The next day, early in the morning, the colonel came to the coffee- house and sent for his friend, who lodged but at a little distance.
Upon which, Booth, casting his eyes over the grass, saw a foot-soldier shaking the boy at a little distance.
This conversation past at a little distance, and out of the hearing of the supposed Amelia; when Booth, looking stedfastly at the lady, declared with an oath that he was positive the colonel was in the right.
Quite a long while went by before, glancing behind me, I saw that the oxen that had been grazing at a little distance had at length arrived and were being inspanned in furious haste.
Hearing a horse snort at a little distance, I made my way towards the sound and in a little bay of the overhanging cliff discovered the cart and near by our beasts tied up with a plentiful supply of forage.
As it chances, since then I passed the place where the Temple stood, though at a little distance.
Swallowing his coffee in a hurry, he took his place at a little distance from us, and stood there in a statuesque pose.
Indeed if their heads had been laid side by side at a little distance, it would not have been too easy to tell them apart with their projecting brows, beardless, retreating chins and yellow tushes at the corners of the mouth.
Here all our belongings, including the guns which we had collected just before the slaves ran away, were placed in one of the huts over which a Mazitu mounted guard, the donkeys being tied to the fence at a little distance.
On the 21st of July, as they were pursuing their course through one of the meadows of the Sweet Water, they beheld a horse grazing at a little distance.
A sentinel was immediately detached, to post himself at a little distance on their trail, and give the alarm, should he see or hear an enemy.
A little distance beyond it, also, herds of buffalo were to be met with, Out of range of danger.
When I had come nearly parallel with the commencement of this precipice, I saw on the left-hand side of the road two children looking over a low wall behind which at a little distance stood a wretched hovel.
At length, after passing through a gate and turning round a sharp corner, I suddenly beheld Hafod on my right hand, to the west at a little distance above me, on a rising ground, with a noble range of mountains behind it.
I left Hollyoake Square in a direction which led to some fields a little distance on.
As his subject Crows gazed on the affray from a little distance, Mr. Stuart ordered his men to level their rifles at them, but not to fire.
The smoke had risen from his encampment which took fire while he was at a little distance from it fishing.
Arthur Berkeley, fearful of what might happen to him in his present excited state, stole out after him quietly, and followed him unperceived in another hansom at a little distance.
As for Herbert, he merely bowed to him politely from a little distance; and Herbert, who had picked up at once with a Polish exile in a corner, returned the bow frigidly without coming up to the host himself at all for a moment's welcome.
In figure she was rather small than short, for though she was but a wee thing, her form was so exactly and delicately modelled that she might have looked tall if she stood alone at a little distance.
Presently the black foliage parted, and a man stepped forth, followed at a little distance by seven or eight others.
He examined the fields and forest for a little distance to see if any ambushed foe might still lie among them, but all the while the flame and smoke behind him were rising higher.
The darkness settled down thicker and thicker; the blackness in the forest was intense, and they could see the faces of one another only at a little distance.
He looked around angrily, and confronted Edward Eustis, who, seeing Phil's trouble from a little distance, had at once come to his rescue.
They walked on, but Pietro followed at a little distance.
So he rose from the seat, and withdrew to a little distance, Tim Rafferty following, for, though he cared little at first, he now felt determined to try the fiddle.
A little distance ahead of us were some boys throwing sticks in the water for two Newfoundland dogs.
Another way was to fix a bait in a certain place, with cords tied to it, which cords were fastened to triggers of guns placed at a little distance.
All this time, as I went through the wood, I was haunted with the feeling that other shapes, more like my own size and mien, were moving about at a little distance on all sides of me.
At a little distance in the field, I saw two of my brothers at play.
Moreover, he could bring her to him from a little distance.
When they came too near the Makalanga fired on them, killing some, so that they retreated to the camp, which they had made in a fold of ground at a little distance.
Like shipwrecked sailors, they put on what they can find on the beach, and at a little distance, whether of space or time, laugh at each other's masquerade.
In clear weather, in summer, they appear blue at a little distance, especially if agitated, and at a great distance all appear alike.
On the third evening she came and sat by Orme for awhile, her attendants standing at a little distance.
All this while Sergeant Quick was engaged at a little distance in washing up the tin breakfast things, to all appearance quite unconscious of what was going on.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "little distance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
