Otherwise, the actual proceedings are a distant rumor.

Do the Alaska Marine Highway ships spend much time near the coast, or are coastal views just a distant rumor?

Certainly, the plague had been nothing but distant rumors on Dalgren when they departed nine days ago.

At the first distant rumour that the Pharisees were out, his disciples "all forsook Him and fled".

From time to time a fresh report, or a distant rumor, made the heads oscillate and thousands of eyes flash.

Now the frantic hedonism of the 1970's is a distant rumor.

A distant rumor.

He had never seen an adult before-had heard of them only as distant rumors, like the sort of ghost stories unplanned parents used to tell their children.

The events in the capital were only distant rumour to the men on board, and Julius felt he wasn't believed by some of Tonius's friends.

There came a distant rumour of thunder.