as the crow flies

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as the crow flies

if the distance between two places is measured as the crow flies, it is measured as a straight line between the two places 'How far is it from Cambridge to London?' 'About 50 miles as the crow flies.' Our farm is only five miles from town as the crow flies, but the winding roads mean we have to drive nearly eight miles to get there.

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It is not so unlike the Court of Chancery but that we may pass from the one scene to the other, as the crow flies. Bleak House by Dickens, Charles View in context At last, when my landlord could drink no more, he showed me to a bed, and I lay down in very good spirits; having travelled the greater part of that big and crooked Island of Mull, from Earraid to Torosay, fifty miles as the crow flies, and (with my wanderings) much nearer a hundred, in four days and with little fatigue. Kidnapped by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context North Westwardly from Indian Hill, about nine miles as the crow flies, is Macarger's Gulch. Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context More results

? References in classic literature

It is not so unlike the Court of Chancery but that we may pass from the one scene to the other, as the crow flies.

Bleak House by Dickens, Charles View in context

At last, when my landlord could drink no more, he showed me to a bed, and I lay down in very good spirits; having travelled the greater part of that big and crooked Island of Mull, from Earraid to Torosay, fifty miles as the crow flies, and (with my wanderings) much nearer a hundred, in four days and with little fatigue.

Kidnapped by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context

North Westwardly from Indian Hill, about nine miles as the crow flies, is Macarger's Gulch.

Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context

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