farness

Example Sentences

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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

This is a good example of that combined farness and nearness which is so characteristic about most neighboring cities in Greece.

From Rambles and Studies in Greece by Mahaffy, J. P.

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 London, Jack

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

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