135 Words to use with distance

"There's a long-distance telephone over at Cotting's General Store, in town," he said.

At a short distance north-west from Catbalogan a most luxuriant garden of corals is to be observed in less than two fathoms, at the ebb.

The advance was threatening for the countries traversed by the Garonne; and it was in 844 that vessels freighted with Northmen for the first time ascended this last river to a considerable distance inland, and there took immense booty.

But realizing that a father at the end of a long-distance line was possessed of a certain strategic advantage presenting more difficulties than a mother at hand, she said lightly: "All right, papa.

True indeed is it that "Tis distance lends enchantment to the view.

Now, the choir does all the work, and the congregation are left behind the distance post to think about the matter.

Two carried off the records in long distance flights, but both have been refused admission to the Flying Corps.

I can assure him, because upon this matter I have some special knowledge, that long-distance air travel for men, for letters and light goods and for bombs, is continually becoming more practicable.

They used to have long distance races at Haifa, and the camel always won at thirty.

The other three are ordinary telephonestwo for long distance calls and one for the city.

Forrest therefore penetrated some distance east, but was not encouraged by the discovery of any useful country.

The trials and dangers of the builders of the submarine; the triumphant thrill of the inventor who hears for the first time the vibration of the long-distance message through the air; the daring and tension of the engineer who drives a locomotive at one hundred miles an hour.

Similarly an object always appears to grow smaller as its distance increases, while in itself it is and remains of some fixed size.

First long-distance conversation.

Though the distance overland was not prohibitive, the belt of desert country that intervened, upon which Warburton to his sorrow was the first to venture, forbade the passage of stock.

The ship beginning to gather way, too, I threw Sennit the end of a lower-studding-sail halyards, that were brought aft for the purpose, ordered his bowman to let go his hold of the tackle, and dropped the boat a safe towing distance astern.

From the distance rifles still snapped, and a couple of miles away to the south-west field-guns were booming.

Instead of this, the bulk of the long-distance traffic passed through the Ordos region, a little farther north, avoiding the Ch'i-fu state, which seemed to the merchants to be too insecure.

When he arrives within attacking distance rise quickly and lunge well forward at the middle of his body.

(f) Estimating distance drill. (g) Individual known-distance firing, instruction practice. (h) Individual known-distance firing, record practice.

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kingsnor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, Andwhich is moreyou'll be a Man, my son! Rudyard Kipling.

The other day a young friend of mine indulged in a glowing description, in my presence, of the methods and form of a certain short-distance runner.

"Yes, and there are wonderful, long-distance migrations of birds, so why not a cross-country flight of motor butterflies?"

Long distance telephone code; for the mutual benefit and protection of the telephone co. and the subscribers.

Suppose, now, we dropped down on the commons, and get Bloomsbury on the long distance phone; perhaps they might have some news they could give us," and as Andy at once agreed to the proposal, for he was thirsty anyhow, and wanted a drink of soda water the worst kind, Frank began to descend gracefully.

135 Words to use with  distance