farness
Example Sentences
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They were so dark a gray that they seemed brown, and there were a farness and alertness of vision in them as of bright questing through profounds of space.
From The Valley of the Moon by Jack London
Starboard loomed, until it was lost in the farness, that coast that we were following, but the three ships were in a half-land, half-water world.
From 1492 by Mary Johnston
This is a good example of that combined farness and nearness which is so characteristic about most neighboring cities in Greece.
From Rambles and Studies in Greece by J. P. Mahaffy
Cease ye this farness; 'bate this pride of you, iv.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
But when his face was partly in shadows, particularly about his brow, there was a frightening tone which came into his features; for it was a tone of farness, of mysticism and conjuration.
From Doom of the House of Duryea by Earl Peirce
