within stone's throw
Example Sentences
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I push aside a curtain covering the entrance against drafts, and see before me a picture never dreamed of by humdrum New-Yorkers sleeping within stone's throw.
From Careers of Danger and Daring by Cleveland Moffett
I saw the common English dandelion growing within stone's throw of a clump of feathery palms.
From Morocco by A. S. (Archibald Stevenson) Forrest
But the misery that she saw intimately, almost within stone's throw of her door, broke the spell with its appeal.
From The Last Shot by Frederick Palmer
Then in turn I saw that blunder by which the battery commander allowed Cummings' men—the Thirty-third Virginia, I think it was—deliberately to march within stone's throw of them, mistaken for Federal troops.
From The Way of a Man by Emerson Hough
Though they were within stone's throw, he had not brought even a rock.
From Where the Trail Divides by Will Lillibridge
