farness
Example Sentences
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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 Earl Peirce
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 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
But so much the further from Thee, as the unliker Thee; for it is not farness of place.
From The Confessions of St. Augustine by E. B. (Edward Bouverie) Pusey
Cease ye this farness; 'bate this pride of you, iv.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
