But if you begin walking outward from where Lincoln stood, how far would you have to go before any trace of the extraordinary nature of that day had vanished into the ordinary?
She drained birdies from 40, 30 and twice from 20 feet on her outward nine to stand six under par after 10 holes.
The physical absolutes of coexistence with the three-legged pit bull stood as the outward emblem of a new doctrine: Recover bodily prerogatives, journey into the real.
Tony Benn's politics were always within the traditions of the party's left-right divisions, a development of a trade union-socialist position, protectionist, anti-American and anti-nuclear, that stood in opposition to a more outward-looking, modernising centrism.
Tears stung her eyes; she stood with her hands by her sides, palms outward, in a kind of resigned openness.
The jury box was filled with cameramen, who stood in a row and thrust their heavy cameras outward, as if they were rifles.
During the event, which took on the air of an evangelical church service at times, a number of speakers offered prayers as audience members stood with their arms raised and their palms facing outward.
If you are going the way you aren't good at, stand facing outward, throw the ball in the air a little, then hit it.
The outward journey had been unpleasant: the boat was packed to the rafters and we stood the whole way, crammed in among fellow tourists looking to escape the heat of the city but instead sweltering in an overcrowded cabin.
As I stood about six feet away from the canvas, its utter redness ballooned, the nearest zips bowed outward in my peripheral vision, and something like the rush of a dentist's laughing gas suffused my brain.
