farness

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

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

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