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 Mahaffy, J. P.

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

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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

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 Service, Robert W. (Robert William)