farness
Example Sentences
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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
Realizing the farness of my camp, from human abode—it could scarcely have been farther on the continent—my thoughts flew back to the dear ones at home, and my comrades, the men of the Camp-fire Club.
From The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake by Ernest Thompson Seton
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 George W. Cable
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
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
