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Of course for walking to meet a good fraction of your transportation needs you have to live in a dense neighborhood with businesses within walking distance,
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Tears blind her as she buries her face on the shoulder of Jeremy Sambrooke; the crowd sings on, the song growing fainter in the distance,
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Their clothes were torn, and even in the moonlight, across meters of distance,
do you ever read writing? Peter DeWolf 2010
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Of snow won't mourn the ones who join our distance,
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The system of Dumouriez is followed in Belgium; the sterile trees of liberty are planted, the cannoneers of Paris are kept at a distance,
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'Keep your distance, sir!' cried the fiery Ensign, 'keep your distance,
Camilla 2008
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But, in stepping from the carriage, she discerned, over a paling at some distance,
Camilla 2008
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The sun had not yet risen, but by now all the barrows could be seen and, like a cloud in the distance,
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Mutual compliments being passed, and the attendant stationed at a convenient distance,
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He leaped forward, but before he could half clear the distance,
The Moon Pool 2004
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