tail away

He could hear the owl shuffle about right above him, a single tail away.

“Sometimes the sun just blows out some very energetic stuff, and that tears a portion of the comet’s tail away and gives people an impression that the comet tail disconnects,” says Quanzhi Ye, a planetary astronomer at the University of Maryland and Boston University, of the phenomenon.

Near the Lev-Port’s tail, away from prying eyes, Otto faced the traveler.

At 55, she retains an impish air of ingenue about her, and the quiet mischief in her smile suggests a certain pleasure in her own troublesome single-mindedness; she likes to talk in elliptical sentences that often tail away into elegant gestures or playfully knowing expressions.

He rarely sails it, and even more rarely sees it tail away from him.