stone's-cast

Now within a stone's-cast of the church was a goodly tavern with a weatherbeaten signboard a-swing above the door, whereon was painted what purported to be a leopard asleep and below the following legend, viz.:

Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915

The good friends from America, the Storys, were not far off, and Landor, after a visit to Story, was placed in occupation of rooms not a stone's-cast from their villa.

Robert Browning Dowden, Edward 1904

It seems but a stone's-cast from our time to the reign of Elizabeth and the day of the

A Hero and Some Other Folks 1892

Evidently the doctor had gone a stone's-cast beyond the chemistry of the day, and, just as evidently, he did not mean to reveal his discovery for the benefit of science, nor for the benefit of any pockets except his own.

The Moon Metal 1890

It was treeless and bare all round, and the ocean, unnecessarily vast, weltered away a little more than a stone's-cast from the cottage.

The Rise of Silas Lapham William Dean Howells 1878

"Let go," said a deep soft voice, when the boat was within a stone's-cast of the shore.

Ungava 1859

It has a nurse of its own, but is chiefly waited on and attended to by an antique poetess, who dwells in another cottage, a stone's-cast off, on the same green knoll.

Blown to Bits The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago 1859

It has a nurse of its own, but is chiefly waited on and attended to by an antique poetess, who dwells in another cottage, a stone's-cast off, on the same green knoll.

Blown to Bits or, The Lonely Man of Rakata 1859

"He was withdrawn from them about a stone's-cast" -- though near enough for them to be competent witnesses and kneeled down, uttering that most affecting prayer (Mr 14: 36), that if possible "the cup," of His approaching death, "might pass from Him, but if not, His Father's will be done": implying that in itself it was so purely revolting that only its being the Father's will would induce Him to taste it, but that in that view of it He was perfectly prepared to drink it.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

a stone's-cast of the substantial coral wharf, I could not avoid contrasting it with the wretched village of Emo, where I had witnessed so many frightful scenes.

The Coral Island 1859