| Lime was quarried in Rockland and shipped by rail to distant points, but this was an industry in decline. |
| As we made our way along the pretty woodland walk, we gradually became aware of a distant and muffled rumble. |
| The walls are walkable, a good place to peer down at the city streets or over at the distant Welsh mountains. |
| We've grown used to Japanese car makers showing way-out pollutionless cars of the distant future. |
| The wanderer is like a dehydrated traveller in a waterless desert, or a lover longing to see the distant beloved. |
| A cool day and the distant ridge of the Ngong hills is pale against the washed-out sky, with a thin layer of cloud flat and hard over the city. |
