distancing

All three started and ran as fast as they were able; and for a while were in hopes of distancing their pursuer.

Handcuffed as he stood, to attempt to run with any hope of distancing his pursuer would have been simple folly at best.

He had known his impetuous brother to do many unwise things in the past; but it seemed that he was now distancing his own record.

It sank in Rhoda like the preaching of an end that was promise of a beginning, and girdled a distancing land of trouble.

To his intense gratification he had succeeded in distancing his fellow across the way by half a block.

Each is an advance upon the previous, distancing all works of similar composers, and each one surpassing his own previous efforts.

Whereupon Brenda urged her horse and was off at a gallop, so distancing Arthur for some seconds before he overtook her.

He appeared to think that he would have little difficulty in distancing the huge machine.

We cannot now go into details, but evidently there was no distancing reserve between the mother and her Son.

And, for the present at any rate, our gallant little horse was more than a match for theirs, and was distancing them rapidly.