Word: distant
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...linger ye in these sombre shades? In distant city there is a ball. Turn aside and come with me. Become renowned by being first in the car, first in town, and first in the heart of Parker...
TOMMIE JACKSON was in England for the first time in her life. Tommie was a young American girl, as her name indicates; she had been born in New York, the capital city of America. Her family, indeed, had some claim to respectability; her father, and also a distant cousin, had visited England in youth. But Mr. Jackson, although admired to excess by his own countrymen, was in reality a coarse and ignorant man. So was his wife, and all her relations. His daughter, too, though she had aspirations, was very uncultured and inexperienced. The polite English people looked upon...
...that touch, George shivered: it was an awful, compelling, overmastering touch. And the words sounded in his ears like the sea-waves at night, - distant, yet distinct and inevitable. "You must come...
Irresistibly was he held by the arm and drawn along. He had no more volition than a dead man. He could not speak - hardly see, now; but he could hear. It seemed as if all the distant clamors of the city were sounding along that single quiet street. Then he heard a clock strike...
...distant murmur sweet...