Word: distant
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Until the ball is kicked off no player shall be in advance of a line parallel to the line of his goal and distant from it (to be decided by the captains...
Shadowed on the distant...
...wide prejudice, I might almost say superstition, that a gentleman should never soil his hands with work. There was perhaps a time in America, when even those dignified personages in white wigs, knee-breeches, and gilt frames, of whom we are all so proud, - even if they be only distant cousins on the mother's side, - played a part almost manual in laying the foundation of the great country in which we live; but those days are past. The state has successively passed through the ordeals of creation and salvation, in the true old orthodox way; fortunes have accumulated...
Settled from the distant mountains...
...fair ground or some lot not adjacent to residences or public streets." The "new fair ground" is said to be in a most wretched condition, so damp that it is impossible to play on it but for a few weeks during the College year, and more than two miles distant from the University. Unoccupied lots not adjacent to public thoroughfares appear to be wanting. And the Cornell students are practically debarred from ball-playing for an indefinite length of time, simply because the "roughs" insisted upon presenting themselves as spectators of the games. We offer the Cornell men our most...