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Ahead of us, and within a biscuit's throw of our flying boom, a long shed containing kerosene and other inflammables had taken fire, but how does not so clearly appear.

In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 J. J. Smith

So we become acquainted with but a small section of the doctor's life; his subsequent adventures are unknown, and, save a chance hint or two, his previous career is a mystery, unfathomable as the Tahitian coast, where, within a biscuit's toss of the coral shore, soundings there are none.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Various

But he knows which half of his biscuit's buttered.

Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod James A. Cooper 1917

Pull-an'-be-Damned, within a biscuit's toss of the weirs, Cad Sills had served the same fare to Rackby.

The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

The leave train lay in the station within a biscuit's throw of the quayside and the black, blank Channel beyond, a long line of cheerfully illuminated windows that to those returning from leave seemed as the last link with home.

Okewood of the Secret Service Valentine Williams 1914

"That biscuit's Peg's bite," said he, "so she'll bark a lot the rest of the day, but don't you mind."

Rose O'Paradise Grace Miller White 1912

While Tom was savagely jamming in powder and ball, the wicket gate of the fort opened, a man came out and ran to a house a biscuit's throw away, and ran back again before he was shot at, slamming the gate after him.

Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

While Tom was savagely jamming in powder and ball, the wicket gate of the fort opened, a man came out and ran to a house a biscuit's throw away, and ran back again before he was shot at, slamming the gate after him.

The Crossing Winston Churchill 1909

While Tom was savagely jamming in powder and ball, the wicket gate of the fort opened, a man came out and ran to a house a biscuit's throw away, and ran back again before he was shot at, slamming the gate after him.

The Crossing 1904

She swept past the _Thetis_ within a biscuit's toss, and the party on the top of that vessel's deck - house were not only able to distinguish, by the gold braid on his coat cuffs, that the solitary occupant of the stern-sheets held the rank of captain, but also that the poor man looked worried and scared almost out of his senses.

The Cruise of the Thetis A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection Harry Collingwood 1886