far-going

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Who, then, was this mechanical genius who was responsible for these far-going changes in submarine construction?

From Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons by Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John)

"You're a far-seeing, a far-going person," he said.

From The Guarded Heights by Camp, Wadsworth

They are agreeable, disagreeable, sweet, pungent, far-going, varied, dry, indifferent.

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan

Glad wad I be to gang myself, if I were na too auld for sic a far-going.

From Donalblane of Darien by Oxley, J. Macdonald (James Macdonald)

She had stopped too, without noticing him, and stood sending an intent, fixed, far-going look into the pretty wilderness of rock and wood on the other side of the way.

From Hills of the Shatemuc by Warner, Susan