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Definition of Middle distance
1. Noun. The part of a scene between the foreground and the background.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Middle Distance
Literary usage of Middle distance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Landscape and Figure Composition by Sadakichi Hartmann (1910)
"Different Combinations of Foreground, middle distance, and Distance. — A Hint
from the Old Masters. — Exceptional Cases. — With Sixteen Illustrations. ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Frederick George Aflalo, Hedley Peek (1897)
"The regular middle-distance man must train differently : he is usually a lighter
man than the sprinter, and he can stand more hard work, but when once he ..."
3. Herodotus by Herodotus, William Beloe (1830)
"... that as they were marching forwards from Oasis through the sands, they halted
at some place of middle distance, for the purpose of taking repast, which, ..."
4. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and by John Smith (1831)
"... a little beyond these is a traveller, with a bundle at his back and a stick
in his hand; and still farther, in the middle distance, are seen two women, ..."
5. International Law by John Westlake (1910)
"Subsidiary arguments of Title: Watershed, middle distance, Back Country, Political
Considerations. We come now to a class of considerations occupying a ..."
6. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1861)
"It sometimes becomes necessary, in the formation of pictorial vistas, to create
the middle distance; thus, in overlooking a valley, we get only the ..."
7. Handbook of Athletic Games for Players, Instructors, and Spectators by Jessie Hubbell Bancroft, William Dean Pulvermacher (1916)
"Races over 300 yards in length, and less than i mile, are called middle-distance
races, and partake of both, the above characteristics, ..."
8. Venezuela-British Guiana Boundary Arbitration: The Printed Argument on by Venezuela (1898)
"middle distance AND NATURAL BOUNDARIES. While no definite use has been made here,
so far as we recall, by Great Britain of what is called the rule of the ..."
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