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 Staveley, Lilian

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.

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 Service, Robert W. (Robert William)

She pressed his hand rapturously between her two, dropped it playfully, and saw that there had come between them a nearness and a farness different from any that had ever been.

From John March, Southerner by Cable, George W.

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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir