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 Beard, Daniel Carter

"Nigh to Lord Mohun's house at Boconnoc: seven mile away to the south, and seven mile or so from Bodmin, as a crow flies."

From The Splendid Spur by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

The start was perfect, and the machine swooped toward the distant tower straight as a crow flies and almost as fast.

From Stories of Inventors The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers by Doubleday, Russell

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 Grey, Zane