1. Seeing visitors from distant places, the maidens washing clothes at the river shyly gazed at us once in a while.
2. When the moon turned around, its bright light made them homesick and miss their families in distant places.
3. It's quite surprising to consider that people in very distant places believed the same thing.
4. I might find some retreat in a boudoir and let my mind drift away to distant places near blue water.