"Distance" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... his body, flapped and flapped as he discoursed, until he had cleared a little ring, and when, in the height of his energy, he threw them about like the arms of a windmill, every one kept at a respectful distance. ...
— Snarley-yow - or The Dog Fiend • Frederick Marryat
... were wandering about the green hollow, picking daisies, and playing together in the sunshine. There are several cotton factories close to the moor, but they were quiet enough. Whilst I looked about me here, the policeman pointed to the distance and said, "Jackson's comin' up, I see. Yon's him, wi' th' white lin' jacket on." Jackson seems to have won the esteem of the men upon the moor by his judicious management and calm determination. I have heard that he had a little trouble at ...
— Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine • Edwin Waugh
... the country on his poor, sore feet—the feet of a man who had lived in luxury, far from the battle-field; and so, among all those impatient watchers, there was none who watched more impatiently than he the Grand-Pre road, extending straight away to a seemingly infinite distance between two rows of handsome trees. Beneath him was unrolled the panorama of the valley; the Aisne was, like a silver ribbon, flowing between its willows and poplars, and ever his gaze returned, solicited ...
— The Downfall • Emile Zola
... each other when I first knew them; they are still friends, but separated by distance. Both are exceedingly honorable, and the latter ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis
... and snow, fired popular imagination with myriad visions of realised romance. Camoens, in the Lusiad, chanted the praises of the verde noz in those poetic groves, which he regarded as a new garden of Hesperides, when the magic lure of an untravelled distance, and the dreamful wonder of an untracked horizon, wove their spells over the mind of an awakening world. Powers of observation and comparison were still untrained and untried; superstition was rife, ...
— Through the Malay Archipelago • Emily Richings
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