as a crow flies
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As the chase ends, Sutter gets in one last piece of religious symbology as a crow flies, and a meal of bread and wine appear on the side of the road.
From Time ● Dec. 10, 2014
Some emigrant—terrification seize him!—has found another park an’ squatted, t’ain’t more’n eight miles as a crow flies from mine, nuther, Le-loo.”
From The Black Wolf Pack by Daniel Carter Beard
Wingenund had made little or no effort to conceal his tracks; he had gone northwest, straight as a crow flies, toward the Indian encampment.
From The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey
Set all the sails, and Green, do you steer as straight as a crow flies for the Channel of Balintang.
From The Shipwreck A Story for the Young by Joseph Spillman
"Eighteen miles as a crow flies; longer by trail."
From The Last Trail by Zane Grey
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