He spoke of long hours in the water, whipped by waves and fearing sharks, desperately calling out to distant passing ships.
The material is equal, but White has a strong distant passed a-pawn and the black split pawns are weak.
Walking past the busts of notable scholars, each with solemn visage gazing out from the distant past, I pass shelf after shelf crammed with learning.
The tea at the railway platforms was rather good, and we passed the time watching night trains carrying passengers to distant villages pass by.
Light rays from distant objects pass through these two components and are focused into a sharp image on the light-sensitive retina.
Mariner 10 also collected data on particles and magnetic fields during its flybys, which included two close nightside encounters and one distant dayside pass.
"He was one of those men on whose head God lays His hand while they are asleep so that they get to know what they don't know, so that they are filled with intuitions and conjectures, while the reflections of distant worlds pass across their closed eyelids": so wrote Schulz about Alexander the Great, in his story "Spring" (as translated by Celina Wieniewska).
He talks about beauty: the most beautiful and innocent experience of his childhood, he says, was watching the skies of southern Poland where "silver-coloured toy aeroplanes carrying greetings from distant worlds pass slowly across the azure skies while around them explode what look like white bubbles.
When distant plants pass between us and their star, it causes a momentary decrease in that star's brightness.
First predicted by Einstein, gravitational lensing relies on the tendency of very massive objects to bend beams of light in this case the light from very distant galaxies that pass within their sphere of gravitational attraction.
