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.

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 Hardy, Thomas

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

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

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