As to the colours of objects: at long distances no difference is perceptible in the parts in shadow.
Launched on the currents of the upper air, the dust was swiftly carried westward to long distances.
Domes of gentle slope, as those of Hawaii, for example, are formed of basalt, which flows to long distances before it congeals.
Some of these were deposited behind the ice front in ice-walled channels, some at the edge of the glaciers by issuing streams, and others were spread to long distances in front of the ice edge by glacial waters as they flowed away.
Railways had not yet made it easy for every one to go long distances by means of reduced fares and cheap circular tickets.
Our knees were so weak that we fell many times and rolled down long distances on that steep incline.
They could carry heavy weights for long distances by means of a fibre headband resting on the forehead.
But experiment, or observation verging into experiment, is often possible at long distances as well.
THE CARP Another fish which will live for quite a long time out of the water is the carp, which has often been conveyed for long distances packed in wet moss.
But soon after sunset it leaves its retreat, and wanders to long distances in search of the roots, bark, etc.
Peccaries will eat almost any kind of food, and though they live as a rule in the thickest parts of the forests, they will often wander to long distances in order to feed upon the crops in cultivated ground.
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