Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Distant

Distant as America from Atlantis.
—Anonymous

Keep their distances, as if they were Montagues and Capulets.
—John Dryden

At a safe distance, like mother ducks watching their brood.
—Rudyard Kipling

Distant as the horizon sail.
—George Meredith

Distant as a dream’s flight.
—John G. Neihardt

Distant as the dead.
—Friedrich von Schiller