farness

Example Sentences

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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 Cable, George W.

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 Hardy, Thomas

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

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

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

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 Seton, Ernest Thompson