Now the difference between its greatest and its least distance is too considerable to be left out of consideration.
-- After what has been said above, it will be necessary, first of all, to choose the period when the moon will be in perigee, and also the moment when she will be crossing the zenith, which latter event will further diminish the entire distance by a length equal to the radius of the earth, i.
From The Earth To The Moon
It was most interesting to me to observe that wherever several bees had begun to excavate these basins near together, they had begun their work at such a distance from each other, that by the time the basins had acquired the above stated width (i.e.
From the experiment of the ridge of vermilion wax, we can clearly see that if the bees were to build for themselves a thin wall of wax, they could make their cells of the proper shape, by standing at the proper distance from each other, by excavating at the same rate, and by endeavouring to make equal spherical hollows, but never allowing the spheres to break into each other.
The Origin of Species
Tiny streams were trickling between the rows from the main ditch before him and at some distance to his right he could see people at work among the plants.
At its base was a line of well-tended shrubs and at some distance towards its eastern extremity it was vine covered to the top.
Tarzan the Untamed
First, errors of observation, concerning the
distance of the projectile from the surface of the moon, for on the 11th of December it was impossible to see it; and what Joseph T.
Round The Moon
Nell could not help following at a little distance. They went to the house of an old nurse, where the elder sister had engaged a bed-room for the child.
By morning's cheerful glow, but oftener still by evening's gentle light, the child, with a respect for the short and happy intercourse of these two sisters which forbade her to approach and say a thankful word, although she yearned to do so, followed them at a distance in their walks and rambles, stopping when they stopped, sitting on the grass when they sat down, rising when they went on, and feeling it a companionship and delight to be so near them.
The Old Curiosity Shop
The scout laid aside his rifle, and resumed the paddle, while Chingachgook inclined the bows of the canoe a little toward the western shore, in order to increase the distance between them and this new enemy.
A long, low island lay at a little distance before them, and, as they closed with it, the chasing canoe was compelled to take a side opposite to that on which the pursued passed.
Last of The Mohicans
Upon a great island which lies in the Sojar Az, but a short
distance from our shores, a wicked man has collected a great band of outcast warriors of all tribes.
Pellucidar
A short
distance in the rear of this man, came a group of youths very similarly attired, and bearing sufficient resemblance to each other, and to their leader, to distinguish them as the children of one family.
The Prairie
Charles, a short
distance above the mouth of the Missouri.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountain
When I was at some
distance from the pirates, I discovered, by my pocket-glass, several islands to the south-east.
Gullivers Travels