farness
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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
By Love's right! naught of farness thy slave can estrange, viii.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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 Thomas Hardy
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
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 Jack London
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