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Example sentences for "distant land"

  • In a distant land he will wed another, whilst I shall know no wish that strays from him.

  • And, as the whole kingdom was ravaged, I went to a distant land accompanied by them, and remained there a month only supporting myself by menial drudgery.

  • Spare me, I will not reveal your secret; I will go to a distant land.

  • And she thought, "I will say in a few days 'she died of herself during her husband's absence in a distant land, take her corpse away.

  • She is now working among sailors at Cape Town; but the Lord has proved in this instance, as in many others, that when His summons to a distant land is obeyed, the work at home will not be suffered to languish.

  • How precious in His sight, none can tell but He who watched over those young wanderers, and surrounded them with the loving care and prayers which still follow them to a distant land.

  • Still the vessel bore The wanderer onward from his native shore, Till in a distant land he lonely stood 'Midst city crowds in more than solitude.

  • There's a ship in the Tay on the rising tide-- She has come that day from a distant land; The captain stands there the helm beside, A telescope holding in his left hand.

  • I was strengthened to stand up and to open to my dear friends the service on my mind for the Lord my God in a distant land.

  • While these afflictive dispensations are meted out, my spirit dwells in the great depths of self-abasedness, and bears upon it too the burden of a Saviour's love to sinners in a far-distant land.

  • He told me to-day that he had been thinking I had a prospect of some service in a distant land, and wished to know if I thought of such a thing.

  • He resolved to risk all, and to settle with the Prince in this far-distant land.

  • The dog of a Pale-face will see them no more," replied the savage, as he buried his tomahawk in the skull of the unfortunate nobleman, who was thus doomed to meet with an inglorious death in a distant land.

  • To drag on a wretched life as a felon, and to live and die, no one knows how or cares, and then to lie in a felon's grave in a distant land!

  • But he is gone to a distant land, and neither you nor I, Will, shall see him again.

  • And, bringers of joy, shall we journey into many a distant land, Where the folk weep sore for our losing, and shall greet us with outstretched hand!

  • Then all with one voice they spake there--He had won for himself such fame And had wrought such brave deeds of knighthood in many a distant land, That his fame o'er the fame of all others did high and unspotted stand.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    aged fifty; common speech; comparatively rare; distant about; distant cousin; distant land; distant lands; distant objects; distant part; distant period; distant places; distant point; distant relation; distant view; economic value; feme sole; good deeds; induction from; inferior quality; minced onion; shall also the coming; the word; thought perhaps; thousand acres; what had been done; yellow stain