And Sindbad saw many wonders in this far-distant sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference

He stood listening to the far-distant sound, then threw out his arms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hawk of Egypt] Reference

"In far-distant Scotland my mother is singing them to-night," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Cuthbert's] Reference

The moon was peeping out from behind the far-distant hill as they commenced.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference

Women remembered tenderly the far-distant mother or wife, and therefore honored their dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War] Reference

England his father would certainly not have let it be buried in this far-distant and lonely spot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cornwall Coast] Reference

How clearly can you see the space that intervenes between your house and some far-distant object?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Power of Mental Imagery Being the Fifth of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency] Reference

Sitting down to rest, they spoke one to another of their long journeying from the far-distant land of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christmas in Legend and Story A Book for Boys and Girls] Reference

To that far-distant epoch can be traced the origin of the superstition concerning the spilling of salt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Sense, How to Exercise It] Reference

Icefirth, in that far-distant land a mighty chieftain, of royal descent and great wealth, named Thorbiorn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race] Reference

Paul I had seen Janet with -- an old miniature which I had painted on ivory myself in the far-distant days.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 5, May, 1891] Reference

Here again the market impressed him deeply, so full was it of cosmopolitan articles from far-distant lands.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference

It is possible that in no far-distant future, if this scheme is achieved, San Francisco will find a rival in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference

By "far-distant shores," he undoubtedly means Northwest America, where its remotest descendants still flourish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference

Thou, too, shalt return home, in honor to thy far-distant home, doubt it not -- if in the battle thou keep thy shield.    From Wordnik.com.  [Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform] Reference

There were series of pictures telling stories of wonders and adventures in far-distant lands, voyages, wars, conquests.    From Wordnik.com.  [David and the Phoenix] Reference

A series of buzzings, tappings and clinkings came over the wire, with hints of far-distant unintelligible conversation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Juggernaut] Reference

They were within sight of the endless untraveled land that reached, unbroken by civilization, to the far-distant Arctic.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland] Reference

Mile after mile, the long train rumbled on over shining rails that fell away behind and merged in the far-distant sky-line.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucile Triumphant] Reference

Truth was, there was a man-Folk on board who had caught, and wanted to carry to a great park in some far-distant land, a crocodile.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord Dolphin] Reference

Sadly she closed her home in Minnesota and, with her three little fatherless children, returned to her old home in far-distant Ohio.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Sioux A Story of the Twin Cities and the Two Dakotas] Reference

It is rather strange to think that we know more about the snow-caps of that far-distant world than we do about those on our own earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story] Reference

And with all that immense past and those far-distant origins, those two literatures have a splendid present betokening a splendid future.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference

By means of submarine cables Britain is linked with far-distant lands, and is at once made acquainted with everything that happens there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Queen Victoria Story of Her Life and Reign, 1819-1901] Reference

He had made up his mind to sentry duty for the night when through the darkness there came to him a gleam of light from a far-distant fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dick in the Everglades] Reference

I listen in frustration to "observers," who, in the safety of their far-distant homes, frown in disapproval and hint at renewed sanctions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stink of Burning Rubber] Reference

We now, indeed, have realized the "dream" of an African-American in the White House, something that seemed a far-distant fantasy back then.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvey Wasserman: To Honor Dr. King, Bring the Troops Home Now] Reference

As she hung up the receiver mechanically, Betty's gaze traveled out of the window and over the smooth, green lawn to the far-distant horizon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outdoor Girls on Pine Island Or, A Cave and What It Contained] Reference

We see the water waves, but we can never see with the eye the heat and light waves which roll in to us from that far-distant source, the sun.    From Wordnik.com.  [General Science] Reference

But these races are by no means restricted to the continent of Africa, for quite as typical black types are found in far-distant lands such as.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope] Reference

There is a very human expression about it, as it stands in the midst of those glimmering lands, with its haughty summit commanding far-distant plains.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860] Reference

One young shepherd, for instance, after long strivings succumbed to the temptation to steal sheep from a far-distant farm, where at one time he had been employed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of the Border Marches] Reference

Kalidasa to lay the scene of his play in Bhilsa rather than in the far-distant Patna, for it is probable that many in the audience were acquainted with the former city.    From Wordnik.com.  [Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works] Reference

Ninety per cent of the Navaho one meets on the reservation are mounted and usually riding at a gallop, apparently bent on some important business at a far-distant point.    From Wordnik.com.  [Navaho Houses, pages 469-518 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898] Reference

The child who lives in exile from his country and his home, is soothed in the midst of his cares and disappointments, by the stirring imagery of his far-distant friends and home.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Christian Home] Reference