within stone's throw

Example Sentences

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But when Will thought of Machado sitting at his instrument in that little room, almost within stone's throw of him, he could not bring himself to give up all hope of helping his friends.

From Swift and Sure by Strang, Herbert

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

From Where the Trail Divides by Lillibridge, Will

Then in turn I saw that blunder by which the battery commander allowed Cummings' men—the Thirty-third Virginia, I think it was—deliberately to march within stone's throw of them, mistaken for Federal troops.

From The Way of a Man by Hough, Emerson

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

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