Shawn could see a sharp navigational light flashing every five seconds, on a distant headland.

The frigate had been sighted as she emerged from behind a distant headland.

From each rising swell, The Shadow was guiding by a distant headland that showed black beneath the moonlight.

He pointed to a distant headland in the south.

No sooner had they settled on the recipe list than Willowood hove into view on a distant headland.

But then I look the other way, to the east, where all I can see is more beach, stretching around the coastline to a distant headland.

The beach here sloped gently to the sea and was some hundreds of yards deep and on either side stretched to distant headlands.

The trees receded to give them a view of a distant headland partly veiled by the long plumes of smoke moving inland.

But as it disappeared behind a distant headland a powerful new ship came north on its way to Baltimore, and she was transfixed by its majesty.

Only the distant headland was recognizable.