stone's throw

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A stone's-throw from the campus stands the First Presbyterian Church, where the Presidents of Princeton have worshipped.

From Time Magazine Archive

From the Spring to the Sanctuary of Isis is another step; from the Sanctuary to the Odeon of Herodes is a moment's walk; the Pnyx—the people's forum—is a stone's-throw away, and the Hill of Mars.

From The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise by Paine, Albert Bigelow

It is but a stone’s-throw across—a level mead walled in with tail trees, whose leaves in myriads lie on the brown-tinted grass.

From Wild Life in a Southern County by Jefferies, Richard

THE richest monument of Almohade might in Seville is the beautiful Alc�zar, or 'Castle,' which stands at but a stone's-throw from the remains of the great mosque.

From The Story of Seville by Hartley, C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine)

If you will call at my cottage," I replied, indicating the little house a stone's-throw away, "I will tell you all I know.

From Windyridge by Riley, W.