farness
Example Sentences
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Patience taketh flight: * And from parting of friend to sore death I'm dight: O how woeful this farness from dear one, and oh * How my heart is rent by mine own unright!
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
By Love's right! naught of farness thy slave can estrange, viii.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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
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
The strong life that never knows harness; The wilds where the caribou call; The freshness, the freedom, the farness — O God! how I'm stuck on it all.
From The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses by Robert W. (Robert William) Service
