Stonesthrow

He ordered his outposts, therefore, to be advanced within a stonesthrow of the breach, but exhorted the soldiers to maintain the utmost vigilance.

His (Stephen’s) mind was not exactly what you would call wandering but a bit unsteady and on his expressed desire for some beverage to drink Mr Bloom, in view of the hour it was and there being no pumps of Vartry water available for their ablutions, let alone drinking purposes, hit upon an expedient by suggesting, off the reel, the propriety of the cabman’s shelter, as it was called, hardly a stonesthrow away near Butt Bridge where they might hit upon some drinkables in the shape of a milk and soda or a mineral.

It’s only a stonesthrow to Chicago.