within stone's throw
Example Sentences
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"Shop Window Wanted within stone's throw of Brook Street and Bond Street."
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, June 23, 1920 by Various
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
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 Palmer, Frederick
Awaking at dawn, I went out, expecting to find the vessel within stone's throw: it was nowhere visible.
From First Footsteps in East Africa by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
By daybreak Harry had drawn up his men in battle array on the brow of a hill, almost within stone’s throw of the enemy’s big camp beneath.
From Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy by Stables, Gordon