Through a space above the trees, he could see a distant house, far on the other side of the creek.

But soldiers in the distant houses had detected that something was wrong, and they telephoned for help.

The car was now moving parallel to the distant house.

Solitary houses distant from named streets often have no orientation number.

Then he looked down across a black slope, to where a spark of light showed one window still glowing in a distant house.

On some distant house he heard the telephone ring, ring again.

To his dismay no one came from the distant house and he was forced to move ever closer to it.

A light in one of the distant houses blinked.

She turned, and tried to run across the car-park towards the back of some distant houses.

A light came on in a distant house.