That was one astronomical unit, equal to about 93 million miles, the distance from earth to the sun.
Now that he was closer and the charge had less distance to travel, he had overestimated the sun’s effect.
They would cover perhaps three-fourths of that distance before Koa fired the charge.
Listen, you will reach optimum position on the time-distance curve at twenty-three-oh-six.
They ran forward a short distance until they could see below the cave’s horizon level.
There is then too great a distance between prince and people and the State lacks a bond of union.
For somedistance round the column is laid the asphaltum pavement.
So the two went into the cave, and they had proceeded but a short distance when they met a very little creature, whom it was easy to recognize as a Very Imp.
It's a shorterdistance to the port we started from than to the one we are going to, and if we turn back now, I am sure we all shall be on shore before the holidays.
Around him were beautiful lawns, grand trees, and lovely gardens; while at a little distance stood the stately palace of the Lord of the Domain.
The Stranger, who was very anxious to see what curiosity he had found, followed him some distance along a narrow and winding under-ground passage.
They soon entered the village, and after walking a short distance the youth exclaimed: "Do you see that woman over there sitting at the door of her house?
The Jolly-cum-pop soon set out again, but he walked a long distance without seeing any person or any house.
At easy shouting distance behind him walked one of the officers of the court, and at shouting distance behind him walked another, and so on at distances of about a hundred yards from each other.
But when he had crossed the bridge over the brook, and gone a short distance up the hill-side, he became very tired, and sat down upon a stone.
When he first caught sight of them, he was very much surprised to see that they were resting upon the ground quite a long distance apart, with a little stream between them.
A long, long distance from the town, in the midst of dreadful wilds scarcely known to man, there dwelt the Griffin whose image had been put up over the church-door.
The Minor Canon, therefore, walked back, the Griffin flying slowly through the air, at a short distance above the head of his guide.
The Prince, who was plainly visible only a short distance ahead, was so pleasantly employed that he had not noticed the approach of the ship.
Thinking that he was as likely to find what he sought in one place as another, and preferring the shade to the sun, he entered the forest, and walked for some distance along a path which gradually led up the mountain.
Looking back toward the river he could see Mrs. Cavers kneeling beside her husband, and even at that distance he fancied he could see Bill's dead face looking into hers, and begging her to understand.
Mash followed at a short distance behind, not because she did not think herself fully as good as Miss Philomela, but because she wished to indulge unchecked in the mild luxury of tears.
Here the boat came into the slip, and, after bumping in an uncertain way against the piles on either side, neared almost within leaping distance of the wharf.
The seats thus procured were some distance apart; and so the three companions were precluded from conversing with each other.
Seeing you at your window, smoking and reading, day after day, while I was smoking and musing at mine, I gradually came to sympathize with you, and to wish that the distance across the lots was short enough to allow us to converse.
It is the spot where the ardent huntsman of Love pauses to look back, and ceases to bend his longing gaze into the distance beyond.
Here," said Patching, "you are at about the same distance from the desert as the front row of spectators will be.
The sound was very plain, sir, because the bell tower is only a short distance from here, you know.
If his panorama was to be a hopeless failure at the very outset, Tiffles wanted to be within striking distance of New York.
I wouldn't work on his road for a farm down East--not if my job took me within cussing distanceof him.
And then, to the full as savagely: "By Heaven, I hope that train will fly the track and ditch him before eveh he comes within ordering distance of the work in Qua'tz Creek Canyon!
Now, let's step off a distance and take a good look at James Quincy Holden and see where he lacks the necessary ingredients.
Even within a very short distance of the manor-house you could see nothing of it; so thick and dark grew the timber of the gloomy wood about it.
Whenever I see Florence and Julia again I shall feel like a fond but bashful suitor, who views at a distancethe fair personage to whom, in his clownish awe, he dare not risk a near approach.
I fancy I begin to perceive the reason of this mighty distance and reserve; it sometimes makes me laugh, and at other times nearly cry.
Once, as they passed a poplar, one shadow disengaged itself from the trunk, and at a distance followed them.
The room seemed to Andrew to be closing in around him, and out of its dwindling distance floated her face, more beautiful than he had ever seen it, but very pale and with eyes wide and startled.
From the distance had come the yelp of a signalled locomotive, and then a dozen short, choking pants, as it dragged the reluctant train into motion.
The Triftjoch view is one of the best arranged, because the gap you pass through is so narrow, and the distance is beheld as it were in a frame of rocks, which form a foreground.
Behind, you look straight away to some far distance with nothing to interrupt the vision.
Two recorded parties had preceded us for a certain distance up this valley, and their ghosts alone peopled the solitude, but not a trace had they left upon the surface of the ground discoverable by us.
Moreover, the distance to which the sight penetrates, the area over which it ranges, bears some moderate proportion to the size of the mountain-masses included in it.
Usually one looks up or down such faces, or, being actually upon them, can only look a short distanceto right or left.
For sheer impressiveness of effect from a distance it cannot enter into serious competition with the Aiguille du Dru.
The snowy regions beheld from a distance puzzle him.
Thus the near view fixes your attention in one direction, the remote distance in the other.
Our forefathers generally looked at them from a distance and thought of them as a whole, seldom doing more than to identify here and there a single individual from the mass.
Some distance further round was another group formed of peaks as various as are the Alps.
I see but one effectual plan to prevent this rupture taking place, and that is to fix the residence of the Convention, and of the future assemblies, at a distancefrom Paris.
How France will proceed with respect to England, I am not, at this distance from Paris, in the way of knowing, but am inclined to think she meditates a descent upon that Country, and a revolution in its Government.
France and England stand now at such a distance that neither can propose any thing to the other, neither are there any neutral powers to act as mediators.
The two Emperors are at too great a distance in objects and in colour to have any intercourse but by Fire and Sword, yet something I think might be done.
She retires to a distance to weep, and the ebony sceptre of Despair rules alone.
Emerson may have been reading Paine's idea that Christ and the Twelve were mythically connected with Sun and Zodiac, this speculation being an indication of their distance from the Jesus he tenderly revered.
His first attempt was successful, and in the presence of thousands of spectators he leaped from the scaffold to which we have directed the attention of the reader, a distance of 100 feet, into the abyss, in safety.
At the distance of six miles from its mouth are falls of 96 feet, and one mile higher up, other falls of 75 feet.
They gave a loud shout when they saw him; the distance between the boats was very little; and as Errington's moved away, the pursuers came on with redoubled energy.
Having purchased the silence of the inn-keeper, Burroughs borrowed a sampan from him; and as soon as darkness fell over the river, the two servants towed the hydroplane down the creek and for some distance up stream.
He was quaking in his shoes; but the boat, instead of coming directly towards him, passed by at a distance of some thirty yards, and disappeared.
But he felt somewhat surprised that it had been found at such a distance up the river.
The hydroplane was thus towed up until the port had been left some distance behind.
The pirates paddled on a short distance further, then stopped, yelling with rage, and firing after their quarry with blind fury.
The river was crowded with various craft of the insurgents, and some distancedown stream the launch on which the Europeans had been placed was puffing towards Sui-Fu.
The yamen was at some distance from the landing-stage, and the labyrinth of narrow ways by which Burroughs had come to it would puzzle anybody but a Chinaman acquainted with the town.
The inn stood on a slight eminence, from which the river could be seen for some distance in each direction.
The journey offered an opportunity of testing it over a longer distance and in deeper water than hitherto, so Burroughs was nothing loath to accept his friend's invitation to accompany him, and took a day off for the purpose.
He had reasons of his own for maintaining cordial relations with Errington, and reflected that even at a distance he could still find means of looking after him.
Suddenly their attention was attracted by a continuous whistling, evidently from the siren of a steamer some distancedown stream.
A tree-clad bluff hid them for another minute; as soon as the boat again came into the open, a third shot fell some distance ahead, and the gunboat was rapidly overhauling them.
In this they failed, for, the distance being fully five hundred yards, the natives evidently believed that it was impossible for a ball to tell at such a distance.
One vineyard lay at Immenstadt, somedistance to the South, and thus Ellenbog at Isny was already part way thither.
The roads in Bohemia might be dangerous, but the distance to Louvain was not so great as it had seemed at first; for Erasmus' reply is dated 1 Nov.
Twenty-five women had taken shelter in a cavern at some distance from the town.
From Southern Germany, too, and Switzerland and Austria, the distance was small, notwithstanding the obvious Alps and the difficulties of the passes.
From the octagon tower, Mackershaw Lodge and Wood are seen to great advantage; and from the Gothic temple, the dilapidated abbey is an object of striking solemnity; whilst an opening in the distance shows the venerable towers of Ripon Minster.
At one time during his first college days, he had saved the lives of some young folks when their canoe capsized a long distance from shore.
Come again, when you have more time to poke around," said he, as he stood on the doorstep watching them walk towards the car which was waiting a short distance down the street.
And this gigantic mass of ice, still glittering in the sun-rays, toppled down until she heard the crash and roar and felt the earth shake under her feet even at that great distance from the Peak that the ranch was.
But the distance was not great enough to quiet her before they got to hard turnpike and young plantations.
There are in Paris five national lycees, besides the lyceum at Vanves, situated at a little distance to the south of the capital, at what was once the villa of the prince de Conde, on the Vaugirard route.
As we pass through the little hamlet which marks the first quarter of our allotted distance we instinctively pull out our watches: "Ten miles in two hours!
It has been proposed to construct a new and immense cemetery at a distance of some twenty or thirty miles from the city, to which the funeral corteges could be transferred by rail.
When I first made the acquaintance of Viborg, a journey thither from St. Petersburg, though the distanceby land is only about eighty miles, was no light undertaking.
Miss Fleming observed with amusement that the seat given her removed her to the farthest distance from this door.
Under more favourable circumstances, we might possibly have seen Teneriffe from the Volage, for our distance was not above a hundred miles.
For every degree the ship changes her longitude south of the Line she sails a shorter distance along the great circle than on any other curve; for on the parallel of 60° thirty miles corresponds to a distance of sixty at the equator.
The pleasant Trade, which had wafted us with different degrees of velocity, over a distance of more than a thousand miles, at last gradually failed.
But scarcely had we gained the distance of two or three hundred yards from the shore when the heavy guns of the batteries began to fire a royal salute.
Steadily the distance increased between the two ships, and before night came, the last trace of the frigate was discerned from the mast head, disappearing over the horizon.
Instantly his helmet was raised--a little handkerchief fluttered for a moment in the breeze, and gradually the distance widened between them.
The drivers had covered more than half the distance to the proposed camp when they reached the top of a long ridge stretching out on either side.
Colonels Mason and Battersby stood a short distance away watching the evolutions, which had already commenced.
Mink would run in and out among the boulders, sometimes brought down by a soldier's gun, but more frequently lost in a hole in the ice, to reappear next minute when distance lent safety to the view.
When within hailing distance they shouted for help.
Suddenly the howling, which had been circling in the distance the whole of the night, concentrated in one direction, and gradually the sounds grew louder and the tones clearer.
But the distance was too great for many of the balls to be effective.
But on the next day, they were in the long harbor, and passing McNab, they saw in the distance the little city of Halifax.
Did it never strike you that distance itself might fan the flame of love.
That the Delaware was injured was evident, for although continuing to fire, she tacked again and put on full sail to increase the distance between herself and the British ship.
With her stern to her foe, her men were taking in sail to diminish the intervening distance and make the shot more telling.
After walking some little distancein silence Oaklands again addressed me:-- "Frank, did you ever play at billiards?
After remaining in this position a few seconds, she suddenly laid back her ears, and, showing the whites of her eyes, ran at Wilford with her mouth wide open, and as soon as she got within distance made a ferocious bite at him.
After walking some distance in silence Oaklands exclaimed abruptly: "It must be so!
Cut off at a distance of 1/16-inch from the lines, and work up to the lines with a file, finishing by rubbing the ends on a piece of emery cloth resting on a hard, true surface.
A square nick is cut in it at such a distance from a that, when the wire spike on C is in the nick, the strip is held clear of T2.
Omitting the end ones for the present, lay the remainder up to one another in order, their ends an equal distance from the frame, and nail to the frame.
You will now be able to measure off exactly the distance between the centres of the valve-rod fork pin and the rear screw of the eccentric.
A 1-1/2-inch drum, D, is placed on the top of A to collect the steam at a gooddistance from the water.
The pin is situated at such a distance from the axle of the cog wheel that a quarter of a revolution suffices to move the points over.
Pull the plunger out till 1-3/4 inches project, turn the crank full forward, and measure off the distance between the centres of the plunger hole and the crank pin.
Their width is the distancebetween the bent-down pieces CC of Fig.
Turn the crank pin full forward, pull the piston rod out as far as it will come, measure the distance between pin centres very carefully, and transfer it to a piece of paper.
There is plenty of scope for adjustment, as the wheels can be shifted in either direction longitudinally, while the distance between wheel and armature centres may be further modified in the length of the bearings, BE.
If tests show that the top runs quite vertically, the distance might be reduced to half, as the smaller it is the more effect will the steam jets have.
When fixing the sides to the bottom and top get the distance correct by placing the top and bottom drawers in position, and insert a piece of thin card between one end of the drawer and the side.
The distance may be increased to a foot, Or even more if weight-saving is an object.
It was a day of thaw, nothing to be heard from a distance but the swish of curling-stones through water on Rashie-bog, where the match for the eldership was going on.
The earl and McKenzie would be some distance still from the hill when the office-bearers had scoured it in vain for their minister.
He did not press me further, thinking I meant that the distance was too great, though frailer folk than I walked twenty miles to hear him.
We were already some distance on our way before I repeated my question.
From this we see that the shock he had got carried him somedistance before he knew that he had left the school-house.
We halved the distance and then I saw her at the open window.
Already the old woman was unpacking her box, to increase the distance between herself and the poorhouse.
Since that time chains have been hung across the Loups to reduce the distance between the farms of Carwhimple and Keep-What-You-Can from a mile to a hundred yards.
The distance is half a mile, and the time he took was two hours.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "distance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
