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 J. P. Mahaffy
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 Robert W. (Robert William) Service
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 Lilian Staveley
Cease ye this farness; 'bate this pride of you, * To whom my heart clings, by life-tide of you!
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 04 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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 Sir Richard Francis Burton
