| The name is misleading, since this is not a member of the rush family, but a distant relative of water plantains and water soldier. |
| The wanderer is like a dehydrated traveller in a waterless desert, or a lover longing to see the distant beloved. |
| Lime was quarried in Rockland and shipped by rail to distant points, but this was an industry in decline. |
| It could be that they were bound to the distant shores of Africa or Brazil. |
| And there it would be, the horizon ablaze with light where the gleaming flames of candles met the distant flicker of stars. |
| Many still think it is an African disease that is too distant from their shores. |
