It is now apparent that this great, this powerful, this formidablekingdomisconsidered onlyas a province of a despicable electorate.

-Pitt,William, 1st Earl of Chatham known as  the Elder
  Speech to the House of Commons,10 Dec.

There may be dead ground in between; and I may not have got The knack of judging a distance; I will only venture A guess that perhaps between me and the apparent lovers, (Who, incidentally, appear by now to have finished,) At seven o'clock from the houses, is roughly a distance Of about one year and a half.

-Reed, Henry
  Lessons of theWar, pt.2,'Judging Distances'.