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stone's throw
1. Barney lived a stone's throw from Teig, alone, in a wee tumbled-in
2. 41 He was withdrawn from them about a stone's throw and He knelt down and prayed
3. 1 This said Jesus and went out with his disciples to a place which was called Gethsemane on the side that is in the plain of Kidron the mountain the place 2 in which was a garden; and he entered in there he and his disciples; And Judas the 3 betrayer knew that place for Jesus often times met with his disciples there; And when Jesus came to the place he said to his disciples Sit you here so that I may go and pray; 5 and pray you that you enter not into temptations; And he took with him Cephas and the sons of Zebedee together James and John; and he began to 6 look sorrowful and to be anxious; And he said to them My soul is distressed to 7 death: abide you here and watch with me; And he withdrew from them a little 8 the space of a stone's throw; and he kneeled and fell on his face and prayed so 9 that if it were possible this hour might pass him; And he said Father you are able for all things; if you will let this cup pass me: but let not my will be done but let your will be done; And he came to his disciples and found them sleeping; and he said to Cephas Simon did you sleep? Could you so not for one hour watch with me? Watch and pray that you enter not into temptations the spirit is willing and ready but the body is weak; And he went again a second time and prayed and said My Father if it is not possible with regard to this cup that it pass except I drink it your will be done; And he returned again and found his disciples sleeping for their eyes were heavy from their grief and anxiety; and they knew not what to say to him; And he left them and went away again and prayed a third time and said the very same word; And there appeared to him an angel from heaven encouraging him; And being afraid he prayed continuously and his sweat became like a stream of blood and fell on the ground; Then he rose from his prayer and came to his disciples and found them sleeping; And he said to them Sleep now and rest: the end has arrived and the hour has come; and look the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners
4. The decrepit structure, overgrown and ready to collapse, stood a stone's throw beyond Charly's property line
5. When they arrived at the place of his devotions, he bade the three sit down and watch with him while he went off about a stone's throw to pray
6. Lov watched as the beast landed, no more than a stone's throw from him
7. Headquarters and a stone's throw from my Alma
8. stone's throw of Durban's
9. 'Don't you feel in every fibre that you are within a stone's throw of your Charlotte? I am sure we have caught her this time
10. We managed to secure a suitable corrugated tin shack, not more than a stone's throw from
11. "That's exactly what I say," said Sancho; "I found it too, and I would not go within a stone's throw of it; there I left it, and there it lies just as it was, for I don't want a dog with a bell
12. Oh! 'tis a nice place! A butcher hard by in the village, and the parsonage-house within a stone's throw
13. Then Don Pepe, emerging in the village street from amongst the houses, not a stone's throw from the frontier bridge, approached, striding in wide dark trousers tucked into boots, a white linen jacket, sabre at his side, and revolver at his belt
14. The doctor hobbled by his side till, within a stone's throw from the Casa Viola, Nostromo stopped again
15. They now kept a stone's throw to the left of the road,
16. of the debate, let us go out of stone's throw, at least!'
17. When did they build it? You'd think each house would have a toilet, but oh no! It's just a stone's throw to the toilet, where I spent two minutes trying to find the light switch, and five minutes after that batting off a big moth while I tried to wash up!"
18. I was suddenly, upon turning the corner of a steepish downy field, in the midst of a retired little village between gently rising hills; a small stream before me to be forded, a church standing on a sort of knoll to my right—which church was strikingly large and handsome for the place, and not a gentleman or half a gentleman's house to be seen excepting one—to be presumed the Parsonage—within a stone's throw of the said knoll and church
19. I have referred but little to thermometers, because they are kept in so many different situations by their owners, that I have known no less than 8 degrees of difference between several of them kept in one town, within almost a stone's throw of each other, at one and the same moment of time