my march, a faint large noise, like a distant surf, had filled my ears. (2)
• He opened his eyes in the darkness and saw above him a gleam of light, but how distant, how inaccessible! (1)
• Ottilia glowed high and distant; she sent me no message; her image did not step between me and disorder. (10)
• The music ceased; rather, it became by insensible degrees the distant roll of a retreating thunder-storm. (1)
• Now, while she was speaking, she suddenly inclined her ear as to a distant noise; but they heard nothing. (10)
• She could hear a distant rumbling, very low, travelling in that grass, the long mutter of the Flanders guns. (8)
• By its help a later age will be able to track the genesis of certain happenings to their most distant roots. (12)
• Brayle was beyond recall, galloping easily along, parallel to the enemy and less than two hundred yards distant. (1)
• He thought it, at first, the beating of his fevered blood in his ears; next, the distant tapping of a bass drum. (1)
• The horn of the London coach had sounded distant metropolitan glories in the ears of the exile in rustic parts. (10)
• She nodded in the direction of a distant corner, and the Marches knew that she meant Miss Triscoe and the general. (9)
• In the unnatural silence that reigns, the distant sound of the wheezy church organ and voices singing can be heard. (8)
• At an early age they had been thrilled by the tales of life and adventure in the distant wilderness across the sea. (19)
• At the same instant was heard a dull, distant sound like the heavy breathing of some great animal below the horizon. (7)
• All went by, riding into line some paces distant; and again they laughed as they bent forward to the lady, shouting. (22)
• Berry sang out to the second cab, which, with its pyramid of luggage, remained stationary some thirty paces distant. (10)
• Nearer and farther, the cottages and villages shone in the valleys, or glimmered through the veils of the distant haze. (9)
• They would push fearlessly past the Iroquois concealed in ambush and carry the gospel amongst the most distant tribes. (19)
• Hollow murmurs seemed to creep along the gallery, and more than once her blood was chilled by the sound of distant moans. (4)
• One day Murlock returned from gunning in a distant part of the forest to find his wife prostrate with fever, and delirious. (1)
• The mirror, however, had to be abandoned, as Dosalo, the nearest point for crossing the Po, was still seven miles distant. (10)
• All the misery that he caused penetrated the wall, and aroused in Karen memories of equal horrors in dim and distant years. (12)
• In the pause which succeeded, a sound like receding footsteps and the closing of a distant door struck on her affrighted ear. (4)
• So may we read, and little find them cold: Not frosty lamps illumining dead space, Not distant aliens, not senseless Powers. (10)
• Now, in the early morning, sea and garden, hills and distant mountains were covered with a delicate veil of indescribable hue. (5)
• Yet that experience seemed removed from the present, as if it rose from distant years, and somehow belonged to another person. (13)
• In a house or two lights began to wink; the scent of wood smoke reached him, the distant chimes of bells, the burring of a stream. (8)
• Mountains hear her and call back, Shrewd with night: a frosty wail Distant: her the emerald vale Folds, and wonders in her track. (10)
• There came into our minds visions, so distant in that darkening vapour, of a warm stall and manger of oats; of tea and a log fire. (8)
• He had also another, more distant, very faint idea, that it had better not be mentioned just yet, for a reason entirely undefined. (10)
• Distant hills, and folds of receding clouds and skies beyond them, were visible from my window, and beyond the skies I felt her soul. (10)
• St. Louis was a very distant Roman Catholic monarch; and the young gentleman of Evangelical education could admire him as a Crusader. (10)
• It was not Fouzilhic, but Fouzilhac, a hamlet little distant from the other in space, but worlds away in the spirit of its inhabitants. (2)
• Mrs. Marsett resided in a side-street not very distant from the featureless but washed and orderly terrace of the glassy stare at sea. (10)
• Graves looked serious, but undisturbed, manifesting no more outward emotion than if he had come from the funeral of a distant relative. (13)
• He jumped to kiss her, and went on chattering of a place fifteen miles distant, where he had seen Sir Willoughby riding with a young lady. (10)
• If anything they were rather stiff and distant with each other, and I asked myself whether this might not be from an access of consciousness. (9)
• With the peep of day the entire adult population rattles away over the plain in springless wicker wagons to the cornfields, often miles distant. (20)
• Toward nightfall, on the nineteenth of the month, he stood with a small band of Ticinese and Italian fighting lads two miles distant from the city. (10)
• Two Indian scouts, sent out to obtain intelligence, returned in about three hours with the information that the enemy were less than a league distant. (19)

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Definition of distant:

• distant, dis’tant, adj. at a certain distance: remote, in time, place, or connection: not obvious: indistinct: reserved in manner. | adv. dis’tantly. (0)

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