One day while we were resting on a prairie near the head of Powder river, a horseman was seen in the distance approaching us.

In the distance behind them was Eagle Butte, towering above the town they had left a few brief moments before, and beyond that the Costejo Mountains, rugged and massive and covered in part on their lower slopes with blue-green thickets of pine.

When the sound died away in the distance, I stole into the house and crept up to my chamber.

"Say, party, I can't tell you how I felt to see little old New York slip away in the distance.

" The voices dwindled and died in the distance.

I can see your work growing,growing in the distance.

The reflection of the fire in the distance still threw a lurid glare over the extended heath.

The fields were checkered squares and oblongs, and a ruined village in the distance seemed a jumbled handful of children's gray and red blocks.

I fear he was doing but little studying, for now and then he arose from his chair, walked impatiently to the window, from which he could see in the distance the thronged field, bright with life and color, turned impatiently away, sighed, and so returned again to his book.

We could hear the roar of guns in the distance on the east, and we were told that severe fighting was in progress in that direction.

We were driving northwards, and the sky was lit up by the flashes of the guns at Nieuport and Dixmude, whilst we could hear their dull roar in the distance.

A tiny sail in the distance reveals the locality of an Indian canoe.

When I took my stand in the lofty gallery, and looked down at the brilliant lights and the great mass of people, who followed my every motion as one man, and the two glittering, half-naked girls swinging in the distance, and heard the music rolling up thunders of sound, it was all ghastly and horrible to me, sir.

It rings for him through all his life; it is the first sound of home in the distance when he comes backthe last that follows him like a long farewell when he goes away.

He ran all night long, and whenever he stopped to breathe and listen, he seemed to hear in the distance the echoes of her voice.

In the distance he saw a fantastic alien metropolis of beautiful glass skyscrapers; he could just barely make out ships hovering over it and small vehicles driving around in the distance.

CHAPTER XXIII IM WASHINGTON Meantime, the storm dreaded as so immediate by the administration at Washingtonthe organization of a new political party, born of the unrest over the slavery questionhad spent its force, and, temporarily, long since had muttered away in the distance, leaving scarce a trace behind it on the political sky.

Just as they reached its mouth, they heard a faint yell in the distance.

They came across the bridges with glinting rifles, and the blue coats and red trousers of the infantry made them look in the distance like tin soldiers from a children's playbox.

'I see the holy father in the distance.

Bitterly cold and steadily cold, and deep snow lay upon the hills, blue-white in the distance.

Sometimes we could see what in the distance seemed a great patch of brush, but by watching closely we could see it was a great drove of these animals.

The region is not at all what one would call beautiful, for it consists solely of billowy risings and fallings of the ground, and only in the distance does one see the mountains; furthermore, the latter look more like a dark hill-slope than a beautifully outlined mountain-range.

On the morrow, a canoe was seen in the distance carrying eighty men, all of whom were young, good-looking, and of lofty stature.

Lofty mountains which end in a ridge extending from east to west are seen in the distance towards the south from all along the coast.