The Williams River, from which Mr. Elliott had proceeded, is distant about seventy miles from Leschenault in a direct line.
The route from Trichomo is for the most part along the seashore, but occasionally cutting off the bends by a direct line.
As far as we could see in a direct line groves of olives, vineyards, and ploughed land, diversified by villages, exhibited the power of water in converting sterility into wealth.
The Government House was erected upon one of these flat-topped hills in a direct line about 1900 yards from the nearest portion of Lefkosia.
We also heard that Miranda struck from the west end of the Sierra Ventana, in a direct line to the island of Cholechel, situated seventy leagues up the Rio Negro.
It runs in a winding course through a valley, which extends in a direct line westward.
I threw one several times as far as I could, into a deep pool left by the retiring tide; but it invariably returned in a direct line to the spot where I stood.
This bearing, which was S 35 degrees 00 minutes E by compass, gave, with the latitude observed on each, the distance between the two hills about eighteen miles in a direct line.
They frequent retired and inaccessible parts of the interior; have been seen to run remarkably fast, but their tails are so cumbrous that they cannot fly in a direct line.
Not direct; not straight or rectilinear; deviating from a direct line or course; circuitous; as, an indirect road.
To turn from a direct line or course; to bend; to incline, to deflect; to curve; to bow.
Defn: To turn from a direct line; to give an oblique or sloping direction to; as, to slant a line.
When a cannon–ball at full speed strikes in direct line a part of the body, it carries away all before it.
Spencer's Gulf, in a direct line, and I should have given that as the distance the hills appeared to be from us.
We were still between eighty and ninety miles from Pondebadgery, in a direct line, and nearly treble that distance by water.
We calculated having proceeded from 28 to 30 miles, though, perhaps, not more than half that distance in a direct line.
How far we had advanced, in a direct line, is very questionable.
The track of discovery is conspicuously marked by these excavations, which often extend, in a direct line, on the cardinal points, as far as the eye can reach.
The trap-dyke of Keweena crosses this river about ten miles, in a direct line, inland.
Could the waters of this river be conducted in a canal along its valley from the portage to the bend at Arena, they might, from this point, be deflected in a direct line to Galena.
This chapel is the successor, in a direct line, of the first building ever erected in the Orchard.
The Khauser winds round the eastern base of Kouyunjik, and leaving it near the angle occupied by the ruins of the palace, runs in a direct line to the Tigris.
We rode in a direct line to the Belled Sinjar, the residence of the governor of the district.
From Amikh I rode across the country in a direct line to the monastery of Yedi Klissia, whose gardens on the side of the lofty mountain of Wurrak are visible from most parts of the plain.
They were now over 500 miles from the Lodge in a direct line, and three of the eleven dogs were thoroughly exhausted.
He again reached the Nile, having crossed the peninsula in a direct line, at Shendi.
The nearest aqueous rocks that I know of are the conglomerate sandstone and sedimentary limestone, in the vicinity of the Warm Springs, fifteen miles distant in a direct line.
In coming from Dahlonega to this place, I have travelled in a zigzag course upwards of four hundred miles, but the intervening distance, in a direct line, would not measure more than two hundred.
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