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.

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)

For the farness and the road are his glory and his goad.

From Rhymes of a Rolling Stone by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)

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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Realizing the farness of my camp, from human abode—it could scarcely have been farther on the continent—my thoughts flew back to the dear ones at home, and my comrades, the men of the Camp-fire Club.

From The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake by Seton, Ernest Thompson