within stone's throw

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

And now he lies peacefully enough in his grave in the Covent Garden St. Paul's, within stone's throw of the scene where he tried to be a tavern-keeper and failed.

From Inns and Taverns of Old London by Shelley, Henry C. (Henry Charles)