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Examples
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I was tantalized by the crying of the penguins, and by the whale, evidently playful, which came so close that it spouted and splashed a biscuit-toss away.
CHAPTER XXXII 2010
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We were right in at Collinsville then, and went foaming by within biscuit-toss of the wharf.
Charley's Coup 2010
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We were a biscuit-toss away, and he sprang upon the rail at the jigger-shrouds and danced a war-dance and waved his free arm, and yelled his scorn and joy at their discomfiture to the several oilskinned figures on the stranger vessel's poop.
CHAPTER XL 2010
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I remember how he forced the hunter and his two men below, a riffle at their breasts, when their captain passed by at biscuit-toss and hailed us for information.
Chapter 18 2010
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It was madness to think of resisting, with the guns of a man-of-war not a biscuit-toss away, — but they refused to lend a hand, preferring instead to maintain a gloomy silence.
The Lost Poacher 2010
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The sea is delightfully tepid, but it is not without risk, — it becomes deep within biscuit-toss, there is a strong under-tow, and occasionally an ugly triangular fin may be seen cruizing about in unpleasant proximity.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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The schooner was brought over near to the creek mouth, and when her anchor was again let go she swung to the stream almost parallel to the wreck of the _Barang_, and within a short biscuit-toss.
Gold Out of Celebes Aylward Edward Dingle
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Once more our nine snarling friends found discretion the better part of their valour, and stopped at a biscuit-toss from us, whining and howling and looking grim enough to frighten the most iron nerves.
Chatterbox, 1905. Various
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The city is picturesque in perch upon bold, high bluffs, which, on the city side, cut sheer down to the Alabama river; here, seemingly scarce more than a biscuit-toss across.
Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon
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It was madness to think of resisting, with the guns of a man-of-war not a biscuit-toss away, but they refused to lend a hand, preferring instead to maintain a gloomy silence.
The Lost Poacher 1922
chained_bear commented on the word biscuit-toss
A unit of distance; e.g. "a biscuit-toss away from the shore..." It seems like this would be much easier to tell, for the unaccustomed eye, than, say, some measurement in feet or yards.
March 11, 2008