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Example sentences for "good distance"

  • It is much cooler, and we should cover a good distance by night.

  • It was a good distance to the other end of the caravan, but the sure-footed dromedary trotted along briskly.

  • For a good distance it would be necessary to follow this lane; then he would turn off on a level stretch.

  • It was a good distance away, and perhaps hard of access, but the explorers were determined to find it.

  • After traversing the top of this mountain to a good distance, I found a tree exactly like a fern, except that it was 14 or 15 feet high.

  • At this period, they spread cloths or sheets on the ground round the bottom of the tree to a good distance, and shake the tree, when all the ripe cloves fall down.

  • There was still a good distance to be run.

  • Of course the object was a good distance off, else Leon and Leona would not have talked so coolly about it.

  • Their purpose was to drive home the oxen and the other horses that were feeding a good distance off.

  • We passed over rice fields, where many of the people were at work already, and then, after going a good distance, we got on to the road, but it was not the same part where we were the day before.

  • It is a good distance to swim, some fifty yards, perhaps, and the little black heads bob up and down frantically as the youngsters make desperate attempts to get through the water.

  • At last the bushes get so thick that we have to push our way through, and we suddenly see him a good distance ahead, half-way across a broad and shallow river which bubbles round his knees.

  • We had to run a good distance before we could get on to firmer ground; and in the meantime the battle went against our stallion, who suddenly turned tail and fled.

  • This being the summer season the water was comparatively low, and we were able to follow the windings of the ravine, riding over the dry strip of river-bed for a good distance.

  • After he had gone a good distance he looked around, and then the skyline behind him appeared to be singularly like that he remembered having seen on leaving the camp.

  • Behind the bank or line our huts stood, having three other huts behind them at a good distance.

  • We advanced for a good distance up the river over terribly bad ground, all boulders and steep cliffs, and then we attempted to ford to the other side.

  • They then went on a good distance downstream, and here, under cover of the rushes, we stalked up within twenty yards of them, and shot three as they rose.

  • During peculiarly hard winters, however, they will gather in very large herds and travel a good distance to the low grounds, where water and some pasture are still to be procured.

  • From there we pushed on to the farther bank, and marched to the camping-ground of the Indians, which, though the nearest of their old camps to Lake Buenos Aires, was still a good distance from it.

  • Many reefs and rocks were seen hereabouts, on account of which, they kept close to the wind till they were a good distance clear of the land.

  • S, and sailed Northward, keeping sight of the land, but at a good distance.

  • Indeed, we were all thirsty as well, for the sun was hot, and we had walked a good distance.

  • We could not have ridden less than an hundred miles since leaving the Pecos river; and yet, to our dismay, the mountain was still at a good distance before us.

  • As often as we overtook them we halted until they had again gone a good distance ahead.

  • The colonel returned, and not long afterward one of the paddlers who had been watching the river called out to us that there was a tapir in the water, a good distance up- stream, and that two of the other boats were after it.

  • It was only a patch of red in the bush, a good distance off, but I was lucky enough to hit it.

  • A clear charcoal fire is the best for cooking them, and the fish should be kept at a good distance, to broil gradually.

  • They were filled with savages, though whether armed or not he could not tell, they being a good distance out at sea, nor was there anything to show whether they purposed landing.

  • We saw them meet together a good distance off, towards the cliff, and one of the seamen said they were holding a parliament, and he hoped they had punishment enough and would make up their minds to go back to their own island.

  • Billy helped me very diligently to pile up a dam of rocks, which was pretty laborious, for we had to haul them a good distance, and since it rained all the time we were constantly drenched, and I wonder we did not take an ague.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    good because; good butter; good chap; good child; good citizens; good common school education; good cook; good effect; good fellowe; good fellows; good habit; good half; good harbour; good hotel; good hour; good intentions; good master; good music; good natured; good result; good road; good tidings; good wishes; good woman; good yeoman; physical body