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  • Chasms hundreds of feet deep, sheer columns, and banks, extended almost beyond eye-reach.

    Around the World in Ten Days Chelsea Curtis Fraser

  • Passers-by were never supposed to go near to the walls of the compound, but in one place the path wound within a yard or two of it, and, as it happened, this spot was just out of eye-reach of the towers which stood at the four corners of the compound (unless the guards popped their heads out of the window, which they rarely did).

    Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa Cynthia Stockley

  • Tudor palace which stands on the left bank of the Thames, little more than a dozen miles from the metropolis and, though hidden in trees, within eye-reach of Richmond.

    Hampton Court Walter Jerrold 1897

  • Kent could find a round dozen within easy eye-reach, to say nothing of the calm-eyed, queenly _improvisatrice_ at the piano -- his constant standard of all womanly charm and grace.

    The Grafters Francis Lynde 1893

  • Then here comes the ferryboat; so I shoved for the middle of the river on a long down-stream slant; and when I judged I was out of eye-reach I laid on my oars, and looked back and see her go and smell around the wreck for Miss Hooker's remainders, because the captain would know her uncle Hornback would want them; and then pretty soon the ferryboat give it up and went for the shore, and I laid into my work and went a-booming down the river.

    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1884

  • a long down-stream slant; and when I judged I was out of eye-reach I laid on my oars, and looked back and see her go and smell around the wreck for

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1872

  • a long down-stream slant; and when I judged I was out of eye-reach I laid on my oars, and looked back and see her go and smell around the wreck for

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 11 to 15 Mark Twain 1872

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