The Elder Cyclopes dragged Atlas to a distant mountaintop where the sky was very close.

The distant mountaintops peered over the plastered brickwork of the church wall.

Larsson looked away, his eyes fixed on the distant mountaintops.

"It isn't too late," he whispered, now from a distant mountaintop.

His voice died away in a weary murmur, and he turned to look again at the distant mountaintops beyond the fringe of tall elms.