farness

Example Sentences

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Cease ye this farness; 'bate this pride of you, iv.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

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

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.

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.

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