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• the distance between a descendant and his ancestor
• Then the horse, with muscles strong as steel, distanced the sound.
• He distanced himself from the comments made by some of his colleagues.
• 'Tis by respect and distance that authority is upheld.
• I hope your modesty / Will know what distance to the crown is due.
• In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.[...]Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance: they were received with distance and suspicion.
• On the part of Heaven, / Now alienated, distance and distaste.
• Setting them [factions] at distance, or at least distrust amongst themselves.
• The friendship did not survive the row: they kept each other at a distance.
• He had promised to perform this task, but did not go the distance.
• the horse that ran the whole field out of distance
• The distance to Petersborough is thirty miles.
• [He] waits at distance till he hears from Cato.
• 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view.
• easily managed from a distance
• The distance between the lowest and next gear on my bicycle is annoying.
• We're narrowing the distance between the two versions of the bill.
• the writings of Euclid at the distance of two thousand years
• ten years' distance between one and the other
• Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly,, down the nave to the western door.[...]At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
• There is a long distance between Moscow and Vladivostok.