stone-cast

You will see four within a stone-cast at the head of the West Bow.

Edinburgh Picturesque Notes 2005

Fire and smoke and stench was in the air; for many engines had been burned or cast into the fire-pits, and many of the slain also, while here and there lay many carcases of the great Southron monsters, half-burned, or broken by stone-cast, or shot through the eyes by the valiant archers of Morthond.

The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

I sat down to gaze for a moment on the most interesting scene I had ever witnessed, and then gave a loud cry, which it was evident nobody heard, although the river is not more than a stone-cast across.

Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume I. John M'lean

When we left Louisiana, near an hundred halcyons followed our vessel for near three days: they kept at the distance of about a stone-cast, and seemed to swim, yet I could never discover that their feet were webbed, and was therefore greatly surprised.

History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing -1775 Le Page du Pratz

The castle, unlike its successor, sat adjacent to the river-side, its front to the hill of Dunchuach on the north, and its back a stone-cast from the mercat cross and the throng street of the town.

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

It was twilight of a lovely spring evening, and even Little Ryder Street, one of the smaller offshoots from the Edgware Road, within a stone-cast of old Tyburn Tree of evil memory, looked golden and wonderful in the slanting rays of the setting sun.

The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1927

It was twilight of a lovely spring evening, and even Little Ryder Street, one of the smaller offshoots from the Edgware Road, within a stone-cast of old Tyburn Tree of evil memory, looked golden and wonderful in the slanting rays of the setting sun.

The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1927

It was twilight of a lovely spring evening, and even Little Ryder Street, one of the smaller offshoots from the Edgware Road, within a stone-cast of old Tyburn Tree of evil memory, looked golden and wonderful in the slanting rays of the setting sun.

The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1927

It was twilight of a lovely spring evening, and even Little Ryder Street, one of the smaller offshoots from the Edgware Road, within a stone-cast of old Tyburn Tree of evil memory, looked golden and wonderful in the slanting rays of the setting sun.

The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1927

Brown, heavy clouds were drifting across the sky, and it was hard to see more than a stone-cast.

The Sign of the Four Arthur Conan Doyle 1894