But the task which seems easy at a distance, proves as difficult, upon a nearer approach, as the fording of a river, which from afar appeared only a brook.
On a nearer approach, however, it appeared again as if studded with stars.
On a nearer approach, the phantom disappeared and a clear and open sea again presented itself to our view.
On a nearer approach, a long and wide reach of the Rhone, winding round the base of this noble pile, and reflecting its figure in a deep mirror, adds greatly to its effect.
On a nearer approach, the appearance of Mount Olympus is not nearly so grand as when viewed from a distance.
Our journey was a rapid one; at ten o'clock in the morning we were already at Feldvar, a place which seems at a distance to be of some magnitude, but which melts away like a soap- bubble on a nearer approach.
Viewed from a distance, Beyrout has a striking effect, a circumstance I had remarked on my first arrival there from Constantinople; but it loses considerably on a nearer approach.
In this work the painter has gained a nearer approach to female beauty than in any other fresco which I have seen.
Would Mr. Mueller add, "I simply say that in the arts and political society of the Vedic age we have a nearer approach to a beginning than in the arts and society of Hottentots and Bushmen"?
Once more, and by a nearer approach to what is probably the truth, the beast-gods were said to be survivals of the badges (representing animals) of various tribal companies in the forces of Osiris.
For though some partitions were seen, from space to space, which made it look like the latter, a multitude of shoals rendered a nearer approach to it exceedingly dangerous, if not impracticable.
The land of the cape, when at a distance from it, appeared to be an island disjoined from the other; but, on a nearer approach, we found it connected by a low neck of land.
This, upon a nearer approach, we found to be an island of about two leagues in extent, in the direction of N.
Next day but one we again discovered a sail, which, on a nearer approach, we judged to be the same vessel.
The next day but one we again discovered a sail, which on a nearer approach we judged to be the same vessel.
More and more convinced that his design was to obtain a nearer approach, with a view to a more certain aim, he suddenly halted, and raised the musket to his shoulder.
Thus a connected solid field of ice, rendering every effort we could make to a nearer approach to the land fruitless, and joining as we judged to it, we took a last farewell of a N.
The weather still thickening, and preventing a nearer approach to the land, at five we steered E.
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