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

"Shop Window Wanted within stone's throw of Brook Street and Bond Street."

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, June 23, 1920 by Various

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

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

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.