farness

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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 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

But when his face was partly in shadows, particularly about his brow, there was a frightening tone which came into his features; for it was a tone of farness, of mysticism and conjuration.

From Doom of the House of Duryea by Peirce, Earl

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

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.