Two kilometers high, its cliff stood over the horizon, a worldwall, at its distance not dusty white but shimmering, streaked with blue crevasses.

To her right, in the shimmering distance, she could see the Atlantic Ocean, and to her left, towering peaks huddled together.

Some who have been through have seen them' - she inclined her head toward the shimmering distance - 'in there.

Once, in the distance shimmering with the ripples of a heat mirage, he thought he saw a sparkling salt-encrusted playa that could easily have been a dried sea bottom.

The robot's copter was a dot in the shimmering distance ahead--if that weren't some other flier; there were three other dots hanging in the east.

The Daimler came out of the shimmering distances like one of the whirling dust devils of the hot desert noons.

There was a black-brown curve of sandy beach, lapped by occasional waves, and out beyond the gentle surf the surface of the water in the Lake vanished into a shimmering, indeterminate distance.

Even their speed seemed attenuated in the shimmering distance.

And as Lee turned the telescope on it again, he saw darker, smaller shapes behind it in the shimmering distance.

A fencing mask lent a shimmering distance to the heavy .38 cupped in Oddity's hand.