In the widely-distant settlements of Brazil and Batavia, the Dutch were equally successful; and the East and West India companies acquired eminent power and increasing solidity.

But the result seems hopelessly distant when the mass of the poor and wretched stand before one in the flesh.

Mrs. Bett was incalculably distant.

She was near now, but still immeasurably distant.

Yet this epoch of huge and ferocious monsters, following upon the Age of Ice, is a recent chapter of the great epic of man; there lies far more behind it, beyond the Age of Ice to the immensely distant Pliocene; beyond this as far as the early Miocene; beyond this, again, how much further we know not, towards the beginningless beginning, the infinite.

Though they seem close to us, they are infinitely distant, and so per consequens, there are infinite habitable worlds: what hinders?

" I crouched backward into the bushes, and, a moment later, the newcomer moved past me scarcely a yard distant, along the narrow strip of sand.

The dull play, the dull scene, the dull speech, is that in which we do not perceive this connection; but when once we are interested in the individuals concerned, we are so quick to perceive the connection, even though it be exceedingly distant and indirect, that the dramatist who should always hold the fear of Mrs. Craigie's aphorism consciously before his eyes would unnecessarily fetter and restrict himself.

The immediate probability of the formation of the United States of Europe, suggests how wise we were not to change the location of the Capitol to some facetiously distant western metropolis of the future.

Then, faintly, far distant, there seemed to echo a shot, a single shot; then all sensation left him.

This heraldic monster was regarded with deep respect by child Emily, a respect in no wise deserved, I venture to suppose, by the disreputable royalties of whom she was a fortunately distant twig.

It would require a large volume to review the principal currents of thought pervading the Moslim world in our day; but a general notion may be acquired by a rapid glance at two centres, geographically not far distant from each other, but situated at the opposite poles of spiritual life: Mecca and Cairo.

Listening to their shells whistling over one's head like express trains, and to their (happily distant) deep crashes on percussion, one realised very vividly the immediate military effects of the Russian collapse.

To meet him herefar distant from the poison cup hidden in the vineswould give her time to master her leaping heart and to strengthen her self-control.

Did you not return to me, each year, colder and coldermore distant and unbrotherlyuntil you drove back to their source the gushing streams of a sister's love that flowed so strongly towards you?

While this was being done the Indian glanced several times at his bow, which lay a few feet away, where it had fallen when the dog caught him; but Crusoe seemed to understand him, for he favoured him with such an additional display of teeth, and such a lowapparently distant, almost, we might say, subterranean rumble, that he resigned himself to his fate.

Pinnse oblong; the lower distant segments oblong, denticulate, separated by wide sinuses.

Then with brisk strokes she made for the shore, luckily only a few yards distant.

When she slipped in at the side door there was already a stir of unusual movement in the house but the final flutter was still measurably distant.

However, there are many cases in which persons save for some moderately distant usesuch as the purchase of furniture, of a piano, of a house.

Mrs. Hamilton had hoped the pale cheek and dim eye proceeded from remorse; and had not Caroline been so pointedly distant and reserved when in her society, she would have lavished on her all the tenderness of former years.

Publicly distant, secretly and silently beseeching, with an eloquence few could have resisted.

He was ridiculously distant in his manner to the rest of the passengers, and in little matters at table and so forth he was really just as selfish as he could be.

Publicly distant, secretly and silently beseeching, with an eloquence few could have resisted.

The inhabitants are supplied with water by means of an aqueduct, fed by the little river, or rill of Wai Elghored, two miles distant south.