1 Uncle Peter's voice came as from a far distance, plaintive, placating.
2 Pork slipped from the room as she remained staring moodily into the distance.
3 Standing some little distance away from the barbecue tables, he was at the peak of an argument with John Wilkes.
4 If he burned for Scarlett until the end of his days, he would never take her and he would fight to keep her at a distance.
5 Behind them, at a respectful distance, followed a large straggling crowd of neighbors and friends, shabbily dressed, silent.
6 In spite of the distance, she could hear the hubbub of voices, questioning, calling, feel the fever- pitch tenseness of the men.
7 She listened hard and suddenly she wondered if it were only her imagination or if the sound of cannon in the distance had died away.
8 He came up the hill at a gallop on his thick-barreled, long-legged hunter, appearing in the distance like a boy on a too large horse.
9 Mammy gave a little shriek and retreated and from a distance of a yard, modestly elevated her dress a few inches and showed the ruffle of a red taffeta petticoat.
10 Seen from a distance, romping about the back yard with her child, she looked like a little girl, for her waist was unbelievably tiny and she had practically no figure.
11 At a distance great enough to keep the smoke away from the guests were the long pits where the meats cooked and the huge iron wash-pots from which the succulent odors of barbecue sauce and Brunswick stew floated.
12 With an air of dignified reserve she was able to keep her victims at their proper distance, but there was nevertheless a graciousness in her manner which left a certain warmth in the Yankee officers' memories of Mrs. Kennedy.
13 The uncultivated fields, studded with tiny pines and underbrush, that stretched their rolling red-clay surface away into the distance on four sides belonged to Gerald O'Hara--were all his because he had an unbefuddled Irish head and the courage to stake everything on a hand of cards.