The dethroned monarch took refuge in a distant country, and lived in concealment until Jason was old enough to be sent to some place of greater safety, for they knew that the cruel Pelias would try to seek him out and kill him.
When the ancients looked each evening at the glowing west, they pictured it as a far-distant country, more wonderful than any ever seen by mortal eyes.
The magistrate then ordered them both to be put on board a ship, and carried to a distant country, which was inhabited by a rude and savage kind of men, who lived in huts, were strangers to riches, and got their living by fishing.
I am sure my brother was; but soon after that he left home for a distant country, and our shooting and other adventures together were ended for ever.
England purchased for some of her subjects, who found themselves uneasy at home, a great estate in a distant country.
At length I resolved to quit my native city, and seek for subsistence in a distant country as clerk to a merchant, or in any other way that might offer.
On that day a eunuch came to acquaint him with the arrival of a certain merchant from a distant country, who, having brought a slave with him, desired leave to shew her to his majesty.
Army, three different ways by which a nation may maintain one in a distant country, 178.
When they went back for a wedding visit to Peggy's mother, they found she had taken all the gold and silver and moved away to a distant country; and they never saw the wicked woman more.
For six months nothing was heard of the unfortunate Sybilla, till one day three young princes, travelling from a distant country in search of adventure, found a wounded carrier-pigeon on the road.
This very night must we steal away, and seek our fortune in a distant country.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "distant country" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
