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Long-distance

adjective

Of or relating to or being a long-distance telephone call. "A long-distance transmission line" , "A long-distance operator"

Covering a long distance. "A long-distance freight train" , "She ran off with a long-distance truck driver"

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"Long-distance" Quotes from Famous Books

... advantages, brings its own dangers. Children in school in contact with other children; crowds in trains, in elevators, stores, in lecture halls, contract habits as well as diseases. The need for large quantities of supplies at one point brings long-distance transportation and cold storage difficulties. The man who caters to public need does not look far ahead to consequences, and if unrestrained may prove more of ...

— Euthenics, the science of controllable environment • Ellen H. Richards

... overlook our valley. I am sure there must be adventures waiting for somebody down there. You can tell our place by the spring lamb on the hillside. There's a huge inn that offers the long-distance telephone and market reports and golf links and very good horses, and lots of people stop there as a matter of course in their flight between Florida and Newport. They go up and down the coast like the mercury in a thermometer—up when it's warm, down when it's cold. There's ...

— The Port of Missing Men • Meredith Nicholson

... association in her mind of unexpected walks with the newly-born activities of the repentant Nutty that gave her the feeling that there must be some mental upheaval on a large scale at the back of this sudden ebullition of long-distance pedestrianism. She remembered that the thought had come to her once or twice during the past week that all was not well with her visitor, and that he had seemed downcast ...

— Uneasy Money • P.G. Wodehouse

... threshing, ma'am," I heard Hilton's voice saying, far away, as though it came to me over a long-distance telephone ...

— The Prairie Child • Arthur Stringer

... that night will always be the most terrible of nightmares. My first thought was of my family and, when I had been assigned to a room, I immediately asked the switchboard operator for a long-distance connection to my home in Rutherford. There was complete silence for a minute and I jangled the hook impatiently, my head throbbing with a thousand aches and pains. Then, to my surprise, the voice of the hotel manager ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 • Various

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