1 Some, like Ellen, were members of old families who had found life intolerable in their former homes and sought haven in a distant land.
2 Restless, energetic people from the older sections of Georgia and from more distant states were drawn to this town that sprawled itself around the junction of the railroads in its center.
3 Be cool and distant and he will understand.
4 As she stood, looking out of the window, there came to her ears a far-off sound, faint and sullen as the first distant thunder of an approaching storm.
5 But the dim thundering was so distant that, for a moment, she could not tell.
6 Eventually all the family found their way to Will's room to air their troubles--even Mammy, who had at first been distant with him because he was not quality and had owned only two slaves.
7 The magic place was deserted: there was no sound but the splash of the water on the lily-pads, and a distant drift of music that might have been blown across a sleeping lake.
8 The newly plowed fields were black banners fallen on the distant slope.
9 She marveled that in what was to her but a night-blurred moment, he should have been in a distant place, have taken charge of a strange house, have slashed a woman, saved a life.
10 He glanced across the reeds reflected on the water, the quiver of wavelets like crumpled tinfoil, the distant shores patched with dark woods, silvery oats and deep yellow wheat.
11 She lay awake till she heard the distant creak of a bed which indicated that Kennicott had retired.
12 Deep into distant woodlands winds a mazy way, reaching to overlapping spurs of mountains bathed in their hill-side blue.
13 I concluded that this harpooneer, in the course of his distant voyages, must have met with a similar adventure.
14 Alone in his canoe, he paddled off to a distant strait, which he knew the ship must pass through when she quitted the island.
15 The four whales slain that evening had died wide apart; one, far to windward; one, less distant, to leeward; one ahead; one astern.