He then asked what they sought at so great a distance from home?
Other travellers are mentioned as having gathered specimens in Africa, but it is not specified whether these plants were cultivated or wild at a distance from habitations.
With many other cultivated species, it is hard to distinguish the individuals of wild origin from those which the chance transport of seeds has produced at a distance from dwellings.
We made our way at last as well as we could out of the woods, and struck the shore a quarter of an hour's distance from where we began to climb up.
I am very grateful for your constant and continued kindness: you may rely upon it that if not immediately responded to it is because my time is so much occupied at a distance from my Residence.
He is at present at a distance from London, and he will be detained at Walmer Castle by business in this part of the county for more than a fortnight.
But I cannot prevent this now that my Duties and avocations call me to a distance from London!
We should little expect that a popish privy council, in order to preserve the king's morals, should order his confessor to be kept at a distance from him.
The eccentricity of the orbit of Mars is the cause also of his great variations in distance from us, and hence of his extreme changes in brilliancy.
Human nature, when it will not receive advice, is like a stony plain without grass, animals will not approach, all remain at a distance from it.
And do you not associate and communicate with bad men, but remove to a distance from them.
Those who only know the neighborhood of St. Asaph from traveling along its highways, can be little aware how much delightful scenery is attainable within walks of two or three miles' distance from Mrs. Hemans's residence.
It stands, perhaps, at half the elevation of Professor Wilson's house at Elleray, and not at such a distance from Windermere, and nearer to Lowood inn than to Ambleside.
Then, said Lois to herself, it is best to keep at a distance from temptation.
Lois had taken scarce any part in the conversation; her place at table put her at a distance from Mr. Caruthers; and after those few first words she had been able to keep very quiet, as her wish was.
I suppose it was for that reason Lois went off to a distance from home to teach a district school.
But now, I am at such a distance from her--is not it hard, Miss Woodhouse?
The very thing that we have always been rather afraid of; for we should not have liked to have her at such a distance from us, for months together--not able to come if any thing was to happen.
The delightful family party which Emma was securing for herself, poor Harriet must, in mere charitable caution, be kept at a distance from.
But Caleb got married, and resolved to leave the old farm at Bishop to take a better place at a distance from home, at Warminster, which had been offered him.
And no person, I imagine, wants to see it; for it has no special attraction and is away from any road, at a distance from everywhere.
This was a great disappointment to the farmer: he had gone a distance from home to secure a good shepherd, and had hoped to keep him permanently, and now after a single year he was going to lose him.
Santillana contains four thousand inhabitants, and is six short leagues' distance from Santander, where we arrived early the next day.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "distance from" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
