Approaches
Distance
Both words in one sentence
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It features a man standing on some train tracks as a train approaches in the distance.
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Later on, Marche describes another girl who sits "White:/Aloof:/Like stone", staring into the distance without a motion or a word, whom Madelaine True unsuccessfully approaches.
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Tintin at one point sees two Bedouins in the distance while travelling in the desert and intends to ask them for help, but as he approaches them he recognizes them as Thomson and Thompson.
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