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			As I live and breathe! as I see it as I was saying as if as if own the place as it comes as it stands as large as life as likely as not as long as as luck would have it as much as as much as anything as old as the hills as one man as opposed to as pissed as a fart as quick as a flash as regards as sick as a dog as soon as as soon as possible as straight as a die as such as the actress said to the bishop as the crow flies as the spirit moves As the twig is bent, so is the tree inclined as things stand as usual as we speak as well as well as as yet As you make your bed, so you must lie on it As you sow, so shall you reap ascertain from ascribe to ash aside aside from ask ask after ask around about ask back ask down ask for ask for it ask for the moon ask for trouble ask in			as straight as a die as straight as a die as straight as a die as straight as a die as straight as a die as straight as a pin as stubborn as a mule as stubborn as a mule as stubborn as a mule As Stupid As Possible As Subrogee Of as such as such AS Sullivan as sure as eggs is eggs as sure as eggs is eggs as sure as eggs is eggs as sure as fate as sure as fate as sure as fate as sweet as pie as sweet as pie as sweet as pie As swythe As Tall as Lions As the actress said to the bishop As the actress said to the bishop As the Apple Turns As The Case May Be As The Case May Be as the crow flies as the fancy takes as the fancy takes as the fancy takes as the fancy takes As the Flower Withers As the Island Floats As the Kingdom Falls As the Palaces Burn As the Rose Wilts as the saying goes as the saying goes as the saying goes as the saying is as the saying is as the saying is as the spirit moves As the twig is bent, so is the tree inclined As the World Turns As Their Interests May Appear As They Rise as thick as a plank as thick as a plank as thick as a plank as thick as thieves as thick as thieves as thick as thieves as thick as two planks as thick as two planks as thick as two planks as thick as two short planks

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