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Example sentences for "not far from the"

  • On a certain bench on the outer boulevard, not far from the tomb of Napoleon, a bench shaded at that date by a shabby tree, and commanding a view of muddy roadway and blank wall, I sat down to wrestle with my misery.

  • A good breeze, which had risen with the sea, carried us triumphantly through the intricacies of the passage; and we had soon brought up not far from the landing-stairs.

  • In the forest by the river Gudenau, not far from the heath, and beneath the ridge of land, stood the little farm, newly painted and whitewashed.

  • Without, not far from the house, is a hill covered with red-thorn and broom.

  • Not far from the Devil's jumps is that singular place which resembles a sugar-loaf inverted, hollowed out, and an outside rim only left.

  • It is situate on two rivers, the Orontes and the Phaspar, not far from the Mediterranean; refuses to admit the fugitives after the battle of Pharsalia, C.

  • Aquileia, formerly a famous and considerable city of Italy, not far from the Adriatic, now little more than a heap of ruins, Aquilegia.

  • Now Abram dwelt near the oak called Ogyges,--the place belongs to Canaan, not far from the city of Hebron.

  • At last they attacked him at Golamb, not far from the junction of the Vyepr and the Vistula.

  • At Oderberg, not far from the junction of the Olsha with the Odra, they entered Moravia.

  • In the inmost recesses of this coppice, not far from the eastern or more remote end of the island, Legrand had built himself a small hut, which he occupied when I first, by mere accident, made his acquaintance.

  • Whoever is in this frame of mind is pronounced by Jesus to be not far from the kingdom of God.

  • The armies met in the forest of Ephraim, not far from the Jordan.

  • Not far from the shore a rock rises steeply to the height of about 200 feet.

  • Lartet, however, has recently published a circumstantial account of what seems clearly to have been a sepulchral vault of the Pleistocene period, near Aurignac, not far from the foot of the Pyrenees.

  • Not far from the barracks is a steam-engine, which conveys the water from the river into the city, at the same time that it moves a mill.

  • We passed over the lake, scarcely half a mile wide, in a wherry, and landed on the other shore, not far from the ruins of Fort Ticonderoga.

  • Not far from the river we beheld several buildings appointed for the popular assembly of the Indians, called the big talk.

  • Not far from the river, on an eminence, are the remains of a very small work, called the great English redoubt.

  • In a tavern on the Levee, there was a collection of fossil bones, which had been dug out of a swamp, not far from the mouth of the Mississippi, the preceding year, and must have belonged to a colossal amphibious animal.

  • At the head of the market-place, not far from the king's enclosure, fifteen stout posts had been planted on as many mounds.

  • Not far from the door of this house a fat, middle-aged and angry-looking man was seated on a stool, naked except for a moocha of catskins about his loins and a string of large blue beads round his neck.

  • These huts were situated in the Soldiers' Quarter, not far from the king's house and surrounded by an inner fence to keep them private.

  • Not far from the ford we passed the beautiful farm "Zevenfontein" of Mr. Jacobus Swanepoel.

  • That night we encamped at Klerkespruit, not far from the dwelling of the late M.

  • Imseng took a place by my side, between me and the window, whilst Christian perched himself on the coil of rope with his back to the wall, not far from the door, and between it and the window.

  • The two were walking along, not far from the edge of this precipice, when the Englishman, thinking that an easier path might be made by going still nearer the edge, diverged a little from his companion's track.

  • The building now called Scuola di Cicerone is not far from the ruins of the western gate of Tusculum.

  • This temple could not have stood in the Forum of Trajan, where there was no room left for such a building, and would most probably be placed near the rest of the Antonine buildings, not far from the Column of M.

  • Not far from the Sessorium, and springing out of the angle of the wall close to the Porta Maggiore, a series of lofty arches begins which extends throughout the whole length of the Caelian Hill.

  • Not far from the cup, on the smooth, still green envelope of the acorn a little point is visible; a tiny needle-prick.

  • At the southern foot of the hills of Sérignan, not far from the village, is a wood of maritime pines alternating with rows of cypress.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    associate member; not allowed; not care; not dead; not enough; not fear; not good; not his; not know what you; not much; not only; not speak; not the first time; not there; not uncommon; not understand; nota bene; note that; note the; nothing doing; nothing else but the; nothing loth; nothing should; nothing that; nothing will; notwithstanding his