In order to understand the peculiar perils which our army had to encounter, it is necessary to observe that Cape Coast Castle stands near the sea, and that the town is built on the west side of it, at a short distance from the beach.
On landing in the neighbourhood of our market, he was seized, conducted a short distance from the beach, and surrounded by an immense crowd of the natives.
Halting at daybreak a short distance from the river, he waited until night fell again before resuming his march.
On the evening of the 11th, they were both driven away, by a heavy force of infantry and cavalry, but, reinforced by Gano, checked the enemy a short distance from the town.
At a short distance from the camp I discovered a large buck passing slowly between myself and the camp, at about pistol-shot distance.
The captain of the cavalry, hearing the continuous firing, immediately returned with his command, and at once a fierce battle took place a short distance from the ranch.
They went on, therefore, with renewed hope, and on the evening of the third day met an Otoe Indian, who informed them they were but a short distance from the Missouri.
At three quarters of an hour from Ezzehhoue, to the left of our route, is the Tel Ettouahein, an insulated hill in the plain, into which the road descends at a short distance from the village.
This river empties itself, at a short distance from the town, into the Wady Zerka [Arabic], probably the Jabock of the ancients.
A little thicket of dead and withered trees, a short distance from the road, and sufficiently open to assure us that no listener was near, was the place of our assemblage.
Captain Lyons of the Raith of Leith, while prosecuting the whale-fishery on the Labrador coast, in the season of 1802, discovered a large whale at a short distance from the ship.
A cutter speedily followed, and both anchored at a short distance from the wreck.
One evening, when the Indian was returning from some neighbouring plantation, the Mexican laid down in some bushes at a short distance from the road, and moaned as if in the greatest pain.
There are probably in and about this city, at a short distance from the river, not far from thirty thousand of these warlike fanatics, and it is but a year since they have settled in the Illinois.
The gentlemen entered the palace, and Matteo, who had remained respectfully at a short distance from the seniors, at once joined his friend.
Francis, with his party, followed the line of the coast, ascending the hills which rose steeply from the edge of the sea at a short distance from the town.
As Francis had expected, he did not make towards the village, but kept along the island at a short distance from the edge of the water.
We anchored that night a short distance from the town, for there were no Turkish ships of war there.
This proved to be the case, and before it became dark the brig was anchored in a bay on the Asiatic side a short distance from the entrance.
The canoe was found very useful in conveying them on shore, while the pinnace brought up a short distance from the beach.
The pinnace was accordingly steered into the bay, and anchored a short distance from the shore.
As they approached, Billy's sharp eyes detected some cocoanuts growing on several tall trees a short distance from the beach; these would afford them food till more substantial fare could be obtained.
They had got but a short distance from the camp, when they passed a party of men carrying stretchers, on each of which was laid a human form, the rigid outline of the features and feet showing through the blanket shroud.
In the field, a short distance from the spot, the pickets were still firing shots.
A short distance from the entrance, inside of the Union fortifications, a vertical shaft was sunk, in which a fire was kept constantly burning, to produce ventilation.
Look there," he suddenly shouted, pointing at a black triangular shaped object that was moving about on the green water a short distance from the boat.
With a roar as if the desolate mountains about them were toppling about their ears one of the dynamite bombs carried by the boys was dropped and exploded a short distance from the camp.
Whatever Ben might have said to this crushing rejoinder was lost forever, for at this moment there was a great disturbance in the water a short distance from the ship.
The labour of Cortes in destroying the suburb in his quarter, was less than that of the others; for here, the lake being deeper, the houses extended but a short distance from the island.
At a short distance from the door, a lad of some fifteen years old, with no covering but a piece of ragged sackcloth round the loins, was crouched up in a corner, seemingly asleep.
Philo at once led the two new slaves to the shed, at a short distance from the house, where the slaves employed out of doors lodged.
Standing back among the trees, at a short distance from the lake, Simon, John, and the workers on the farm watched with horror the slaughter of the fishermen on the lake.
At a short distance from the Bowling-green and the Battery, the breezes from the ocean occasionally found their way and shed their influences.
The family residence is situated near the post-road leading to Rye, at a short distance from the river.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "short distance from the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
