Thus, a day came, when, throwing thoughts and fancies adrift, I procured a rope from the house, and, having made it fast to a stout tree, at the top of the rift, and some little distance back from the Pit edge, let the other end down into the cleft, until it dangled right across the mouth of the dark hole.

They were some considerable distance up from the surface of the lakeabout fifty feet, I calculated.

Returning to the village, we made a good feed off our day's spoil, after which, having selected a few of the finer fish for our breakfast, we presented the remainder to the group of villagers who had assembled at a respectful distance to watch our doings.

Its troops are legion, marching from the far distances of the past, and extending out to the far confines of the eternal years.

I was so struck when we were in Russia with the immense distance that separated the princes from the ordinary mortals.

In the middle distance the fire leaped red.

They were not more than twenty feet ahead of herbut the blotch seemed to be a vast distance away.

Thereafter, while he was away chaffering, I sat me down in the outer bailey tending my beasts, yet with eyes and ears wide and with my hand upon mine axe 'neath my cloak lest haply I might chance within striking distance of Red Pertolepe.

Low, slow-sloping, billowy green hills, bare and smooth with square brown patches, stretched away to what seemed infinite distance.

Ferámurz had, in fact, secretly retired with the Zábul army to a convenient distance, for the purpose of acting as necessity might require, and when he heard that Zál was placed in confinement, he immediately marched against the invader and oppressor of his country.

Place it at a sufficient distance to prevent the fat from burning, and baste it constantly till the moment of serving.

The repose and lightness of heart that were at first to be the reward of success recede farther and farther into the dim distance, until at last they are lost sight of entirely, confessed, with a sigh, to be unattainable.

I was, in fact, when looking through the lower window, in the same position as regards the Earth as would be an inhabitant of the lunar hemisphere turned towards her, having no external atmosphere interposed between us, but being at about two-thirds of the lunar distance.

She had not reached the point of wishing definitely that he should suffer, but the sight of Ettabeautiful, self-confident, carelessly possessive in respect to Paulhad brought her within measurable distance of it.

Evans, Pennell, and Rennick have got sight for meridian distance; we ought to get a good longitude fix.

There was no doctor within any reasonable distance, and father at once requested that he be conveyed in the carriage to his brother Elijah's house in Weston.

Prometheus stood by her, and pointed out in the immeasurable distance the little speck of shining dust from which they had flown.

At once, the noise was taken up and repeated a score of times; each succeeding echo being fainter, and seeming to travel away from me, as though into remote distance.

Nothing can be distinctly seen at even a moderate distance.

To lessen the fear which they entertained of the length of way they had to sail, he gave out that they had only proceeded fifteen leagues that day, when the actual distance sailed was eighteen; and, to induce the people to believe that they were not so far from Spain as they really were, he resolved to keep considerably short in his reckoning during the whole voyage, though he carefully recorded the true reckoning every day in private.

And gondoliers came suddenly into vision, parting the mists with thin, black, swaying outlines, as quickly fading in the near, gray distance when they passed, while the shipping loomed like phantoms on an immediate horizon, vanishing, vision-like; and even the sounds of life came muffled over the still lagoon, like ghostly echoes from a city wrapped in dreams.

This shore was smooth and long, vanishing to right and left of me, in extreme distances.

The total distance from Teneriffe to Sombrero is about 2,700 miles.

A short calculation showed that, this fact borne in mind, the indication of the barycrite substantially agreed with that of the discometer, and that I was in fact very nearly where I supposed, that is, a little farther than the Moon's farthest distance from the Earth.

If they kept the relative distance of the night before, they were all stars; if any one had approached or receded from the others, it was a planet; and when the father looked at his son's record he said, 'One of those has moved, and it is the one which I thought last night was the planet.'