farness
Example Sentences
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For at times he will be in a condition of great nearness, at times in a condition of some farness, or, more properly speaking, of obscurity.
From The Golden Fountain or, The Soul's Love for God. Being some Thoughts and Confessions of One of His Lovers by Lilian Staveley
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
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
Cease ye this farness; 'bate this pride of you, * To whom my heart clings, by life-tide of you!
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 04 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
They have welded close the coop Wherein our luckless Frenchmen are enjailed With such compression that their front has shrunk From five miles' farness to but half as far.—
From The Dynasts by Thomas Hardy
