She seemed to have come such a long distance -- too far for her destination which had wilfully been swallowed up in the greedy gloom of the trees.

Just as the suburban factory may be more convenient than the downtown plant to the worker with a car, the trip to the shopping center may seem far easier than to the downtown department store, though both are the same distance from home.

Noteworthy in the following statement is the usage of the term " not far " ( non longe ) which was also used to describe the distance between Birka and the Uppsala temple:

* the distance of the diver from the diving apparatus throughout the dive ( a diver must not be dangerously close, should not be too far away, but should ideally be within of the platform )

For light, we can often neglect one direction if the diffracting object extends in that direction over a distance far greater than the wavelength.

This analysis applies only to the far field, that is, at a distance much larger than the width of the slit.

If the viewing distance is large compared with the separation of the slits ( the far field ), the phase difference can be found using the geometry shown in the figure below right.

It tends towards a line segment ( see below ) if the two foci remain a finite distance apart and a parabola if one focus is kept fixed as the other is allowed to move arbitrarily far away.

Both of these processes for producing electric and magnetic EMR fields have a different dependence on distance than do near-field dipole electric and magnetic fields, and that is why the EMR type of EM field becomes dominant in power “ far ” from sources.

When the Æsir exclaimed that they were ready, Fenrir shook himself, knocked the fetter to ground, strained hard, and kicking with his feet, snapped the fetter – breaking it into pieces that flew far into the distance.

This would put it far outside our Milky Way galaxy, which is about a hundred thousand light years in diameter, and indeed outside the Local Group and even the Virgo Supercluster ; however, at this distance it would still be within the Pisces-Cetus Supercluster Complex.

Wilson telescope, Edwin Hubble was able to resolve the outer parts of some spiral nebulae as collections of individual stars and identified some Cepheid variables, thus allowing him to estimate the distance to the nebulae: they were far too distant to be part of the Milky Way.

According to John L. Allen, Jr., " In addition, three decades of bishops ’ appointments by John Paul II and Benedict XVI, both unambiguously committed to “ Humanae Vitae ,” mean that senior leaders in Catholicism these days are far less inclined than they were in 1968 to distance themselves from the ban on birth control, or to soft-pedal it.

In 55 BC the Greek historian Diodorus Siculus wrote that there was an island called Hyperborea ( which means " far to the north ") where a round temple stood from which the moon appeared only a little distance above the earth every 19 years.

These inns were built between towns if the distance between them was too far for one day's travel.

One approach is to argue that all real forces drop off with distance from their sources in a known manner, so we have only to be sure that we are far enough away from all sources to ensure that no force is present.

Strabo says that the Romans use Hispania and Iberia synonymously, and distance them as near and far.

The dwarf planet Pluto was discovered as late as 1929, the delay mostly due to its small size, far distance, and optical faintness.

I ... deny I have gone as far as Swift: he keeps a due distance from Rabelais ; I keep a due distance from him.

While CT provides good spatial resolution ( the ability to distinguish two separate structures an arbitrarily small distance from each other ), MRI provides comparable resolution with far better contrast resolution ( the ability to distinguish the differences between two arbitrarily similar but not identical tissues ).

An axon is a special cellular extension that arises from the cell body at a site called the axon hillock and travels for a distance, as far as 1 m in humans or even more in other species.

From the Amazon the Napo is navigable for river craft up to its Curaray branch, a distance of about 216 miles ( 350 km ), and perhaps a bit further ; thence, by painful canoe navigation, its upper waters may be ascended as far as Santa Rosa, the usual point of embarkation for any venturesome traveller who descends from the Quito tableland.

Every quark in the universe does not attract every other quark in the above distance independent manner, since colour-confinement implies that the strong force acts without distance-diminishment only between pairs of single quarks, and that in collections of bound quarks ( i. e., hadrons ), the net colour-charge of the quarks cancels out, as seen from far away.

Daniel Sleator, Robert Tarjan and William Thurston showed that the rotation distance between any two n-node trees ( for n ≥ 11 ) is at most 2n − 6, and that infinitely many pairs of trees are this far apart.

They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.

For although I had crossed a corner of the hall on my way to the toilet I still could not tell for sure how far to the rear the darkness extended.

This light did not penetrate very far back into the hall, and my eyes were hindered rather than aided by the dim daylight entering through the fan vents when I tried to pick out whatever might be lying, or squatting, on the floor below.

`` Sally and her ma want to trade off on account of Harmony being so far along '', Dan explained.

Another car was coming, a tiny, dark shape on a far hill.

At the pool's far end was the little cabana Joyce had mentioned, and on the water's surface floated scattered lavender patches of limp-looking lather.

He was pressed far back into the corner of the car on his hay sacks, the rattling and tinning of the wheels on the rails almost covering the sound of his ocarina.

They squatted on their heels with their heads bent far forward, their eyes only a few inches from the ground.

Poetry in Persian life is far more than a common ground on which -- in a society deeply fissured by antagonisms -- all may stand.

I think it is essential, however, to pinpoint here the difference between the two concepts of sovereignty that went to war in 1861 -- if only to see better how imperative is our need today to clarify completely our far worse confusion on this subject.

Research, on the other hand, has shown many stepmothers to be eminently successful, some far better than the real mothers.

One might, indeed, argue that the history of ideas, in so far as it includes the literatures, must center on characterizations of human nature and that the great periods of literary achievement may be distinguished from one another by reference to the images of human nature that they succeed in fashioning.

Again, Henley's attitude of defiance which colors his ideal of self-mastery is far from characteristic of a Stoic thinker like Marcus Aurelius, whose gentle acquiescence is almost Christian, comparable to the patience expressed in Milton's sonnet on his own blindness.

Apparently no serious disorders resulted from the celebration, and within a few days, Morgan joined the force of Lafayette who now had command of some 2,000 men at Barren Hill, not far above Philadelphia on the Schuylkill.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

I say the late seventeenth century because Racine ( whom Lessing did not really know ) stands on the far side of the chasm.

These biographical analogies are obvious, and far too much time has been spent speculating on their possible implications.

Whether it is or not, the propaganda impact on the free world of the document scheduled to be adopted at this meeting will be far less than had been originally anticipated.

He was down, hard to talk to, and far too nonchalant on the field.

So far the platoons on left and right fielders don't seem capable of carrying the load.

Then, to conclude on an indeterminate note: `` Nevertheless, if fallout increased substantially, or remained high for a long time, it would become far more important as a potential health hazard in this country and throughout the world ''.

It could have continued testing to the full on the grounds that the radiation danger was far less than the danger of Communist world domination.

I remarked jocularly to the President that the future of China would be far more certain if he would invite a planeload of selected American Liberals to Quemoy on an odd day.