Meanings of lessen the distance in anglès

The Assiniboines seemed to make no effort to lessen the distance between themselves and the fugitive.

He was now about fifty yards from me, and I made shift to lessen the distance.

Antonino stood up in his boat so as to lessen the distance and make himself more easily recognisable.

I could hear the rustle of her dress as she moved, probably to lessen the distance between them.

He laid his foundation in the edge of the timber to lessen the distance his material must be moved.

Nam-ngan is said to be two hundred miles distant, but subsequent experience would lessen the distance by about fifty miles.

The decision of the Shawanoe was to lessen the distance between him and the horsemen while such a fine opportunity offered.

It was certainly in our power to lessen the distance the fugitives had to run, by standing down to meet the leading boat.

There was a concourse of people between them, and Mr. Kennedy did not seem inclined to make any attempt to lessen the distance.

She even smiled on him faintly, in a languid way, but in a way that seemed to him to lessen the distance between them.

The tiger's counter movement was not to lessen the distance between them this time, but to drop to his haunches, still holding his game.

The trees enabled me to keep out of sight, and I quickened my pace, so as to lessen the distance between myself and the enemy.

They lessen the distance between us and it by teaching us that even fairy-land knows no exemption from those imperfections which blur our purest natures.

The boat, urged on by the oars, was still lessening the distance.

He caught it as it dropped, and soon lessened the distance between them.

At the next turn Delamayn resolutely lessened the distance between his antagonist and himself.