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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

For the farness and the road are his glory and his goad.

From Rhymes of a Rolling Stone by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)

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 Pusey, E. B. (Edward Bouverie)

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

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