He raised the glasses and focused on the distant, pink smudge.

Clave had been watching a distant brownish smudge of vegetation.

The distant and indistinct smudge appeared as though seen through the wrong end of a telescope.

They spread beneath him right enough, only ahead was a distant smudge of darker vegetation, the sign of a forest or more broken ground.

The outmost tip of that chain was only a distant smudge lying low on the water.

It only remained for Jordan to orient himself, open his eyes, and find the distant smudge of figures with his own vision.

Turning, he caught sight of a distant smudge on the horizon.

He waved toward the distant smudge, where the smoke of Tryon's campfires hung, far beyond the creek.

Glancing at the sky, I saw that the distant smudge of clouds had solidified into a dark line, and its leading edge was heading our way.

The nearest ones were large, by comparison, but the distant smudge lay long against the horizon.