within stone's throw

Example Sentences

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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

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

More than one trampled place beside the thickets of edible brush showed where the deer herd had browsed within stone’s throw of the tote-road.

From The Corner House Girls Snowbound by Hill, Grace Brooks

If one desires to meet the ultraconservative in thought and social life let me commend him to this stratum of humanity within stone's throw of a college.

From Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper by Cooper, James A.

Almost within stone's throw came the response the half-sad, wholly eager whine of a dog.

From The Shagganappi by Johnson, E. Pauline