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Example sentences for "distant view"

  • Their appearance in distant view is singularly picturesque, perched lightly upon the pinnacles of towering cliffs, beetling over the flood, which rushes along two hundred feet below.

  • For beauty of outline in distant view, St. Louis is deservedly famed.

  • He passed much of the week he was shut up in the ship in her topmast-cross-trees, vainly examining the sea to leeward, in the hope of catching a distant view of the pinnace endeavouring to bear up through the reefs.

  • But, as the boat drew near, the fluttering of female dresses was seen, and then his unerring glass let him get a distant view of the sweet face of his young wife.

  • A little farther one gets the best distant view of Silbury Hill--one which shows its artificial character and true shape to great advantage.

  • This was again rebuilt during the fifteenth century, which period also saw the rise of the western tower that graces every distant view of the town.

  • King as Hercules warding off with his hand Hydra with seven human heads; above, hand with thunder; distant view of Windsor Castle.

  • My spirits were wonderfully elated: the grand sea scenery and fine bracing air; the noble, distant view of the city, rising with its harbor and shipping, all filled me with delight.

  • On the 30th we left the encampment at our accustomed early hour, and at eight o'clock were cheered by a distant view of the Rocky Mountains.

  • Illustration: Distant View of the Rocky Mountains] [127] See Humb.

  • We were marching forward at half-past five, and in an hour and a half we caught a distant view of our old familiar Frank mountain, which was lost again afterwards.

  • Had a distant view of a Beni Sukh'r encampment to our right.

  • Distant view of Writers' Buildings, taken before the Dalhousie Institute was built.

  • From Reading we follow the Thames River road, which for some miles skirts the very shore of the historic stream and passes within a distant view of the towers of Windsor, rising in all their romantic majesty against the sunset sky.

  • Illustration: Distant View of the Claudia Aqueduct] Thirteen years after the Julia, the Virgo aqueduct was built.

  • Entrance from Hackney, or Cambridge Heath Turnpike, with a distant view of St. Paul's, i.

  • This caricature pictures the hustings at Covent Garden, with a distant view of Richmond Hill.

  • Entrance from Hackney or Cambridge Heath Turnpike, with a distant view of St. Paul's.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bluish gray; distant about; distant country; distant land; distant lands; distant objects; distant parts; distant places; distant point; distant points; distant relation; distant relative; distant thunder; hundred dirhems; larger quantities; like lightning; made thee; shedding tears; surgical treatment; sweet smile; take cognizance; thence south; various names; wealth and; wild sheep; winter visitor