within stone's throw

Example Sentences

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We stood close to the highway road; a gentleman's house was within stone's throw; the spot, like the man, was altogether the reverse of what we read in ancient story.

From Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Jefferies, Richard

Though they were within stone's throw, he had not brought even a rock.

From Where the Trail Divides by Lillibridge, Will

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 Moffett, Cleveland

Almost within stone's throw came the response the half-sad, wholly eager whine of a dog.

From The Shagganappi by Johnson, E. Pauline

In all these years her unforgiving father has never seen her face, nor she his, although they live within stone's throw of each other.

From Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 by Various