They lay a little distance away, where she had been standing.

He knew only too well the interest that had always centered about the woman who now lay dead a short distance down the beach.

He lay a little distance from her, his back against the wall, his eyes closed.

It lay only a short distance north from his own camp.

The building where he had seen the boy lay a short distance from the main complex, joined to it by a covered passage.

The pile of sand lay just a short distance from the hole.

A much larger inn lay a short distance up the road from the first one.

Her discarded shoes lay a short distance away in the grass.

I tried to make myself believe that cold, empty space lay a short distance away in any direction, but it was impossible.

He wanted to lay offshore a short distance and wait to see if another boat showed up.