farness
Example Sentences
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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 Mahaffy, J. P.
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 Johnston, Mary
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 Staveley, Lilian
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 London, Jack
Cease ye this farness; 'bate this pride of you, iv.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
