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Meanings of dim distance in English

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Usage of dim distance in English
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They could just see its tall oak trees in the dim distance.
A Man for the Ages: A Story of the Builders of Democracy
2
While they were singing, she heard Calpurnia calling in the dim distance.
Go Set a Watchman
3
The glad ship is gone; she hides in the dim distance.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
4
Below them, the curving arc of lights stretched away to the dim distance.
The Lighted Way
5
As she stepped aboard another woman appeared in the dim distance, running, too.
The Making of an American
6
He looked haughty and cold regarding her from this dim distance.
Other Things Being Equal
7
And beyond that in the dim distance was the high-rise skyline of Miami.
Darkly Dreaming Dexter
8
And, sure enough, looming up in the dim distance was a mountainous shore line.
The Cruise of the Noah's Ark
9
Beyond it and over it was a vast dim distance.
Beyond the Vanishing Point
10
I can get there, he assured her, measuring with his eye the dim distance.
The Fortieth Door
11
He looked around, spying another stair in the dim distance.
Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
12
It came from ever so far away, in the dim distance beyond her vague wonderings.
Nocturne
13
There is a tiny river in the dim distance.
Yet Again
14
The sheik's eagle-eyes recognized her in the dim distance.
Mohammed Ali and His House
15
Two greyhounds ranged beside her, and in the dim distance of the wood her maidens followed.
Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume I
16
All poetry lies in the dim distance- athingof memory or anticipation-thepresent is invariably prose.
The Hand but Not the Heart; Or, The Life-Trials of Jessie Loring
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