farness

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

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